Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1899-01-13

1ision. the sufferings Of the injured and
the panic that reigned among the 400
passengers were well nigh indescribable.
How tho Wreck Occurred.
A headend collision on double track
tailroad was made possible by a wreck
earlier in the morning which completely
blocked the eastbound track, compelling
all trains for New York to switch to the
westbound track. Train No. =, which
left Shamokin, Pa, at q. M, was so
heavy with human freight that it had
TO be broken into three sections. The
first two sections arrived ct Bound
Brook, switched over to the other
track and reached New York in safety.
The third section Of this train was al
most an hour late. Its seven cars were
crowded with 400 excursionists, most of
them from Mount Carmel, Shamokin,
Mahoney City, Hazelton, Ashland and
Pottsville, Pa. Their train crossed over
at Bound Brook and proceeded on the
westbound track. Meanwhile there
had been waiting at Newmarket local
train that plies regularly between New
York and Bound Brook. Owing to the
traffic going on one track it was almost
an hour late. At last the train dis
patcher at South Plainfeld gave it per-
mission to 60 and it was rounding the
curve at West Dunelen, going at about
rs miles an hour, when the excursion
train was sighted. With
Ehrieking Whistles and Grinding Braksa
the excursion train bore down to what
seemed certain destruction. The pas
sengers, alarmed at the continued
whistling, opened tho windows; moth
ers snatched their children in their
arms; men started from their seats, but
before they had time to find out what
was the matter they were hurled head
long, knocked senseless and many killed
outright. The two engines, from which
both crews had jumped, came together
with an awful crash. The local engine
damned the tender Of the excursion
train almost from one end to the other
left of it, rolled over, carrying with il
the imbedded tender, the fragments OF
q dozen bodies and the imprisoned
wounded who had been carried with il
on its relentless course through the
coach. It was in the first car of the ex'
cursion train that all the deaths and
most of the casualties occurred. The
other cars, though their occupants were
badly shaken, stayed on the track and
were in condition to be hauled off.
Rescuiug tho Dead and Injured.
From Dunelen, Bound Brook and
other places doctors were quickly sum-
moned. They came over the Central
railroad of New Jersey, whose tracks
run parallel with the Lehigh at this
point. Wrecking trains were quickly
on hand. As tho dead were taken from
the demolished car they were put in the
rear cars Of the excursion train and
taken to Bound Brook, where coroner'e
inquest was held later. The injured
were put in the cars Of the local train
Fwenty-one were taken to Plainield
hospital, while the less seriously injured
went on to Jersey City and New York
! The blame for the accident has moi
been definitely located, but from every
iaing that could be learned, the COLI
zion was plainly due to mistake in
orders and to no negligence OF the train
crews. In this connection w. O.
sprigg, the superintendent OF the Am
|boy and Easton division of the Lehigh