The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-04-14
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Break Chains Break on a Drill
Train Which Smashes Into
a Car Containing People
Three Injured.

Three men We're injured, two passenger
coaches were wrecked and considerable
damage dcne in the Pennsylvania Rail-
read trainshed at three o'clock this morn
ing. The injured Were:-John Smith, 46
years old. Of No.. 234 Bay street; George
Hosbach. q years old, of No. 176 Hop
kins avenue, and Charles Smith, 50 years
old, of No. 3U3 Third street.
The men were painfully but not dam
gerously hurt.
In making up trains which are run out
from the trainshed during the day, the
passenger coaches are drilled from the
Waldo avenue yards ten and eleven at a
time.
The engine remains in the rear of the
train, cutting loose at Waldo avenue and
sending the cars into the trainshed on a
flying switch. William Nicholson was in
charge of the engine, which was sent to
the Waldo avenue yards at 2:So O'Clock
this morning to drill in a train of ten
cars for a Philadelphia accommodation.
The train was rolled in from the yards
over the trestle on the down grade at q
blocks from the strainshed the engine cut
loose.
William Walsh. the brakeman in
its speed. He became alarmed when the
brake chains slipped. The train was
thrown over on track No. 8, at the end
OF which stood a passenger coach, which
was used, Welsh knew, as sleeping quar-
ters for cleaners employed in the, train
shed.
He pulled and tugged at the brake I'M
til the chain snapped. Realizing that a
crash was inevitable, Welsh began to
shout an alarm. When the wild cat train
was within twenty feet of the coach at
the end of the rack he sprang from the
platform, and doubtless saved his life.
The next instant the train crashed into
the car. There was a smashing of glass
ripping and tearing of wood, and then the
framework of the car was raised from
the tracks n damned with terrific
force over the bumpers, through the high
iron fence which separates the passenger
lnclosure from the t~rainshed, to within
three feet of the ladies' waiting room. AT
that point the wrecked car turned over
the waiting room.
There were only a few passengers in
the waiting room when the accident &C.
OF a car rushing toward them carrying
everything before it caused them to fee
In alarm. Above all the din the shouts
heard.
Brakemen and attendants went to work
with a will and in a short time had res
cued the injured ones from the debris.
John Smith was found pinioned be-
meath a wrecked seat. His head was COW
cred with blood, inc his face was cut
and bruised in several places.
DR.. Faison, who a been summoned,
examined him, and found that his in
lur1es We're of an internal character. Hor-
bach was next rescued. His right eye
was almost gouged out, his nose broken
and his shoulder dislocated.
Charles Smith was unconscious when
found. He was resuscftated and found to
ave sustained painful bruises about the
head and shoulders. The injured men
were taken to their homes in ambuiances.
from the City and. St. Francis Hospi-
tails.
There were three other men in the car
when the accident occurred, but they es-
capped unhurt.
The accident was caused entirely by the
brake chainS breaking.
A similar accident occurred a few
months ago. but no one was injured.
1t is said that lately carelessness has
characterized the drilling of cars. being
sent into the trainshed from Warren
street as. fast as twenty miles an hour.
Some idea of the force of the collision
may be had when it is known the big
bumpers at the end of track No. Z were
carried away. The sleeping coach was
entirely wrecked. The first car of the
train, of which Brakeman Welsh was in
charge, was. also wrecked.
Within an hour after the occurrence all
trace OF the accident had been removed
by a wrecking engine and crew.
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