Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-11-30
A COLLISION KILLS SIX.
Buffalo Express Crashed Into by an
Accommodation Train at Pat.
erson, N. j.
Six Persons Killed and Many Others
Severely Hurt-The Trains
Demolished.
Wreck Presents a Terrible Scene of
Confusion Dead and Injured
Badly Mangled.

New York, Nov. 30.-The east bound
Buffalo express on the Delaware, Lack
awanna & Western railroad, while
standing outside the station at the
Van Wrinkle street crossing, Paterson
n. j., last night was run into by an ac-
commodation train bound from Phil
ippsburg, n. j., to Jersey City. Al
least six people We're killed and there
are now twenty injured at the hospita
at Paterson. Some will probably die
some not seriously injured and are able
to go to their destination. The dead 81
far as at present known are:
Mrs. Mary Roe, Ithaca. n. Y.
Her two daughters.
Walter Welbrock, Cornell College
Ithaca.
Miller Craig. New York.
Unknown woman.
The injured include:
Miss Agnes Macdonald, oXf~d' N.
y, both legs broken.
Samuel Mendhellson, Vsihesparre,
legs broken.
Mamie Doyle, Bingham on, arm brok-
en- and crushed.
Lizzie Kane. Bingh -nton. feet crush
ed
David Roe. Itrca, husband of the
woman Killed, ]. crushed.
oscar Aron,,n, Scranton, Pa. legs
i John wste, Ithaca, leg broken, badly
Iou,, Daron, Dover, n. j.. face and
49,, oadly cut.
uis Freedman. Scranton, Pa, legs
oished and head bruised.
Charles Remsen, Brooklyn, Internal
ly.
William c. ossell, Chicago, leg.
crushed.
Daniel Maxwell, Hackettstown, y. j.,
seriously bruised and cut.
Daniel Mccormack, Detroit, Mich,
slightly. able to proceed to New York.
The Buffalo express was in charge OF
Conductor Capwell. The Phillipsburg
train was in yilarge of Conductor
Burke w;,n Engineer Reardon. The
buffalo express was waiting for a To-
cal train to move that had been delayed
at the station. The Phillipsburg ac-
commodation was following the express
but short distance behind. The two
rear cars of the express We're broken to
pieces and most Of the passengers on
them We're either killed or injured The
engine of the Phillipsburg train was
completely wrecked. the engineer and
the fireman escaping by jumping.
Apparently the engineer of the Phil
lipsburg accommodation did not notice
the express had drawn 300 feet west of
the depot The express was forty-five
minutes late, the accommodation fol-
lowing closely. When Engineer Rear
don saw the lights ahead the distance
was too short to avoid collision. The
train was going at full speed. The en-
CINE plunged into the rear car of the
express. q Pullman day coach, and
ploughed through the heavy tirnbers all
most its entire limit The car was lift
ed from the track and pushed to the
next 10 the last car, also a Pullman.
off its end and almost conf
pletely telescoping it. The engine Of
the Phillipsburg train was torn TO piec
Is.
Within few moments the police re-
serves, frenaen and great crowds Of peo-
pie came to rescue those in the terrible
tangle of wood and iron.
The rescuers took the men and women
out of the wreckage rapidly and they
We're hurried away TO the hospitals. In
many cases it was necessary to chop
away the wreckage about the injured
in order to get them out.