New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-03-17
SMASH.UP ON THE ERIE.
ONE EXPRESS TRAIN RUNS INTO ANOTHER.
MANY PASSENGERS INJURED. SOME OF THEM
PROBABLY FATALLY HURT-A PULL
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Port Jervis y. Y. March 16.-A disastrous accident
occurred at :42 o'clock this morning at Lacka"aAeh'
Penn. twenty-five miles from here, on the New-fork
Lake Erie and Western Railroad. due to rearend
collision of eastbound express trains No. l., the chi
cago express and No. TO- the Buffalo and New York
express. The names Of the Injured are as follows:
BRYANT, Osborn. porter Of the sumatra. OF NO Z9s
Newark-aye.. jersey CITY; injured sli'hty.
COHEN, Maurice. OF Addison, n. Y. suffering from
scalp wound.
COHEN Eva. daughter Of above.
DIFFENBECK William, OF Jersey City; ribs fractured
and slightly bruised
GRAY W S. No 1os Maiden La1e NSwYops SnS
fracture Of thigh bone :. probably fatally injured
LORING H. X. of Emira; injured about the back ana
face; condition not serious
LUCY Julia OF Elmira; internal injuries and fracture Oh
thigh probably fatal
MAHER. Mrs. Charles sister Of above. also Of Elmira
proaby, fatally injured internal Injuries anu '''''''
MccRMIcK. Miss May Of ROCKVILLE. steuben cGSnty; ,Sa
scalp mound SUntu'i0n OF back anu 'r'''"'' Vi
MoRDrC chief engineer Of the Erie; scalp wounds ;
sEIIG Lewis Of no. 433 Fast Seventy nth-st. New
York City; slightly injured scalp "ouho'
SYLVESTER w. w, Of No. 36 Taylor'st'. Ne"'rN.
Train No. IL, which was running one ho"i "''u
twenty minutes behind her schedule time, nau peeh
detained fifteen minutes at the Lackawaxen depo' 10
repair a broken equalizer. Trnin No. I'D was Also
running behind time, interval OF only ten minutes
separating the trains. The rear lights OF 'he "'''e
express were not by the engineer OIL NJ ~ ""
he had arrived within 100 yards OF tne LacNi""Aen
station. A sharp curve west OF the depot shu. y"
tho view at this point. Engineer Johh Cahneio III
stanty reversed his engine and applied 'ne a'i
but was unable to avoid the collision and MS engine
oraehod into tho train ahead at q speed OF fifteen
miles an hour The Pullman sleeper Occidental con-
tanning ten passengers, was telescoped LOT oiiee
ourths OF It's length and the passengers were more
less Injured.
Engineer Garfield and Fireman Frank boyo re-
NAMED ut their post until the crash came' p"' co
caped with few slight bruises. The cause Oh ,Ie
accident Ia said to been the failure OF CONDUCTOR
Edward Lemunyan, of No IL, to send out nag; tho
The iniured were temporarily cared IOr aI tne
depot relief car from this place. containing snprr o
Intendent ". L. Derr. Trainmaster FRANK ns
and DrS swnrtwoa an1 m honr later The injured
were transferred 10 the Hunt Hospital III 'hiS
The Erie Railway officials made the following re-
nor, of the collision Mt Lackawaxen: "An ACCIDENT
occurred on the Erie Railway ut LackawaXen. twenty
five miles from Port Jervis about O'Clock this morn
ing resulting IN lnurng OF ten passeheers' "ho
have been taken TO the hospital at Port JEWS rA
nrcss train No. TO- from Buffalo, ran into express NO.
10 from Chicago. The latter tram was s'ahuihs a'
tb. station while some repairs were beihg Huue "
tho locomotive As near can be learned NO. IL
did not have q flag back for proper protecuoh ine
,vo trains were combined at Lackawaxen, ana lett
,b.re at "a this morning, coming into New YORK
about three hours late'
NJ : Gray one OF the most severely Injured OF the
no.sengcrs is a weliknOwn chemical broker having
nm Office at No. 1O3 Maiden Lane. Mrs. Gray lett Town
last night for Port Jeryis where her husband Is con-
fined In the hospital with the Intention ot Drihsihs
him home at once. Her little daughter SAID 10
Tribune reporter who called at Mr. Gray's nome, 40.
west red and twenty -frst-st last night:
We received a number OF dispatches this AFTERNOON
and mother decided go TO the hospital one
ead rhat iahers hip was dslocated ana 'hat ne WIS
hurt about the head" a.. A.. o, NJ,
LOWS Sclig a travelling salesman for the nrm Oh
Rosenberg q krausc OF this city, lives with MS pIo.e
and lister M 10 4B3 East .eveniy-nnthst. III ""s
learned there last night that Mr. selig ad Deen OUT VI
inrn tor about three weeks and that he was GA
,c, homo I'm n day or His relatives We're III III.
irm,I Yesterday afternoon that he had been snehus
~nmndcd on The head and that he was being uea'eo
at the Fort Jcrvs Hospital.