Morning journal and courier., 1894-01-16
THIRTEEN WE'RE KILLED

Hackensack River and the HOspit.
ais In HebokeR.
NEW York, Jan. ia frightful acct
dent occurred at $50 this morning on the
west side of the Hackensack bridge on the
Morris and Essex branch of the Delaware,
Lackawanna and Wes'ern railroad. The
train which leaves Roseville at 500 crashed
into tho rear of the Dover express, tele-
scoping two cars. Twelve or fifteen pas
ssngers in these two cars are known to
have been killed, and at least twenty five
are terribly injured.
The reason given for the accident ia that
on account of the heavy fog the engineer
of the South Orange accommodation did
not see the Dover express in front of him.
LIST OF THE DEAD.
The following is a lat of the dead, so fer
as knowa: John burlington, sgsd 50
years, Short Hills, importer; John
Fish, aged SO, Summit, civil engineer;
Patrick Ryan, aged forty, Milburn, who
was on his way to his brothers funeral in
Connecticut: W. J. Turner, Backing
Ridge, bookkeeper for the law firm of
Dill, Chandler & Seymour, New York; J.
q. Rimmer, aged thirty-two years, Sum-
mit, cashier of New York brokerage firm
and well-known Splinter of the New York
Athletic club; Edward Kinsey of Der.
nardsville; Edward Morrell, aged thirty,
Summit; d. Cameron; J. Renwick; F. w.
Ferguson, Summit, died on the way to St.
Mary's hospital; unknown man, aged
about forty; Theodore White, son Of Dr..
White, of Summit; James Goetz, Bsskine
Ridge. -
TEE LIST OF THE INJURED.
The injured, so far az is known, are as
follows:
N. T. Nilho, left side and leg injured;
Frederick Ferguson, Summit, severe in
tsrnal injuries, will probably die; Miss
Ferguson, Summit, N. J., severe injury on
the head; William Barclift, Gladstone, N.
J., scalded with steam; Louis Bodine,
Newark, student at College of Physicians
and Surgeons, New York, injuries on head
and body; Miss White, Summit, N. j.,
head severely injured; Conductor Reid Of
So. Orange accommodation, ankle sprained
Edward Pierson, Newark, back and head
injured; Miss Bertha Mills, Newark, leg,
head and back injured; W. J. Russling,
Newark, head injured; Carl Schultz, j.,
One Hundred and Thirty-sixth street and
Grand boulevard, collar bone dislocsted;
J. Q. stesrns, Springfield. N. j., sprainsd
ankle and scalded by escaping steam. He
was employed in the United States sub
treasury. Andrew Rolliff, clerk in Gar
field bank, New York city. head crushed,
will probably die; Edward Gray,
Summit, New jersey, internally injured;
DR.. Hawkins, Newark, collar bone dislo-
Gated; T. 81. Nichols, No. 289 High street,
Newark, cut on head and face and two
fingers broken; Washington Irving, grand
son of the famous historian, Short Hills,
N. j., head and body injured; 81. A. Win
tsrmuts, No. 81 High street, Newark, arm
broken, head injured; Richard Morrell,
about the body and head; Christopher Ar
mold, Newark; Henry Cowan, Baskipg
Ridge; William Clark, Bssking Ridge;
Charles e. Wingrove, New York city; Ern
est Sehafsr, Baking Ridge; George Spero.
New York.
THE BAGGAGE MASTERS STORY.
The baggage master on the Dover express
was At the rear end of the last car the mo-
ment before the accident occurred. He Wal
checking off his slips when he heard tn,
brakeman on the end of the train exclsiu
| in terrified voice.
"For GODS sake, stopl''
He jumped to the door and through it,
glass window saw the locomotive of the
South Orange accommodation met twenty
| Eve feet away bearing down upon the train
| at high speed. The baggage master made
one leap through the side door of the cal
| and rolled down to the foot of the embank.
ment. He was not seriously injured and
later said to . reporter:
81 think the accident was due in part to
the recklessness of the engineer on the
as Q man who took risks. 1t is only about
year ago that An accident similar to this
was barely averted at South Orange, when
he was the engineer on the following train.
"Two torpedoes were exploded by our
train, which did not come to full stop,
and, when the crash occurred, was moving
at the rate of five miles An hour. Our train
was pushed about 800 feet before 1t came to
a stop.
"The engine Of the local, the W. H. Lew
| IL, crashed into the rear car of the Dover
| express about twelve feet. This last car,
the combination baggage and smoker, tele-
scoped into the second car from the rear
| and split the roof Of that car completely
from the sides and ends.
"Four men were playing cards at the
| last table of the smoker, and three of these
were among the killed"
81 saw some men rushing through the
aisle Of the car and had just looked out to
see what was the matter when the crash
came. The side of the car heaved in at an
angle Of about forty Eve degrees, and the
men vho were forward on the left caught
the worst of It; the side of the car plowed
right through them. When looked up
again the timber that divides the smoking
room and the baggage car was pinning me
down, and dead man lay across my feet
I saw one fellow ahead Of me who Was fas-