The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-11-30
TWO OF THE CARS SMASHED
AND NEARLY ALL THE OCCUPANTS
KILLED OR INJURED.
Scenes During the Work of Rescue
A Mormon Trojan and a Cour-
ageOus Student.

O'Clock tonight, was run into by an accom-
mediation train bound from Phillipsburg. n.
j., to Jersey City. AT least six people 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 go to their
destination. The dead are:
MRS. MARY ROE, wife of David Roe,
of Ithaca, n. Y, and two daughters.
WALTER WELBROCK, Cornell College,
Ithaca.
MILLER CRAIG. New York city.
UNKNOWN WOMAN.
The injured include:
MISS AGNES MACDONALD, Oxford, N.
SAMUEL MENDHELLSON, Wilkesbarre,
legs broken.
MISS AlATTIE DOLE, Binghamton. arm
Miss LIZlIr kANE, Binghamton, feet
DAVID ROE, Ithaca, husband of the
woman killed, right leg crushed.
OSCAR ARONSON, Scranton. Pa. legs
JOHN WHITE. Ithaca. leg broken, badly
Louis DARON. Dover. N. j., face and
body badly cut.
LOUIS FREEDMAN, Scranton. Pa. legs
crushed and head bruised.
CHARLES REMsEN. Brooklyn. thought
to be internally injured.
DANIEL MAXWELL, Hackettstown, N.
j., seriously bruised and cut.
DANIEL MCCORMACK, Detroit, in Ho-
boken Hospital.
$40 Drexel boulevard, Chicago, both legs
broken, injured internally.
The Buffalo express was No. 6, in charge
of Conductor Capwell. TIL Phillipsburg
train was No. SO, 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 station,
and the Phillipsburg accommodation was
following the express but a short distance
behind The two rear cars of the express
were broken to pieces. most Of the passen-
gers on them being either killed or injured.
The engine of the Phillipsburg train was
completely wrecked, the engineer and fire.
man escaping by jumping.
Apparently the engineer Of the Phillips
burg accommodation did not notice that the
express drew up some three hundred feet
west of the depot. The express was forty
five minutes late and the accommodation
was following very closely. When Engineer
Reardon saw the lights ahead the distance
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 plowed through the heavy
timbers almost its entire limit. This car
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next to the last car, also a Pullman, carry
ing off it's end and almost completely tele-
scoping it. The engine of the Phillipsburg
train was torn to pieces. The wreckage
caught fire, but the flames were soon ex-
tinguished.
Within a few moments police reserves,
firemen and great crowds of people came
to the rescue of those in the terrible tan
gle of wood and iron. From the wreck
came groans and shrieks and prayers for
death or deliverance. 1t was intensely dark
at the scene, and as the broker wood was
taken out of the wreck 1t was thrown to
the side of the track. Then 1T was set
on fire to furnish light for the rescuers.
The firemen, police, train hands and several
scores of citizens turned in TO rip the fearful
pile to pieces. 1t was desired to draw the
engine out, but this could not be done be-
cause 1t would result in death to some of
those imprisoned in the debris.
Before the wreckage was attacked there
was the body of a man hanging half way
out of one of the rear windows on one side
and a 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 it their mangled bodies
were crushed through the windows and
hung between the side of the car and the
engine. The rescuers took men and women
out of the wreckage in rapid succession,
and they were hurried away TO the hospi-
tails. 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 on his head in a corner,
held fast by the wreckage 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
Lizzie Kane. of Binghamton, N. Y, 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 We're trying to
| get her out by digging down through a
heap of broken wood and iron. and free the
upper beam. Agnes Mcdonald. of Oxford.
n. Y, was taken out with great difficulty.
Her legs were fearfully crushed. She suf-
| fered terrible agony during the half hour
| ii took TO cut her free. The dead were car
ried into a depot.
David Roe, who is in the hospital with
his right leg badly crushed, became fran
tic when he found that his wife was not in
the hospital. He believed she was killed.
but hi was not told so.
The Whites. father and son, We're found
with their arms about each other. The
sons leg is broken. while the father is
| badly bruised and his face and hands cut
by flying glass. One of the men killed is
thought to be Miller Craig. of New York.
A pass ticket book found on his body in
dicates this.
Rev. c.. S. Bullock, of Chicago. a passen-
ger on the Buffalo express. led the rescue
work. He was sitting in the parlor car.
which was hitched on the forward part of
the train. talking TO Auditor Bridgeman, OF
the Lackawanna road, also a passenger of
the car, when the crash came. Queerly
enough. they were discussing railroad acct
dents at the time they were both thrown
to the floor of the car by the shock or col
lision. Rev. Mr.. Bullock ran out and took
in the appalling situation at a glance. He
ran back into the parlor car and grabbed
an AK. He told the other men passengers
to get axes and crowbaTs and TO get to
work, as lives depended on quick action.
A big, Swapping Mormon, who during the
run from Buffalo had told the passengers
that he was a great friend or Congress
man-elect Roberts. set 10 Work ike a Tro-
jan. and while others chopped in the root
of the car and freed the shrieking men and
women. the Mormon got into the body OF
the car with a crowbar and pried up the
twisted and heavy iron work of seat after
seat and pulled the manned and wounded
men, women and children out he mad as