The San Francisco call., 1898-12-22
EXPRESS TRAINS
 COLLIDE IN A FOG Disaster on the Penn sylVania Line. TWO MEN LOSE THEIR LIVES SCORES OF PASSENGERS MORE OR LESS INJURED. Two Women Pinned Down by Debris for Hours Until the Ar
 rival of the Wreck
 ing Crew.
SCORES OF PASSENGERS MORE
 OR LESS INJURED.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

NEW YORK, Dec. 21-A rear-end collision occurred on the Pennsylvania Railroad three miles from Railway, which resulted in the loss of two lives and serious but not fatal injury to four more persons. The killed:
 WILLIAM C. DE WOLF, a clerk in the accountants office of the Ohio River Railroad at Parkersburg, w. Va.
 E. KNIGHT (colored) of Jersey City, porter of the sleeping car.
 The injured: Mrs Julia Levy of Brooklyn, suffering from shock and se- Verely but not fatally hurt; B. F. Mead of Brooklyn, leg broken; Frank Irish, travelling passenger agent of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, Chicago, collar bone broken; J. F. Welsh, Jersey City, Pullman car con- ductor, both legs broken; J. Wander gIlft, engineer of the second train, of Philadelphia, slightly hurt; C. Zanen, fireman of the same train, of Princeton, slightly hurt.
 About twenty persons were cut and bruised, and nearly all the occupants If both trains in collision were thrown from their berthS.
 The trains in collision were No. 104, known as the Chicago and New York express, and No. 6, known as the East ern express. When three miles from Railway, N. J., shortly before : o'clock, the Chicago and New York express was stopped, according to it's engineer, by signal. A rather thick fog prevailed. The Eastern express, coming up from behind at about twenty miles an hour, dashed into No 104, sending a baggage car off the track and crushing through into the Pullman sleeper BarthOldi, which contained fifteen passengers, the Pullman conductor and the colOred DOT ter. The engine of No. did not come to a stop until half of the sleeping car was cut into kindling wood. The col ored porter and w. O. de Wolf a pas senger, were caught on the top of the boiler, their bodies twisted by the de- bris and badly mangled.
 The engine of No. was badly dam aged and the tender was thrown from the track. Beyond the smashing of a Southern express car and car platforms train No. sustained no other damage and none of its passengers were seri- ously hurt. Previous to the collision John Van Derver, the engineer of train No. 6, and his fireman jumped off. Both received scalp wounds.
 Train No. 104 was composed chiefly of mail and express cars. The Bar thOldi was the only passenger car it carried. The rear baggage car was empty and proved but a slight i'm pediment to the engine of No. 6. which forced it's way through. The passen- gers in the Bartholdi were thrown for ward, amid broken woodwork, escap- ing steam and flying glass The car toppled over on it's side and lay slant ing on the bank. The unhurt passen- gers scrambled through the windows. For two hours two women and two men lay pinned down by debris. suf- fering from their wounds It was inn possible to get them out until after the arrival of the wrecking train, which came about S:3O o'clock The passen- gers of both trains were brought to New York on other trains
 The engineer of No. 6 planes the thick fog for the accident.