The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-04-13
CRASH Tn |. R. R. STATION
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, AZ
years old, of No. 234 Bay street; George
Hosbach, q years cid, of No. 176 Hop
kins avenue, and Charles Smith, 50 years
old, of No. a3 Third street.
The men were painfully but not dan
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 2:30 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 trestie on the down grade at q
blocks from the ,trainshed the engine cut
loose.
William Walsh. the brakeman in
charge OF the train, ~ndeavored to check
its speed. He became harmed 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-
shed.
He pulled and tugged at the brake I'M
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 n tearing of wood, and then the
framework of the car was raised from
the tracks and damned with terrific
force over the bumpers, through the high
iron fence which separates the passenger
Enclosure from the trainshed, to within
three feet of the ladies' waiting room. AT
that point the wrecked car turned over
and that prevented it from crashing into
the waiting room.
There were only a few passengers in
the waiting room when the accident oc-
Cured, but the commotion and the sight
everything before it caused them to flee
in alarm. Above all the din the shouts
and groans of the injured men were
Brakemen and attendant 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, and his face was cut
n bruised in several places.
DR.. Faison, who had been summoned
examined him, and found that his in
juries were 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 resuscitated found to
have sustained painful bruises about the
head and shoulders. The injured men
were taken to their homes in ambulances
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 he 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
bumpers at the end of track No. 7 were
entirely wrecked The first car of the
train, of which Brakeman Welsh was in
charge, was also wrecked.
Within an hour after the occurrence al
trace of the accident had been removed
by a wrecking engine and crew.
The Polls do not close until z P. N. Ioday
There is still time to cast a vote 70,
EDWARD HOOS.