New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-11-19
TWELVE KILLED BY A TRAIN
LABORERs RUN DOWN ON THE HACKEN-
SACK MEADOWS.

/ THEr WE'RE STANDING IN THE FOG WAITING FOR
FREIGHT TO PASS WHEN AN EN-
PRESS DASHED INTO THEM.
! A gang Of twenty men, repairing tracks Of the
/ PENNSYLVANIA Railroad on the Hackensack mead
| ows near Jersey City were run down by tram
! yesterday morning Nine were instantly Killed
! three were MORALLY injured and died few hours
/ later and four were slightly hurt.
The following is the list OF the killed:
BRODsKI Joseph. NJ No. ISL Bay st. Jersey City
COLiEssELLo. Joseph home not known
| DOuGHERTY. Thomas. q No 2io Second ST. jersey
KORMlsKI Joseph OF No. . Lewis St. Jersey CITY.
LAwLEsS Micha. married Of No so5 Seventh st. Jer-
I CITY.
LrCIO Nicoo Of No 800 Frs, ST. Jersey City.
LvKOSKI Frank. Of No 10 Gerrnania ave. Jersey city
PUZO Angelo. OF No. 2o4 Second st. Jersey city
RADINsKI. Frank. Of No. A. Canal ST. Jersey City.
SIMINSKI Joseph Of No. 400 Second ST. Jersey city
swANzENSKI. Frank. Of No. l5e steuben- ST. Jersey
An unknown man who went to yesterday and was
known as Frank
The list Of injured is as follows:
HOFFMAN Lawrence twenty eight y.aT. old Of "" 500
MILLER. Michel residence learned: acers''on Of
,he scalp; wound dressed at St Francis Hospital
wANNELI. John OF Canal-st Jersey City; head and
arms bruised. went home.
wANYA John, tweny-e,ght years old. Of Canal ST.. Jer
sey City. hurt ehou; the head ard hands: went home
Hoffman was saved by being struck by the flying
body Of one of his less fortunate fellow -workmen
He hurled from the track ana was bruised
about the body and received abrasions of the face
and hands. He able to go home.
The accident is attributed to the fog and the
steam and smoke Of passing engine. which EN-
veloped the men. who moved down by the
engine OF the Milestone local train in charge Of
John Van Nostrand. experienced eneineer who
Gid not the men. lie says. until the engine was
within a few feet of them. 1t then too late
the machinery and save them. The
train due at the Jersey City station at $50
o'clock II had been delayed by the fog. and was
several minutes behind time The engineers, wher
late. usually speed the long stretch Of
meadows between Harrison and Jersey City. and
Van Nostrand followed this custom. and sent his
engine along az express train timA. hopirg 10 make
up the lost minutes and reach the station in time
TO enable the passengers to catch the regular train
boat
The laborers were in charge Of William Ont k. a
section foreman who says ne adhered to the rule
which requires sentino 10 be stationed forty
vards 70 the east and west OF where the track re-
ers working on the westbound track when an
outgoing fast freight APPROACHED. and the signal
avoid the freight train stepped to ihe eastbound
track in the path Of the passenger train which
was deadened by the noise Of the passing freight;
The steam Of the engine Of the freight train left
density Of the fog. The luckics, men were stand
Ing in and each other when the Mill
stone train ia he'd along
Michael Lawless. who the sentinel sent out
Ia give the alarm first struck. and second
later the others were run down. Van Nostrand
quickly applied the air brakes. stopped and then
slowly backed his train.
The crew Of the train and many passengers
FASTENED to ascertain the extent Of the accident and
give ala and relief. The mutilated bodies of the
victims strewn along the side Of the tracks
for distance Of fifty Yards. An examination
showed that nine were dead The four most
seriously hurt were tenderly carried the baggage
car and beds were improvised and the train
started on tho way two of the men died. and
Frank Swanzenski. whose back broken. died
an hour later in St Francis Hospital
The officers the Jersey city station were
promptly informed by telegraph from the meadows
block signal station and physicians were sum
mOned.
Var Nos.rand the engineer. wept when he made
his brief statement. u am heart broken he said
This is terrible blow. had no idea that the
men there. Ny train was making fast time
for the Jersey city station when ran into them
did not them. They completely hidden
from my view by the fog and the smoke Of the
other passing train"
The railway company. II Is said. will defray the
expenses Of the burial Of the twelve victims.