New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-01-25
DEATH AT THE CROSSING.
FATAL ENDING OF A SLEIGHING PARTY.
TWO PEOPLE KILLED AND TWO DANGEROUSLY
WOUNDED At PAssAIC. y. j.. BY

WOUNDED At pAssAIC. y. j.. BY
AN EXPRESS TRAIN.
sleigh with party OF six returning home
TO Passaic, " j., was struck by an Erie Rail-
road locomotive at the Monroe-st. crossing in
Passaic half an hour after midnight Yesterday
morning. Two women dead, man and woman
diving, one badly hurt are the results. There
no fiagman nor gate at the crossing. The loco
motive completely demolished the sleigh and kie1
the two horses.
RYAN. Mary F.. Of Washington Place. rassaac
sPILLANE. Margaret, o. Thlrh-'t. Dundee.
INJURED.
oBRIEN Mrs Thomas. of lIamilton-ave. PaSsaic; IA
tally.
MOORE Joseph eolored driver; head and left leg
amputated below the knee may die.
BASHAW. Id. of Hamtonave. Possaic; painfully
lut not seriously injured.
The team, sleigh and driver were hired by
Mrs Thomas OBrien from a stabTe-keeper named
John kehoe, whose stables are almost opposite the
scene of the accident. Mrs O'Brien had arranged
straw ride for the benefit of some of her friends.
The party gathered at Mrs. OBriens house at
about o'clock, and included besides those now
dead or injured Mrs Napoleon Bashaw. mother
Of Ida Miss Maggie Higgins Miss Hannah White.
Mrs. George DousEerty and Mr.. and Mrs. John
De Burke. Tho two girls who were killed were
not with the party when it met, and the party
went to their homes and induced them TO come.
They drove 10 Paterson and returned early in the
night, but continued riding around the city until
shortly before the accident, when they set out for
home. When they decided TO go home they werr.
in the vicinity of North Passaic, and went dow.a
Alain-ave. 60 the city.
The Monroe-st. crossing when approached from
the Main.aye side is death trap. As the party
turned upon the railroad track the special eX-
press train made up Of Wells, Fargo & Co. en-
press cars crashed into them. The train was run
ming at the rate of thrty-hve or forty miles an
hour, and none of the party in the sleigh, nor the
engineer, Charles Blizzard, of Jersey City, saw the
danger until the engine was within sixty or
seventy feet Of the sleigh, and the speed could
not he slackened in that distance. The pilot OF
the locomotive struck the horse nearest the en-
gine, and thus swung the sleigh around, topping
it over At the same time the side of the sleigh
struck either the side Of of the cars or one OF
the trucks, and the occupants were hurled against
the side Of the train 1t flew by.
The train was quickly stopped and the en-
rineer, the conductor. j. II. Fisher and some
OF the brakemen ran back to the crossing. They
found the victims lying between the castbound
track and the switch. The first person they
reached was Mrs OFrien. who lay nearest the
crossing She was unconscious. and the only sign
Of life about her was a low moan Miss Spillane
Law near by, then Miss Ryan, and next the
colored driver. Moore Miss Ryan dead and
Miss Spillane nearly so. Miss Ryan had APP
parentlv heen instantly killed The railroad hands
had hardly time 10 note these particulars when
Mr. Kehoe the stablcIecper: Chief of Police Hen
dry and number ot others hurried to the
spot Chief IIcndry sent for conveyance TO
take the injured 10 the Emcrgcf>cy Hospital ana
summoned medical nd IL was found that MISS
Ran. sh ull was crushed and that Miss Splllane
had died from compound fracture OF me
skull Mrs O'Brcn had her scalp terribly
lac"ratcd. but the doctors have neen 9nane ,u 10
ascertain whether or not her skull is fractured.
Moorc's head was badly cut and his leg was
crushed.
All wer. removed to tho hospital with the eN-
ccption of Miss Ryan, whose body was taken II,
charge by an undertaken Miss Splllan" fingered
in the hospital until about & o'clock yesterday
morning, when she died. II was found necessary
by the physicians 10 amputatc Moores eIt les
inst below the knee.
When the crash came Mrs. B1shaw, Mise l'ashaw
and Miss Higgins were also thrown OUT p", ~
capped injury with the exception OF MIS- msndw: mndvy
who was slightly hurt. Chief Of Police iieEdry
called al the hospital after Moore had recovered
from the effects of the amputation OF ms ire' ana
questioned him regarding the acrldrlit' ne edl,
that an engine standing on tho switch had alarmed
ono OF his horses 20 that II became unnanageaple
IIc saws that he saw the approach OF the eNprc's
train in time 10 avoid the accident had IL not
been for the action Of tis horrr, 1.-Two. in 1orsev
Civ saws that he Is sure that there was man
besides the driver In tho sleigh, mt MIS- nashaw
denies this Blizzard says that he hardy nal
rod whom the collision occurred. lie SAYS "ao
the piston chest the first part Of his engine 70
hit the horse. IL, ,d
will hold an inquest on Thursday evening