The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-02-01
HOW FAR BACK?
Flagman Miller FavorS
Flagman Chessman in
the BleWitt Inquest.

Last nights session OF the inuuest into
the death of Jeffrey Blewitt at the col
lision beyond the Hackensack bridge on
The Pennsylvania Railroad. brought out
evidence tending to exculpate Flagman
John Chessman of the telescoped train
the Waverly local No. 949. The hagman
of the Chesapeake and OHIO limited train,
swore that when he ran back from MS
| train after the wreck, he met No. gays
fapmau coming in. This shows that
| Chessman was further back than Engin-
| eer Frank Farrell of the limited train
| estimated. The PENNSYLVANIA employees
seem TO think that Engineer Farreii dlo
not stop as quickly rs he might. Inc IN
| quest has developed n feeling. OF opposi-
| ton between the pennsylvania anu Inc
| Chesapeake and Ohio men.
SAME OLD STORY.
Andrew r. Calvin of No. 220 Washing
| ton street, q baggageman on tue WaVefiy
| local. c%orroborated the testimony OF con-
ductor Campbell concerning n STOP Lor
| repairs at signal tower w. .. AI6ef Inc
wreck he placed dynamite caps on Inc
east hound track at from six to nine
undre yards to the west. lie was
| onite sure that train No. 65 could have
| been stopped iu less char z, 900 feat, which
| Engineer Farrell testified ut the preced-
| ing session was the necessary space. he
thought 900 feet was sufficient.
Alfred Wood of No. 3.414 Mantua ave-
n,1e. Philadelphia, u b-aggageman on
train No. IS, said that 1t Was q very heavy
train and therefore a hard one TO stop.
STOPPING such q train is a much slower
| task than bringing an ordinary local
train to a standstlll.
Train No. IS was made up OF SIX Full
man cars and O baggage car. A RAILROAD
man present said that ordinary passenger
| cars could be stopped in -one-thtrd the
| space required for Pullman cars. which
| have six wheeled trucks and are made
| largely OF iron.
A CRANK ON HAND.
Coroner Parslow called for jerome
| Eshelman, of 1910 Poplar street, Phlla.
| delpbia. a b~aggageman on Train No. 90
| Willie Eshelman was walking forWard,
John Chandler. of No. ID Garnet street,
| a crank, jumped to his feet and shaking
his hand toward the Coroner shouted Il
have positive knowledge, may IL please
vonr Honor that the Pennsylvania Rall-
road Company is responsible iof ina
slaughter"
The Coroner and Constable John Reese
| ordered Chandler to sit He per-
| sisted that he would like to address the
| Jury. but when Constable Reese told MIN
he would have to go out II ne spoke again
he sat down and contented himself
with one or two exclamauions. he
sat in the bench next behind the jury,
| ana the jvrors were apparently nnoye
by his proximity. After the adjourn
| mert, juror often told the Coroner that
| ne wouldn't be there at the next hearing
if that CRANK, who was just the sort OF a
man TO carry a dynamite bomb. was
allowed to be present. Chandler was
present at the session of last Friday even-
ing and then asked permission to show
the Jury how railroad collisions might be
prevented by means of an autOm attic
switch at every signal tower.
Eshelman's description gave nothing
new. The accident could not have oc-
Cured If a red signal had been displayed
ut tower H. B., or the hagman had gone
back far enough.
HE MET CHESSMAN.
Harry o. Miller of No. 513 North
Thirty-ninth street, PHILADELPHIA, met
the fagman of train 65. He swore that
Immediately after the wreck, he went
back and called for the hagman of the
wrecked train. He got no answer. but
about three cars length back, he met a
1agman. They had no conversation
Miller placed dynamite caDs on the rails
and went back as far as tower II. 3. A
red signal was displayed there then.
According to the testimony of Engineer
Frank Farrell of train No. IS. last Friday
evening Flagman Chessman stood be-
tween three and four hundred feet only
from his train. Train No. Is was about
four hundred feet long INT Mtller's testi-
mony therefore shows that Chessman
went back at least six or seven hundre
feet.
The inquest will be continued tomor-
row eVeulQR.