Morning journal and courier., 1893-07-14
NEWS BY TELEGRAPH. From All Quarters. MARY KILLED OUTRIGHT An Express Train Runs Into An Open Switch.
 AN IMPORTANT PENSION ORDER Has Just Been Issued by
 Commissioner LoChran.
AN IMPORTANT PENSION ORDER
SEVERE ATTACK ON GLADSTONE.
Made by a Member of His
 Own Party.
SEVERAL PEOPLE KILLED.

SEVERAL PEOPLE KILLED.
 Horrible Accident on the West Shore
 Road at Newburgh-A Passenger
 Train Running at the Kate of Forty
 Miles an Hour Crash es into Freight
 Engfne-PasseDgers Killed and Had ! Their Arms Torn out of the Sockets
 List of the Dead and Injured.
 NEwBURaH, N. Y., July 3-West Shore day express No. 1, due here at 1904 noon, was wrecked in ths West Shore yard in the southern part of the city to day. Six or seven persons were killed and fifteen or twenty injured. Two of the dead had each an arm torn out.
 The train consisted of an engine, bag gage car, three day coaches and Wagner car. The train was we'll filled with pass epgers. Ger No. Fl, in which nearly all the casualties occurred, had every seat | filled. The train was a few minutes late l at Cornwall, and made the distance from | that place 10 the southern limit of New burgh at very rapid rate. It crossed Qusssaick creek, a mile south of the | station, ran few rods further, under the Penneylvania Coal company's bridge, then ran into an open switch into the West | Shore yard.
 In that yard train was standing ready | to pull out onto the main track. The day express engine struck the freight engine ! with terrific force The engineer jumped, but little late, and WAS slightly hurt. The fireman also jumped and escaped in- jury. The train crashed through the freight, and all the passenger coaches were more or less smashed.
 Day coach IF, following the sleeper, had its side torn off and the trucks torn out. The scene in this car was terrible. Several persons were killed outright and nearly all the rest were more or less injured. Those who were able to walk started out on foot for the station and were seen with bruised and bleeding faces making their way pain fully and slowly in the hot sun.
 Mir. William il Callahan of the Pennsyl- vania Goal company office force, near the scene, heard the crash, and upon learning the cause sent word to the central tele phons office to notify every phJ sician in the city to go to the scene, and within half an hour there were duZsn doctors at tending to the wounded. Several clergy men, amorg whom was the Rev. James B. King, were also present to offer cousela- tion to the severely injured. The dead are as follows:
 Unknown woman of stout build, weigh ing about 190 pounds. Her hair was brown; wore an open face gold watch, and chain. An unknown woman, aged about thirty years, of medium height. An unknown woman, elderly, with grayish hair, wore a blue satin dress. The twenty months old child of Burnham Elberson. An unknown woman of stout figure, about i've feet in height, gray hair. She was one of the two who had au arm torn off
 Unfortunately in the confusion articles that might have aided in the identification of the dead were separated from the bodies, and 1t will bs impossible to get the names until the coroner shall have made his investigation.
 In purse was found an envelope bear | ing the address "Miss Jane J. Cooke, 13 Hilliard street, Gam bridge, Mass" A rail- | read pass bore the sane name, and visiting \ cards and other papers also bore the name l of Cooke. In another lot WAS found & | library book belonging to the Working Girls club of Newark, N. J. ca the cald | in the book was the 1ame Miss Mary May ! lander.
 The wounded whose names could be as- l certained were: John Phillips, slightly ! cut and bruised; J. L Moore, baggage master, slightly hurt; F. J. Burce, the | messenger, slightly bruised; Frank 0. Bar | leg and cut on the head; Jane Cooke, in juries probably fatal; John Robinson of Jersey City, ekull and collar bone fractur- ed, recovery doubtful; 0 J. Cistare, in jured internally, refused hls addrsss; Fred | Holland, engineer, severe scalp wound and bruised; Charles F. Ruh, leg broken, scalp wound: Minnie Everly, oolored, head cut and bruised and internal injuries; MT v. B. Hardy of Brooklyn, leg broken; Mrs. N. R. Harvey of New York, leg broken and head hurt; Burnhsm Elberson, l broken arm and severe bruisea, end the latter had her eft knee fractured and head cut. Five members of family nsmed Michael of Brooklyn, mother and four daughters, were all more or less injured. Mrs. Michael had gaah in the head, Fan nie had bruiae on the cheek; Julia, aged ten years, fracture of the arm and leg; Lily Michael, thigh fractured, and bruised in other portions of the body. Charles
 Willis, fireman, ruptured blood vessel in ! his right breast and was bruised. Andrew O'Brien of Cornwall had his face and head cut.
 George w. Kent jumped out through 8
 window and escaped with slight injury.
 George W Horobin had his foot badly cut
 MT. H.C. Beauchsmp and wife were thrown
 about six feet forward Both were slightly | ). II,
 fractured, recovery doubtful. Rev. E. D
 Curtis (colored), pastor of the Second Bsp
 tist church of Cstskill, hurt about th,
 head.
 | Twenty-one Of the wounded are beins
 cared for at St. Lnke's hospital.
 The dead are in charge of Newburgh un
 dertakers. Up to p. m. there had beer
 no positive Identification of sny of th
 dead.
 f,,+bor Ino,i.u b.,- .b,k .ha .,a.a
 ment about au open switch was incorrect
 Engineer Shelby of the day express wa
 interviewed soon after the accident. H
 says that, ss was the custom, he shut of
 steam just before reaching the scene of tn [ accident, and was running at the rate C t l forty miles an hour Just as he reache U the switch he felt jar and his epgin Z seemed to rear up in the air. He realis ? at once that he was eff the track an
 whistled for brakes. Before the brake = took effect his engine had crashed into th
 freight engine. The signal was all righ ', showing that the swi'oh was closed When the engines came together L & jumped, as did his fireman also. fe days ago four cars of freight train lei 8 the rails at the same place. It is said thu Q an examination shows a fresh fracture the frog. probably caused by the engine 2 running off the track.
 It is coBjectured by some persons th
 the express engine when it reached Il switch picked up loose object whit v caused 1t to jump upon the frog and lea
 the track. The engine ran upon ths ii
 distance equal to the length of the tra Id before it crashed into the freight. IT
 lexpress engine was evidently farther 0
 the track than the remainder of the tra
 and when 1t struck the freight engine | was thrown to one eide and the tend torn from it.
 Coach Mo- Il was filled with passenge,
 every seat being occupied. Walter
 Berard of Highlands Falls was the on il. passenger in this car who escaped uni
 jured. Across the eisle were several lsdl J and children. He noticed little sbo when the car ran over the switch. T crash same after the train had gone seve o- yards on the side track. There was a |
 for a moment, then everything became Ill scene of the widest confusion and the )O was filled with the cries and groans of 1g wounded. The railroad and coal dock ID
 in the neighborhood at once went to
 scene and began to clear away the wrecki h. and to pull cut the dead and wounded.
 Dropped Dead on the Track.
 SAGINAW, Mich, July 13-Rolfe N.
 handsome bay stallion at the head of
 Oakland farm, record 2:26, brother
 the famous Nelson, dropped dead on track at Union park this morning, beca