St. Landry democrat., 1885-02-07
a BAD WRECK.


of Passengers Receive Serious Injuries,
Some of Which are Thought to be Fatal
JERSEY CITY, n. Y, January 80.
A frightful accident occurred THIS
morning on the New Jersey Central Rail
road, anumber Of persons being killed
or wounded, as the fast express from
Philadelphia was approaching Dan1orth
avenue, just after crossing the cemetery
bridge wheel of one of the forward
coaches broke, causing several other cars
to leave the track. The derailed cars
crashed into coal train standing on
siding. upsetting the coal cars and ping
upon them in a wrecked condition. The
cars of the express were well filled with
passengers. AS the cars crashed into one
another the shrieks Of men and women
were heartrending.
Assistance was at once telegraphed for,
and the various hospitals of the city
promptly responded with corps OF doc
tors aud number of ambulances. The
railroad hands soon set to work 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, Wedged in among
broken timbers, etc.
It is reported that several corpses can
be seen amid the debris. The train was
running at high rate of speed at the
time, being due at Jersey City at $3.50
q. IN.
LATER.
The railroad officials can not account
for the breaking of the wheel, as the IN
derpinning 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.
M. D. Cornell, of Philadelphia, seri-
ously bruised.
E. K. Searvil1e, C. Reed and II. Bray,
of Philadelphia, badly injured.
3. T. Scattergood, of Scattergood &
Co., Philadelphia, right arm lacerated
and almost torn from the socket.
Charles H. Pray, of the firm of Holmes
o 1aI. ,I-T
fractured. Injuries probably fatal.
o. 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. D. Conway, of Philadelphia, arm cut
and ribs broken.
Walter Chickner, a brakeman, was
thrown from the platform Of the rear car
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 are
in the wreck. The engineer and conduc-
tor of the train, previously reported
among the injured, escaped unhurt.
B. Wink, of Philadelphia, seriously
cut.
]. Kelly, of Philadelphia, left arm in
jured
]. T. Holloway and j. Connolly, of Phil
adelphia, shock and cuts.
E. c. Nephews, of PHILADELPHIA, bruised
and cut.
H. D. Corcoran, Of Philadelphia, head
cut.
Charles Fralley, of Boundbrook, cutand
bruised.
H. C. Wade OF Boundbrook, cut and
badly injured.
Several gentlemen who were cut and
bruised refused their names for publica-
ton for fear of alarming their friends.
Mr.. Seaman, of Bayonne, N. j., who
was on the accommodation train which
arrived within five minutes after the acct
dent to the express train, says it was oc-
casioned by one wheel of the tender leay-
ing the track, which opened the switch so
that the smoker switched off and ran into
the coal train on the siding, dragging the
other cars with it. The engine broke
loose and ran quarter of q mile before
it was stopped
The smoker was completely wrecked.
A Pullman and three coaches following
were badly smashed, four coal cars
were destroyed, and the coal scattered
over the ground for fifty yards. The
track is SO badly torn up that it will
require relaying at the place of the acct
dent, and the trains will consequently be
delayed.
A JUVENILE PANIC,