The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-01-17
RUN down BY IN engine
Two Car Cleaners Killed and
Three Hurt in Harlem this
Morning.

NEW YORK. Jan. II, 1Ss6-Two per-
sons We're killed and three others badly
injured, two of them will probably die,
on the New York Central Railroad at
ia4th street and Fourth avenue bridge
ABOUT y O'Clock this morning. The five
persons were employed as car cleaners
by the Wagner Palace Car Company
and Were walking north on the New Ha-
ven 4failroad track to- avoid q New Ha-
ven express train. AS they stepped on
the New York Central track they were
struck by Engine No. SOL of the latter
road. The killed are:-
Lizzie Becker, 26 years old, married,
OF No. 400 East Seventeenth street.
crushed and instantly killed.
Della Mahan, SO years old. married. Of
No. 1923 East Forty-eighth street. crush
ed and died at the Mott Haven depot
ten minutes after the accident.
I~njured:-
Maria Drumms IS years old, widow, of
Park avenue and 125th street. internal
injuries.
Maggie Tracey, IS years ola, single, Of
NO. l,72S Third avenue. right foot cut
or and right leg fractured.
Louis Yender. 50 years old, Of No. s4s
West Forty-second streeu, fracture of
right leg and internal injuries. probably
fatal.
me five car cleaners fnet at SIX O'Clock
az the Mott Haven depot, as is their Gus
tom daily, all of them except old Mrs.
Drumm having been brought from Forty
noTth-bound.
They = were to report. at the freight
walk up the tracks to the car house at
rules Of the company, b Slf'A they d did ut It
lark ' when they xe:a s T Iaeai a reduit- the u f Mas
slreak OF gray had just appeared in the
s n~ortb when the "a party Walking on the
where they were struck.
Ine Becker and Mahan women were
W Waik Fafagg ahead when around the curve
New ! E { York. New Haven and Hartfo ori
eraeks ! t ery end up sn ahead j The he wemsn
We're just IN time and the express swept
the air with dust and einders.
NOT dreaming that they We're in danger
the party contsnued On their way, But
was a crash, a few agonized shrfeks and
bodies lay IN and beside the tracks and
an amer engine 81 gong north at full speed dis
Inc roar OF the express train had made
rs approach inaqdible to the people on
- aoch, anu EISiueer Charles Burr
did, not see the five people until he was
right upon them. He tried to stop the
engine, but could not Until the FIVE people
mad been run over. lie then ran back
to the spot
The Becker woman was dead. Mrs.
Mahan lay in the ditch to the left of the
tracks gsasping and bleeding. Between
the tracks with her feet cut off the Ira
cey woman lay and Yander and old Mrs.
Drumm had been hurled to the bank, a
distance OF some ten feet.
Burr ran his engine to the Mott Ha-
ven DEPOT a few feet away and procured
help. Hardly, had the killed and injured
been removed when the south-bound To-
train on the Harlem River Railroad
came along I'M was tagged. The dead
injured were placed in the express
car and taken to Mott Haven, where
Mrs. Mahan died as she was being borne
into the waiting room.
Yender, the injured, were taken to the
Harlem. Hospital, where their recovery
is considered doubtful. Engineer Burr
will be arrested today,
The officials of the New York Central
Road. the New York, New Haven and
Hartford Road and the Wagner Palace
Car Company. who employed the i've
cleaners. are making a thorough investi-
cation. II is not probable that Engineer
Burr will be censured, as the accident
seems to AVE been unavoidable.