The Forrest City times., 1894-01-19

Terrible Rear-End CoIiis;on on the hseN ! ensack Meadows. in News Jersey Du's a Dense Fog-Nine Persons Killed anu | About Fifty Injured. Mostly fers""s Doing Business in New York City' NEW YORK, Jan. 16.-One ot the most disastrous accidents that was ever experienced in the neighoorhooo ! of this city, occurred on the Delaware Lackawanna & Western railroad about 1 s:S0 o'clock yesterday morning during | a thick fog on the Meadows just east of Hackensack. The South orange accommodation ran into the express telescoping and smashing to splnters | the two rear ears of the latter traIh' | instantly killing nine persons and ln- ] turing about fifty others.
 The Dover express. which brings to the city men employed here in business and who live at Summit, Millburn' Short Hills and Newark. made its last stop at Newark and then rushed on through the thick fog towards the city About two hundred yards west of the draw bridge over the Hacken- sack. the train was stopped by torpe- does.
 The lagman of the train, 1t IS claimed. ran back immediately to signal any train that might be ap preaching from the west He had gone but a few wards, he said, when suddenly to his horror he saw rushing upon him through the fog the South Orange accommodation. This train was sched. ! lad 70 lao D,-at at was about three minutes behind time. Aboard it were residents of the Oranges and of Newark, who are iD business in New York.
 The train was running at about l twenty-five or thirty miles an hour 1 Before Engineer David Hoffman could l discern through the fog the express l train, or before he had received the 1 warning from tEe fagman who had been sent back. it was too late to stop his train. He turned on the air brakes, 1 and jumping from the cab, rolled over and over down steep embankment. He was taken up afterwards uncon- seious and badly bruised and cut about the head and body.
 The fireman, Irwin Metz, climbed 1 back over the tender. and was found l after the collision but slightly injured. 1 The engine struck the express train ! with terrific force. It plowed it's way into the rear car. combination bag gage and smoking car, and caused the l forward end to telescope into the pas senger car next in front. Every seat in the smoking compartment was occupied and the trainmen said that there were about forty passengers in the ear. Not one of them escaped I injury. The occupants of the smoker 1 were all men, which accounts. no 1 doubt. for the fact that no women were reported to be among the seri- ously injured
 The force of the collision completely wrecked the engine of the South Orange train. It knocked the rear truck of the tender off the tracks and smashed the platforms of the first two cars None of the passengers, how ever, on this train were injured; but all suffered from the effects of the terrific shock.
 But the result of the collision on the Dover express was woefully different 1 The last two cars were twisted and l turned into a mass of broken iron. wood and glass, over which rose the clouds of smoke and steam m from the engine. From this mass came the groans and cries of the injured. The 1 sight was horrible. As soon as the passengers who were uninjured recov- cred from the shock, they piled out of the cars and rushed to the assistance of the injured. The wood work was lying in all directions and literally strewn along the track where the bodies of the dead and dying lay. The bodies of many persons had been thrown apparently clean out of the car by the collision. one side of the car being completely knocked of. The bodies of three or four passengers were pulled out of the telescoped ear; and then the trainmen and the uninjured set to work with axes and saws to reach those who were buried beneath the wreck.
 There were cries for physicians. and for whisky and water. There was one physician among the passengers, Dr. Reynolds, who escaped from the fatal car. Louis Godium, young medical student, who was on his way to attend the college of physicians and surgeons in this city, was in the fatal car. He escaped with some scratches and cuts upon the head and arms, but forgetting his own injuries, he went to the assist ance of Dr. Reynolds and the more cool heads of the uninjured passengers, and did excellent work in caring for those ] whn uere less fortunate