The morning call., 1894-01-16
DEATH IN A FOG.
Trains Come Crashing
Together.
e ONE MAN TOOK CHANCES.
Close of the Career of a Reckless
Engineer.
NINE PASSENGERS WERE KILLED
Three Others Reported Missing, but
Have Not Been Identified
Among the Dead.
NINE PASSENGERS WERE KILLED

NEW YORK, Jan. 15.-An accident oc-
Cured this morning on the Hackensack
bridge on the Delaware, Lackawauna and
Western road, near Jersey City. Two
passenger trains collided with fatal re-
suit The collision was between the Do
yer and Grange express trains and was
caused by fog. Two cars were telescoded.
The Dover express left Roseville at s
a. NJ, followed four minutes later by the
regular communication train. Approaching
Hsckensack bridge the engineer of the ex-
press slowed uD. the fog preventing him
from seeing the signals. The commuters
train following did not slow up and
crashed into the rear of the express, CON-
pletely wreckiDg the last two cars. Both
were full Of passengers, who were crushed
to death or terrb bly, mauged.
d One of the passengers on the front of the
train said to The CALL correspondent:
Il think the accident was due in part to
the recklessness of the engineer of the
South Orange local He has been known
as man who took risks, and only about
a year ago al accident similar to this was
barely averted at South Orange when he
was engineer on the following train. The
torpedoes were exploded Dy our train.
ulCH Alu lOs COuo " 1ulI StOD, ana
when the crash occurred was moving at
the rate Of five miles an hour. Our train
was pushed about 300 feet before it came
20 stop. The engine of the local crashed
Into the rear car of the Dover EXPIRE ss
about twelve feet. This last car. COM
bina tion baggage and smoker, telescoped
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 In the smoker, and three of these
were among the killed. / saw some men
flushing 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 forty-fiye
degrees, and the men who were forward
on the left caught the worst OF IT. The
side of the car plOwed right through them,
and when [ looked up again the timber
that divided the smokiDg-room and bag
gage-car was pinniDg me down and dead
man lay across my feet | saw one fellow
ahead of me fastened down and being
boiled by escaping steam. managed to
get out pretty we'll"
s. W. Barclift of Gladstone, N j., was
rescued, but in pitiable condition. His
face, head, hands and legs were almost
parbolled and he was covered with ban
dages and poultices. 81 was ia the bag
gage-car," he said. ''and when the crash
:.eame / was caught between trunks. A
steam pipe burst right beside me, and the
steam came pouring out On me. tried to
get loose, but the trunks held me- and the
steam nearly drove me crazy. got loose
at last, but | was there nearly FIVE minutes
land never expected to get out alive"
=: The most authentic account shows that
*:nlne were killed, while the Injured number
>thHty-seven. The dead are as follows:
William Ferguson of Summit
William r, Adams of Summit.
=. William Turner of Basking Ridge.
: Edward KInsey of BarnardsvilIe.
John Fish of Summit.
Walter (. Purinton Of Short BILL.
John NJ. Rimmer of Summit.
?. j. Ryan of Milburn
Edwin Morell Of Summit.
The injured are; David Hoffman, of
South Orange and Arthur Gardner of
Short Hill (seriousy). Theo F. White of
Summit (will probably die). Christopher
Arnold of Newark, Harry S. Cowen of
Basking Ridge, Edward n. Clark of Bask-
Ing Ridge, George Spencer of Murray Hill.
Fred Furgeson of Summit (will probably
dle), w. j. Rusting Jr. of Newark. Charles
ID. Mincher of Summit. Ernest Thaffe of
Baskng Ridge, Carl H Schultz Jr. of
Murray Hill (will probably die), M. W
Gastin Hawks. aged q, of Summit
Washington Irving of Short Hill
William Eoalefs of Newark. f. "
Gray Of West Summit (seriously burn
Katherine keenan, of New York. A. TIM
per and Miss Jessie Archer of New York
Albert Morell of Summit, II. S. Mott of
Summit, 7. o. Stearns of Springfield r
Il. Nichols of Newark, L. B. Young of
Summit, L. Rollins of Newark. A. Bow
ers of Lyons. II. A. Wintermute of New
ark. Carl Linder of Newark, A. w.
Pierson of Newark, F. o. Bennett of East
Orange, William Lehman of Newark. w.
J. Rauck of Newark, Albert Carpenter Of
Roseville, J. Rubesam of Summit, Charles
Arnold of Newark. William Ryan Of Mil
burn and j. Renwick were also reported
among the killed, but no one has been
able to locate them in Jersey City, and the
railroad officials deny that either of them
were taken to Newark.