St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-10-20
The Railroad Collision.

NEW YORK, Oct 19.-The terrible rail-
road accident last night occurred under
coal shute on the HackenSack bridge. An
express train ran into an immigrant train,
knocking a caboOSe that was at the rear of
the latter across the east bound track. Both
trains were weSt-bound. Before the track
could be protected, across which the cabooSe
had been thrown, passenger train of the
Lehigh Valley road came laundering up the
last track. 1t splintered the already dis
mantled cabOose and was itself derailed, the
engine plunging down the steep embank-
ment and t0pplmg over into the mud, in
which it settled four feet. The baggage
car followed the engine half way down the
bank, and the smoking car left the track
The immigrant train was filled with paSsen-
gers, many of them wCmen. Their cries
mingled painfully with the Kissing steam
and the crash of timbers and irons. After
the immediate shock many of the passen-
gers joined the train hands in a search for
the hurt, to whom they were guided by the
cries of the victims. AS the area OF the dis
aster was not more than the length of two
cars, the searcherS We're not long in finding
the injured. Two were Immediately pulled
out from under the cabOOSe. One was a
woman, whose head had been cut off. The
other was the body of man, crushed be-
yond recognition. The head was shapeless
and the body like pulp. A man with his
head bleeding crawled up the track over
which the engine had toppled. 1t was
Hail. the engineer of the Lehigh express
Others were found in the cars. A woman
lay on the floor near the rear door OF the
car that Immediately preceded the cabooSe
on the immigrant train. The car was tele-
scoped. AS the men raised her, her leg
DROPPED OUT OF HER DRESS.
It had been cut off at the thigh. Word
was sent TO Jersey City soon after the acci-
dent. and at $3.50 o'clock relief train ar
rived at the scene Of the wreck The
wounded were still moaning and shrieking.
three of them had been carried into the
smoking car of the Lehigh Valley train.
The woman who had lest a leg lay in one
corner. The other Two persons were dead
man and woman who was msensible from
fractured thighs. The other two bodies lay
on the bank. and the wounded were scat
tered on the cars on which they had been
hurt. their friends caring for them as best
they might with the scant appliances for
their comfort. The relief train, with the
three persons on board, was at once re-
turned to Jersey City. There was no sign
of the immigrant train. except the caboose,
which the wreckers were removing by tear
ing it apart. SplinterS of wood Strewed
the track for several feet beyond the ca
bOoSe. Part of them were from the car in
front of the cabOoSe, whose rear had been
crushed in. The bodies of two boys and a
woman were found this morning under the
Lehigh Valley engine. The bodies were
brought to this city, but as yet have not
been identified. Thomas P. Pratt, tele-
graph operator at Marion, has been arrested
Pratt, who is 26 years old. is an expe-
rienced operator. He admits that he did
not give the right signal. He says he was
advised by his friends to desert, but he re-
fused to do so. He is held to await the de-
cision of the cOroner's jury. He resides in
this city, with his wife and three children.
The following is full list of the dead and
wounded, as far as known:
THE KILLED.
Karl Henry Grommer, aged so years, Nor
wegiau. head taken off. He had three tickets
from New York to Battle Creek, Mich. and
papers showing that he arrived by the steam
ship Elbe.
An unknown boy, aged years, horribly
crushed.
An unknown woman, head OFF.
Eulena Arrears, aged 20 years, who was on
her way to Madison. Wis. where her father
resides, died at St. Francis hospital.
Four more bodies were found this morning
under the wrecked Lehigh Valley locomotive.
They have not been identified
Two unknown boys were found under the
pilot truck, one aged s. the other l2
Unknown won an, head and arms gone, re-
mains badly scorched.
Unknown mans trunk burned to crisp.
found five feet below the surface of the
wreck.
The bodies were sent to Speer's morgue
The wounded brought to jersey City were
sent to ST Francis hOSpital They ara.
Marnus Klinger, Norwegian, Is years old.
repoeted dead but still living. He had both
legs and his skull fractured; will die.
Owen Hall, engineer Lehigh Valley train,
severe confusion about the head and neck,
but still alive.
Stuart a. Bowers, firemen of the Lehigh
Valley train, aged 80 years, sku. fractured