Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-11-19
TWELVE EORKMEN KILLED BY A
NEW JERSEY TRAIN.
FOG CAUSED THE DISASTER
VICTIMS COULD NOT SEE THE AP-
PREACHING TRAIN.
HID stepped From One Track TO Let
q Train Pass. Only 10 He Hun
Down by Another Coming
at Forty Miles an
Hour.

NEW YORK, Nov. R.-Tn the gloom Of
smoke. storm and fog that darkened the
rails OF the Pennsylvania railroad early
this morning. between Jersey CITY and
Harrison. a beIatod suburban train dashed
inio gang of workmen. killing eleven ana
injuring four. one OF whom has since died.
Five others had remarkable escapes. All
the victims lived in Jersey City.
The dead are: Frank Podoski, aged IS;
Guiseppi Colasurdo. aged 81. single: Tnom-
as Doherty. aged A.. single; Thomas. Flan-
nagan. single; Joseph Fageea. 4, single;
Michael Lawiess. "a, single; Nicola Bueci,
81. single; Frank Ludowski, q. single; An
gelo Buggo. %. single; Frank SIumisky. 30;
Guiseppi Stinziano. %. single; Frank
Swanskowski.
The injured are: Michael Miller, went
home; John WanEdon, ST. Francis hos
pital.
The accident happened about two and
half miles west OF Jersey City. just he
yond the Hackensack river bridge. At that
point there four tracks. Two devoted 10
passenger and two 10 freight traffic. Al
the north are the shops and tracks of the
Delaware. Lackawanna & Western rail-
road. Foreman Quirk took out a gang of
nineteen men at a. m. TO repair track
No. i-the westbound freight track-at that
place. Quirk saw that the fog might mean
danger, 20 he sent ahead two men Law
less and Dohcrty, 10 give warning of APP
preaching trains. Lawlass was TO 90 west
and Dohorty east and cover all the tracks
They were 10 shout warnings at the ap-
rroach Of trains. The passenger tracks
were kept busy with incoming suburban
trains and the smoke and steam from these
trains helped 10 make the atmosphere more
dense.
Suddenly. about $50 there was a shout
from l-awless who was the advance guard
OF the gang.
Train on No. O." he cried. II was an
eastbound freight train that came along
slowly. leaving behind It heavy pail OF
smoke. The men who were scattered along
the track. jumped uut of The way Almost
all of them jumped over 10 track No J.
The eastbound passenger track. The heavy
smoke cnvcloped them. and the men. many
Of them new hands on the road. shiyered
with fright. for they could not see and
could scarcely hear the approaching trains
that followed the freight.
bawiess too. had jumped across TO track
No. ]. keeping all the time Il sharp look
out. Suddenly there was a rumble of
wheels and The shrek of = 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. manglcd and bleeding. ON went the
train. Engineer Van NoStrand had scarcely
noticed the mans body flying through the
air when the engine struck Dohcrty: then
il plouGhcd into The mass of covering men
who stood huddled together on the track.
1t WAS n, awful sight" said the en-
Rinocr. later. There was n mass of legs
and arm ard heads flying through the
nir. ] was drcnrhed with blood. | know that
something terrible had happened and put
on the airbrAkes rs hard as possible