The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-02-18
A CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS.
A Series Of Fire Fatalities in Jersey
City, N. j.

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A chapter Of accidents hinged upon fire
in Jersey City IN. j. tenement on recent
afternoon. An aged woman was badly in.
tured by jumping from q window, and one
man was found dead in an upper room Of the
burning building. As one Of the engines
used at this fire was Fastening to another, it
was run down by an express train at q cross
Ing of the Pennsylvania Railroad and the
driver was killed. a young colored woman
who was standing near was injured, probably
fatally.
Meantime at the fire in Grove street Chief
Henry E. Farrier was killed by an explosion,
and Fireman John Mcdonald was badly IN
tured. The saddest accident was that Of old
Mrs Flannen. She was driven by the flames
to window, and before ladder could be
raised for her rescue she was forced to jump.
She struck on a empty piano box, crushing
through it, and was picked up for dead, but
recovered consciousness, and 1t was found
her right leg was broken and that she had
sustained internal injuries.
At 7:30 P. NJ the same day an alarm came
In from the box at Pavonia and Grove streets.
Daniel Dinan, stoker Of Engine 8, took the
reins in the absence Of Thomas Dillon, the
regular driver, and drove from the engine
house. As he approached the Pennsylvania
railroad crossing the gateman swung his
lantern as signal to stop.
The horses were under such headway, how
ever, that Diuan was unable to check them.
He pulled the horses to one side, and the
angine struck one Of the iron pillars OF tho
elevated track. This frightened the horses,
| and they dashed across the Pennsylvania
track directly in front Of the incoming
Florida vestibule train, which was running
1T high speed. ~
The locomotive struck the fire engine and
smashed it. Dinan was thrown from hiS
seat under the wheels of locomotive. His
head was severed from the body. The body
was picked up afterward about halfway be-
tween Barrow and Grove streets, and. after
8 long search, the head was found near Grove
street. Mary Sneed, q colored woman, was
standing near the tracks waiting to cross.
A piece Of iron from the fire engine struck
her on the head and knocked her senseless-
She subsequently recovered and was taken
homein patrol wagon. One Of the engine
horses was killed, and the other 50 badly In
jured that he had to be shot. es
A few hours later on the same day Fire
Chief Henry E. Farrier, Of Jersey City, was
killed in Boltwood's hardware store, at
Grove street and Pavonia avenue. Bolt
woods hardware store Is q four-story brick
building. The fire was easily put out and
the fremen were making preparations to
leave when terrible explosion was heard
and Fireman John Med Donald, Of Engine No.
g. came out from cellar, his face and hands
bloody and burned and reported that Fire
Chief Farrier was In the cellar. Fireman
Mcdonald, with Fire Commissioner Brown,
who had heard the explosion IN
in his house block or two away, rushed
into the cellar. They found Fire Chiei
Farrier's body lying on its back at the ress
of the cellar. Life was extinct. No marks
of violence were visible. It appeared that
he was in the front of the cellar when the e1-
plosion occurred and was carried by its forcs
forty feet To the rear, - u