Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-10-26
WRECKED THE LIMITED
A Chicago Express Train Struck
a Freight Near Trenton.
SEVERAL TRAMPs WERE KILLED.
A Broken Axle on q Freight Car Causes a
smashuP the Pennsylvania Road,
Which Might Have Been Another Hor-
ror-Eusino and sleepers Detached.

TRENTON, Oct 26-The second section of
the Chicago limited on the Pennsylvania
railroad was wrecked near Lawrence sta
ton by running into derailed freight
train. Three unknown tramps who were
stealing a ride ON the freight train were
killed, and another named Edward McGon-
lyle of Pittsburg was badly injured. Dan
iel Mahoney, the engineer, and Henry Mat
thews, the fireman of the limited, were
badly injured They stuck to their engine,
which was thrown on its side into ditch,
and when picked up they were unconscious.
Ellis Green, a passenger, and j. c. Car
ter, William Willis, J. c. Gray, porters on
three of the coaches which were derailed,
were also slightly injured. The wreckage
was piled across the four tracks in such a
manner as to stop all traffic for several
hours, and passengers for New York were
transferred by way of Borientown and
Monmouth Junction.
The accident was caused by the axle of
one of the freight cars breaking and throw
ir': it across the main track. The limited
ed a signal to stop, but could not do
time to avoid the crash.
., later report says that five tramps are
l., we'd to have been killed in the wreck.
One Of the survivors says that there were
at least Is ON the train, but the cars are so
badly piled up that it will take another
day to get at the correct number killed
Three of the passenger coaches are in the
ditch, and how the passengers escaped is a
mystery.
The Limited Could Not Stop.
The limited was so close when the acct
dent occurred that it was impossible to
stop her, and in a flash the engine was
buried in a mass of tangled freight cars,
scattering them in a pile over the four
tracks. The shock threw the engine from
the frnpE n the ditch parrXiper fntir phil
man cars with it. The engine was turned
on one side, but the cars are standing in
the mud. The observation car remained on
the track.
The west bound trains from New York
began piling in on one another very soon
afterward, until there was a string of
coaches mile long The owl train brought
up the rear.
All were on track !, which was piled
highest with the wreckage, though far
thest away from I he collision. Freight cars
lined the two intervening tracks for like
distance. The west bound trains were de
layed until turned over on the Bordentown
and Monmouth Junction line.
No blame is attached to any one because
of the accident. Engineer Mahoney says
that the freight train, which was close to a
turn in the road, was running 20 miles an
hour when an axle broke The freight
cars were piled on the limited tracks just
the trains We're about to pass.
The collision twisted the freight cars
across the track, leaving the limited at a
right angle in the ditch.
y man who was at the scene of the wreck
half an hour after it occurred said it seemed
marvellous 10 him that many of the passen-
gers were not killed. Doctors were sent to
the wreck from New Brunswick and from
Trenton The freight locomotive (No. IA, :
SD did not leave its track. 1t was dam
aged in collision two miles east of Law
renee a year ago.