The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-01-31
MET DEATH IN THE FOG.
AN AWFUL REAR-END COL
LISBON IN NEW JERSEY.

LISBON IN NEW JERSEY.
The D., L. & w. Dover Express
Crashed Into by an Orange Local
Train Near the Hackensack
Bridge-Terrible Scenes Of Suffer-
ing on the Jersey Marshes.
Dense fog that lay like thick blanket
over the marshy Hackensack IN. J.) mead
ows was in part the cause Of one Of the most
shocking railroad wrecks that have oc-
Cured near New York in recent years. The
apparent recklessness Of an engineer and
the almost criminal loss of reason on the
part Of brakeman helped to cause rear
end collision. At 8.25 a. NJ, an hour wheE
thousands of men were travelling from
their homes in New jersey to their offices,
workshops or places Of business in the city,
the Dover express train was stopped at sig
nal station on the Morris and Essex division
ofthe Delaware. Lackawanna and western
Railroad, west Of the bridge over the Hack
ensack River. 1t was few minutes behind
time on its way.to New York, and it was fol-
lowed closely by local train from South
Orange. The engineer ofthe local train sent
his locomotive along at rapid pace without
regard to the fog, and neglected to follow
long-standing order to slacken speed rs he
approached the dangerous place where the
express train was waiting.
A brakeman had started back from the ex-
press train to flag the local train, but he sud-
denly lost his self-control in the moment Of
peril, and returned to implore the passen-
gers on the rear car Of his train to jump for
their lives.
A few men who heard the warning had
time to escape. It was too late to stop the
momentum OF the local train with the air
brakes, and the oncoming locomotive dashed
into view through the mantle OF fog and
crashed into the rear end of the express
train, wrecking three ofthe cars.
There followed an awful scene OF death
and suffering. From two telescoped cars
were flung the bodies of number of dead
and diving men, while within the cars were
imprisoned other men who had been hurt
seriously, and whose appeals for help were
narrowing to hear. Fortunately the wreck
did not take fire, or the disaster would have
been even more terrible.
Those killed were
William R. Adams, thirty-two years, Mil
to Volks Morgue.
william Ferguson, Summit. N. j., fifty
five years auditor In the Western Union
Building, New York father Of Frederick
Ferguson, who was among the injured died
at st. Mary's Hospital.
John Fish, Summit, N. j.
Edward Kinsey, Bernardsvllle, N. j., late
of West Bergen.
Edward Morrel, twenty three years, Sum-
NIT, N. J. son OF Richard Morrsll, steel rail
manufacturer of Newark; taken to Volk's
Morgue, Hoboken, N. J.
Walter R. Purinton, Short Hills, N. j.,
forty wears glue manufacturer at 1877 Water
street, New York taken to Cranes Morgue.
]. H. Rimmer, Summit. N. J. member OF
the New York Consolidated Exchange and
cashier for :. W. Boocock, 80 Broad street,
New York: taken to Christ's Hospital.
Patrick J. Ryan, Milburn, N. j.; florist.
unmarried; brother-in-law Of William R.
Adams, who was also killed taken to Volk's
Morgue.
William q. Turner Basking Ridge, N. ].
bookkeeper for Chandler, Dill & Seymour,
New York taken to Cranes Morgue.
Those fatally injured were: Harry 8.
Cowan, twenty-eight years, Basking Ridge,
N, j., employed In the Office OF the Port
Morris Land and improvement Company Id
New York City back broken.
Frederick Fureeson, twenty-five years,
Summit, N. J. He was employed with his
father in the auditing rooms OF the Western
Union Building. Cannot survive amputa-
ton Of leg.
Carl q. Schultz, Jr., twenty years. Bask-
ing Ridge, N. j.; frghtfully injured about
chest and head.
More than thirty men and women were
badly injured.
AS the collision occurred at a remote place,
on an embankment shut Of by the marshes
from the nearest village, there was delay In
securing assistance for the injured persons. a
number Of whom were carried to hospitals IN
Hoboken and Jersey City:
The locomotive OF the accommodation
passed nearly half way through the combin.
alton car, that Is, up to the smokers part OF
It. Then the smokers half was driven along
into the second car. The result was that the
passengers in the smoker were forced back
with seats, cushions, twisted iron bars and
| broken glass and wood In heap against the
Accommodations engine head. AS Tor the
| passengers in the second car, many OF whom
were ladies, they were swept forward by the
invading car and piled up In mass OF wreck
| age against the rear Of the third car.
The army OF over a hundred men, who
promptly began the work OF rescue, deserve
great praise. When the crash occurred sew
eral passengers were thrown bodily through
| the windows. Their bodies lay wnere they
fell upon the ground alongsidethe train. One
| old man. who had been thrown out OF smok.
ing car window, lay dead beside the last car OF
| the accommodation, which shows that the
crash carried both trains the length OF the ac-
commodation before they stopped. He was
! horribly mangled. Beside the third car ofthe
accommodation 10y another old man. who
looked like farmer. his head thrown back,
his gray beard extended upward. and his eyes
half open, but with no life in them. He also
had received q shocking wound. A third
body lay beside the second car OF the accom-
mediation, but the mans head was not wis.,
bic. It looked as II it had been driven into
his body between the shoulders. The track
was strewn with clothes torn from the bodies
! of the victims here a vest, there part OF
coat or pair of trousers. The scattered fSag-
ments of clothing we're used to cover the
dead.
Five minutes after the collision the volun-
teer rescuers were hard at work carrying
our the injured. Car doors and cushions
and backs Of car seats were e1temporized
into stretchers. It was remark
able the number OF doctors who ap-
peared to be on the two trains. fully
/ twenty OF them stripping off their coats and
turning In. Assoon as the first shock OF the
accident was over, the women took up the
| work of nursing the injured, standing beside
the sufferers with smelling salts and linen
bandaees, while the doctors did their work.
The scene was O terrible one. Fathers.
with sons and daughters und brothers, were
among the unfortunate passengers. The
| dead and wounded in some instances were
maneled in an awful way. Heads were
crushed out of shape and bodies were dis
, membered. One man was taken from the
/ smoker whose legs were crushed INTO a
bloody pulp from his waist down.. he lived
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