The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-30
SIX KILLED IN
A TRAIN WRECK
Frightful Accident at Pater-
son. N. j., Station.
NUMBER OF PEOPLE
TERRIBLY MANGLED
Accommodation Train Dashes Into
Buffalo Express.
Awful shrieks and Groans of I'm
prisoned Men and Women Who
Prayed For Death or Deliverance
Work of Rescue Difficult Owing
to the Darlkness-Awful Agony
Endured By Some While Being
Released Prom the Debris.

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New York, Nov. 29.-The -eastbound
Buffalo express onfthe Delaware, Lack
awanna & Western railroad. while
standing outside the station at the Van
Wrinkle street crossing at Paterson, n.
J.. at 1:45, tonight. was run into by a
swiftly moving accommodation train,
bound from PhillipDsburg. n. J.. to Jer-
sey City. At Least SIX people were kill
ed, and there are now twenty injured
at the hospital in Paterson, several of
whom may die.
The Dead.
Mrs. Mary Roe, wife of David Roe of
Ithaca. n. Y, and two daughters.
Walter Welbrock, Cornell college, Ith-
AGA. y. Y
Miller Craig, New York City.
Unknown woman.
The Injured.
Miss Agnes Mcdonald, oxford, n. Y,
both legs broken: Samuel Mendeisohnn,
Wilkesbarre. legs broken; Miss Mamie
Doyle, Binghamton, arm broken and
crushed; Miss Lizzie Kane, Bingham
ton, feet crushed; David Roe, Ithaca,
crushed; Oscar Aronson, Scranton, Pa,
legs crushed; John White. Ithaca, leg
broken, badly cut by glass; Louis OAR
on, Dover \. Y, face and body badly
cut; Louis Freedman, Scranton, Pa,
legs crushed and head bruised; Charles
Remsen, Brooklyn. thought to be in
ternally injured; William c. Ossell. Chi
Hackettstown. n. J., seriously bruised
and cut.
How Accident Occurred.
The Buffalo express was waiting for
the moving of a local train thai had
been delayed at the station, and the
Phillippsburg accommodation was fol-
lowing the express, but short dis
lance behind. The two rear cars of the
express were broken to pieces. most of
the passengers in them being either
killed or injured. The engine of the
PhillippSburg train was completely
wrecked, the engineer and fireman es-
Gaping by jumping.
The engine plunged into the rear car
of the express, a Pullman day coach.
and ploughed through the heavy tim
bers almost its entire length. This car
was lifted from the track and pushed
the next TO the last car. also Pullman,
carrying off its end and almost COM
pletely telescoping it. The engine of
the Phillippsburg train was torn TO
pieces. The wreckage caught fire. but
the flames We're soon extinguished.
Within a few moments police re-
serves, firemen and crowds of people
came to the rescue of those in the ter
rible tangle of wood and iron. From
the wreck came groans and shrieks and
prayers for death or deliverance. II
was intensely dark at the scene, and
as the broken wood was taken out of
the wreck ii was thrown to the sides
of the tracks. Then it was set on fire
TO furnish light for the rescuers.
The Work of Rescue
The firemen, police and train hands
and several score of citizens turned in
to rip the fearful pile to pieces. II was
desirable TO draw the engine out, but
this could not be done, because it
would result in death to some - those
in the debris Before the
was attacked there was the
body of a man hanging half way out
of one of the rear windows on one side
and woman hanging from a window
on the other side. Both were in rear
seats in the rear car, and when the
engine hit the car and tore through il.
their mangled bodies were crushed
through the windows and hung be-
tween the sides of the car and the en-
CINE.
One man was found standing upon
mis- head in a corner held fast by the
which had piled about him.
He was taken out unconscious. and it
was thought he was dead. but he re-
vived and proved TO be but slightly in
jured.
Woman's Terrible Plight
Lizzie Kane of Binghamton. y. Y.
was found with her feet held fast be-
tween two heavy beams. The remain
der of her body WAS clear. but she had
TO lie there suffering great agony while
the men were trying TO get her out by
digging down through a heap of broken
wood ana iron and free the upper beam. 1
Agnes Mcdonald of Oxford. \. Y, /
was taken out with great difficulty. !
Her legs were fearfully crushed. She !
suffered terrible agony during the half /
hour it took to cut and free her.
David Roe. who is in the hospital
with his right leg badly crushed. be-. /,
came frantic When he found that his
wife was not in the hospital. He b.s- I
ived she was killed. but he was not told /
-. One of the men killed is thought TO ]
De Miller Craig of New York. \ pass
ticket book found on his body indicates /
his.
Came From Brave Stock.
Men who were chopping through the |
'oof of the cars and freeing the, vie
inns were treated to a piece of spien-
I'D courage when they came TO Sterling /
;. Smith. a Cornell student. and a !
lephew of General Joe Wheeler The
10y lives in Brooklyn and was going
o Philadelphia today to see the foot
)all game between Cornell and the Uni
lersity of Pennsylvania. His right leg
vas terribly mangled and damned be-
wesn heavy iron and woodwork, but [
he was conscious when the rescuers
cached him.
Don't bother about me- he yelled
o the rescuers. There are women
below me. Get them out first | can
wait awhile. My leg is broken; see it !
visgle.r and the youth tried to smile.
One of the rescuers said. as he
.hopped away, You are brave young
hap.
Il don't know about that" said
smith, calmly. but my mother is
lister Of General Joe Wheeler, and /
;uess I've got the right stuff in me-
The leg TO which he referred as
,roken was mashed almost into
hapeless mass. and ii ''wiggled" be-
ause the bones were splintered and
[ was hanging simplv nv shreds of flesh 1.
nd torn tissues At the hospital later
he doctors made immediate prepara-
ions to amputate il.