New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-10-12
SIGNALS OF DANGER UNHEEDED.
PLENTY WERE DISPLAYED BUT THE ENGINEER
DISREGARDED TIEM-CAESES OLE
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1 GENERAL PRESS DISPATCH

DISREGARDED THEM-CAUSES OF
THE ACCIDENT.
GENERAL PRESS DIsPArcH1
Easton Penn. Oct 1.-THE story OF tho disaster on
the Leigh Valley Railroad last night at Mud Run,
as told by an official, Is follows
" Eighty-sevcn loads OF people attended the
parade at Haz!eton from Wikcsbare, Scranton, Car
bondale and other places There were eight sections
Of the train, and these followed passenger train No
IL, with orders TO run ten minutes apart. These
orders were also delivered 10 telegraph operators
at all signal stations The seventh section came to
Mud Run ahead OF time and stopped until ten
minutes expired. The danger signal was displayed
at the station, and the brskemen sent back
as additional protection. Section No. rested
short dstince beyond the station No. 6 csms
laundering along and tho brakemen gave tho engineer
The signal to stop. lie did not heed it, and da he'd
by the signal. The train plunged Oh. disegarded
the signal at the station, and the awful disaster fol-
lowed Tho last train filed With people from
Carbonate. Three cars were tclcScoped Half
hour after the accident Superintendent Goodwin left
Bethlehem for the scene of the accident with a
load OF physicians
friend of the correspondent, who tust arrived
from the scene of tho disaster, says:
Tho section OF the train wIecked made I'D
OF Jersey Central passenger cars, which only
shells or apologies for Two OF these
pletely demolished and the other are worthless.
Fity-six persons are dead, and some of the forty
persons injured Will die. Some of the dead and In
jured have sent to their homes Scranton and
Pleasant Valley, and the rest, when left. lying
in the cars. The section that into the section
that was standing above the station drawn by
two engines. The first engine p!oughed through tho
last car in the train and partly through the next
Many Of the dead and Injured that were in thess
found either beneath, top or alongside
of the engine, some Of them manGlcd almost beyond
recognition When went AVA the wreck had been
cleared and trains were again running TIME.
Henry Cook the engineer OF the first engine
and James Sharkey of the second. Cook lcsped fIOL
his engine and when left the he could not be
found. His fireman was severely but not danger
ously injured / was told that sharkey said that
when he saw the signal 70 stop be shut off steam.
WHOM lie saw the haSgcr signal the target at tho
sta; ion tc reversed his lever but Cooks engine
tinued using and pulled him into the wreck.
Sharkey escaped injury. His engine is wrecked
the embankment is not true From my knowledge
of the strength of the should say that II they
had been Leh Gu Valley ms cad Of jersey Central
the accident would not have been disastrous.
and doubt II more than three or four persons would
have been killed well acquainted with Engineer
Cook and cannot unders tand wha had come over him.
The distance from the end of the third section of the
rain the spot WHARF the brakeman stood giving
the signal to the fourth section was measured this
morning and found TO be Thousand feet. As the
train was ascending grade 1t could have been stopped
in less than that distance. According to the III
yeStigaton thus IA ma1e the cOTpany's rules ana
orders were complied with by the telegraph operator
and the Of the tIlid section