Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-11-19
Two Others Soon Expire, and -Four Are
Seriously Injured.
"AwFuL SIGHT SAYS ENGINEER
"a Mass of Legs and Arms and Heads
Flying Through the Air"-Engine
and Track Drcnrhed With Blood
Details of the Disaster.
Details of the Disaster.

NEW YORK, November 1s.-In the
gloom of smoke, storm. and fog that dark
ened the rails of the Pennsylvania
railroad early this morning between Jer-
sey City and Harrison, belated subur-
ban train dashed into gang of workmen.
killing eleven and injuring four. Five
others had remarkable escapes. All the
are as follows:
Dead-Frank Bodosky, aged As; Giuseppi
Colasurdo, 81. single; Thomas Doherty,
AZ, single; Thomas Flanagan, single;
Joseph Faggea, As. single; Michael Law
less. 81, single; Nickla Lucy, "a. single;
20, single; Frank Sluminsky 30; Giuseppi
Stinziano, %, single.
Injured-Lawrence Hoffman, went home
Michael Miller. went home; Frank Swaz-
kowski. ST. Francis Hospital. will die;
John Wangdon, ST. Francis Hospital
The accident happened about two and
a half miles west of Jersey City, just be-
yond the Hackensack river bridge. At
that point there are four tracks, two de-
voted to passenger and two TO freight
traffic. AT the north are the shops and
tracks of the Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western railroad.
THE DANGER ANTICIPATED.
Foreman Quirk saw that the fog might
mean danger, so he sent ahead two men,
Lawless and Doherty, to give warning
1,
go west and Doherty east, and cover all
the tracks. They were to shout warnings
at the approach of trains. The passenger
tracks were kept busy with incoming su-
burtan trains, and the dense smoke and
SCOT from these trains helped to make
the atmosphere more dense.
Suddenly, about $780, there was a shout
from Lawless. who was the advance
guard of the gang. Train on No. g."
he cried. 1t was a west-bound freight
train that came along slowly. leaving
behind it a heavy pail of smoke. The
men who were scattered along the track
jumped out of the way. Almost all Of
them jumped over TO track No. |, the
bound passenger track. The heavy
smoke enveloped them.
THE DEATH-DEALING TRAIN.
Lawless, too, had jumped across to
Track No. /, keeping all the time sharp
lookout. Suddenly, there was rumble OF
wheels and the shrek OF a whistle. The
Milestone local, delayed by the fog, was
coming along at the rate of forty miles
an hour Lawless was struck and thrown
thirty feet away wounded and bleeding.
ON went the train. Engineer Van Nos
trand had scarcely noticed the mans
body flying through the air when the en-
gine struck Doherty. Then it ploughed
into the mass of covering men, who
stood huddled together on the track.
.It was an awful sight" said the en-
gineer later. There was mass OF legs
and arms and heads flying through the
air. 1 was drenched with blood. L knew
that something terrible had happened
and put on the air-brakes as fast as pos
sible."
PASSENGERS HORRIFIED.
When the train came to a standstill. the
nasseneers rushed out. The track was
drenched I'm blood. The meadows and
the track looked like a battlefield cover
ed with bodies. The shrieks of the dying
men drowned the cries of the Mortified
passengers. Women tainted and men
turned away in horror
OF the nineteen men, nine were dead
and six wounded. Some one telephoned
ouicklv TO Jersey City. Many Of the
bodies still writhing in mortal agony,
were placed on the train and borne 10 the
CITY. Two of the wounded men died on
the way. A relief train brought back
the others.