Morning journal and courier., 1891-12-25
NEWS BY TELEGRAPH. From All Quarters. EIGHT PERSONS KILLED. Several Serious Railroad Accidents Yesterday. FUNERAL OF SENATOR P. B. PLUMB. The Aged Poet Whitman
 Failing Rapidly. THREE BATTLES WITH GARzES BAND. England EnvelOped in a
 Dense Fog.
SEVERAL BAD ACCIDENTS.

Fatal Collision on the Hudson River Railroad-Explesion of one Of the ,Locomotives-TenP Persons Killed Four Other Serious Wrecks. YoNKERs, N. Y., Dec. 24.-On the Hudson River road tonight the St. Louis express and the Niagara Falls special col lided. The locomotive of one of the ex- press trains crashed into the rear sleeper of the other express, and several cars, mostly sleepers, were telescoped. Several persons are reported to have been killed, and many injured. Some say the number of killed is eight, while others claim that ten persons were either crushed or scalded to death. The locomotive, when it crashed into the sleeper, exploded.
 The escaping steam did deadly work on victims in the wreck. Among the injured are D. c. Livingstone, . man named Mur- phy, Mrs. E. M. Ford and her sister, and a man named Ridgeway.
 The accident was the outcome of Q pre- vious accident in the Sing Sing tunnel, which blocked the track. The weather was thick.
 Several physicians of this city went to | the scene. The injured were brought here on special train. No list of killed or wounded has been received as yet. Some of those who have been removed to the hospital it is thought will die.
 The identified dead are A. M. Knight, conductor of the Wagner sleeping car; Mrs. A. NJ. Baldwin, New York; Thomas Tolley, Boston.
 The accident earlier in the evening in Sing Sing tunnel was collision between freight and local train. Nobody was seriously hurt. The first accident blocked the road with trains on both sides of the tunnel. After two hours of hard work the tracks were not yet clear, and long line of trains extended both north and south.
 The Niagara Falls express left New York at 7:30 D. m and reached Dobbs Ferry, and was there stopped by the blockade which extended south from Sing Sing. The train was made up largely of sleeping cars. At 8 o'clock the St. Louis express left New York. The night was foggy. The engineer of the St.Louis express failed ahead of him and the St. Louis train crashed into the standing train with ter rife force. Several people were killed al- most instantly. Others were fatally in jured, some were mangled and many had more or less serious injuries.
 Killed-Four others were killed who have not been identified The injured are: T. V. Murphy, lawyer, New York city; D. B. Ford, New York city; Mrs. E. w. Hoyt, colored, fatally injured; Dr. L. E. Best, New York; Mrs. H. Baldwin, badly injured; Miss Lillian Baldwin, her daughter, seriously injured; Homer Bald win, New York, seriously injured
 There were eighteen passengers in the rear coach of the Niagara express. Only three escaped uninjured.
 BOSTON,, Mass, Dec. 24.-Freight train No. 206, bound west on the New England road, was run into tonight near Walpole station by the Providence express, which left Bostsn at 4:50 The freight train was composed of empty cars, five of which were thrown across both tracks, and all traffic was delayed for several hours. The damage to the company will be slight and no one was hurt. The accident is said to be due to the failure to properly flag the express by the freight crew.
 At Braintree, on the Old Colony road to- night the 7:30 passenger train from Boston was run into by the 7:45 train from this city. The passengers were badly shaken, three whose names could not be learned being considerably bruised. There was no delay to trains.
 ATLANTA, Ga, Dec 24.-A vestibule train on the East Tennessee railroad ran off the track in 8 cut near Williams station this morning. Several persons were in | jured, none fatally. The accident was caused by the rails spreading. Four | coaches were badly smashed. Charles ! Owens of Atlanta, who received serious internal injuries, is the worst hurt. | LONDON, Dec. 24:-Two passenger trains | collided at Barnby Junction, near Lowes- toft to-day and were badly damaged. One of the engine drivers, a guard and one pas sengers were killed and fourteen other per sons were injured.