Evening journal., 1889-04-25
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Three Persons are Ground to
Death at Newport.
THE WARNINGS misunderstood.

A Wagon Struck by a Fast Express
Train-rwo of The Victims Instantly
killed, The other Lives Three Min
utes.
The north bound New York and Wash
ington express train on the p, w. y u.
r. r., that leaves this city at 2. % p. m,
while passing Newport station at 22O
o'clock yesterday afternoon, struck a
covered wagon containing three persons.
The train was running at speed OF
forty-five miles an hour. Two of the oc-
cupants of the wagon were Instantly
killed and the other died in three min
utes. The horse was killed and the wagon
smashed to litters.
The names of the victims are John
Wade, aged GO years, his wife Matilda,
aged 80 years, and James G. Lenderman,
aged II, the son of Louis G. Lenderman
of 22S Parrish street, this city. The old
couple lived at Appleton, Cecil county
Md. about fifteen miles from this city
on a small farm. They had been to the
market in this city, with produce, hav-
ing occupied stand ON King street be
tween Second and Third. Disposing Of
their produce, they started for home,
taking with them young
Lenderman, who had obtained
permission from his parents to spend a
few days on their farm. When Newport
was reached, Mr.. Wade drove to the
phosphate works of j. A. Cranston & Co.
and purchased 400 pounds of plaster
from John e. Whann. member Of the
firm
The road to the phosphate works
crosses three railroad tracks. about $50
feet from the station. Then making a
sharp turn to the left it passes the Office
of the Marshall Iron Company and runs
close to the tracks for 200 feet, finally
| turning to the right into the
/ phosphate works. When coming
from the phosphate works, the office Of
the iron company obstructs the view Of
the tracks toward the west.
Having obtained the plaster Wade
started from the phosphate works to-
ward the crossing. As he drove along
beside the tracks, Edward Cook. a colored
boy, working in the field. who had no
ticed that the block signal indicated the
approach of the express, called warn
| ing TO them, to which no attention was
| paid The wagon went on around the
Office of the iron works on to the tracks
Samuel Bailey and Edwards Hinesworth,
standing near, called frantically to Wade
to hurry. But the old man, probably
not hearing distinctly, stopped his team
on the east-oound track to hear what the
men said At that moment, the express
with a roar, dashed into the wagon strilS
ing the front part and smashing it to
litters in an instant. The train, which
was in charge of Conductor Frank
| Walters and Engineer William Beckley,
was stopped and bystanders and passen-
gers hurried to the spot. Nearly 100 feet
away from the crossing lay Mrs
Wade, with her head crushed
and the brains oozing from it,
and her body horribly mangled. Life was
extinct. A few feet farther on laid tn,
body of her husband. his head alsc
crushed and his beard clOtted with blood
Young Lenderman, breathing family
laid about fifteen feet from the crossinl
tile blood flowing from wound in hi
head. In three minutes he was als'
dead. About twenty feet from the roa'
was the dead body of the horse and 70
100 feet along the track was scattere
, the fragments Of the wagon, the groun'
t being whitened with the plaster.
Tender hands carried the mutilate'
a bodies to the sloping bank beside th
+ track, and covered that of the boy witt
Wade's overcoat and those of the ma
and wife, which were laid side by sid'
with a buffalo robe. William Wade,
butcher at Newark and nephew arrive
in a short time and recognized MI
: and Mrs Wade Shortly after o'clocl
s James NJ. Thomas, brother Of the dea
boys mother, arrived and identified Lei
derman.
Through a too literal observance of I'll
law, the bodies were permitted to lay OF
in full view Of the passengers of tn
D passing trains until the arrival of Cor
. ner Gamble and Deputy Coroner Bari
=, hal after o'clock. The bodies wei
placed in ice boxes and brought to Il
Y morgue in this city last evening, whei
e they win be made presentable befol
/ they are sent home.
The Wades leave daughter, Jenni
AGED IS. The news was broken to he
y last evening The news Of Lenderman
u death was also broken to his parents la:
evening They are almost heart broker
His father is employed by the ]. Mortc
e Poole Company. 1t is stated at Newpo
& That Wade was drinking man and thu
If he might have been intoxicated yeste
day.
A1tNtlA -NA-At HtA'HtAAfsoA e--N $3.50
+ eight freight trains pass Newport eve
IL day. The crossing is in continual us
People hove been killed there before al
the railroad company have been asked
u put safety gates at the crossing.
2 The jury of ten men to hold the !
n auest was sworn IN this morning at t
morgue, over the body of Mrs Wac
d. while around the room we're the bodies
!" her husband, the boy Lenderman a
Ii James Dennison, who was killed ne
Edge Moor Tuesday night. 1t was
ghastly place. After selecting w.
- Long as foreman and Walter Gaeger s
! ] retary the jury decided to visit
scene Of the accident at Newport, Z
afternoon and take the evidence Of
az witnesses.
tY The bodies have been. put in as P
p sentable appearance as possible and v
3 be sent home to-day.
Two Slighh Fires.