The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-01-15

A. L. RoELg of Summit
W. j. TURNER, Summit.
- KMsEY, Summit.
J. H RnfMER, Newark.
DONALD CAMERON, Newburg.
DR.. JAMES DoTY, Bucking Ridge.
There were two others whose bodies were
not identified as yet.
One of these was young man about
twenty-eight years of age with light hair,
whom many of the Newark passengers
knew by sight, but could not tell his name.
THE INJURED.
The injured list is long one, and is as
| follows:
- MENsHALL, injured slightly.
BURT WINTERMUTE, Newark; eye cut and
otherwise injured.
C. SHULT, slightly injured
ARTHUR GARDNER, Short Hills, injured
internally.
Miss SCHAFER, slightly wounded.
TV. WHITE, Summit, scalp wound.
C. ARNOLD, Newark, internal injuries,
probably fatal.
N J. NIBLo, Newark, internal injuries.
C. w. GRAY, slightly injured.
LESTER B. YOUNG, Summit, scalp wound
| and knee injured.
THEODORE WHITE, of Summit.
EDWARD GRAY, of Summit.
CAPT. j. L. STERNs, of Plainfeld, ankle
sprained and head cut.
| CATHARINE HERMAN, fifty years. of West
11sth street, New York, broken arm and cut
head
- MINcHNER, fifty years, of New York,
internally injured.
EDWIN NJ CLARK, Basking< Ridge, office
No 1869 Front street, New York, broken
leg and lacerated head.
GEORGE JEREMIAH. conductor Dover ex-
press; head cut.
F. w. FERGUSON, injured about the head
and shoulders, and also broken leg.
HENRY S. CowAN of Basking Ridge, pro-
baby fatally injured.
W. H MAY, Summit, arms and hands cut.
- RoALEFsT of Newark, internally in
jured.
Miss F. A MILLS, Newark, injured about
the head
E. w. PEARSON, Newark, cut about head
and face.
w. RUSHING, Newark, cut about back,
head and shoulders.
L. BoDINE, Summit, student at College OF
Physicians, New York, head cut.
COLONEL CARL SHULTzE of Murray Hill,
Summit, soda water manufacturer, with
head cut and arm broken.
DAVID HOFFMAN, South Orange, engineer;
injured badly.
GEORGE SPENCER, Murray Hill; injured
slightly.
WILLIAM FERGUSON and daughter OF
Summit, injured about the head
ERNEST SHAFER, Basking Ridge; head
cut.
E.. w. GROVES of Summit, both legs and
arm broken.
J. D. STORMS, Springfield; hurt about
head.
JANE HAWKS of Summit, head hurt.
LESLIE B. YoUNGs of Summit, hurt.
FIJI. WEALL Newark; slightly injured.
f. w. WILSON of Newark, arm and leg
bruised.
WILLIAM BARcLIFT, Gladstone, scalded
| with steam.
Miss WHITE, Summit, head severely in
| jured.
CONDUCTOR REID of South Orange ac-
commodation, ankle sprained.
DR. HAWKES., Newark, collar bone dis
located.
J.Q. STEARNs, Springfield, sprained and
| scalded by escaping steam.
ANDREW RoLIFF, Clerk Garfield Bank
New York City, head crushed, will probably
die.
T. H. NICHOLS, No. 2S9 High street.
Newark, cut on head and face and two
fingers broken.
| WASHINGTON IRVING, Short Hills, head
and body injured.
RICHARD MoRRELL, brother of Edwart
Morrell, severely injured about the body ane
head.
DEWITT WHEATON, brakeman of Dover
express, internal injuries.
| The list of dead and injured is by NJ
means complete, but as far as could b.
learned the abvoe-is accurate.
| ENGINEER HOFFMAN INJURED.
It is strange that no one on the Orangs
local was injured in the slightest degree, be
| yond bruise or two, excepting the engineer
David Hoffman.
| He was seriously injured and was carried
to the baggage car of his train in an uncon
scious condition His legs and head wer'
! cut and bruised, and the doctors believe the
| injuries internal and fatal.
| His assistant, Irving Metz, it should be
mentioned. was cut about the head and
| body.
| Metz, when asked to explain the accident
said that the first intimation 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 engineer had time to have th'
air brakes put on the collision occurred
The engineer was thrown from his seat AMI
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 until they were almost up to it,
He said that no signals had been given.
| The conductor on the Dover express wa
Jeremiah George. He refused to many an.
statement, and neither would the firemal
1 nor engineer ON thus train