Morning journal and courier., 1885-10-19
News by Telegraph FROM ALI CHAPTERS. 4 PRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT To An Emigrant Train With 300 Souls On Board. MANY PERSONS ARE KILLED And Scores Fatally Injured. Scenes At The Wreck. BEECHER'S SUNDAY SERMON. Several Revealing Mur- ders--Horsewhipping
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BEECHER'S SUNDAY SERMON.
FRIGHTFUL LOSS OF LIFE.

An Enaierant Train With Eight Hun-
 dred Persons Aboard Run Into by
 An Express-NIany Killed and Scores
 Fatally WSiinaed A Deiay. on the
 fraek-The Cause Fire Adds to the
 Disaster-Anot othe Train Crashes Into
 The Wreck.
 JERSEY C1TY, Oct. 1S.-A train containing eight hundred emigrants was run into to- night by passenger train between Jersey City and Newark. A large number reported killed and wounded.
 The emigrant train left Jersey City for the West at 6:15 tonight. There were eight hundred passengers aboard mostly Norwe- gians. At the Meadows just outside of the city the train was detained by wrong signals of the operators. Tie train was followed by the Southern express train which crashed into the emigrant train wreeking the rear cars and killing ten people outright, many others were seriously injured. The scene was one of wild confusion and the cries of those who were wounded were pitiful. The accident occurred at the Hackensack bridge on the Pennsylvania rail- road six miles from Jersey City. which caught fire shortly after and lighted up the scene brilliantly. The news of the dreadful catastrophe was at once tele- graphed to this city and relief train with physicians and bandages, was quickly dis patched to the scene. The fire department was sent out. The dead and wounded were brought back to this city.
 The caboose and two cars were thrown on the other track and Lshigh Valley train coming north crashed into them, wrecking the engine and completely denolishing the cars. It is said the number of wounded is between fifty and seyenty-fye,
 MT. Joseph E. Smith, of the firm of the Brewster carriage manufactory, and his wife were passengers on the Eshish Valley train. He said to reporter: 'Our train was Itin- ming, I should judge, thirty miles cars. The collision occurred at S:30, few minutes after we had left East Newark. We felt 8 sudden shock that threw the passengers from their seats and then there came g crashing of timber mingled with the screams and groans of women. A terrifying se1ne followed. No one knew what had happened and in the confusion 8 scramble was made for the doors. Our train immediately came to standstill. Many were injured getting out of the cars, but so far as we could learn none seriously. terrible scene was presented by the wrecked cars. They lay in a heap across both tracks and down the embank ment which is fully twenty feet in height
  about in the most horrible forms. Some were buried beneath heaps of broken timbers. Others lay huddled about the track. One woman's head was cut completely off. The head rolled down the embank- ment while the niaugled body lay between the tracks. It was almost pitch dark and foggy and the only light was that of the fire which enveloped the baggage car of the western express.
 The wild shrieks of the suffering could be heard for blocks away. In justice to our conductor I will say that he ran very carefully from East Newark. The train men, many. of whom received more or less in juries, ran hither and thither help ing to e1tricate those who were pinned down by the cars'' The passengers who escaped also gave great assistance When the relief train arrived the dead and in jured were in the cars and as the cars moved slowly back to Jersey City the physicians went about bandaging and applying restora- tives. Hardly any of the en,igrants could speak English and their cries to one another were heartrending.