The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-01

One woman, Mrs. John Nally, of Dur
yea, was killed on the railroad tracks
yesterday. Two others, Mrs. p. w. Gala
CHER, and her sister, Miss Cassie Jones,
of Dickson City, the latter saleswo-
man at the Globe Warehouse, narrow
ly escaped death in a second accident.
The accident to Mrs. Gallagher and
Miss Jones happened at 7.30 o'clock at
the Marvin crossing of the Delaware
and Hudson company, on North Main
avenue. Their escape was marvellous.
The carriage in which they were driv-
ing was demolished by train of cars,
and the two women were thrown out,
but both escaped serious injury.
The Marvine crossing has always
been considered a dangerous point. 1t
is used to move cars from the main
Delaware and Hudson tracks to the
Leggetts Creek colliery, west of Provi-
dence. Approaching the crossing on
Main avenue the track dips, slightly
increasing the danger of the place. 1t
is necessary, at that point, to back
the cars in to the colliery switches.
THE COLLISION.
This was what was being done last
night. Engine No. IS was pushing a
long train of empty cars and the first
car was within ten feet of the cross
ing when the phaeton in which the two
women were seated came in sight. The
horse they were driving was a spirited
little animal and when Mrs. Gallagher,
who held the reins, saw the light from
the brakeman's lantern, as he sat on
the first car she cut the animal with
the whip.
The horse and front wheels of the
phaeton cleared the track, but the train
struck the rear wheels and pushed the
buggy a distance of twenty feet across
the road to a high bank, where the two
women were thrown out. The horse
was knocked down, but regained it's
feet broke away from the buggy and
sped away toward Dickson City. The
train passed on.
Patrolman Finley Ross, who wit
messed the accident from point
further down the road, rushed to the
aid of the two women. They were un-
hurt, save for a few scratches by con-
tact with the ground.
An idea of the narrow escape of Mrs.
Gallagher and Miss Jones may be
known from the fact that the rear axle
of the carriage was bent until it re-
sembed a pair of scissors. Both of
the rear wheels were broken off and
smashed.
MRS. ,NALLY KILLED INSTANTLY.
Mrs. John Nally, of Duryea, was
struck and instantly killed near Tay-
lor ct a tiOn Yesterday afternoon by ma e.
senger train No 10, due in Scranton at
5.4S o'clock. The details of the fatality
are very meagre, owing to the haste in
which the remains were removed to
Duryea, and the fact that but few peo-
pie witnessed or knew of the accident.
The woman was in the stone cut a
few hundred yards below the Taylor
station when she met her death. The
place is dangerous, owing to the short
and decisive curve there. The woman's
body was horribly mangled.
Engineer Roberts brought the train
to a stop and the remains We're picked
up, placed in the baggage car and
brought to this city. 1t was learned on
the way that the woman's home was
in Drryea, and when the train reached
| this city the body was taken from the
train and carried across the station
platform and placed on passenger train
| No. 5. going south at o'clock.
Coroner Longstreet is out of the city
but Deputy Coroner Pennypacker, when
| the case was mentioned to him last
| night by a Tribune reporter stated that
no report of the death had been made
to him.