The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-10-21
Further Particulars of the Pennsylvania
Railroad Accident Yesterday.

Railroad Accident Yesterday.
JERSEY CITY, October 19-The bodies of
two boys and a woman were found this
morning under the Lehigh Valley engine.
The bodies have been identified.
Thomas Pratt, telegraph operator at Ma
ron, has been arrested. He failed to warn
the express of the emigrant trains stop
page.
Pratt who i twenty-six years old, is an
experienced operator. lie admits that he
did not give the right signal. He says he
was advised by his friends to desert, but he
refused to do so. He is held to await the ac-
ton Of the Coroner's jury. He resides at
Us Fifth street, this city, With his wife and
three children.
The three bodies discovered this morning
buried beneath the front OF the I.ehigh Val
ley engine were brought to this city and
placed in the mO-gue. The woman Is un-
known and unrecognized. The two bows
were apparently about ten years of age.
The tracks have been cleared and the trains
are running on schedule time. All that re-
mains OF the wreck is the I.ehigh Valley en-
CINE, which is completely destroyed.
IL Will be dug out some time to-day. and il
j. thought that more bodies Will be found.
There have been eight deaths in all, and
JnOst of the wounded will, il is thought. die
The depot is surrounded by crowd await
ing news, and great excitement prevails
here. The bodies at the morgue have not
been identified.
The following is a full list of the dead and
wounded, as far as known: killed-Karl
Henry GrOmmer. aged thirty years, Norwe-
gian, head taken of. He had three tickets
from New York TO Battle Creek, Mich. and
papers showing that he arrived by the steam
ship tlbe. An unknown boy. aged eight
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an, head of. Eulina Arreares, aged twenty
six 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 Le-
high Valley locomotive They have not
been identified. Two unknown boys were
found under the pilot truck One aged eight
years, tine other twelve. Unknown woman
head and arms gone. remains badly
scOTched. Unknown man, trunk burned to
q crisp, found five feet below the surface of
the wreck. The bodies were sent to Speers'
lnorgue. The wounded brought To- Jersey
City were sent 10 II. Francis Hospital They
arr: Marinus klinger, eighteen years old.
Norwegian, reported dead, but still living;
he rad both legs and his skull fractured.
will die. owen Hall. engineer Lehigh Val
icy train. severe confusion about the head
and neck; still alive. S. A. Bowers, fireman
of the Lehigh Valley train, aged thirty skull
he can not live. Ralph Curry aged twenty
nine, injured about neck, not dangerously.
Christina Bolsta, aged forty years, leg broken
and injured internally; her condition is con-
sidened critical; she was on her way
to Minneapolis. Laura Peliressen
hlelanarnd, Norwegian, aged thrty-two.
severely injured about the head and back.
not considered dangerous. Her two year old
child had its leg broken. She was On her
way to Join her husband at Norwood, Iowa.
4. H. Pratt, the telegraph operator was
arraigned to-day on charge of manslaughter.
lie waived an examination, and was held "a
await The action Of the Coroner's verdict
Norman l.. Rowe, counsel for Pratt, makes
the following statement: Pratt was stationed
in the Marion signal tower, near the station
of that name. He controlled the east see
ton OF the road, known as block
extending from Marion 20 the fish
house on the Hackensack Meadows
about three miles distant. II was
his duty to record the passage o
trains snd their passing the fish house, upon
tally-sheet which lay before him. The
emigrant train had passed his station thir
teen minutes before the western express ap
preached Pratt glanced at his sheet, anC
mistOOk another entry for the record or the
emigTant train having passed the fish house
The emigTant train had left on the block
however. having backed down to pick M
two cars which had broken loose from the
Tram. IN MS statement 10 tnlet OF IO1ct
Murphy Pratt admitted that he had
not recorded the signal from the fish
house, but took. il for granted that
the block was clear because Of the thirteen
minutes which had elapsed. Superintend
ent Crawford, of the New York division
states that an investigation shows that Prai
alone is responsible. A white signal, denot
ing a clear track, was shown, and justified
the engineer of the express train in running
on the block.
County Physician Converse is satisfied tha
fLerf are hut seven hndins At the Nornn1e