The Osceola times., 1885-02-07
a BAD WRECK.
An Express Train Deraiisd, causing -
erai smashup, IN which "a Large Nunio''
of Passengers Receive Serious INJURIES
Some of which are Thought to ne f"'a'.

eral smashup, IN which Large N"
of Passengers Receive serious Injuries
some of which are Thought to be f"'"'.
JERSEY CRY, n. Y, January so
A frightful accident occurred thls
morning on the New Jersey Centrai ran,
road, anumber of persons being kiiieu
or wounded, as the fast express from
Philadelphia was approaching Daniorth
avenue, Just after crossing the cemetery
bridge wheel of one OF the iorWaru
coaches broke, causing several other cars
10 leave the track. The derailed cars
crashed into a coal train standing on
siding. upsetting the coal cars and pilins
upon them in a wrecked condition. Inc
cars of the express were well filed Win
passengers. As the cars crashed into one
another the shrlcks of men and women
were heartreudihg.
Assistance was at once telegraphed Tor,
and the various hospitals OF the city
promptly responded with corps oil doc
tors and NUMBER OF ambulances. Inc
railroad hands soon set to wors extricat-
ing the wounded from the wreck, while
doctors bandanged their wounds and sent
them TO the hospitals. At eleven O'Clock
twenty-seyen persons had deem taken
from the wreck, more or less injured,
some, it is feared, fatally. Others are
still in the wreck, wedgol in among
broken timbers, etc.
1t is reported that several corpses can
be seen amid the debris. Che train was
running at a high rate OF speed at the
time, being due at Jersey City at 9;3O
u. m.
The railroad officials can not account
for the breaking of the wheel, as the uu-
derpnning of the cars, axles, etc, are
carefully examined and sounded at every
stop between Philadelphia and Jersey
City.
Following are the names of the injured
as far as at present learned:
NJ. NJ. Fredericks, Boundbrook, n. j.,
seriously injured.
W. Easton, engineer, badly hurt about
the body.
C. j. Burdell, conductor, painfully
hurt.
NJ. Shadwick, brakeman, severely in.
jured.
NJ. d. Cornell, of Philadelphia, seri.
ously bruised.
+. X. Searvillc, C. Reed and ii. Br,y,
of Philadelphia, badly injured.
Is. +. Scatteseood, of Scattergood 4
Co., Philadelphia, right arm laccrated
and almost torn from the socket.
Charles IL. Pray, of the firm of Holmes
4 Pray, Philadelphia, head cut and skull
fractured. Injuries probably fatal.
D. Reed, Philadelphia, nose broken,
face cut and one eye probably dislodged
Henry Tracey, of Compton & Tracey,
Philadelphia, head cut and frontal bone
broken; injuries likely to prove fatal.
NJ. ID. Conway, OF Philadelphia, arm cut
and ribs broken.
Walter Chickner, brakeman, was
thrown from the platform of the rear cal
and cut and bruised over the face and
body, and severely injured internally.
b. W. Vanline, of Philadelphia, skull
fractured; probably fatally injured.
1t is now stated that no dead bodies ar,
in the wreck. The engineer and conduc
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among the injured, escaped unhurt.
b. Wink, of Philadelphia, seriously
cut.
J. Kelly, of Philadelphia, left arm in
jured
J. T. Holloway and J. Connolly, of Phil
adelphia, shock and cuts.
+. C. Nephews, of PHILADELPHIA, bruised
/ and cut.
/ II. ID. Corcoran, of Philadelphia, hcat
cut.
Charles Fralley, of Boundbrook, cut am
/ bruised.
II. c. Wade of Boundbrook, cut an,
badly Injured.
Several gentlemen who were cut an,
1 bruised refused their names for publica
ton for fear of alarming their friends.
/ Mr.. Seaman, of Bayonne, n. j., VIII,
I was on the accommodation train which
arrived within five minutes after the acci
/ dent to the express train, says it was oc
l casioned by one wheel of the tender leav
ing the track, which opened the switch S,
that the smoker switched off and ran int,
the coal train on the siding, dragging tn
| other cars with it. The engine brok,
/ loose and ran quarter of mile bcfor,
'it was stopped
] The smoker was completely wrecked
| A Pullman and three coaches followin.
were badly smashed, four coal carr
were destroyed, and the coal scattered
over the ground for fifty yards. Tn,
track is so badly torn up that it viii
require relaying at the place of the acci
dent, and the trains will consequently bC
delayed.