The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-10-22
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NEW YORK, Oct. 19.-The news OF
the morning is that of terrible rail
way accident occurring on the PennsYl-
vania line. Although the collision oc-
CURED soon after eight O'Clock last
evening, the meagreness OF details
twelve hours afterWard proves we have
bowling wilderness In Jersey mead
oWs, only three miles from the city hall,
as impenelrable and as distant as the
Sierra Nevadss. Though there are no
fewer than eight railway tracks at the
point in question, there is not habi:-
able house in either direction tor
miles. The precise spot of the
collision was under coal schultz be-
yond the west end of Hackensack bridge.
The express tram ran into an emIgraDt
train, knocking the caboose that was Rt
the rear of the latter across the east
bound tracks. Both trains were bound
west. Before the track could be pro-
tected across which the caboose had
been thrown, q passenger train of the
Lshigh Valley road came laundering up
the east track. It spIintered the already
dismantled caboose, and was itself de-
rallied, the engine plunging down steep
embankment and into mud into which
il settled four feet. The
baggage car followed the engine
half way down the bank and the smoking
car also left the track. The emigrant
train was filed with passengers, includ-
ing many women. After the immediate
shock, many passengers Joined the train
hands in search of those hurt, to whom
they were guided by the cries of the vic
tins. The area of the disaster was not
more than the length of two cars. These
were at once pulled out from nnder the
rSak a
head had been cut of. Another was the
body of 8 man crushed beyond recogni :
ton. A man with his head bleeding
crawled up the bank from which
the engine toppled. He was Owen
Hall, the engineer of the
Lehigh express. Others were found IL
the cars. One woman lay on the floor,
near the rear door, in the cars that i'm
mediately preceded the caboose, on the
emigrant car that wss telescoped. As
! the men raised her up, her leg dropped
OF from out Of her dress. It had been
cut of at the thigh. Word was sent to
at 8 O'Clock relief train
arrived at the scene. and with
q portion of the dead and wounded at
once returned TO Jersey City and another
arrived to take its place, which at 10
O'Clock went back with the rest of the
dead and wounded The accident was
caused by deley of the emigraut tram
iu getting out of the way: Il had left
Jersey City at 8 s03, the express follow
| ing at 8 .25. The emigrant train stopped
| at the schultz for coal, had loaded and
was backing slowly when the express
came along, not having been warned by
the operator at the block station at Ma.
/ rIon.
The bodies of two boys and q woman
were found this morning under the Le.
high Valley engine. The bodies have
not been identified. Thomas p. Pratt
telegraph operator at Marion, has been
arrested.
JERSEY CRY, Oct. 19.-Pratt, who is
% years old, Is an experienced operator
He admits he did not give the right sig
nal. He says he was advised by bis
friends to desert but he refused to do so
He Is held TO await the action of the cor.
onor's Jury. Three bodies discovered
this morning buried beneath the from
of the Lehigh Valley engine were
bgough 70 the city and placed in the
mOrgue- There have eight deaths II
I al