Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-02-13
4 CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS.
a Series of Fire Fatalities in JERSEY
City, N J.

4 chapter Of accidents hinged upon a fro
in Jersey City N. j. tenement on a ras,an.
afternoon. An aged woman was badly in
jured by jumping from window. and one
man was found dead in an upp,r room OF the
burning building As one Of the engines
USED at this IRE was fastening - another. IL
was run down by an express train at a cross
ing Of the Pennsylvania Railroad and the
driver was killed 4 young colored woman
who was standing near was injured, probably
fatally.
Meantime at the fire in Grove street Chief
Henry 4. Farrier was killed by an explosion
and Fireman John Mcdonald was badly in
lured. The sad,iest accident was that Of old
MIS- FIaunen- She was driven by the flames
10 window. and before a ladder could be
raised for her rescue she was forced To lump.
She struck on Il empty piano box, crushing
through it. and was picked up for dead. but
recovered consciousness, and it was found
her right leg was broken ami that she had
sustained internal in uries.
At 7:3O P. n. the same day.an alarm CANA
In from the box at Pavonia ana Grove streets
Daniel Oman, stoker of Engine 3 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 Roadway how
ever, that Oman was unable to check them
he pulled the horses 10 one side, and the
engine struck one of the iron pillars OF the
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
at high speed
The locomotive struck the fire engine and
smashed it. Oman 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
a long search, the head was found near Grove
street. Mary Sneed, a 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 SeuseleSS
She subsequently recovered AMI was taken
home in a patrol wagon. One of the engine
horses was killed, and the other 50 badly in
jured that he had to be shot. >
few hours later on the same day Fire
Chief Henry +. Farrier, of Jersey City, was
killed i'll Boitwood's hardware store, at
Grove street and PavOnia avenue. Bolt
woods hardware store is a four-story brick
building. The fire was easily put out and
the tremen We're making preparations to
leave when a terrible explosion was heard
and Fireman John Mcdonald, of Engine No
8, 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 a block or two away, rushed
Farrler'S body lying on its back at the rear
of the cellar. Life was extinct No marks
of violence were visible. 1t appeared that
he was in the front of the cellar when the ex-
plOsiOn occurred and was carried by its force
forty feet to the rear.