The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-01-18
ITALIANS DYING.
The Victims of the Fair
view Tragedy Suffer
Intense Agony.
SCENES AT ST. MARY'S HOSPITAL
Coroner yolk Has Trouble With
the Bergen County Coroner
Investigating the Case.

This morning Coroner Volk drove to Fair
view, the scene of the trestle wreck yester-
day morning, to dig for more bodies which
he thought were buried under q mound OF
debris from the accident. Before be started
he told JERSEY CITY NEWS reporter that
he expected to unearth five bodies These
are Italians that cannot be accounted for,
although Foreman Frank Kelly said it is
almost impossible to judge who are missing.
He said this morning to the reporter that an
installment of men come one day and
go the next They are an uneasy and
restless set and are not satisfied
with any sort of work. II get my. books
fixed up for one day." he said, ''and the next
day have to scratch the names out, because
the men say they don't want TO work any
more Some days have fifty men under
me and the next forty"
CoRoNERS FIGHT.
Instead of two men being found dead ycS-
terday there was but one, Francisco Dapotlto.
Coroner Volk carted this one to his morgue.
The Coroner of Bergen county thought the
body sewas his property, but Volk drove
away before he could claim It,
Volk% maintains that the ac-
county boundary If this were the case,
then the wreck occurred in North Bergen
and not in Fairview Fairview is every
part and parcel in Bergen county, and bor-
dering close upon Fairview is North Bergen,
in Hudson county. 1t is a mere matter of
boundary whether or not Tony Volk was
entitled to the body. He declares very
emphatically, anyhow, that he is He has
dressed the corpse and has fixed it up ready
to be transported to the dead mans
family OF friends. 1t has not been
learned yet if the man has any family. He
1,,,oI hn 1.foIr1 1n6 in
shanties near the Fairview tunnel, with sew
eral Of his compatriots. If the body is not
claimed it will be inferred at the expense or
the county.
SUFFERING MUCH PAIN.
The Italians at st. Mary's Hospital suffer
intense agony. The sisters said this morning
that they cannot hope for the recovery OF
three of them, at least The Rev. DR..
Fabris of the Church of Our Lady or
Grace administered communion yes
terday to several of the Italians who
thought they were about to die.
Father Fabris can speak Italian, and he se-
cured for the surgeons the names of all the
men No intelligible account of any OF the
men could be CLEANED from gang OF Ital-
ians who came down from the scene of the
catastrophe, and Father Fabris's services
| were much appreciated by the doctors. All
the staff of the hospital was engaged in all
leviating the sufferings of the injured ltai-
| ians yesterday. They included Drs. Chabert
Fisher, Kudlich, steadman, Pindar, Hoen-
| ing, Rue, Pitts, Grew and Gelbach. Every
one of the surgeons and physicians
had plenty to attend to in dressing
| the wounds of the men. In some instances
chloroform had to be administered This
| morning the wards in the big hospital pre-
sented an unusual spectacle. The thirty-two
| injured from Fairview, alongside OF the
who still remain from the D. L. g. w.
| calamity, impressed one that this was busy
| time for the kind hearted sisters.
I WHO IS TO BLAMEs
The particulars of the accident were
given is yesterdays last edition of this pa
per Blame is inclined to rest upon the en-
gineer of the locomotive, who was given
| explicit instructions, it is said, never to
back further upon the untitled portion of the
| trestle than would allow one car to stand
alone on that part over the ground founda-
| ton at the end of the structure, where the
engine always remained. Instead of con-
| forming to this rule the engineer backed
| his train with four loaded cars over the
| trestle, which was very frail.
A DEATH THIS AFTERNOON.
| Rattelo Colloroso, forty-fiye years old,
single, one of the victims, died at half-past
| two o'clock this afternoon.