The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1893-07-20
A RAILROAD HORROR.
WEST SHORE EXPRESS CoLLIDEs WITH
A FREIGHT TRAIN.
Five People Killed and Fifteen or Twenty
Injured-An Open Switch and Fast
Running Is the Cause Of the
Disaster This Time.

+ NEwBURG, N. Y, July 13,-The
West Shore day express No. 1 was
wrecked in the southern part of the
city today. Several persons were
killed and Is or 20 injured. Two of
the dead had each an arm torn out.
The train consisted of an engine,
baggage car, three day coaches
and Wagner car, and was well filled
with passengers. Car No. II, in which
nearly all the casualties occurred, had
every seat filled. The train was a few
minutes late at Cornwall and made
the distance from that place to the
southern limit of Newburg at & very
rapid rate. Itcrossed Quassaick creek,
a mile south of the station, ran a few
rods further under the Pennsylvania
Coal company bridge and then ran
into an open switch in the West Shore
yard. In that yard train was stand
ing, ready to pull out On the main
track. The day express engine str k
the freight engine with terrible force,
The engineer jumped and was slightly
hurt. The fireman also jumped and
escaped injury. The train crashed
through the freight and all the cars
were more or less smashed. Day
coach II, following the sleeper, had
its sides torn off.
The scene in this car was terrible.
Several persons were killed outright
and nearly all the rest we're more or
less injured Those able to walk
started on foot for the station and
were seen with bruised and bleeding
faces making their way slowly and
painfully in the hot sun.
VIM. G. Callahan of the Pennsyva-
mia coal Office, near the scene, heard
the crash, and upon learning the
cause sent word to the central tele-
phone office to notify every policeman
in the city to go to the scene, and in
half an hour there were dozed doc
tors attending the wounded.
Dead as follows An unknown
woman weighing about 100 pounds,
AL WOl1d1, dS6u dUOuU OJ
years, inclined to be plump.
An unknown woman, elderly with
grayish hair.
Child 81 months OLD. The parents,
Burnham Elverson and wife, are both
severely injured.
An unknown woman, stout figure,
about feet in height, broad face, gray
hair. She is one of the two who had
an arm cut off.
Unfortunately in the confusion
articles that might have aided in the
Identification of the dead were separat.
ed from the bodies and it will be i'm
possible to get names until the coroner
shall make investigation. However,
in a purse was found an envelope
bearing the address, "Miss Jane j.
Cook, 10 Hill street, Cambridge,
Mass" In another purse was found a
card with the name, Miss Mary May
lander" on it,
The seriously wounded whose names
could be ascertained were the follow
ing: Frank Q. Barger, West Haver-
straw; Jane Cook, of Catskill, injuries
probably fatal, head cut in frightful
manner and hurt internally; John
Robinson, Jersey City, skull and collar
bone fractured, recovery doubtful
G. Istaire, injured internally; Fred
Holland, engineer freight train, New
Durham; Chas. F. Rub, Union HILL
N. j.; Minnie Everly, colored, Charles.
ton, s. c., head cut and bruised and
internally injured, suffered from
shock; NJ. V. b. Hardy, Brooklyn; Mrs
N. r. Harvey, New York; Burnham
Elverson and wife, the former suffers
from broken arm and severe bruises
and the latter had left knee fractured
and head cut;five members of family
named Michael of Brooklyn, mother
and four daughters, all more or less
injured; l. H. Willis, fireman on
passenger train, ruptured blood vessel
in his right breast and was bruised.