The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1885-02-04
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traI Railroad Thrown From tho Track
A Large Number Of Persons serIousl,
Injured.
JERSEY Cry, january S1.-A frightfu
railroad accident occurred yesterday morn
ing on the New Jersey Central Railway, 0
number of persons being killed or wounded
AS the fast express from Philadelphia was
approaching Danforth Avenue, just after
crossing Cemetery bridge, wheel Of one OF
| the forward coaches broke, causing several
of the others to leave the track. The
derailed cars crashed into a coal train stand.
ing on sidiug, upsettng the coal cars and
piling upon them in badly wrecked cohdi-
tion. The cars of the express were we'll
filled with passengers, and as the cars
crashed into one another the shrieks Of the
men and women were heartrending.
Assistance was at once telegraphed for
and the various hospitals OF the city
promptly responded with corps Of doctors
and number of ambulances. The railroad
hands in the neighborhood soon set 10 work
extricating the wounded from the wreck,
while the doctors bandaged their wounds
and sent them to the hospitals as rapidly as
possible. .,s,. ,t.,t
At eleven o'clock, twenty-seyen persons
In all had been taken from the wreck, more
or less badly injured, some It Is feared
fatally. Others are still in the wreck, badly
wedged In among broken timbers, etc, and
1t is reported that several corpses can be
seen amid the debris
The train was running at high rate OF
speed at the time, and was due In Jersey
City at 9:3O a. IN. The accident, It is be-
lieved, when the full details are known, will
turn out to be one Of the most disastrous
that has occurred on any Of the Jersey
roads for long time past. The railroad
officials say they cannot account for the
breaking of the wheel, as the underplnnlng
Of the cars, ,aXles, ETC., are carefully eX-
amlned and sounded at every stop the train
makes between Philadelphia and Jersey
City. 80 tf ''I
The following are the names of the In
jured so far as can be at present learned:
N. M. Fredericks. Bound Brook, N. j.,
seriously injured; w. Eaton, engineer,
badly hurt about the body; 9. j. Burde,
conductor, painfully hurt; M. Shadwlck,
brakeman, severely injured, NJ. ID. Cornell,
Of Philadelphia, seriously brulsed f. X.
Searville, z. Reed and H. Bray, OF Phila-
delphia, badly injured; b. +. ScattergOod, OF
Scattergood & Co., Philadelphia, right arm
lacerated and almost torn from Its socket;
Charles Ii. Pray, OF the firm Of Holmes
IL Pray, Philadelphia, head cut and
skull fractured, his Injuries will prob
ably prove fatal; o. Reed, OF Phila-
delphia, nose broken, face cut and
one eye probably dlslodged; Henry Tracey,
of Compton, & Tracey, OF Philadelphia,
jurles will likely prove fatal. NJ. ID. Con-
way, OF Philadelphia, arm cut and ribs
broken: Walter Clickener, brakeman, was
thrown from the platform OF the. rear car
and was cut and bruised over the face and
body and severely injured inter-
nally; B. w. Vanline, of Philadelphia,
skull fractured, probably fatally injured;
B. Wink, Of Philadelphia, seriously;
Kelly, Of Philadelphia, left arm injured;
J. T. Hathaway and J. Connolly, of Phila-
delphia. shock and cuts; L. c. Nephews,
Of Philadelphia, bruised and cut; ii. ID.
COrcoran, Philadelphia head cut; Charles
Fralley and II. c. Wade, OF Bound Brook,
cut and bruised. H''
Several gentlemen who were cnt and
bruised refused their names for publication
Ior fear OF alarming their friends.
1t Is now stated that there arc no dead
bodies in the wreck and that the engineer
md conductor of the train previously re-
ported among the injured, escaksd unhurt.
Mr.. Seaman, OF Bayonne, n. j., who was
IN the accommodation train which arrived
within five minutes OF the accident, says
hat IL was caused by one wheel of the
ender leaving the track which opened tho
witch so that the smoker switched off and
an into the coal train standing on siding,
lragglng The other cars with IL. The en-
zine broke loose and ran quarter OF mile
)efore II was stopped.
The smoker was completely wrecked.
The Pullman and three coaches following
we're badly smashed. -Four coal cars were
and the coal was scattered over
he ground for iifly yards. The track was
q badly torn up that II will require relay
ng at the place of the accident, and trains
Will consequently be badly delayed. ~
2:30 r. Mt now transpIres that no one
vas killed In the railroad accident here this
morning. The wounded have all been
placed In the hospitals and at last reports
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