The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-30
TRAIN RUNNING FULL SPEE[
DaSheS Into PiSsenger Car at Paterson,
New Jersey.
PRESENTED A HORRIBLE SIGHT
Groans and Prayers for Death orr
Deliverence From the Suf-
ferlng Passe ers

New York, November 29.-The east-bound
Buffalo express on the Delaware, Lacka-
wanna and Western railroad, while stand
ing outside the station at Paterson, N. j.,
tonight, was run into by swiftly-moving
train bound from Phillipsburg, N. j., to
Jersey City
At least six persons were killed, and
there are now twenty injured at the hos
pital in Paterson, of which number some
will probably die while some of those ser!-
ously injured were able to go to their des-
tination. The dead as far as known are:
Mrs. Mary Roe, wife of David Roe, of
Ithaca, N. Y, and two daughters.
Walter WeBbrock, Cornell college, Ithaca.
Miller Craig, New York city.
An unknown woman.
The body that was thought to be that of
boy proved to be the young daughter of
Mrs. Roe.
All the bodies have been removed to the
morgue.
The injured include:
Miss Agnes Macdonald, oxford, N. Y.
Samuel Mendelson Wilkesbarre, Pa.
Miss Mamie Doyle, Binghampton.
Miss Lizzie Kane, Binghampton.
David Roe, Ithaca, husband of the wo-
man killed.
Oscar Aronson, Scranton, Pa.
John White, Ithaca.
Louis Daron, Dover, N j.
Louis Freedman, Scranton, Pa.
Charles Remsen, Brooklyn.
William C. Osella, Chicago.
Daniel Maxwell, Hackettstown, N. J.
Waiting for Delayed Train
The Buffalo express was waiting for a
train to move that had been delayed at the
station and the Phillipsburg accommodate
tion was following the express but short
dis l.4ee behind. Tho two rear cars of the
express were broken to splnters, most of
the passengers on them being either killed
or injured. The engine of the Philipsburg
tran was completely wrecked, the engineer
and fireman escaping by jumping.
When Engineer Reardon, of the accom-
mediation, saw the lights ahead, the dis
tance was too short to avoid 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 its entire length.
The car was lifted from the track and
plished next to the last car, also Pull
man, carrying it off it's trucks and almost
cOmpielely teleSCoPih5 IT, A'O "ASS'A'-oS
caught fire, but the flames Were extin-
guished.
Within a few moments police reserves,
firemen and great crowds of people came to
the rescue of those in the terrible tangle
of wood and iron.
A Pitiable Scene
Prom the wreck came groans and shrieks
and prayers for death or deliverance. II
was intensely dark at the tiHe, and as
the broken wood was taken out or the
wreck 1t was thrown to the sides OF the
track Then 1t was set on fire to furnish
light for the rescuers. The firemen, police
adm hands and several score of citizens
turned in to rip the fearful pile to pieces.
n was desired to draw the engine out, but
tgnis could not be done without resulting in
death to some of the imprisoned under the
debris.
Before the wreck was attacked there
was the body of man hanging half way
out of one of the rear lows on one
side and a woman hanging from a window
or the other side. Both were in rear seats
in the rear car, and when the engine hit
the car and tore through 1t their mangled
bodies We're crushed through the windows
and hung between the sides of the car and
the engine.
The rescuers took men and women out
of the wreckage dn rapid succession and
they were hurried away to the hospitals.
In many cases 1t 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 a corner held
fast by the wreckage which had piled
about him. He was taken out uncon-
sclous, and 1t was thought he was Dead