The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-04-10
SCAREON AN EXPRESS TRAIN.
n, Z. AND W ENGINE PITCHES HALF
WAY DOWN A BANK
a switch Misplaced Near Mountain View
station Fnts the Passengers on the bath
and Oswero Express In Peril,

station Fnts the Passengers on the bath
and OsweEo Express In Peril.
Train No. 4. the Bath and oswego express.
on the Delaware. Lackawanna and Western
Railroad, left Boonton yesterday afternoon ut
1913 o'clock There was baggage. an express.
and smoking car. n day coach. and Pullman
drawing room chr. and there we're about $50
passengers. It travelled fifty miles an hour
until 1t came to the Pompton feeder OF the
Morris Canal. half a milo west OF Mountain
View station and $50 feet from tho Greenwood
Lake crossing.
Engineer Lewis slowed UP then to speed OF
from ten to fifteen miles an hour. according to
the rules. One Of the switches near the cross
ing was misplaced. but the signal man in the
tower showed clear signals. and Lewis
ron ahead without noticing tho mis-.
placement. In less than minute the
engine and train ran out to the frog.
The engineer saw where tho train was going
that instant. and he put on the air brakes
just rs tho big drivers OF tho engine began
humping over the ties and the hard roadbed.
Tho tender and tho combination car came
after 1t and then tho express and coaches.
Tho passengers were bounced about in their
seats. and were half scared to death. When
they tried to get up they were bounced down
again. and some OF them were thrown into the
were many women among them. and they
were too frightened oven to scream.
The train bumped along this way for fully
hundred feet, and then the engine took n
header Off tho ties and started lickety split
down tho twenty-foot embankment which
skirts tho track at that point.
The tender followed 1t. and the combination
car was dragged after it. The earth in tho
bank was soft. The heavy engine climbed
down ten feet and then stuck fast. and the
train brought up with jerk.
Engineer Lewis and his fireman stuck to
their posts AS tho engine stopped Lewis was
tossed headforemost out OF the cab window
and on down tho bank into tho mud. The
managed to hold his place there. It took
about minute for the passengers to recover
and jump of. One or two Of tho men ran down
the bank to where Lewis was lying Before
they got there tho engineer zee was on his feet.
Other men went through the cars to see II any
one had been hurt and left behind at the STAN
person was hurt A message was sent to Fat
erson. seven miles east OF Mountain View sta
ensns Nh had arf ssS
men got blocks and wedges and made II little
Then the engine made fast to the last car
and after an hours Juggling got the train back
on the track. One car ana inc engine were
loft. Tho engine was in great danger Of top
ping over and being wrecked completely: The
passengers stood along the track ann watched
the men at work until the cars were pulled
back. Then they climbed in again.
The Hackettstown express due at Hoboken
at O clock. stopped. Tho train was coupled to
the rear Of that train and got int Hoboken q
little oyer two hours late. When the en-;
the ties it broke and twisted some OF
tho rails and the east bound track could
not DO used uptiI late last night. when 1t
was repaired. All the east.Oound trains were
switched around the wreck. and travel was
probably be got back on the track to-day.