The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-31
CLOTHING STORE
PASSENGER TRAIN WRECKED.
4 Large Number OF Passengers More or Less
Injured, but No One Killed.

JERSEY Cry. Jan. 0.-The Philadelphia ex-
press, on the Reading railroad, was wrecked at
Greenville this morning The train consisted of
four coaches, well filed with passengers The
accident occurred between Danforth- avenue sta
ton and Cemetery bridge The train was run
ming rapidly, when wheel of forward coach
broke and the car was derailed 1t ran into a
coal train and was upset, and the other three
cars were wrecked, The accident was witnessed
by a mounted policeman, who telephoned the
facts to police headquarters. The various hos
pitfalls dispatched surgeons and ambulances to
the scene. There were seventy passengers on
board and it is remarkable that none were killed
outright. ..---.---'---.--
The rear brakeman broke the upper windows
Of the rear coach and helped out the passengers
The newsboy D. Curran, said he was in the
rear car, and stated that after the car bumped
along for few moments it stood on end; then
he fell over the stove and was pulled out of a
window. The overturned stoves set fire to the
wreck iii several places but the flames were ex-
tinguished by the efforts of the brakemen 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 pas
sengers from the trains. Those from Philadel-
phia are all more or less the worse for the shak-
ing up. Their torn clothing and dirt-begrimed
faces with blood stains. betokened the ordeal
through which they had passed. Several gem
tlemen who were cut and bruised severely, re-
fused to- give their names for publication for
fear OF alarming friends. The track torn
s1aaa se4n H.
cars are piled in confused mass The cause Of
the accident cannot be ascertained out 1t is GER
tain that the cars went off the track some dis
tance beyond the switch, thus proving that the
latter was not the cause of the wreck.
In the front car were twenty passengers and
all but two were removed from it in an uncon-
eci0us condition. They were carried into the
waiting room at the Danforth-avenue depot
where several physicians attended them. In
Jess than a hour after the accident occurred all
and were able to walk about. Eight of them
were only slightly injured and declined to give
their names. They were placed on a special
train and taken to New York
1t is estimated that the wreck will cost the
company 800, 600. The cause of the disaster
is not positively known but it is supposed TO
have been the result of the breaking of the
thread in wheel of the forward car, which was
the first to leave the track. Exaggerated reports
OF the accident were soon widely spread, and
during the afternoon persons from all parts of
the county visited the scene The exact number
of passengers injured is not known. The rail
roa officials state that only twenty persons were
in the rear car the only one overturned, and
two of them were unhurt Following is list Of
the wounded and the extent of their injuries, so
far as known by tho railroad people:
G. w. Calhoun, Philadelphia leg broke, head
cut; Charles II. Pray Philadelphia, face cut G.
w Vantyne, Philadelphia, two cuts in head; J.
M Beatty, Philadelphia, hands bruised, side
slightly injured; Secretary Fredericks, of Mutual
Life Insurance Company. Philadelphia back and
legs injured; NJ. d. Connolly, Philadelphia; head
badly cut side and breast bruised, injured in
+. Scattergood Philadelphia, left arm broken,
face cut; e. K. Scarville, Philadelphia, head in
jured; Henry Tracy, Philadelphia, head badly
cut; Daniel Kirk baggagemaster, and brakeman
Klikner were also injured, but not seriously.