Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-11-19
: ELEVEN KILLED.
Horrible Butchery Of Track
men by Express Train.
Standing on One Track TO Avoid Train
Passing on Another,
They Are Thrown Eight and Leii by The
DeathdeaIing Engine.

New York, Nov. 18Th the gloom of
smoke, steam and fog that darkened
the rails of the Pennsylvania railroad.
City and Harrison, a belatei suburban
tram dashed into gang of workmen,
killing II and injuring four. Five
others had remarkable escapes. All
OF the victims lived in Jersey City.
They We're:
Dead: Frank Bodski, Giuseppe Col
aurdo, Thomas Doherty. Thomas Elan
nasan. Joseph Faggsa. Michael Law
less, Nicola Lucc, Frank Ludowski
Angelo Puggi, Frank Stunisky and
Giusseppi Stinziano.
injured: Lawrence Hoffman, Mich
ael Miller, Frank Swazkowski and
John Wangdon.
Inc accident happened about 9 1-2
miles west of Jersey City, just beyond
the Havensack 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, Lackawana &
Western Railroad.
Foreman Quick took out a gang of 10
q.
the west bound freight tracks at that
place Quick saw that the fog might
mean danger, so he sent ahead two
men, Lawless and Doherty, to give
warning of approaching trains
Lawless was to go west and Doher-
ty east and cover all the tracks. They
We're to shout warnings at the approach
of trains. The passenger tracks We're
kept busy with incoming suburban
trains, and the dense smoke and steam
from these trains helped to make the
atmosphere more dense.
Suddenly, about $50, there was a
shout from Lawless, who was the ad-
vance guard of the gang Train on
No. 81 he cried. 1t was an eastbound
freight train that came along slowly,
leaving behind ii a heavy pail of
smoke
The men who were scattered along
the track jumped out of the way. Most
aid of them jumped over to the track
No. 2, the eastbound passenger track.
The heavy smoke enveloped them and
the men. many of them new hands on
The road shivered with fright, for they
could see and could scarcely hear the
approaching trains that followed the
freight.
Lawless, too, had jumped across to
track No 2, keepin all the time
sharp lookout. Suddenly there was
rumble of wheels. and the Shrek of a
whistle. The Milestone local, delayed
by fog, was coming along at the rate of
40 miles per hour. Lawless was struck
and thrown 80 feet away, mangled and
bleeding. On went the train Engi-
neer Van Nosthand had scarcely no.
ticed the mans body flying through the
air, when the engine struck
Doherty, and then it ploughed into the
mass of covering men, who stood hud-
died together on the track.
1T was an awful sight" said the en-
gineer. There was mass of legs and
arms and heads flying through the air.
/ was dreEched with blood. l knew
that something terrible had happened
and put the air brakes on as hard as
possible
When the train came to a standstill,
the passengers rushed out. The track
was drenched with blood. The
meadows and track looked like a bat
tlefield covered with bodies. The
s'hrieks of the dying drowned the cries
of the Mortified passengers. Women
tainted and men turned away in horror.
OF the 10 men, nine were dead and six
wounded.
Someone telephoned quickly to Jersey
City. Many of the bodies, still writhing
in mortal agony, were placed on the
train and borne to the city.
Two of the wounded died on the way.
4 relief train brought back the others