The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-10-30
A FEARFUL COLLISION.

further PartscuIars OF the Terrible RAN
road Aeeiaent IN New Jerssy.
new YORK, October 2O.-The news G
yesterday is the terrible railway accident
on the Pennsylvania line. Although the
collision occurred soon after eight o'clock
Sunday evening. the meagerness Of details
twelve hours afterward proves We have .
bowling wilderness In jersey meadows
only three miles from the city hall - i'm
penetrable and as distant q the Sierra Ne
vadaA Though there are no fewer than
eight railway tracks at the point in qnes-
ton, there is not an habitable house in
either direction for miles. The precise
spot of the collision was under coal shute
beyond the west end of Hackensack bridge.
An express train ran into IN emigrant
train, knocking the cabo0se. that was at
the rear of the latter, across the east bound
tracks Both trains were bound west Be
fore the track could be protected across
which the caboOse had been thrown. . pas
senger train of the Lehigh Valley road
same laundering up the east track. Il
splintered the already dismant.ed cabo0se
and was itself deraiIed. the engine piung-
ng down q steep embankment and into
he mud, into which it settled four feet
The baggage car followed the engine half
way down the bank, and the smoking car
eft the track. The emigrant train was
filled with passengers, many OF them
women. After the immediate shock many
passengers joined the train hands in search
Of the hurt. to which they were guided by
he cries of the victims, The area of the
disaster was not more than the length Of
Two cars. There was at once pulled out
from under the caSOose one woman whose
head had been cut off. The other was the
body of a man crushed beyond recognition.
A man with his head bleeding crawled up
the bank from which the engine toppled.
He was Owen Hall, engineer of the Lehish
express. The others were found in the
cars. A woman lay on the floor near the
rear door in the cars that Immediately pre-
ceded the caboose on the emigrant car,
which was telescoped. As the uien raised
her her leg dropped off Of her dress. 1t had
been cut off at the thigh. Word was sent
to Jersey City soon after the accident and
Ut nine O'Clock relief train arrived at the
scene, and with portion Of the dead and
wounded at once returned to Jersey City
and another arrived to take its place. which
1t ten o'clock went back with the rest Of
the dead and wounded. The accident was
caused BY the delay of the emigrant train in
getting out of the way. 1t had left Jersey
City at sos. the express following at SOS.
The em;grant train stopped at the shute for
coal, had loaded, and was backing slowly
when the express came along. not having
been warned by the operator at Block sta
ton OF Marion. The bodies of two boys
and woman were found under Lehigh
Valley engine. The bodies have not been
identified. Thomas P. Pratt telegraph Op
orator at Marion. has been arrested. Pratt
who Is twenty-six years old. is an expert.
enced operator. He admits he did not give
the right signal. He says he was advised
by friends to desert, but he refused to do
90. He is held to await the action OF the
Coroner's jury. The three bodies discover
ed beneath the front Of the Lehigh Valley
engine were brought to this city and placed
in the morgue. The woman is unknown
and unrecogEizabl.. The two boys are ap-
parently ten years Of age. The tracks have
been cleared and trains are running on
schedule time. All that remains of the
wreck is the Lehigh Valley engine. which is
destroyed. 1t will be dug out
some time. and it il thought more bodies
will then be found. There have been eight
deaths in all, and most of the wounded
will. it is thought die. The depot il sur
rounded by a crowd waiting the news. and
great excitement prevails here. The
bodies at the morgue have not been identi-
fed.
JERSEY CITY. \. J.. October 20.-The
following is full list of the dead as far az
known: Carl Henry Grommer, aged thirty
years. Norwegian, head of. He had three
tickets from New York to Battle Creek.
Mich. and papers showing that he arrived
by the steamer Elbe. An unknown boy,
aged eight years, horribly crushed. An
unknown woman. head of. Eulina Ar.
reares, aged twenty-six years, who was on
her way to Madison. Wis, where her father
resides, died at St Francis Hospital. Four
more bodies We're found this morning undcr
the wrecked Lehigh Valley locomotive.
They were not identified. Two unknown
boys were found under the pilot truck. one
aged eight years. the other twelve. An UNI
known woman head and arms gone. the re-
mains were badly Scorched. An unknown
man. trunk burned to a crisp. found five
feet below the surface of the wreck. The
bodies were sent "a Speers morCue.
In addition to the above, six are reported
fatally and many Others more or less i'll
iured.