The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-03
SCRANT0NIANS In
D., L. & W. WRECK
Mr.. and Mrs. n. A. ConnelI and Two
Children Injured.
ELEVEN FROM THIS CITY, IN ALL
Mrs. Connell Sustained Badly
Lacerated Arm, Her Five-Year-
Old Daughter Has an Eye Seriously
Injured and Her Nine Year, Old
Daughter Has Her Collar Bone
Broken.-Mr. Connell and Miss
Annie Rose Sustain slighter
wouuds


Eleven residents Of this city were in
the wreck on the Delaware, Lacka-
wanna and Western road near Syra-
cuse yesterday and six of them were
more or less seriously injured.
II. A. Connell, of the jewelry firm of
Mercereau & Connell, with his family,
had an experience not soon to be for
gotten, and which has entailed great
suffering, If not permanent injury.
They were returning from a weeks
visit with Mrs. Connell's sister, Mrs.
Rollo Jermyn, at Oswego, and were
accompanied by Mrs. Connelrs brother,
George Jay.
They were all seated close to each
other in the drawing-room car when 1t
left the track and plunged into the
station and over upon It's side. The
station was a combination building, in
Guiding an ice house, which was nearly
demolished, and added misery to the
situation by sending a vast quantity of
sawdust over the occupants of the
wrecked car and binding them for a
short time. AS soon as Mr.. Jay re-
covered his equilibrium he began to
look about for his relatives and was
Mortified to discover a victim whom he
supposed to be his sister with the up
per portion of her body out of the VIM
dow nearest the earth. He tried to
draw her within the car, but at the
sckening sight of the body, from which
an arm was torn. he desisted.
RESCUE OF MRS. CONNELL
Just then he saw Mrs Connell wedged
,Nia of ,
across her chest. Mr. Connell having
been released from a painful position
beneath timbers, and found to have
sustained nothing more serious than
cuts about the head, they began the
laborious work of dragging Mrs. Con-
nell from the debris. She was uncon-
scious from a blow on the head, the
side of her face was gashed and many
bruises were sustained, but the chief
injury was to her left hand and arm,
the flesh of which from above the wrist
was completely scraped off, disclosing
the bones. Little Louise, the five-year-
old daughter, was seriously cut about
the head, deep cash being laid open
over one eye and scarcely an inch of
skin being left free from injury upon
her face. Helen, aged nine, complained
at the time of pain in her arm and
shoulder. but the physicians who
dressed the wounds of the victims said
that she was unhurt. DR.. Connell upon
examination last evening discovered
her collar-bone to be broken, and she
was then enabled to convince people
that she had suffered much during the
long hours of the homeward journey.
Mr. Connell's son, Harold, was the only
member of the party who escaped with
out scratch. He was surprised after
ward to find that his pockets and cloth
ing in general We're crammed full of
| saWdust, as a result of the expedition
into the ice house.
Mr.. Jay said last evening that the
horror of the situation can scarcely be
| described. The car was turned over
and the trucks protruded through the
| floor. a great hole in the roof fur.
nished means of exit to the children
who one by one We're lifted out of the
| aperture. He assisted in the work OF
eXtricating Mrs. McQuillan, whose head
was crushed fiat where it had beer
| dragged between the car and the
| ground, while an arm was torn com.
pletely away. Two little children tray.
cling alone to New York added pathos
to the situation, as both were seriously
hurt. The little girl who was taken tC
the Cortland hospital will die. The
| crushed and manned passengers will
not soon forget the brother. When tn,
car was still ploughing along on the
earth the little fellow grasped the hant
of the person nearest him and prayed
aloud amid the groans and shrieks o.
the victims.
| ONE OF THE INCIDENTS.
There is always a comedy side t.
even the greatest tragedy When thu
train left the track the station agen
was sitting quietly in his office with hi.
knees crossed and his head lifted as h,
calmly watched the oncoming express
A moment later the station had changed
ends and the agent was sitting out OF
the grass, feet still crossed, eyes still
lifted to the point where they had beer
previously directed. He was unhurt
but considerably dazed.
Mr. Jay said that he was informed b,
the superintendent of the trackmer
that the section gang had been at worl
that morning on the road, but it wa
customary to spike all but two ties
but on this occasion three had bee,
left and the heavy Vestibule car hat
forced the rails apart, causing the ac
cident, The train was late and wa
running at a high rate of speed.
Last night Mrs. Connell had not re
gained consciousness after the admin
istration of the anaesthetics necessar,
for the dressing of her terribly lacer
ated hand. 1t is as yet uncertain
whether she will be permanently dis
abled. Mr.. Connell was suffering con
siderably from the cuts on the back o
his head, while nothing serious was ap
pretended from the injuries received b,
the children.
Among the other Scrantonians in tn
wreck were the Misses Annie an,
Grace Rose. Miss Anna suffered
sprain, but otherwise they were un
hurt. Mr.. George Phillips, the jeweler
and his daughter, also Miss Shear
daughter of f. w. Shear, were amonj
the fortunate ones who escaped with