New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-10-13
A LOCOMOTIVE BLOWS UP.
THE FIREMAN TAKEN FROM THE WRECK
DEAD
UNUSUAL ACCIDENT ON THE LACKAwANNA-THE
ENGINEER so SERIOUSLY HURT THAT HE
DIES AT THE HOSPITAL.

DIES AT THE HOSPITAL.
Through the exploding Of the boiler Of an en-
CINE on the Montclair Branch Of the Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western Railroad last evening
the fireman was killed and the engineer was
fatally hurt The accident happened soon
after o'clock in front Of the Glen Ridge station
a mile from Montclair What caused the eX-
plosIon is not known The suffering engineer
says he did not have anything like full head
Of steam on and that there was plenty of water
in the tank and in the boiler, and further that
only a little while before he examined the In
jector and found 1t working all right.
The accident happened In deep cut. The
train left Montclair for New-York at 4:o5. 1t
was drawn by engine No. 126, one Of the heaviest
passenger engines on tn. eastern end Of the
road. 1t consisted OF baggage car and four
passenger coaches Charles Bareland was enBl-
neer and Elmer Cumming fireman. They
were brothers-in-!aw. AT Gil IN Ridge the traiI
stopped to pick up passengers. The conductor
pulled the bell rope for the engineer TO proceed
on the way to Bloomfield. and before the rope
had ceased to vibrate there was roar ana
rush of air along the cars. Those in the cars
stuck their heads out and those on the station
platform looked toward the engine.
Higher than the tops Of the cars they saw
the big engine making a complete sOmersault
and breaking loose from the cab turn end for
erd. and then fall back on the track with the
wheels upward
N,
body of Cumming. The engineers body was
lying On the side Of the embankment Cum
mings body partly pinned beneath the
wreck OF the locomotive. The greater portion or
his body was free of the wreck. but his right
arm and right leg were caught under the iron
OF the engine. With the aid Of levers the engine
cased away enough to permit his release
He was dead when taken from the wreck
Bareland was taken to the MOJntainsidc Hos
pital. He died last night. He able to say
that when the bell above his head responded to
the pull on the bell by the conductor ne placed
his hand on the lever and Pulled. There was a
rush Of steam. and he said ne felt as II he had
been struck by great mass. That is all he
has been said II took two hours to remove the
engine She badly broken up. All her upper
parts were crushed fiat when she fell The smoke
stack was doubled Up Ike an opera hat The bell
was driven through the sheet-.ron casing N the
boiler and broken. The sand-b)x was reduced
to A lot II scrap-iron. and the whistle was flat
tened out OF III resemblance to what il had been.
The hre-b1X was torn of the tubes were bent
and twisted under the engine. and the whole un-
der part y the boiler was rent by the explosion
Division Superintendent Dupuy, arrived on the
scene shortly after the accident. and directed
the operations O.. the wreck9rs He secured
number Of stages and transferred the passengers
on the incoming trains around the wreck to the
station at Montcair
T. IL said at the station that the engineer failed
10 fill his tank before leaving. and that although
the injector was working water was running
into the boiler.
Cumming lived in HobOken. He and his
brother-in-law had been in the employ Of the
road a long time and were considered competent
and careful men.