The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-08-23
A NORRIS ROAD WRECK.
A PASSENGER TRAIN CRASHES
INTO Al FREIGHT ENGINE.

An Ugly Smash-up on h D., i. s. W.
Railroad at Newark-A Zig Fire In
Observation-Disclosures Anti-Railroad
War.
One of the ugliest of recent wrecks &C.
CURED last evening on the Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western Railroad al
Newark.
At eight o'clock drill engine No. n was
backing some freight cars down a siding
where there is a switch between Clifton
and Eighth avenues, and a number OF the
freight cars had passed the switch and
the engine had also partly crossed when
the Montclair accommodation, which
leaves Broad street at forty-three minutes
past seven, came laundering along anu
the two locomotives crashed together
The engineer and fireman on the freight'
Charles Davis and Albert Nafey, jumped
from their cab in the nick of time. Inc
engineer Of the passenger train, Chaeles
King, and Joseph McLane, his hremen'
stuck to their posts and they, TOO, mHacu-
lousy escaped unframed.
The Montclair train was full OF passen-
gers. They Were all thrown from thelr
seats, many severely bruised and cut py
the scattering of the glass from the
shattered windows. No serious
were reported among them, thoug 10
may be assumed that the full extent OIL
the injury sustained by many will never
be known.
Both locomotives were battered out OF
shape. The forward passenger car OIL Tue
Montclair train was dera1led, ana one ol
the freight cars was turned up on enc.
The debris was scattered all over the
+,co1c a,l For MANY hours there WAS q
practical suspension of travel on the ROAD,
One or two trains loaded with excursion
parties crept along the road, but IL look
them three hours to make the distance
between New York and orange. Fas.
sengers were transferred at the scene OF
the collision and forced TO walk lnree
blocks in pitch-like blackness between
trains.
Haddonie1d's Railroad War.
Vice President William j. Sewell, OF
the Pennsylvania Railroad, has written a
letter to Mr.. Henry D. Moore, who acted
as chairman of the recent citizens rail
road meeting at Haddonield. General
Sewell, in his letter, desires to know WhaC
grievances exist between the people OF
Haddonfield and the railroad: He states
he never knew of nycompla1nt.
In reply Mr.. Moore states that the trans
flIt EldN0 t1t1J AAANA
their offices late, the burning OF soft coal
is offensive to the public, thes schedule OF
trains is arranged badly: in winter the
cars are poorly heated, and the light fur
,nished in cars is nit for reading. lie
also states that committees of citizens
have waited upon the railroad company
with complaints, which were u~nheeded,
and the only recourse left to the citizens
of Haddonfield was to invite q competing
line to enter the town.
The committee appointed to call upon
the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad
and present petition and invitation for
that road to enter here were courteously
received and will receive an answer in q
few days. Over $50 persons have signed
an agreement to patronize the Reading
system when the road is constructed.
An East Orange Fire.
Yesterday afternoon at quarter-past
four an alarm of fire was sent out from
box As, East Orange. The fire was in
Ransley's Mineral Water Works on Ster-
ling street. Four buildings constituted
the factory. The fire started in the
wagon house, and before the fire depart
ment arrived the four buildings and barn,
containing four. horses, were wrapped in
flames and far beyond hopes of being ex-
tinguished. 1t was fully quarter-past five
p. m. before the fire department had it
under control.
The flames spread in opposite directions
in the adjoining building, completely de-
stroying the bottle, storage house. barn,
packing house and the main building,
which had just received a complete over
hauling and refitted with new machinery
to the amount of $4,000. Four wagons
and four horses were burned, and the
odor could be smelt several blocks away.
The back taps were sent out at a
quarter to seven. The amount of damage,
as near as can be estimated by fair
Judges. is 10000. which was partly COW