The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-12-04
WRECK OF A FAST EXPRESS.
THREE KILLED AND EfGHr INJU1ED
ON the READING ROAM
Tho O'Clock Train Nros New Yes4, NuU.
ming Fifty-ave Miles a. Hour. CrasAss
Into Freight Cahoose Near RennangteA.

Tho O'Clock Trui. ftou New vss4, Nuu.
ping Ftfty.ave Miles a. Hour. Cr~sAss
Isto % Freight Cahoose Nesr Fennasgts~.
The Philadelphia express. which leaves New
York on tho New Jersey Central Railway st =
PM. ran into tho Clubhouse OF gravel train ~
Pennington yesterday. killing three men out
right and fatally iniuring several others =
Thcnccident happened on tho Philadelphia
and Reading main line, just half mile this
side Of tho Pennington depot. The: express.
which is one of the fastest trains out Of Jersey
City. except the B. and o. Blue Line trains.
was travelling flfty-nve miles an hour.
Frank Rodriques, Cuban, aud one
Of the best known engineers on the
road was In the cab The long siding At the
place where tho accident occurred wis occu-
pied BY freight and q gravel train. The
gravel train. which was behind the
freight on the siding. started to back
out on tho main line. prepsratory
to starting for Trenton.s few miles south. just
az the caboosc reached the main track the s9.
press came along. II was too late for Enet.
neer Rodriques to avoid q collision. and HE
engine dashed into the caboose. dsmolishing
1t completely. .i- Il. 49,
Tho speed OF the express was % great that
the collision threw the express engine from
the track and down q thirty-foot embankmApt,
at the bottom Of which It landed on It's back.
Tho fireman saved his life BY jumping. but
Rodirigues was frightfully mangled. besides
being scalded by the escaping steam. He wss
dragged out from his engine and carriedinto
tho depot. He was expected to die before
morning. .--..S,'.,
In the little cabcose Of the gravel train were
several laborers who had been working on the
road. Three dead bodies were dragged out
from the ruins. and were laid beside the track.
Many passengers on tho express were more OF
less injured by the collision. 49,.
All five cars Of the express left the track OK.
cent tho heavy Pullman parlor car at the end.
The first combined baggage and mstl
car. was thrown over on its side, and the
smoker. which came next, turned complete
S shs ar and Tbs lay with its wheels
lay IT. ss ~.
rspSrted e BE- dying. They were ali taken t.
snssne 81 81 Train was .mm.d
into the freight train ahead Of il when the
s69Sk and T%s r smashed The wfegk
ns @ EhsS
walk around the wreck and come in on q way
train train which, was made M on this side Of the
set N o tbe xors tss
the wrs r was vast, the worst one they had ever
its coal was scattered along for thirty yards,
Many OF the ties to which the rails were
spiked were forced from their bed in the stone
badly twisted. and q railroad man who saw
the wreck said that 1t would be o good twelve
hours work to clear 1t up and get the tracks
in shape again. One passenger gave this en-.
planatlon Of the ACCIDENT: ~ =, :,
freight trains shall 90 into siding head on,
Afrsisht train xas already on re siding and
came along. That had to get out Of tb0
way Of the express. but the engineer had. to
20 to the upper end Of. the siding and back 10.
back In and the red lights 81 his ca boose were
NJ hidden BY tho freight train from the view #
lust ahead OF the .caboose and q half dozen
nat cars were demolished. besides the ca.
boose Tho accident OCCURRED at 81 o'clock