Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-11-19
ELEVEN MOVED down.
fast Express Tossed Section Men to
Death In Jersey Meadows.
FOG HIDES 1T FROM THEM.
"hiIe Gang of Toilern Try to Excnu.
freight Train on One Track
They Are Slain on
the Other.

Jersey City, Nov. 19.-Eleyen section
men who were at work repairing track.
were run over and killed on the Hack
ensacK meadows, near Marion, by the
milestone local train on the PennsyI.
Vanla railroad. Several other men were
seriously injured. 1t was one of the
most serious accidents in the bisto,v q,
Inc ROAD. The men, without the slight
est warning of their fate and while in
the performance of duty, were moved
down by the locomotive. Nine of the
laborers We're killed outright and two
others died within an hour after the
accident.
The list Of dead as made out by the
Jersey City police is as follows: Michael
Lawless, Joseph Colleselo, Angelo Tuzo.
Frank Rodinski, Frank Lukooski,
Thomas Dougherty, Joseph Siminiski,
Joseph Broskie. Nicholas Roach, Joseph
Smith and an unknown man.
The injured, who were taken to st.
Francis hospital, are: Frank Swallow
SKI, back broken, will probably die;
John Wanell, slightly injured; Michael
Miller slightly injured.
The victims of the accident were part
Of the track repairing force of the rail-
road and were sent out to do some work
on the roadbed of track No. 4. There
were about 20 OF. them, and they We're
in charge of Section Foreman William
Quirk. There was considerable fog on
the meadows, and a west bound freight
train which was approaching let out a
cloud of escaping steam just as the
Milestone train, in charge of Engineer
John Van Nostrand, came up from the
opposite direction.
Because of the combined smoke and
steam the men could not see the Mill
stone train approaching, and when the
freight train let out the steam with a
loud, hiss ns sound the men in fright
jumped away from the track on which
they We're at work directly in front Of
the locomotive Of the local train.
| May Not Have Seen Them.
1t is doubtful if the engineer saw the
men. If he had, there was no time to
stop the train. The first that the train
| men knew that an accident had hap
pened was when an awful cry went up
as the train dashed through the crowd
of laborers.
Just then the obscuring steam partly
drifted away and the trainmen and pas
senger5 S W shocking sight. All along
the trac,, on either side for consider
able distance We're lying the dead and
manned bed es of the workmen. The
locomotive was Immediately stopped
and the ira nmen and men passengers
rushed back to the scene OF the acct
dent. Several of the men tainted when
they saw what had happened, and sew
eral women passengers who remained
in the cars swooned when informed OF
the details.
The ra'nnen we're soon Joined ny the
foreman. who himself narrowly escaped
being run over and hurried examina
ton of the bodies along the track wal
made. 1t was found that nine were
dead. and at least four seemed to be II
a diving condition. Such measures al
were possible to relieve the suffering!
of the injured were taken. Word wa!
immed ately sent to Jersey CITY, ana
loconot We. ght car and caboos'
were has lily made up and dispatched u
the scene. The Milestone tram after
wait OF a few moments came on mere
The de7d and wounded were brough
here in tie emergency train. Two mel
ldied on the trip.