The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-01-16
DEATH IN THE FOG.
Eleven Killed and Fifty Injured in Col
lision in New Jersey.

New York, January 15.-One of the
most disastrous accidents that ever tool
place in the neigh hborhood of this city oc
CURED on the Delaware, ,Lackawanna anC
Western railroad about 8. 80 this morning
during thick fog on the meadows just
west of the drawbridge across the
Hackensack river. The South Orange
accommodation ran into the Dover ex-
press, telescoping and smashing to splin-
tiers the two rear cars of the latter train,
killing eleven persons and injuring about
hfty. Superintendent Reason of the
Morris and Essex division of the Della.
ware and Lackawanna refuses to make
any statement regarding the cause. The
block system he said was not used in the
part OF the road upon which the accident
occurred. A jury of enquiry will be
empann elled by the coroner at Hoboken
tomorrow.
The engineer of the accommodation
saw the express when less than two hun
dred feet from it. Although he reversed
his engine he could not prevent col
lision.
The ponderous locomotive crashed into
the rear car, throwing it from the track
and pushing it along the west bound
track for quite distance. This car and
the one ahead of it were completely
wrecked. Both cars were full of passen-
gers who were crushed to death OF
terribly mangled, as they sat in their
seats all unconscious of impending
danger. The cries of the wounded could
be heard for a long distance and the
greatest excitement prevailed in the
neighborhood.
The Dover express passes through
Roseville without stopping. This morn
ing because of fog, it slowed UP and
fully fifty residents of Roseville who are
in business in this city boarded the
train. Many of them are killed or in
jured.
The scene after the accident was
frightful. The dead and injured were
piled up along the high embankment at
the side of the railroad track. The
forward cars of the express were not
wrecked, but the passengers were thrown
from the seats and a number were
bruised and injured.
The engine of the accommodation train
was badly wrecked ssalthough it did not
leave the rails. David Hoffman,, the
engineer, was seriously injured and was
carried to the baggage car of his train in
an unconscious Condition. His legs and
head were cut and bruised and he is
supposed to be internally injured. His
fireman Irving Metz. when asked about
the accidentsssaid that the first intima-
tion he had of danger was when he saw
the red lights on the rear car of the
Dover express, only about twenty-five
feet ahead. Before the enigneer had
time to have the air brakes put on the
collision occurred. The enginer was
thrown from his seat and Metz was also
injured about the head and body. Metz
said that the fog was so heavy that they
could not see the lights of the forward
train till they were almost up to it. He
said that no signals had been given by
the Dover express which was three
minutes behind time.
A great many of the passengers on
both trains were New York business men
residing in the suburban towns of New
Jersey on the line of the Morris and Es-
sex on the Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western road.
The following is the list of the dead so
far as known:
P. II. Ryan, Mi1burn.
Edward Morrell, Summit, NJ.
John Fish, Summit, NJ.
VIM. Ferguson, Summit, NJ.
j. H. Rimmer, cashier of S. W. Boocock,
banker and broker, No3O Broad street,
New York.
DR.. James Doty, druggist, Basking
idge, NJ.
VIM. Ferguson, Summit. NJ.