The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1898-11-25
TRAIN KILLS Z NORENEN
FEARFUL ACCIDENT THE RESULT
OF A DENSE zoe.
MEN WERE GROUND TO ATOMS
Twenty Were IN the Gang, aad the Engine
OF Death Came Upon Them
without Warming.

A special from New York says: In
the gloom Of smoke, steam and fog
that darkened the rails Of tho Penn
sylyaniarailroad early Friday morn
ing, between Jersey City and Harri-
son, a belated suburban train dashed
Into a gang Of workmen, killing twelve
and iniuring three, Five others had
remarkable escapes. All the victims
lived in Jersey City.
The accident happened about two
and a half miles west Of Jersey City,
just beyond the Hackensack bridge.
AZ that point there are four tracks,
two devoted to passenger and two TO
freight traffic. At the north are the
tracks Of the Delaware, Laekawanna
and Western. Foreman Quirck took
out a gang Of nineteen men at a. m.
10 repair the westbound freight track
at that place. Quirk saw that the fog
might mean danger, for he sent ahead
two men, Lawless and Doherty, to
give warning of approaching trains
Lawless was to 60 west and Doberty
east and cover all the tracks. They
were to shout warnings at the approach
Of trains. The passenger tracks were
kept busy with incoming suburban
trains aud the smoke and steam from
these trains helped to make the atmos-
phere more dense.
Suddenly, about $50, there was a
shout from Lawless, who was the adj
yence guard Of the gang. "Train on
No. 81" cried he.
1t was an eastbound freight train
that came along slowly, leaving behind
n heavy pail Of smoke The men who
were scattered along the track jumped
ont Of the way. Almost all Of them
| jumped over to track No. /, the east
bound 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
hear the approaching trains that fol-
lowed the freight.
Lawless, too, had jumped across to
track No, 1, keeping all the time q
sharp lookout. Suddenly there was a
rumble of wheels and the shrek of a
whistle. The Milestone local, delayed
by fog, was coming along at the rate
of forty miles an hour. Lawless was
struck and thrown thirty feet away,
mangled and bleeding.
On went the train. Engineer Van
Nostrand had scarcely noticed the
mans body flying through the ali
when the engine struck Doherty; then
it plunged into the mass Of covering
men who stood huddled together on
the track.
''It was an awful sight, said the
engineer later. "There was mass
of legs and arms and heads flying
through the air. was drenched with
blood. 1 knew that something terri
BILE had happened, and put on the all
brakes as hard as possible"
When the train came to a standstil
the passengers rushed out, The trael
was drenched in blood. The meadows
and the track looked like a battlefield
covered with bodies. The shrieks o
the dying drowned the cries of tn,
Mortified passengers. Women tainted
and men turned away in horror 0
the nineteen men nine were dead ant
six wounded.
Some one telephoned quickly t,
Jersey City. Many of the bodies still
writhing in mortal agony we're place,
on the train and borne to the city
Three Of the wounded died on tn
way. A relief train reached the cit.
later with the others.
WANTS A NEW DEMOCRACY.