Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-01-10
Terrible Head-on Collision at
West DuneIIen, N. J.
Two Lehigh Valley Trains Meet--l3
Killed--0ver rs Injured.
Due 10 All Trains Using One Track. Owl q
TO Previous Wreck.

OI the l1enlSn valley railroad at west
Dunellen, N. j., at 12.47 p. NJ. today,
ID persons We're killed and over % in
jured.
The dead are: Martin Keenan,. hotel
keeper, Mount Carmel, Pa: w. H.
Hinkle, contractor, Mount Carmel:
Jacob Heller, tailor, Mount Carmel: II.
F.. Weikell, Mount Carmel; Frank
Fischer. shoe dealer. Mount Carmel.
VIM. II. Leader, dry goods dealer.
Mount Carmel. He was IA son of G. c.
Leader. president of a bank in Shamo-
kin, only recently married: Frank Mar
KEEL Shamokin, Pa: Theodore Steckla
Kohn, Shamokin: Abner S. Keifer.
carpet dealer, Pottsville. Pa: VIM. II.
Market, Shamokin: James Jarvis. II
years old, Mount Carmel: Two women
who are still to be identified.
The following is the list of injured:
Arthur Tregembo, Llewellyn. Pa. both
legs broken; Nicholas Parecca. Shamo-
kin, legs crushed; Henry John
Parecca, Shamokin, legs crushed:
Louis Parecca, Shamokin, legs crush
ed; Mrs. Mary Parecca, Shamokin. in
ternal injuries, may die; C. e. Schaef-
fer, fireman. Southeastern, Pa. skull
fractured; Edward w. Rick. engineer.
legs broken, body crushed expected to
die; Joseph Malesky, Shenandoah. Pa;
Mary ]. Arville, Mount Carmel. Pa.
Maiesota. Shenandoah; George
Launskey, Mount Carmel; unidentified
man with j. j. on his cuffs: James
Prendergast, engineer, Easton. Pa.
likely to die: - Josephs. full name
and residence unknown: Orlando
Staine Sunbury. Pa. bruised and ankle
badly sprang: Mrs. Henry Lockhaven.
Big Mine Run, legs crushed; Mrs.
Lockhaven's mother, legs crushed,
Mrs. Loudenslager, not very seriously:
Miss Annie Johns, Shamokin. seriously
injured about the legs; John Prentice.
Marblehead, Mass, not seriously. pro-
ceeded home; Frank e. Mcintyre.
Mauch Chunk, Pa, cut and bruised.
L. S. Walter, lawyer. Mt. Carmel. legs
broken; VIM. Feley, Pottsville. leg
fractured Mrs. John Ballou. SunburN.
severe bruises: John b. Ballou. hus-
band of Mrs. Ballou, similar injuries:
Abraham Allgier. Mt. Carmel slightly
injured; Mrs. Blitz, Ashland, Pa. both
legs broken; H. r. Foster, Pottsville.
Pa. both legs broken Conductor
Price. of local, slightly injured; Harry
Riddle, conductor Of excursion train,
slightly injured: Ralph l.. Reed. bag
gage master. local, slightly injured;
Z. o. Helm, Sunbury. Pa. scalp wound.
hands injured; Stanley Day, Newman
ket, N. j.. bruised about the body and
legs; Wm Corrie, Newmarket, n. j..
similar injuries.
West Dunellen is three miles from
Bound Brook and about 30 miles from
New York City. At the depot where
the disaster occurred, there is sharp
curve in the Lehigh Valley tracks and
a steep cutting. but the accident was
due in the first place to some mistake
in train orders and in the second place
to another accident that occurred at
Bound Brook earlier in the day. The
scenes which accompanied the colli-
sion, the sufferings of the injured and
the panic that reigned among the 4Oo
passengers. were wellnlgh 1ndescrip-
able. The bloodstained wreck of tang
led and twisted iron and wood that
was still on the railroad tracks, TO-
night. bore witness to the truth OF the
general verdict of railroad men that
that this was one of the worst COLI
sions in recent years.
A ,headon collision on a double track
road was only made possible by
freight wreck which occurred at
Bound Brook. at 6 o'clock, this morn
ing when the axle of a freight car
broke and nine cars were piled on top
of each other. This completely block
ed the east bound track and all through
the morning Lehigh valley trains
bound for New York switched from
their own track to the west bound
track, going over these rails from
Bound Brook to Newmarket dis
lance of 6 miles. and changing at the
latter place back to their right SIDE
of the road. To permit this mode OF.
traffic all west bound trains were held
at South Plainfield until their own line
was clear of trains going in the oppo-
site direction.
Train No. TO- which left Shamokin
Pa, at A. NJ, was so heavy WIZ
human freight that it had to be broken
into three sections. The first two sec
tions arrived at Bound Brook. switched
over to the other track, switched back
at Newmarket and reached New YORK
in safety. The third section OF this
train was almost an hour late. It's
seven cars were crowded with 400 ex-
cusionists. most Of them from Mount
Carmel and Shamokin. Mahoney City.
Hazelton, Ashland and Pottsville. Pa
The party was travelling under the
auspices of the Business Mems Exeur-
sion, an annual affair which many pat
ronize for 3-days' visit to New York
Not n few of the excursionists were
coming to witness the McCoy-S harkey
fight. Their train switched over at
bound Brook, and proceeded, like the
preceding section, on the west bound
track.
Meanwhile there had been waiting at
Newmarket a local train that places
regularly between New York ana
Round Brook. It's number on the
schedule is Il, and it was due in Bound
Brook at 1859 A. M. Owing to the
traffic all going on one track. 1t was al
most an hour late. At last the train
dispatcher at South Plainfield gave 1t
permission to go. Just before reach