The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-01-15
Railroad, from Basking Ridge and Bernards

vile.
''The South Orange accommodation left
South Orange at eight o'clock. Just west OF
the Hackensack bridge the Dover express
slowed up, and at the time of the accident
was at a standstill.
s'The fog was very heavy, and the South
Orange train, which was running on time at
the rate of about twenty miles an hour, ran
into the rear of the Dover express, telescop-
ing the two rear cars from Basking Ridge
and Bernardsville
s'The combination smoking and baggage
car was entirely wrecked There were prob
ably fifteen people killed, and probably W lth
one or two exceptions were those who had
been riding in the combination car.
''The scene of the accident was frightful
The dead and injured were piled up
side of the railroad track. The
forward cars of the Dover express
twere not wrecked but the passengers were
brown from their seats and number were
bruised and injured.
s'The engine of the South Orange train was
No. IS, and known as the W. H. Lewis 1t
was also badly wrecked, although it did not
leave the rails"
SCENES IN HoBoKEN.
AS fast as the dead and injured were ex-
tracted from the debris they were put on
special train and brought to Hoboken.
At every entrance to the train shed there
was dense struggling crowd of people, the
majority of which were brought there by
curiosity, while there were many anxious to
know if friends and relations were amongst
the dead or injured.
On the edge of the crowd, in River Ter
race, three hearses were drawn up in line,
and four ambulance were beside them. Two
of the latter were the police ambulances,
one was from Cranes morgue and the other
from st. Mary's Hospital.
A detachment of police kept the crowd in
order, but it was just as much as they could
do, with the assistance of some of the rail-
road company's employees, to prevent the
surging mass of humanity from breaking In
the barriers and sweeping into the depot.
When the first train arrived bearing the
bodies of Turner, Kinsey and Rimmer, these
were carefully lifted out of the baggage car
and placed on trucks. They were horrible
to gaze upon.
One of the bodies had no head It lay be-
side the body crushed and fearfully torn al
most beyond recognition. Only the the hair
on the ghastly object told what it was.
Another body was bent backwards into a
V shape, and both legs and arms
were crushed to pulp. The third was
carefully covered with dirty white cloth
in the centre of which appeared huge red
spot This spot continued to increase in size
until that part which covered the head was
entirely red.
These bodies were removed to an clubhouse
on the dock at the end of the wharf.
A policeman stood at the door, and only
permitted those to enter whom Coroner
Volk vouched for. Afterwards they were
taken to the Coroner's establishment.
Around the entrance to the Y. NJ. c. A. in
the depot was crowd of anxious people and
these were pushed on one side when the
injured were carried there to await the re-
| turn of the ambulances after the first trip to
the hospital.
Upstairs, sofas were dragged into the
billiard room, and the injured men placed
thereon All was hustle, but SO well did
those in charge of the rooms handle their
unusual visitors that there was practically
no confusion at all
DIR. CHABERT AT WORK.
DIR. Cha bert came up the stairs, three
steps at bound, tore off his coat, rolled up
his shirt sleeves and started in to relieve as
far as possible the sufferings Of the men,
Brandy was sent for, rolls of linen and
splints brought in, and these were at once in
great demand.
The rooms looked like hospital after a
battle.
| When the ambulances arrived the injured
were removed as rapidly as possible One
| of these, w. Ferguson, died on ! sway to St.
| Mary's.
Some of the slightly injured when their
| heads and arms were bandaged up, sat
around the rooms and held reception to the
hosts of newspaper men from all parts
PATHETIC INCIDENT.
One of these was G.. E. Clifford of Newark,
who was in the second car from the last on
the Dover Express. Near him was Mr.. Rol-
| lift, clerk at the Garfield National Bank.
Clifford escaped with slight injuries; Rolliff
was buried beneath the tinbers of the tele-
scoped car When Mr.. Clifford found him
| soon after the collision, he was covered
with blood. There were two large wounds
| on his breast; his head was crushed and
| one of his eyes was hanging from
it's socket. He turned over his watch and
wallet to Mr.. Clifford and asked him to de-
liver message to his wife. He said that he
believed that his injuries were fatal.
AN EYEwITNEss' STORY.
Another passenger who was on the Orange
train said that after the shock he did not
realize what had happened until the
cars stopped and the dead bodies
of passengers of the Dover train were seen
lying beside the track. sour engineer was
killed, but the fireman, who has been
reported dead, leaped from the en-
gine in time to escape injury, and
was afterward seen and recognized by
MANY. The work of extricating the unfor-
tunate people from the wreck was done chief
| ly by the passengers The colliding locomo-
| tive took fire, and the steam from its boiler
poured out over the wreck and
threatened for time not only tc
impede the work of rescue, but to scald tc
death, the victims who were pinned by the