The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-11-19
DEATH IN THE FOG.
Train Strikes a Gang of Work
men Near Jersey City.
TWELVE OF TWENTY DEAD
Fatal Collision in Iowa Under
Similar Circumstances.

Similar circumstances.
New York, Nov. 1s.-While a gang OF
twenty track hands were az work upon
the Pennsylvania railways line over the
! Hackensack, near Jersey CITY, today.
| they were run down by a local pa ssenger
! train. Eleven OF the workmen were kill
! ed outright and six were seriously in
| jured. The men Killed were:
FRANK BODOsKI
! GIUSEPPE COLASURDO.
| THOMAS DOHERTY.
| THOMAS FLANAGAN.
| JOSEPH FAGGEA
MICHAEL LAWLESS
| NICOLA LUCC.
FRANK LUDOWSKI
ANGELA PUGGO.
FRANK SLUMSKY.
CUIsEPPI STLNZIANo
Injured:
Lawrence Hoffman
Michael Miller
Frank Swanzowski, Will de
John Wangdon-
The train which ran down the worHrnen
was local from Midtown to Jersey City,
due in Jersey City at $50 a. m. The fog
delayed the train and Engineer John
Van Ostrand was endeavoring to make
up time. His train was running Sat 4
high rate of speed, he believing there
was nothing TO obstruct a quick run to
Jersey City. The first he knew that his
train had run into the men was when
the engine Jared. Then the cries Of the
men were heard and as soon as possible
he brought his train to stop. He made
passengers get out and aid the trainmen
in searching for the bodies of the victims
This was not an easy task in the thick
fog. A train had passed on the west
bound track a few minutes before the
east-bound train ran the men uown. The
smoke from the engine of the west-bound
train went over on thu east-bouni track
and the noise of the T~c--oound train
prevented the workmen on the cas-; bound
track from hearing the approach of the
east bound train. They were lot aware
that the train was near them until they
had been scattered right and left. There
were twenty men in the gang. They were
in charge of Foreman William Cork of
Jersey City.
AS soon as the news OF the accident
reached Jersey City Pennsylvania rail
road officials went 10 the meadows and
superintended the removal OF the dead
and injured. When the engine which
s. 1ck the lahor--s reached the Pennsyl-
vania depot in Jersey City the cowcatch-
er was red with blood from the men
killed. A boy. after the engine had stop
ped. picked up a hand from the cow
catcher. 1t had been severed fron one of
the victims and had been ca:-ied from
the meadows 10 thu depot on the cow
ca;cter. The Nille1 all resided in GER
sey City.
Schwaski, whose back was broken and
who was also internally injured, died in
the hospital to which he was taken. This
increased the death list to twelve
Frank Wanagan IS in a critical condi-
ton.
Dougherty was supposed to be the man
on the lookout for approaching trains
He was a considerable distance up the
track from the gang of laborers and he
evidently did not see the tran, for he
gave no warning. His body was hurled
ninety feet through the air.
The unknown man who was killed had
been put to work only this morning.
William Quirk, the foreman Of tho gang
of workmen. made this statement:
The smoke and fog are II blame. Ny
men were in a cloud of SMOKE when the
calamity came upon us. L hal Michael
I,awless stationed about fifty yards ahead
of the gang to give US warning. Lawless
was struck first and cut TO pieces. Ny
men were moved down like grass"
Engineer Van Ostrand said: 81 fslt sure
that the track was clear and had no idea
that in that cloud of smoke and fog Just
ahead of me were twenty laborers who
did not know of my on-coming. 1 got
within 100 yards when my locomotive
struck the outpost, Michael Lawless.
nut on the brakes at once, but in an
other second I was upon the main gang
and nv locomotive cut them down tefore
l could stop the train"
There were narrowing scenes when the
bodies reached the Pennsylvania railroad
yards in Jersey City. The relatives Of
The dead were beside themselves with
grief. Half a dozen women were over
come and had to be taken nome oy ne
police.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT OF THE WRECK
New York, Nov. 1S.-In the gloom OF
smoke. storm ard fog that dsrkened the
rails of the Pennsylvania railroad early
this morning. between Jersey City end
Harrison. a belated suburb train dashed
into a gang Of workmen. killing eleven
and inuring four. Five others had re-
Enarksble escapes.
AL the victims lived in Jersey City.
The accident happened about two and
half miles west OF Jersey City. just be-
vond the Hackensack river bridge. A.
that point there are four tracks. TWO
devoted 20 passenger ana Two 70 freight
traffic. At the north are the shops and
tracks OF the Delaware, Lackawenna and
western railroad. Foreman Quick took
out a gang OF Is men a. a n 20 repair