The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1899-01-14

gers Were Well Nigh Indescrib-
able.
New York, Jan. 11.-By q head-end
collision between two passenger trains
of the Lehigh Valley railroad at West
Dunelen, N. J., at l2:47 p. m. yester-
day thirteen persons were killed and
over twenty-five were injured.
West Dunelen is three miles from
Bound Brook and about thirty miles
from New York, city.+"At the spot
where the disaster occurred there is a
sharp curve in the track. and a steep
cutting, but the accident was due In
the first place to some terrible mistake
in train orders, and in the second place
to another accident that occurred at
Bound Brook earlier in the day. The
scenes that accompanied the collision,
the sutferings of the injured and the
panic that reigned among the four
hundred passengers were well nigh IN
describable. :,
A head-on collision on a double-track
railroad was made possible only by a
freight wreck which occurred at
Bound Brook earlier in the day, which
completely blocked the east-bound
track, and all through the morning the
Lehigh Valley trains bound for New
York switched from their WI track
to the west-bound track, going over
these rails from Bound Brook to New
market, a distance Of six, miles, and
changing at the latter place back to
their right side of the road Train No.
20 was SO
Heavy With Human Freight
that it had to be broken into three sec
lions. The first two sections arrived
at Bound Brook, switched over to. the
other track, switched back at New
market and reached New York in
| safety. The third section was almost
an hour late. Its " cars were
crowded with 400 e~xcursionists. The
train crossed over at Bound Brook and
proceeded, like the preceding sections,
on the west-bound track. Meanwhile
| there had been waiting at Newmarket
a local train that plies regularly be-
tween New York and Bound Brook.
| Owing to the traffic going on one track
it was almost an hour late. At last
the train dispatcher at South Plainf1eld
gave it permission to go. Just before
reaching West Dunelen Engineer Rick
| slowed his train down., because he
stops for passengers If there are any.
Martin Brennan, the signal man,
| threw I'D his arms and waved them as
80 - - - tlo~o xrvnro M ~ oconnoI~S IN
the local put on steam and q q
round the curve, going at about twen-
ty-lve miles an hour. In the cab OF the
excursion train there were James
Prendergast, the engineer, with b
fireman, Joseph Cheshire. They saw
the local as it was on the curve.
with shriekinE whistles
and brakes grinding sparks from the
wheels, the excursion train bore down
to what seemed" certain destruction.
The two engines, from which both
crews had jumped, came together with
an awful crash. The local engine, as
IL tripped in it's fast flight, turned 9
complete somersault Hnd. came down
beside its now. demolished obstruction.
But it's career was not ended before 1t
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sion train almost from one end to the
other Of the first car Of the train from
Shamokin., The gar, or what was left
Of it, rolled over, carrying with 1t the
Embedded tender, the fragments Of q
dozen bodies and the imprisoned woun-
ded who had been carried with. the
Jagged iron on its relentless course
through the coach. 1t was in the first.
car Of the excursion train that. all the
deaths and most q the casualties ocs
CURED. The. other cars. though their
o9rupa1ts were badly shaken, stayed
onYthe track and were In condition to
be.kauled OF. The baggage car in
front Of the local, train was rather bad
IL smashed up..sA's
FivA Of the Wostded PIE.
New York, Jan. 1O.-Thse Herald; says
that five Of those wounded in the Lee,
high collision at punelensddeH during
the, night; sIRgagsssasHsasssa total.of eighteen l.
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