The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1885-02-05
A TRAIN TAKES A TUMBLE
The PASSENGERS ARE SURPRISED
That They We're Not All Killed-A Score
az uore Wounded In wreck
on u New Jersey Road
The Other Casualties.
A Torrlbi. Railroad wreck.

JERSEY CRY, Jan. 3O.-The Phlladol-
phia express on the Reading railroad,
was wrecked ut Groenvllle this morn
Ing. Some lives are reported lost Tho
train consisted OF four coaches fillod
with passengers. Tho accident occurred
between DanfOrth Avenue station and
Cemetery bridge. Tho train was run
ming rapidly when a wheel of tue for
ward coach broke, aud the ear was do-
rallied. IL ran into coal train ana was
upset, and the other three cars wore
wrecked, The accident was witnessed
by mounted policeman, who telo-
phonod the facts Ia police headquarters,
The various hospitals dispatched SUR
geons and ambulancos To the scene. UP
10 the present time twenty-five wounded
persons have been removed from the
wreck. Many more are yet 10 bo eNtri-
Gated.
Seventy passengers were on board,
and 10 IL remarkable that many were
not killed outright.
THE UNFoRTUSATEs.
AS tar as can he ascertained, the in
iured are as follows:
w. Calhoun, Philadelphia, head cut
severely, both thighs broken and severe
internal injuries.
Is. Wink, seriously cut.
bs NtilVt A'Ah ~
j. II. Holloway, internal injuries.
J. T.. Connolly, shock and cuts.
Il. q. Nathan, bruised and cut.
Ii. ID. Corcoran, head cut-all of Phila-
delphia.
Charles Framy, Bound Brook, cut and
bruised.
II. G. Wade, Bound Brook, cut and
bruised.
The rear brakeman broke the upper
windows OF the rear coach and helped
out tho passengers.
A nowsboy, b. Curran, said he was in
the rear car, and after the car bumped
along for a few moments 70 stood ON end,
then fell ovor. The stove was pulled out
of the window. Tho overturned stoves
set fire to the wreck, but IL was eX-
tinguished by the efforts of the brake
men and the rescued passengers.
The Long Branch express came along
nine minutes after the disaster, but WAS
stopped by danger signal. A special
train was sent out from Jersey City, and
brought back the passengers
from the trains; Those from
worse for the shaking up. Their torn
clothing, dirt-bogrimed, faces, with blood
stains, betokened the ordeal through
which they had passed. Several gem
tlemen, who were cut and bruised Sc
verely, refused TO tgive their names for
publication on account of alarming their
| friends. The track was torn up Tor a
considerable distance. The tender and
cars were piled up in confused mass.
! The cause of the accident can not be as
certainad, but IL is certain that tho cars
were off the track some distance be-
yond the switch, thus proving that the
accident did not result from mis-
placed switch.
In the front car were twenty passen.
| bitt ttrn ra,nnVal from IL
in an unconscious condition. They
were carried into tho waiting-room of
| the Danforth avenue depot, where
several physicians attended them. In
less than an hour alter tho ACCIDENT oc-
Cured all the injured passengers re-
covered consciousness and were able to
walk about. Eight of them were only
slightly injured and declined to give
their names. They were placed on
special train and taken to New York.
AT PHILADELPHIA.
PHILADELPHIA, J an. 30.-Five of the
wounded by the accident at GIeenvilte
reached this city this afternoon. vast
crowd awaited the coming of the train.
The railroad company had ten car
riages ready to convey the injured to
their homes,
THE WOUNDED.
The wounded as far as reported, are:
NJ. X. Connolly.
G. III. Pray.
| Mr.. Washman.
L. Il. Scattergood.
| II. w. Tyne.
| All were able to walk from the train
to carriage, excepting Connolly; his
right leg was broken. His nose is also
badly hurt.
Pray was frightfully wounded about
| the face.
Scattergood had his right arm broken.
Massman's head is severely cut. He
suffers also from nervous shock.
Van Tyne received several scalp
wounds.