The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-04-05

The Delaware and Hudson passenger
train which arrives here from Carbon
dale at 11.5S a. m. collided with Della
ware, Lackawanna and Western freight
train at the Diamond crossing, near
Showers Packing house, yesterday,
causing a terrible wreck and injuring
a number of the trainmen and pas
sengers.
The most seriously injured are:
RICHARD DOUGHERTY, of 31S Penn
avenue, this city, engineer of the Del
aware, Lackawanna and Western
train; left leg broken at the ankle
and above the knee, two ribs on the
left side fractured and head and face
scalded and hands burned. May not
recover.
JAMES DOOLEY, of Dunmore, conduc-
tor of the Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western train; compound fracture of
the left leg near the ankle and ear
badly lacerated.
OSCAR PRICE, OF Park Place, Della
ware, Lackawanna and Western
brakeman; deep cut on the head and
painful bruises.
WILLIAM ESHELMAN, of North sum
ner avenue, Delaware, Lackawanna
and Western fireman; face cut and
badly bruised.
The first three were taken to the
Moses Taylor hospital. Eshleman
walked home.
At midnight Engineer Dougherty
was alive but suffering intensely. His
most severe pain comes from the
scalds about the face and head and
burns on the palm of the hand, re-
sulting from his being thrown on a
pile of hot Goals which fell from The
fire box of his engine.
A number of the passengers were
slightly injured. Attorney John T..
Martin, of Olyphant, had his left leg
wrenched and sustained a cut on the
side of his neck. NJ. f. Neary, of Car
bondale, a travelling salesman, had one
of his hands cut and his right leg
wrenched Joseph Chapman, of Scran-
ton, lumber dealer: Lou Kramer, OF
Carbondale; +. K. Bockaway and j..
Riley, of Green Ridge, suffered slight
cuts or bruises.
D. tE Fl. CREW ESCAPED.
The Delaware and Hudson crew es-
capped without injury. The train was
in charge of Conductor Howard O.
Knapp. Alex. Copeland was engineer,
bagga gemaster; William Thomas and
Nelson COurtright, brakemen. All are
Of Carbondale. o. B. Levan, of this
| city, was the express messenger and
| Joseph Hammerly, of Willlcs-Barre
| postal clerk.
| That the accident was not attended
/ by q great loss of life is almost miracu
| lous. The two roads cross at right
| angles, on fills" which are about fif-
| teen feet higher than the natural sur
| face at that point. The Delaware.
! Lackawanna and Western train was
| coming out of the Diamond switch,
| drawn by engine No. 21, a bob-tailed
culm burner. Engineer Dougherty,
Fireman Eshleman and Conductor Doo-
! ley We're in the cab and Brakeman
! Price was on the tender. 1t was NOV
| ing at moderate rate of speed. The
engine was sQuarely on the crossing
when the passenger train coming down
the slight grade from Green Ridge
ploughed into and through it.
The Lackawanna engine was struck
about where the cab and tender join
The engine proper was thrown into the
angle formed by the two embankments
| and swung around so that it was head
| ing in the opposite direction from which
| 1t had been moving. The tender was
tossed into the angle of the embank-
ment on the opposite side, with its real
end facing the front end of the locomo-
| tive from which 1t had been severed
| The first car of the freight train, ar
| Ontario and Western empty cripple,
| followed the tender and when the trains
| came to a standstill was standing OF
the edge of the bank parallel to tbs
first car of the passenger train. The
rest of the freight train kept the track
TRAIN WENT RIGHT ON.
The Delaware and Hudson train
went the length of the engine and frs
| car past the crossing. These were
| SWerVed to the east in the direction
the Delaware, LackaWanna and West
ern train was moving, and jumping
the rails ploughed along between tn,
tracks, digging deep ridges in the culm
The first car, a combination baggage
mail and express, tOppled to the east
hut was prevented from falling com
pletely over by the pilot of the LaCka
wanna engine. which stood up at al
angle of 45 degrees, with it's rear en-,
sunk in the culm,
The smoker, which was the seconi
car on the train, toppled over until tn
edge of the roof was within few fee
of the ground. The passengers VIII
sustained injuries were all in this cal
In nearly every instance the injurie
resulted from broken glass. When the
found themselves falling from the tilt
ed side of the car to the under one the
put their hands out before them TO saV
themselves and many of them struc
against the windows breaking the glas
and inhicting cuts upon themselves
Escape was made by crawling over tn
seats and out of the rear door.
The third car did not leave the rails
There We're number of female pas
sengers in this car and some of ther
became almost hysterical when TN
crash occurred. One woman was onl
saved from dragging herself throug
a window by the quick action of neal
by male passengers. The injured pas
= sengcrs were all able to go on the
way without assistance.
The Lackawanna engine is a con
/ plete wreck. At the point where 1t sui
! tanned the srrinc broadslde ii is a cor
fused mass OF broken, hent and twtste