The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-11-30
TERRIBLE RAILROAD WRECK
THE BUFFALO EXPRESS RUN INTO
AT PATERSON, N. j.

Ing Train Crashes Into It-At Leas
Six Persons Killed Twenty Injured
Taken to the HospitaI-Some Sat
Scenes The Work of Rescue.
New York. Nov. 29.-The Buffalo ex
press eastbound, while waiting outside
the depot on the Delaware, Lackawan
ma and Western railroad at the Var
Wickle crossing at Paterson, N. j., al
7:45 tonight was run into by swift
ly moving accommodation train bound
from Philllpsburg, N. j., to Jersey City
At least six persons were killed and
there are now twenty injured at the
hospital in Paterson, of whom some
will probably die while some of those
not seriously injured, were able to &C
to their destination. The dead and the
injured follow:
Mrs. Mary Roe, wife of David Roe
of Ithaca, N. Y. and two daughters;
Walter Welbrock of Cornell university
Ithaca, N. Y; Miller Craig of New York
city; unknown woman All killed.
The injured include Miss Agnes Nc
Donald of Oxford, N. Y, both legs
DIUhGIt kodlIuCl MCllNiSlloOl! VI w ilhCo7
barre, Pa, legs broken Miss Minnie
Doyle of Binghamton, N. Y, arm brok-
en- and body crushed; Miss Lizzie Kane
OF Binghamton, feet crushed; David
Roe of Ithaca, husband OF the woman
killed, ght leg crushed; Oscar Aaron
son of Scranton, Pa, legs crushed
Thomas A. White of Itahaca, N. Y, in
jured about head; John White, son of
T. A. White leg broken, badly cut by
glass; Louis Baron of Dover, N. j.,
face and body badly cut; J. r. Howe,
jr., cut and bruised about head and
body; Sterling S. Smith of Brooklyn,
head injured; Max Muscovitch of New
York, head cut; Louis Freedman OF
Scranton, Pa, legs crushed and head
bruised; W. H. Furbish of New York,
head injured, cut by glass; Charles
Remsen of Brooklyn, thought to be in
ternally injured; Isaac Gordon of New
York, head injured; William o. Ossell
Of Chicago, leg crushed; Ray Maxwell
of Hackettstown, N. j.. seriously bruis-
ed and cut: - Mccormick OF Michi
gan, slightly injured; A. B.. Cordlay of
New York, slightly injured.
The Buffalo express was No. 6, in
charge of Conductor Capwell The
Phillipsburg train was No. &c., in charge
of Conductor Burke, with Engineer
Reardon. The Buffalo express was
waiting for a local train to move that
had been delayed at the depot and the
Phillipsburg accommodation was fol-
lowing the express but short distance
behind. The two rear cars of the eX-
press were broken to pieces, most Of
the passengers on them being either
killed or injured. The engine of the
Phillipsburg train was completely
wrecked, the engineer and firemen es-
Gaping by jumping. The local train
was No. Z, and it was partly due to
its delay that the accident occurred
Apparently the engineer of the Phillips
burg accommodation did not notice
that the express drew UP some 300 feet
west of the depot.
The express was forty-five minutes
late and the accommodation was fol-
lowing very closely. When Engineer
Reardon saw the lights ahead too short
q distance separated the trains to avoid
q collision. His train was going at full
speed The engine plunged into the
rear car Of the express, Pullman day
coach, and ploughed through the heavy
timbers almost it's entire length. The
car was lifted from the track and push
ed to the next to the last car, also a
Pullman, carrying off it's end and al
most completely telescoping it. The
engine of the Phillipsburg train was
torn to pieces The wreckage caught
fire but this was soon extinguished and
in this way those who were pinned
down escaped being burned to death.
Within a few moments police re-
serves, firemen and great crowds of
people came to the rescue of those in
the terrible tangle of wood and iron.
From the wreck came groans and
ehrieks and prayers for death or deliv
erance 1t was intensely dark at the
scene and as the broken wood was
taken out of the wreck it was thrown
to the sides of the tracks. Then it was
set on fire to furnish light for the res
cuers. The firemen, police, train hands
and several score of citizens turned in
to rip the fearful pile to pieces. 1t was
desirable to draw the engine out, but
this could not be done because it would
result in death to some of those i'm
prisoned in the debris.
Before the wreckage was attacked |
there were seen the body of man
windows on one side and the body Of |
a woman hanging from a window on the
other side Both had been in rear seats
in the rear car and when the engine hit |
the car and tore through it their man |
eled bodies were crushed through the
windows and hung between the sides of |
the car and the engine. The rescuers
took men and women out of the wreck
age in rapid succession and they were !
away to the hospitals. In many
cases it was necessary to chop away
the wreckage about the injured in order
TO get them out One man was found
standing upon his head in corner held
fast by the wreckage which had piled
about him. He was taken out uncon
s,ious, and it was thought he was dead,
but he revived, and proved to be slight
ly injured.
Lizzie Kane, of Ringhamton was
found with her feet held fast between
two heavy beams. The remainder of
her body was clear, but she had to lie
there suffering great agony while the
men trying to get her out dug down
through a heap of broken wood and
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