The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-01-19
TELESCOPED.
Terrible Railroad Accident Neal
New York.
A COLLISION In A DENSE FOG.
The Brakeman Warns the Passengers
Many Escape-Too Late, However,
for q Number of Unfor-
tunates

NEW YORK, Jan. 16.-Sixteen passen-
gers were killed and twenty-five in.
jured in collision during a dense fog
between two trains of the Delaware,
Lackawanna & Western railroad at the
west end of the Hackensack bridge,
about s o'clock yesterday morning.
Two cars were completely destroyed.
The Dover express passed through
Roseville without stopping and was fol
lowed four minutes later by the regular
Communication train. So dense was the
fog over the river that on approaching
the bridge the express slowed up, the
engineer being unable to see the sig
nails The Communication train did moi
halt at the bridge, but went along al
its usual rate of speed.
The engineer saw the express wher
less than 200 feet from it, and, though
he reversed his engine, he could not
prevent a collision. The locomotive
crashed into the rear car throwing it
from the track quite distance. This
| car and the one ahead of it were COM
pletely wrecked.
Both cars were full of passengers
who were crushed to death or terribly
mangled. The engineer of the COM
mutation train is missing and is said to
be among the killed.
The brakeman of the rear car of the
Dover express discovered that wreck
was inevitab BILE and shouted at the top
of his voice: Jump for your lives. an
other train is coming behind and will
be on us in a minute"
The warning was sufficient to put
the entire rear car of the express in
commotion. Passengers rushed pelI
nell for the nearest means of exit.
Some jumped through the windows in
their haste while the majority rushed
to the doors. In the excitement some
| fell on the floor while others tumbled
over them.
Before all the frightened passengers
could make their escape. the Orange
| locomotive crashed into the rear car
wrecking it and driving it into the car
ahead; also telescoping that, and deal
/ ing death on all Sides. A passenger
who reached New York, said he had
counted fifteen bodies alongside the
wreck and that others were thought tc
| be dead.
Trains always slow up when ap
/ preaching the Hacllensack bridge. 1t
is said that the South Orange train was
running so close behind the Dover ex.
press that there was no time to send
back flagman.
As soon as the accident happened
word was sent to Jersey City and
wrecking trains were sent out Ambu'
lances and physicians were sent out
with appliances for the relief of the in
jured. Several persons died after be-
ing taken from the wreck.
The track walker is said to have
placed the torpedoes on the track as
signal for the Dover express to stop be.
fore crossing the bridge. All of the oc-
| cupants of the wrecked car. which was
the smoker, were men. This accounts
for the fact that no women We're killed.
1t is said that the South Orange train
was running at higher rate of speed
than it should have been when ap.
preaching the bridge The passenger
cars were reduced to splinters, and pas.
sengers and wreckage were strewr
about in radius of fifty feet.
The dead had the most agonizing ex'
pressions of fright and pain upon theiI
features The wonder is how any per.
son escaped alive as the speed of the
South Orange train was greater thar
twenty miles an hour.
The following is the list of the bodies
of the victims which have been identi.
fed:
Edward Kinsev, Berrardsville ~ J
William j Turner of Baskinridge, book
keeper OF Field, Chandler Co leaves a wild W
and four children
JH Rimmer Summit N. j., cashier OF F..
W. Bocock & Co
Edward Morreil Decameron, n. j.
D. A. Brundhill
- Timmons Summit " j.
H A. Rohlfs, Summit, n. j.
| Patrick Ryan Milburn. n. J.
A. Hoffman
IT. J. Reagan Milburn, N. ].
John Fish. Summit. N. J.
| DR. John Do:y. b islSnridyr.
| - Ferguson. Summit II. J., an auditor OF
the Western Union Telegraph Co, died on the
way to ST. Marv's hospital
| w. A Guilladeau. traffic manager of the Old
| Dominion Stea ship Co. resided n Montclair,
and leaves q widow and family.
Theodore White, Newark, N J.
d. Cameron. Newark. J.
]. Purnton, Short Hills, n j.
The list of the seriously injured as
far as ascertained is as follows:
Fred Ferguson. Summit n. J., badly crushed
will probably die
Miss Ferguson. Summit, injured about tht
head
William Barcline. Gladstone, y. j., scalded
Louis Bodine, Newark, n. j, badly crushed
Edward Pierson, Newark. back and head In
iured. ...
Frank Schurz son of Car Schurz, New
York, b IDLY injured ,