Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1889-04-25
A rERRIBLE ACCIDENT.
A Wagon Struck by Train near
port Yesterday Afternoon TIM lev
sons Instantly Killed-A ee Pc
Crossing. 'ahgerot

Crossing. 'ahgerot
A terrible accident occr
Newport Station, on fred just abov
three nersons losf .lternoon, by whicl
inns were Johnv their lives. The vic
wife Man,aa.' Wade, aged 62 years, bi
mar 80, aged 80 years, and A bo,
- ScV IS L. Lenderman, aged 1.
years. lne old couple, who lived at Ap
pletoni Md; about Is miles from thi,
city, had been attending the King street
market where &c. .ssy ~. Ts , s.a stand for
years, between Second and Third streets.
After disposing OF their produce they
started for their home, taking with them
the son of Louis @. Lenderman, of No.
2Ss Parish street. The boy had been
given permission by his parents to 90
home with the old couple, and before
starting wen to the works OF the Morton
Poole Company, where his father is en-
ployed, and BID him goodbye.
Upon reaching Newport they drove
across the railroad tracks north of the
station to the phosphate works of j. A..
Crsnston n Co., where Mr. Wade
bought 400 pounds of plaster to use on
his land. He then started to drive back
and recross the tracks, when Samuel
Bailey and Edward Hinsworlh, SEER. y
the block signal drop, called to him to
hurry up us the train Tas comiuD. IL ia
evident that he did not understand what
they said us lie st3ppea his team on the
north-tound track tiiectly in front of
40 approaching north-bound express,
due In this city at 2,27 p. m. In less
than second the GOVT ca cher OF the en-
gine struck the front wheels of tk2
wagon, tearing II in pieces, which wars
scattered along the road. Th- .,orso w..
killed and thrown ally Is feet While
tn e, oeeuh'..t s of the wagon were thrown
-. further. Mr.. and Mrs. Wade were
both dead and the hoy only lived about
three minutes. AT the time of the acct.
dent the train was running at about As
mllos an uva..
!. was stopped ut once and the bodies
picked up ard laid on the bank alongside
Of the track. The body of Wade was
badly mangled, and bis wife's body is
still worse than his, as her skull was
hursted open and the brains scattered
along the track. The remains of the boy
were not mangled, but his skull was
crushed.
| Word of the accident was telephoned
to this city and Coroner Gamble, with
Deputy Coroner Barnhlll, went to the
place and took charge Of the bodies.
They were brought TO this city aDd taken
to the morgue. This morning Coroner
Candle summoned the following Jurors:
Joseph l.. Haywood, John D. Price, John
]. Devine, George L.. Ferguson, +. w.
Harold, James I. Springer, John Wag.
ner, George W. Kennedy, Walter YerRer
anu William X. Long, who after being
sworn organized by electiug William r.
Long foreman and Walter Yerger secre-
tary. They then adjourned to meet again
this att rnoon, when they will go to
Newport and examine witnesses.
This morning the mOrgue was visited
by large number OF people, among
whom were several ladies. 1t is the first
time In the history OF the new morgue
that there has been four bodies In It at
one time, and the way that thew are
mangled gave 1t slckening appearance.
deputy Coroner Barnhill aud his assls-
tant were busy In liking them up and re.
moving as far az possible all traces of the
Tragic manner In which they came to
their deaths.
The Wades leave one child, Jennie,
aReu 10 years, who was at home and had
prepared supper for her parsrta, when
William Wade her cousin brought the
sad news that they had been killed,
! Ihere are seventy-eight passenger and
lhirty-eight freight trains passing New
port station daily, and at this season OF
me year there arc probably over one hun
urea wagons crossing the tracks at that
point.
Some of the people in Newport state
mat the T., w. " B. Railroad Company
mas frequently been asked to put gates at
lhe crossing, but have never done 40
The crossing is a dangerous one and two
people have before been killed there, one
OF them being q con OF Edward Menden.
hall OF the Marshall Iron Works,
Norl was brought to Mrs. Lenderman
ate In the afternoon of her sons death
ny her brother, James NJ. Thomas, who.
al'er hearing OF the accident, drove to
Newport and identified the remains. This
morning they were viewed by another
uncle, brother of Mr.. Lenderman, who
seemed very much affected. The bows
funeral will take place at 9 o'clock Sat.
uruay afternoon, and the remains of MIR.
aud Mrs. Wade Will be taken to their late
) home to-day.
STILL ANOTHER ACCIDENT.
Yesterday morning when Assistant
station Master Thomas A. Brlson reached
Edgemoor with the wurkmtn' train, he
was informed by The telegraph OPP rator
that the mangled remains of man were
lying alongside OF the track about o 0
: yards below the station. He kept a sharp
lookout, aud upon reaching the place In.
dlcated found the body and brought It to
this city. 1t was a large, fuel ropor.
toned man with black mustache. and
was terribly mangled, the legs, arms and
lower part of the body being ground into
an uDr, equitable mass.
/ The remains were lying alongside of
the souih-bound track, aud, upon reach.
ing this city, Mr.. Brison notified Cor
oncr Gamble, who removed the body to the
morgue, where 1t was identified as that
oil Jtmes Dennison, OF No. POI Monroe
street, who for several years has been
dis ipated.
, The same jury empaueled in the case
OF the Newport victims were also sworn
In, and. after viewing the remains, pro-
ceeded to the Coroner's office, where the
following WITNESSES were examined ;
Thomas A. Brison, IL B. Swee en-, con.
ductor of train No. So, which leaves
north-bound at 2.52 a. M; A, Y. Car
penter, bsggage-master; Harry c. Day,
telegraph operator at Ejgcnoor; Theo-
deere F. Tay'or, lagman; GEORGE L,
Jackman, engineer, and Edward q,
Mead, the fagman of train No. 50.
Their evidence showed that when the
) train was between Shtllpot and Edge
E moor the bell on the engine was sounded
= from some one on the train, and that the
engineer understood It to mean caution
aud Immediately slowed down. A min.
= ute or so later 1t sounded Tor him TO stop
0 and ne was about to do SO when he saw