New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-12-20
4 CRASH IN THE roo.
FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE NEW-JERsEY
TROLLEY LINE NEAR PATERSON.

TIE MoTORMAN OF ONE CAR KILLED AND SEW
rpN. PERSONS INJr'RED-CARs WERE TRY
mo TO MAKE Up TIME AND HEAD-oN
COLLISION oCctRRED-THE COMO
NER WILL INVESTIGATE.
In n dense fog. about 10 o'clock yesterday morning.
,wo cars on the New-Jersey Electric Railway, run
ming at high rate OF speed. came together mead on
between Lake View ard Clifton Thomas Murray
tho motorman OF Of the cars, was so terribly
mangled that he died in a shor; time. and several
Messengers on both cars and one of the conductors
were severely injured. Both cars were badly
wrecked.
The scene of the disaster is the foot OF steep
hill in Lake View ave. at the corner or Crooks-aVe
Car No co southbound. having just descended
the hill ard No - going toward Paterson
The collision tool; place a single track, halfway
between two sidngs No. IS was run by MotorrnaE
Thomas Murray. Of Paterson, with George John-
son. Of Lake View, as conductor No. 60 had as
motorman William Odfed. and conductor John
Warner All four were old and experienced en-
ployes Of tho road.
There was only about twenty feet ween the cars
when the mo;ormen caught sight Of each other
through the mist. Oldneld reversed his motor set
his brakes and jumped off. escaping without injury.
After the terrific crash that followed. Murray was
found hanging unconscious over the dashboard,
pinned tightly between fragments of the wrecked
vestibule and almost disemboweled by the crank
goyernlng-bOX, which driven into MS
side. while blood streamed from his mouth and from
a wound in the head. II required several minutes
work with axe to get him free from the debris:
He was placed In wagon and driven toward
Passaic, with the intention OF taking him to the
Emergency Hospital. but he died on the way, and
the body was taken to his home in Paterson.
Meanwhile. the few people wlo had been on the
two cars were comparing cuts and bruises. Con-
ductor johnson hurled down just the trap
door the motor sprung open By the force
held fast wrile hot Goals from the overturned stove
poured on his head and face. He also received a
bad scalp wound and bruises Edwin W. Hewitt,
Freebooter. OF Passa'c was on No IS, bound for
Paterson to attend the meeting Of the County
Board. lie suffered Commissions OF the left
leg and hand, and taken to his home but aft
erward went to Paterson and limped TO the meet
Ing OF the Board. Mrs. Amshoff, wife Of the as
sistant superintendent OF the Prudential Insurance
Company's Office In Passaic was in the same car
taken home. An old whose name not
learned walked away with blood streaming from
in his head man named Allen was bruised
and cut by broken glass. on No 60. Fred }. Seeker
a salesman, and DR.. A. JOussett, both Of Paterson
bruised and scratched.
County Physician Johnson. OF Passac, has or
dered Coroner Carroll Of Passaic, to hold an in
quest on the dead motOrman, so as 10 fix the blame
for the accident. The railroad people extremely
retcent about the accident. IL is said that No IS
should have waIe1 for NO. 90 on the siding al Cliff
ton. 1t appears that Murray and Johnson did walt
a while. and that car passed which they thought
the one they were waiting for. Conductor john
would not admit that he gave Murray the bell
to go ahead.
Frank Rivers OF Paterson. passenger on No. CO.
says that he had stood in the front door talking
with Ollheld about the fog and the danger of col
l.sons; Odfed seemed nervous and before start
with the remark that he might want u chance to
lump