The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-11-19
TRAFFIC STOPPED
Ferryboats, Trains and
and Trolley Cars I'm
peded by the Dense
Fog.
sMAsH-UP ON BROOKLYN BRIDGE
Citizens Reach Their Business With
Dificulty-No Loss Of
Life.

"This is the densest fog In all my ex-
perience," said Ferrymaster S~tanspury
as h stood near one of the slips OF the
Pennsylvania ferry yainly endeavorlng 10
see the end of the slip. 1.-THE boats nave
been running at fifteen to twenty min
utes' Roadway, and I am glad to say
there have been no accidents. The ROC
will lift about noon," he said, "and We
will have the boats running on time.
Outside the ~ferryhouse, Exchange place
was almost entirely blocked with vehicles.
The poles of brewers wagons rested on
the trucks ahead and the wheels OF heaV-
lily laden market carts grazed the pol
ished sides of the buggies firmly Jammeo
in the crowd of FESTIVE horses and cuss-
ing drivers at an early hour. The plock
delayed the trolley cars, and when these
at last slowly crawled out Of the muss
they went at half speed through streets
with the gong ringing every second.
Traffic on the trolley roads throughout
the city was of course thrown out OF
schedule time. From Greenville alone II
took nearly IN hour to reach the FERRY
the ordinary time being about twenty
three minutes.
So it was with the traffic across the
river. When the fog was thickest II
took a boat nearly an hour to creep
across the river, and it speaks Volumes
for the prudence and skill of the pilots h
not an accident to any ferryboat was
BAD IN NEW YORK.
In New York it was even worse. AT
six o'clock this morning the log was
so thick that an object could not be as
tinguiShed at a distance of ten feet. EIe-
waited trains had to travel much slower
than schedule time, and uptown residents
hod a WOO nv film O qf If in 06ffinP GOWN
town. 1t took one train over an hour
to come from 125th street to Bleecker
SMASH UP IN BROOKLYN.
The fog was responsible for a smash
up of trains on the Brooklyn end of the
bridge that caused a bad blockade. The
o'clock this morning. which was directly
due to the fog. Trains were compelled
either end, and this caused many stop
pages of trains, which run, during the
busy hours of the morning, at less than
a minutes headway. While ON the way
about 200 yards from the Brooklyn sta
tion. A train behind came along and the
was clear. went ahead at full speed.
A serious collision was the result. Sew
eral were ~telescoped and a brakeman
and several passengers We're severely
hurt. the brakeman had both legs cut
off and cannot recover.
The accident caused an immediate stop
page VI tIdlllC VII III GREAT SlIuClQlc,
and thousands of Brooklyn people were
compelled to- walk, aus travel by ferry was
slow and uncertain.
A CRASH IN BROOKLYN.
A Fifth avenue elevated train, Brook
lyn. was run into by an East New York
train, while standing on High street,
Brooklyn, waiting for the signal to re-
cede to the Bridge entrance. The pas
sengers on both trains got a violent
shaking up. but fortunately no one was
hurt.
Two ferryboats of the Erie Railway
were in collision, the Passaic humping in
to the John King, about 1880 o'clock.
Fortunately both boats were running
slowly at the time, and beyond a mild
panic among the passengers on both boats
there was nc injury DONE.
At 1920 O'Clock the tughoat Louis Pull
yer was run into by the Staten Island
feryboat Castleton. There were about
$50 passengers on the Castleton, but none
of them was hurt. The injury to the
boats were slight.
At eleven o'clock the fishing banks
steamer Al Foster was in collision with
the Hamilton venue ferryboat Pierre
pont. The boats met off the battery:
and were bucking into huge banks of
fog when the impact came. They met
bows on. a few s%plinters flew, but little
damage was done. as the boats were
proceeding very slowly at the time the
accident occurred.