The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-01-31
A TRAIN TAKES A TUMBLE
THE PASSENGERS ARE SURPRISED
That They Were Not All Killed-A Score
or More Wounded in Wreck
on IA New Jersey Road
The Other Casualties.
A Terrible Railroad Wreck.

JERSEY CITY, Jan. 30.-The Philadel- q
phia express on the Reading railroad, E
was wrecked at Greenville this morn ,,
ing. Some lives are reported lost. The l
train consisted of four coaches filled
with passengers. The accident occurred
between Danforth Avenue station and
Cemetery bridge. The train was run
ming rapidly when wheel of the for
ward coach broke, and the car was de-
rallied. 1t ran into coal train and was
upset, and the other three cars were
wrecked. The accident was witnessed
by q mounted policeman, who tele-
phoned the facts to police headquarters.
The various hospitals dispatched sur
geons and ambulances to the scene. Up
to the present time twenty five wounded
persons have been removed from the |
wreck. Many more are yet to be extri-
Gated.
Seventy passengers were on board
and it is remarkable that many were
not killed outright.
THE UNFoRTUNATEs.
AS tar as can be ascertained, the in
jured are as follows:
w. Calhoun, Philadelphia, head cut
severely, both thighs broken and severe
internal injuries.
b. Wink, seriously cut.
j. Kelly, left ann injured.
j. II. Holloway, internal injuries.
J. e. Connolly, shock and cuts.
Il. G. Nathan, bruised and cut.
III, 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
"A, a t.,l.N
| out the passengers.
g A newsboy, ID. Curran, said he was in
: the rear car, and alter the car bumped
along for a few moments it stood on end,
4 then fell over. The stove was pulled out
K of the window. The overturned stoves
n set fire to the wreck, but it was eX-
: tinguished by the efforts of the brake
men and therescued passengers.
J. The Long Branch express came along
|. nine minutes after the disaster, but was
l, stopped by danger signal. A special
Q train was sent out from Jersey City, and
,r from the trains. Those from
1t Philadelphia are all more or less the
20 worse for the shaking up. Their torn
IS clothing, dirt-begrimedf faces, with blood
ID stains, betokened the ordeal through
O. which they had passed. Several gen
tlemen, who were cut and bruised Sc
v N6ISly Itluotu w .SlNo llOll hulISo iOl
nj publication en- account of alarming theil
in friends. The track was torn up for
I'd considerable distance. The tender anC
le cars were piled up in a confused mass
%, The cause of the accident can not be as
or certained, but it is certain that the car
is were off the track some distance be
~ yond the switch, thus proving that tn
accident did not result from mis-
III placed switch. "a
IT, l,aF ttxrn M
ed gers. All but two were removed from
a in an unconscious condition. The
.rt were carried into the waiting-room c
III, the Danforth avenue depot, wher
Ike several physicians attended them. |
~, less than an hour after the ACCIDENT o.
Id Cured all the injured passengers r.
covered consciousness and were able
rim walk about. Eight of them were onl
slightly injured and declined to giN
special train and taken to New York.
nat AT PHILADELPHIA.
at PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 30.-Five of Il
hot wounded by the accident at CT eenvil
i"v reached this city this afternoon. A va
yet crowd awaited the coming of the trai
Dry The railroad company had ten ca
ld- riages ready TO convey the injured
M their homes.
A THE WOUNDED.
cry The wounded as far as reported, ar
ell, NJ. r. Connolly.
ion G. H. Pray.
ted Mr.. Washman.
pu- Il. II. Scattergood.
ex- II. w. Tyne.
md All were able to walk from the ira
ert to a carriage, excepting Connolly;
in right leg was broken. His nose is al
vas badly hurt.
eel Pray was frightfully wounded abo
bell the face,
md Scattergood had his right arm broke
ely Massman's head Is severely cut.
APP suffers also from nervous shock.
the Van Tyne received several scS
md wounds.