The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-11-19
RUN DOWN DURING FOCS.
Awful Accidents Occur on Railroads In New
Jersey and Iowa.
ELEVEN OUT OF TWENTY MEN WERE KILLED
t,rssenrcr Train Dnshcd inter Sec
ton aGng--Iicad-On Coiiisio"Atoi
lowed by Another wreck.

New York. November lS.-Whlle n gaug
of twenty track hands were at work on
the PENNSYLVANIA line on the Hackensa'K
near Jersey City today, they were run
down by a local passenger train. Eleven
of the wotkmen were kslled outright ana
six were seriously injured. Only three IS
caned unhurt. One of the men injured,
Frank Schwaslde, will probably aie' anu
Frank Wangan Is in a critical condition.
Tie dead insn all lived in Jersey CITY
The train which run down the woTkmen
was a LEGAL from Midtown to Jersey Guy
due at Jersey City at 500 a. m. The ios
delayed the train and it was running ut a
high rate OF speed The first the engiassr
knew that his train had run into the 'neh
was when the engine Jared. Inc INC
cries of the men fell on his ears ana as
coon as possible he brought his tram 10 a
stop Tie passengers got out and aldeu
the men in searching for the bodies OF the
victims This was not an easy task in
the thick fog.
There were narrowing scenes when the
bodies OF the dead reached the Pennsyi-
vania road yards in Jersey City, The rela-
tives of the dead were beside themselves
with grief. Half a dozen women We're
overcome and had TO be taken home by the
police.
The accident happened about two and
Il half miles west of Jersey City. just
beyond the Haukensack river bridge. AT
that point there are four tracks, two de-
voted to passenger and two 10 freight traf-
fic. AL the north are the tracks of the
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western rail-
road. Foreman Quirk took our a gang OF
"a tn DfN
westbound freight track at that place.
Quirk saw that the fog might mean danger
Tor he sent ahead two men. Dawpess and
Dohenty, TO give warning OF approaching
trains. LawleisS was to so west and DO
hertv east and cover all the tIacks. They
were to shout warnings at the approach
OF trains. The passenger tracks were kept
busy with incoming suburban trains. ana
the smoke and steam from these trains
helped to make the atmosphere more
densely. Suddenly shout from Lawless,
who was tina advance guard Of the gang,
Train on No g." he eIied. 1t was an
eastbound freight train that came along
leaving behind heavy nall of smoAe. The
men, who were scattered along the track,
jumped out of the way. Almost all of
thsm jumped over TO the track No. l. the
eastbound passenger track The heavy
smoke enyeloped them and the men, many
of them new hands on the road. shivered
with fright, for they could not see and
could scarcely hsar the approaching trains
tiat followed the freight. Lawless too,
had jumped across to track No. /, keeping
all the time a sharp lookout.
Suddenly there was n rumble OF wheels
ard the Shrek of a whistle. The Mills
town local, delayed by fog, was coming
along at a rate OF forty miles an hour. Law
l6ss was struck and thrown thirty feet
away, mangled and bleeding. On went the
train. Engineer Van Nostrard had scarcely
roticed the mans body flying through the
air when the engine struck Doherty; then
it plouehed into the mass of covering men |
who stood hudiled together on the track.
at was an awful sight" said the en-
gineer later. There was a mass of legs
and arms and heads flying through the air.
was drenched with blood. I knew that
terrible had happened and put
On the air brakes as hard as possible"
When the train came to standstill the
passergsrs rushed out. The track was |
irenched in blood. The track looked like |
battlefield covered with bodies. The |
;hrieks of the dying horr,ied the passen- !
GERS Women tainted ana men turned away |
y horror.
Of the nineteen men nine were dead and |
Tx wcunded. Some one telephoned quickly |
o Jersey City. Many of the bodies were |
Srlthing in mortal agony when placed on
he train ard borne to the city Two of
he wounded died on the way. A relief
rain brought back the Others
SchwasN whose back was broken and !
Who was also internally injured. died in
he hospital to which he was taken. This
Increases the death list to twelve.