The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-01-16
DEATHNAREAREND CRASH
Eleven Lives Lost By a Collision in
New Jersey.

An Express Train Rushes Into the
Rear End of an Accommodation-A
Thick Fog the Cause of the Accident.
The Front Train Not Discovered By
the Engineer of the One Following
Until He Was Right on It.
New York, Jan. 15.-Eleven people were
billed and twenty-eight injured in rear
end collision on the Delaware, Lacka-
wanna and Western railroad just west of
the bridge over the Hackensack river this
morning. The trains were the Dover ex-
nress and the South Orange accommoda-
tion
o'clock. stopping aat Summit to take on
two passenger cars of the Passaic and
delaware railroad from Basking Ridge
and Bernardsville.
The South Orange accommodation left
South Orange at 8 O'Clock.
Inst west of the Hackensack bridge the
Dover express slowed up, and at the time
If the accident was going at the rate of
not more than six miles an hour. The fog
was quite heavy, and the South Orange
train, which was running on time at the
rate of bout twenty miles an hour, ran
into the rear of the Dover express, teles-
coming the two rear cars from BaSking
Ridge and Bernardsville. The rear car,
which was a combination smoking and
baggage car, was entirely wrecked, and
among it's inmates most of the deaths oc-
Cured.
The list of dead as officially given out
is as follows:
William r. Adams, fish dealer, Sum
NIT, n. j. leaves five children.
John Fish, civil engineer, Summit N. J.
William Ferguson, Summit n. j.; an
employe of the auditors Office, Western
Union Telegraph Company, New York.
Edward Kinsey, Bernardsville, n. J.
Edward Morrell, Summit, n. j.; sales
man for the Smith Premier Typewriter
Company.
John burlington, Short Hill, N. H.,
manufacturer of glue, 199 Water street,
New York.
John H. Rimmer, Summit, Nj, cashier
for S. n. Bocock, broker, 30 Broad street,
New York.
Patrick Ryan, Milburn, N. J.
W. j. Turner, Banking Ridge, N. J.,
boOkkeeper.
Dr. Doty, druggist, Banking Ridge, N.
THE INJURED.
D. Cameryon. Summit, N J.
The following are the most seriously in
jured:
Christopher Arnolds, Short Hills, N.
j.. internal injuries.
William Barclift, Gladstone, N. ]. ;
badly scalded and suffering from shock.
Harvey S. Cowan, Basking Ridge; prob
ably fatally injured.
Edward NJ. Clark, Basking Ridge; leg
broken and lacerated head.
Frederick Ferguson, Summit, n. ]. ; in
iured about the head and shoulders, and
broken leg. He is son of William Fer
gusOn, who was killed.
Arthur Gardner, Short Hills, N. j., iu-
ternally injured, will probably die.
Z. W. Gray, West Summit, n. J., frac-
ture of the left leg, amputation neces-
sary
David Hoffman, South Orange, engi-
neer of the Dover Express; severe bodily
injuries.
Washington Irving, Short Hills, N. J.,
injured about the body and spine.
Carl II. Schultz, Jr., Murray Hill, N.
j., son of the well known New York
mineral water manufacturer, severe in
teTnal injuries, leg broken, will die.
Theodore White, Summit, n. j., son of
the Rev. DR.. White, a prominent New
Jersey divine, compound facture of the
leg.
a daughter of William Ferguson was
among the less seriously hurt.
None of the passengers on the accom-
modation train were hurt beyond a shak-
ing up.
The forward cars of the Dover express
were not wrecked, but the passengers
were thrown from their seats, and a
number were bruised and otherwise in
iured.
STORY OF THE FIREMAN.
The fireman of the accommodation train
said that the first intimation that he had
OF danger was when he saw the red lights
on the rear car of the Dover express, only
about 25 feet ahead Before
the engineer had time to have
lhe air brakes put on the collision
occurred. The engineer was thrown from
his seat and stunned. The fire
man was also injured about the
mead and body. He said that the
log was so heavy that they could not see
the lights of the forward train until
Iney We're almost up to it. He said that
no signals had been given by the Dover
express, which was three minutes behind
time.