The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-10-23
RAILROAD HORRORS.


Five Men Killed and Large Number
Wounded by a. Collision of Trains Near
Hackensack. N. IA Similar Accident
in New Hampshire Causes the Loss of
Three Lives, while Five Persons are
Badly Wounded.
NEW YORK, Oct. 49, When the tas5 ex-
press on the Pennsylvania Railroad, leaving
Jersey City at s:15 last night. rounded the
curve near the Meadow coal bridge, about
i've miles oul. the engineer saw through
the thick fog the outlines of a car on
the track only a few hundred feet
ahead. The express was running at the
rate of forty-five miles an hour. The en-
gineer applied the air-brakes as quickly as
he could and whistled the danger signal,
but his attempt was in vain. The engine
struck the car with terrific. force, telesc0p-
ing it and throwing the fragments in every
direction eah
The painting engine had scarcely stopped
when the train bound east leaving Newark
on the Lehigh Valley Road at $40, dashed
into the forward end of the immi-
grant. Engineer Owen Hall, peeping
trough the fog, saw the wreck, He
did everything Gin his power to stop his
train on its death-bearing course, but
it was too late With an awful crash the
Newark train rushed upon the overturned
carand was thrown down the embank-
ment. Over and over rolled the cars of
human freight, and upon the night air rose
the horrible shrieks of the dying. Dark
outlines Of the train lying wrecked in the
valley. and the cars rolling one on top of
the Others, presented a CHASTITY picture.
When the shock had passed the dazed
passengers left the trains as best they could
and huddled together, too startled to speak.
The first to recover was the engineer of the
Jersey City train. he gathered the fright
ened people together and ordered them to
render all possible assistance to the injured
When the first wounded man was taken
from the debris everybody cried for a.
physician. but in the whole crowd of will
ing workers not one physician could be
found. At $50 o'clock relief train was
sent to the wreck from Jersey City, loaded
with doctors, reporters, BEDS food, etc.
When the relief train reached the wreck
the scene was indeed heartrending. Mixed
in a huge mass lay the two trains
while, for hundreds of feet around was
piled timber of all shapes. Beside the
track lay the Jersey City train. The
engine was tipped over the right embank-
hind lay the deraled cars. To the left of
this train, reduced to mass Of splinters,
were the remains of what appeared to be
an immigrant caboose. The car was shiv-
cred to atoms and underneath lay some
of the mangled bodies of the dead and
dying. sa.
On the left and stringing down the en-
bankment was the Lehigh Valley train, and
at the bottom lay the engine, kissing ana
smoking, the legs and bodies of the
wounded protruding from the wreck. The
passengers who had escaped injury
were lending valuable assistance
Stretchers were Immediately furnished
by the relief train, and the injured
and dead were carried into the bag
gage car. 1t was a terrible sight. The first
body to be removed was the headlesS trunk
of a woman. The feet and limbs, with the
clothing torn completely from them, pro-
truded from the splinters of the caboose.
Strong hands soon cleared the debris from
above the manged form and it was taken
to the car.
1t soon appeared that the only ones in
Jured were from the emigrant caboose,
which lay splintered between the engine of
the Jersey City train and the last cars of
the Lehigh Valley. All attention, therefore,
was being bestowed Oh the emigrants, when
low means were eeard coming from under
the engine of the Lehigh train. The eager
rescuers rushed quickly down the embank-
mont and after hard work succeeded in
taking from the massive machine the insen-
sible body Of Owen Hail. the engineer. He
is badly hurt. His fireman was found
some distance away with his skull frac-
tured. The following is the list of killed
and wounded:
KILLED-Ulena Arenas, aged thirty-f1ve, of
Madison, Wis.,; man, woman, boy and girl,
all unknown. a et
WoUNDED-Marinus Klinger Christian wy
vagbretZen, e. V. Urberoth, Stewart A. Bowers,
OF South Easton, Pa, Owen Hall, Easton, Pa,
Ralph Curry Christian G. Balsted, of Mime
apolis, Laura Redsen, of Norwood, Ia, and
many others whose identity is not now known
CONCORD, N. H., Oct. ia passenger
train and a freight collided between East
and West Andover yesterday on the North
ern division of the Boston & Lowell Road,
by which three persons were killed and five
hurt. The Chicago fast freight left here
with a dOuble-header and when it reached
West Andover, where it was to be
side-tracked for the down passenger
train, it was discovered that the train
had broken in two. Engineer Emerson
started back in search of the missing cars
AiO PeSooSiAsSA oOOIi OetiAiO ttiAu
the trainmen were informed of the mishap
to the freight. The express stopped at
Andover Center to leave some passengers
and pulled out again. About half mile
farther on the passenger train and the freight
collided. Both were going at high rate Of
speed. The recoil was very heavy. Both EN-
gines were badly smashed; the tender of
the passenger locomotive telescOped the
baggage car, and the latter telescoped the
mail-car. As soon as possible trainmen
were sent to the scene. Both engineers
and brakeman, after a long search, were
found dead III the debris. The express
messenger and baggage-master were i'm
prisoned in the wreck of the baggage-car,
which took fire, but the flames were soon
extinguished and the men cut out. There
were two clerks in the mail-car, one of
whom was injured The killed and
wounded are as follows:
KILLED.. Graves, of Concord; John p.
Emerson of Concord, and William Harvey,
of Lebanon.
WoUNDED-Frank H. Stevenson, william
Turner and Frank G.. Wells, all of West
Lebanon, N. H; William W. Stone and Oscar
Leighton, OF Concord
! Cardinal M'Closkey's Twill.
New YORK, Oct. 19.-The will of the
late Cardinal McCloskey. was filed for pro-
bate Saturday afternoon. The document