Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-01-26
FIFTEEN ARE KILLED.
FReHTFuL RAILWAY WRECK its.
NEW JERSEY.

Two Trains ON the Lackawanna and West-
ern Collide-Cars Filled with Persons
En- Route to New York to Work Arc
smashed Into Pieces.
signals Could Not Be Seen.
There was o frightful accident on
Monday morning on the west side Of
the Hackensack bridge, on the Morris
and Essex branch Of the Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western Railroad.
The train which leaves Roseville, N.
j., at eight o'clock crashed into the,
rear of the Dover express, telescoping
two cars. Fifteen passengers in these{ {
two cars were killed and at least twen-1 !
ty-five terribly Injured. '1 80.
Both of the trains that came, into
collision were bound for the JeSsey
City ferry landing. The Dover exc
press, which is due at Jersey City at
8:20 o'clock, was steaming slowly over
the meadows toward the draw-bridge
over the Hackensack River. The fog
was SO dense that the engineer could
not see fifty feet ahead, and was pro-
ceeding with extreme caution, The
train hands had distributed on the
torpedoes, and all precautions! we're
taken to prevent the Orange local
train, following few moments behind
the express, from running into the lat
ter train.
Di,regarded the Signals.
The engineer of the Orange train
either did not hear the torped0es Or
see the signals or else ignored them,
for just as the engineer Of the Dover
express reached the bridge the Orange
train, which was running at full sIeed,
crashed into it with terrific force. The
engine of the Orange train smashed
the two rear cars of the Dover
train into pieces and plowed. over
the passengers, who by the force
Oh the collision had been hurled
from shcir seas only to be crushed to.
death by the wheels ct the Orange en-
gine. Tie rear car on the Dover train
was combination smoker and baggage
binary day coach. Every sest An both
their way to.work in New York, and -
number Of passengers were in the bag
gage car. The passengers in the smoker
had little chance to ESCAPE. They
had no warning of the crash. Those
in the day coach had better opportr--
nifty. Tney plunged through the win
dows and crowded to the front ors,
with the guard of the Orange train
engine only few feet away. Most of
those killed and injured were in the
smoking car. and as the great engine.
crashed into the car among them they
were toppled over by the heavy iron
guard and those who were killed were
crushed to death, literally grolnl to.
pieces.
Sh.ieks OF Injured and Dying.
When the engine was finally stopped
the shrieks of the passengers and the.
moans of the injured and dying filed
the air, mingled with which was q loud
moments before those who were unhurt.
had sufficiently recovered enough pres
ence of mind to turn their attention to
the injured, dying and dead. Almost.
every person in the two rear cars was.
injured, some frightfully and others
seriously. HI W many were killed could
not at first be learned. The widest
reports of the extent of the disaster
were soon current. The only warming
that the passengers in the rear car
had came from half dozen men who
We're on the rear platform. A brake
man who had been sent back to warn
the Orange train rushed up to the men,
on the platform less than 100 feet.
ahead of the oncoming engine of
death and called out: stump Tor your-
lives"
All of the passengers on the plat
form escaTed. The baggage-handler.
in the baggage-car and the express
messenger also heard his warning cry
and sprang through the side door lust.
as the engine Of the local train
which, according to the traintnen. was
running at q rate of twenty miles an
hour crashed into it.
1t was fully five minutes after the,
crash before the passengers on the two
trains could realfze the full extent of
the catastrophe. Then came the great
est confusion imaginable. The train
hands led the passengers to the work
OF rescue. Three mangled bodies we:e.
pulled out of the wreck within ten.
minutes. The passengers crowded
caring for the injured. Several men.
who attempted to assist tainted upon
seeing the sickening condition of tha.
bodies dragged out from under the.
wreck.
A call was sent to Jersey City for.
doctors, ambulances and coffins. "A re-.
lief train was sent to the scene from.
Hoboken, and thirty physicians arrived
from that place and Jersey Citv., One.
by one the injured were taken out and
placed in the cars. They were sent to.
the Christ and st. Mary hospitals in,
Hobcken. The bodies of tfa dead
were removed to the morgue. CosoSers
No'k had been notified ana took charge.
OF them as socn as he arrived.
THIS and That.
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