The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-07-25
CRASHED INTO A FREIGHT CAR.
Narrow Escape From a Tragedy on tn
O d Colony Road.

Narrow Escape From a Tragedy ON the
o. Colony Road.
PROVIDENCE. r. l., July %, 1s92-An
lccident occurred at Dodgeville on the
Old Colony Division of the Consolidated
morning. The first section of the
midnight train from Boston to New
York, going at rate OF
forty miles an hour at least, struck a
freight car and knocked it info kindling
wood, while the engine and every car OF
the train were shattered badly. Neither
engine nor cars left the track, The sides
Of the cars were either stove in or torn
off. and nearly every window was broken
~ one sid of the train. but no passen-
sers were seriously injured. In the first
nall car one route agent was killed, two
,thers were probably fatally injured and
che fourth was slightly hurt.
The train consisted of Old Colony
engine No. lat, two United States mail
cars, q baggage and express car, a smoker
and one passenger coach. Charles w.
Keene was the conductor in charge Of
he train. A. E. Billings was the eugi-
nesr, and Charles A. Barrows was the
fireman. There were ABOUT % passengers
nn the train, 10 through passengers for
or sight for Providence.
Four hundred or 500 yards above the
Dodgeville depot the engine struck the
freight car. The engineer says he saw
nothing until the engine struck the car
on the next track at the left of the tram,
aud that the freight car was off the track.
The firemen saw nothing until the acct
dent occurred.
The first the passengers knew the win
dows On the left side were crushed in,
and the cars were filed with flying glass.
The train was stopped about 400 yards
from the place Of the collision. Men
were sent back to signal the second sec
lion of the train, which was composed
mainly OF sleepers, and this was stopped
IN tina to avoid a more serious accident.
URIED IN THE DEBRIS.
u was foundt that several men In the
mail car were Injured and burned
ia the debris. Three were soon
them died Immediately. The depot
was quickly turned into a hospital.
Efforts were made to obtain
medical aid. but without success. No
telephone could be found aud it was
nearly two hours before medical assist.
ance was obtained from Attleboro. The
boiler extension OF the engine WAS COM
| plstely broken off. tha machinery bent
aud the cab completely torn from the TOD
and rear of the boiler. Next was the
| first mail car. which was not overturned,
but about one-third of the front
end and I'LL the side for fully two-thirds
OF its length were torn of and could
| not be found. Mail matter was piled up
inside In confusion. The second mail
car looked as though it had been struck
at the first window by something which
crashed along through NIL the windows,
tearing them out and the wool
work between them. The two men in
the car escaped without serious injury.
The baggage aud express car was only
slightly damaged. The men in 1t were
uninjured. Inc smoker was stove in on
the side and more than half the windows
were broken our.
a plecs of freight Car was found in one
1 OF tue seats which was u~noccupied. There
We're about q dozen passengers in the car,
but no one war seriously hurt. The pas
senger car containsd about the same num-
Der OF passengers. Every window OF the