Los Cerrillos rustler. (Cerrillos, N.M.) 188?-1891, 1890-11-14

a Nauthfai Operator Causes Aaethsf fe@
fai Railroad Dt.astsr-EnEtnssrsaa and fiF~
msa Crushed - Death.
SYRACUSE y. \. Nov &-The ex-
press train hat left NeN YORK on ne
Delaware LaekawAunA & Western road
81 Q o'clock yesterday morning = vas
due here al s.ss last evening. While de-
ssending the steep grade near Rock cut
three miles from this elty. crashed into
. coal train standing on = switch ana
waiting for the track 20 be cleared Tor
its passage u~orthward
both locomotives were completely
wrecked and the baggage and mail cars
we're crushed % pieces OF the other
cars on the passenger train, four IN
number, three we're thrown from the
track the force OF the collision hurting
them into a position at right angles
with the rails. The single Pullman car,
which was next to the mail car, kept
IL place.
Michael Burke Of this city, engineer
on the passenger train, and j. W. Doyle,
Of Great Bend. Pa. engineer on the
coal train. we're killed outright with
their aremen-Jerry Ice OF this city
#&
and Merton Feruan Of Great bend. The
four men we're buried under the wreck.
DOYLE vas dug out 10y the train hands
with the assistance OF some OF the pas
sengers The other three are still In
the wreck.
As by a miracle homo OF the passen'
gers were killed and only n OF them.
Mrs Thomas Corcoran. OF No 81 Myrtle
avenue, Buffalo. was seriously injured
Mrs C~orcoran was on her way HON
from Portland. She had " rib
broken and her right wrist was dislo
! Gated. She also sustained severe IN
iuries to her splno, and her left shoulde
was badly bruised. She is now at ~
! Joseph's Hospital in this city and he
q chances Of recovery are very doubtful
: The New York and Philadelphia ca
+ press train from New York City whic
9 is due in Syracuse at 5:55 p. m, passe
i Rock cut at 5:40 o'clock. II does nc
$ stop there, but passes the station ut th
Q usual rate OF speed, which Is abo
'e forty miles an hour. Before the expires
T. was due at Rock cut two coal trair
1i from Syracuse had arrived at the static
O. and had been run in on n switch on u
Z north side of tho main track. Tho G.
oi CINE on the first train that went IN {
O. the switch stood pretty well up towai
u tho east end Of tho side track. Engine
:, James Doyle, of Scranton, Pa oil u
III coal train, was in the cab OF his engf
O. waiting for the express to pass whit
he would pull out Michael Tterne
n brakeman. was also in tho G
cleaning his lantern. The second co
train was behind DGyie's and abe
seventy feet from the oaboose oil the Il
I'm ward train. NJ. A, Clark, the hoY
orator At the station. was in his room
. few rods east OF the switch and was
the lookout for the express. The |
ter was on time and as the headlight
its engine came into view 1T hast
through Clark's mind that tho swt'
was omen and that II it was not cloI
the express would dash into the c
train. No sooner did the thou
enter his brain than he dasl
'th out OF tho door, rushed TO the swi
and swung IL over. Then no
~ allied but too late his mistake. AS
switch was turned the express swung
to the side track and the crash OF
engines spoke the result Tho noisI
the collision was lost in the cries OF
~ passengers within the coaches oil
express train. The fireman and
rineer of each engine wore caugh
~ the wreck and ground to death.
"a Tho baggage and express car oil
80 passenger train turned over into
ditch on the north side OF the track
the car wero w. II. Toppenall, oil
" wogo. George Derby, of Cortland,
-. Josiah Kimball, OF oswego. All
more or less injured, though mont
nm. tally.