New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-06-19
THE GATES WERE LEFT Up.
so A TROLLEY CAR GOT N THE WAY OF
A LOCOMOTIVE AT PATERSON.
PASSENGERS WERE THROWN ABOUT AND BADLY
HURT. AND IT WAS a WONDER NOBODY
WAS KILLED-THE GATEMAN SAID
TO HAVE BEEN AWAY TALK
ING POLITICS


While Jonas Hastead. gateman Of the River
st. crossing Of the New-York Susquehanna and
Western Railroad in Paterson. y. j.. was off his
post at sis yesterday morning trying to convince
a Republican that the Democracy was not re-
spons!ble for the hard times. trolley car passed
under the open gates and an instant later the
locomotive Of an express train. running at fifty
miles an hour. crashed into the motor The
gates being up. the motorman. John Savage
started 10 cross the railway tracks. The front
platform Of the trolley motor was just over the
steam railroads line when the motorman saw
the castbound Decker;own express approaching
Savage reversed the current and jumped for his
life. escaping injury. The pilot Of the locomotive
struck the front Of the street car and reduced 1t
10 fragments.
There were six passengers, besides the con-
duct1r Joshua Grimes, in the car: Principal
Mckinney Of Public School No Is. and two -
his tPa chers Misses Laura Birchenough and Ma
tildd ClaXtou Miss Shrady. Mrs. Cullen and Miss
Fricda Weller. That all were not instantly killed
seems m. "acU.ous They were hurled In different
directions Tho 1irhrakss were torn Off the en-
gne b> the collision and 1t could not be stopped
Tor long distance
Mr. Mckinney escaped with bruises Miss
B!rchenough was thrown against an iron trolley
post and her cheekbone was crushed IN. Miss
ClaXtOn was badly cuf about the head and face.
Miss Shrady was severely bruised. Miss Weller
was unconscious and It was feared that she had
Internal Injuries. Mrs. Cullen was seriously
hurt. and was taken 80 her home on Marshall
St Mss Weller and Grimes were removed to
the General Hospital In an ambulance.
The three last named were the worst injured.
but 1t thought that all would probably re-
cover. The other victims We're taken T. their
homes
Tho gateman. Iasfead. was immc lIatcly dis
missed from tho railroad corpany's employ. lie
denied that he talking politics; bat witnesses
heard him In heated argument with an old man
named Dutchoss about the TWO parties and their
responsibility for bad business. Ualstcad had
% admit that he WAS not On the lo lkJut for the
train Several times hc has been reburc1 by
trolley road employees and others for not getting
his gates down promptly School 80 IS vas
closed Yesterday on account u the Injuries % Us
principal and Two of the teachers.
The last three days apparently furnished an
epidemic x death or injury from rallro2i trans
I'm Patcrs N. The 1uhle funeral Z Mrs Hag-
geriy and Mrs. MrGinnis aunt aal niece. VI,
were struck bv train on ~" Lackawaun1 road
Saturday while picking cindors near Mlst.
took place yesterday forenoon. and scarcely
had The two hcarsos returned from The cemetery
when a freight train IN the same road struck
and killed James Clark. who vas sitting on 10,
track az Yves; Paterson Clark WAS deaf NUT"
employed In The boiler Sop - tho Rogers Loco
motive Works. and was about thirty years old
He had long cherished a prosentmcnt that NJ
would be killed by The cars.