The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-19
Run DOWN BY BELATED TRAIN.
ELEVEN WORKMEN KILLED ON
THE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD.

Smoke and Fog Overhung the
Track. binding the Engineer and
the Victims of the Disaster Five
of the Twenty 'WOrISmen Have
Narrow Escapes and the other
Four Are Injured, One Fatally.
All Victims Lived In Jersey City.
New York, Nov. 1s-In the gloom Of
smoke, storm and fog that darkened the
rails of the Pennsylvania Railroad early
this morning. between Jersey City and
Harrison belated suburban train dash
cd into a gang, killing eleven and injur-
ing four
Five others had remarkable escapes.
All the victims lived In Jersey City.
They were:
Dead.
FRANK BODOSKI, aged 49,
GIUSEPPI COLAsURDO, 81, single.
THOMAS DOHERTY, AZ, single.
THOMAS FLANAGAN, single.
JOSEPH FAGGEA, 4s, single.
MICHAEL LAWLEsS. "a. single.
NICOLA LUCCI. "a. single.
FRANK LUDOWsKI, q. single.
ANGELO PUGGO, 25, single.
FRANK SLUMINSKI 30
GIUsEPPI sTINzIANO, %. single.
Injured.
Lawrence Hoffman, went home.
Michael Miller went home.
Frank Swaskowski, st. Francis Hos
pital. viii 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
devoted to passenger and two to freight
traffic. At the north shops and tracks
of the Delaware, Lackawana and West
ern Railroad, Foreman Quirk saw that
the fog might mean danger, so he sent
ahead two men, Lawless and Doherty, to
give warning of approaching trains. Law
less was to go west and Doherty east and
cover all the tracks. They were 10 shout
warnings at the approach of trains.
The passenger tracks were kept busy
with incoming suburban trains and the
dense smoke and steam from these trains
helped 10 make the atmosphere more
dense.
Suddenly, about $3.50. there was a shout
from Lawless, who was the advance guard
OF the gang. Train on No. S!' he cried.
1t was an east-bound freight train that
came along slowly, leaving behind II a
heavy fall 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 east-bound passenger
track. The heavy smoke enveloped them.
Lawless, too, had jumped across TO track
No l, keeping all the time a sharp look
out.
Suddenly there was rumble of wheels
and the shrek of a whistle. The Mill
stone local, delayed by fog, was coming
along at the rate Of forty miles an hour.
Lawless was struck and thrown thirty feet
away, mangled and bleeding.
On went the train.
Engineer Van Nostrand had scarcely no
ticed the mans body flying through the
air when the engine struck Doherty, then
IL ploughed into the mass of covering men,
who stood hudded together on the track.
ut was an awful sight" said the engi-
neer later There was a mass Of legs
and arms, and heads flying through the
air. / was drenched with blood. ] knew
that something terrible had happened and
put on the air brakes as fast as possible" 3"
When the train came to a standstill the
passengers rushed out.
The track was drenched In blood. The
meadows and the track looked like bat
tleheld covered with bodies.
The shreks 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 quickly to Jersey
City.
Many of the bodies still writhing In NOR
tai agony were placed on the train and
borne to the city. Two of the wounded
men died on the way.
A relief train brought back the others.
WRECKS IN IOWA.