Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-11-30
Accommodation Wrecks Express
Train at Paterson, N. J.
Six Killed. Score Injured, Some Of
Whom Will Probably Die.


bound from Phillipsburg, n. j., to Jer-
sey City. AT least six persons were
killed and there are now 20 injured at
the hospital in Paterson, of whom some
will probably die, while some of those
not seriously injured We're able to go
to their destination.
The dead and the injured follow:
The dead:
Mrs. Mary Roe. wife of David Roe,
of Ithaca. n. Y, and two daughters.
Walter Welbrock, Cornell University.
Ithaca, n. Y.
Miller Craig, New York City.
Unknown woman.
The injured include:
Mrs. Agnes Mcdonald, oxford, n Y,
both legs broken.
Samuel Mendelson. Wilkesbarre Pa,
legs broken.
Miss Mamie Doyle, Binghamton, arm
broken and body crushed.
Miss Lizzie Kane Binghamton. feet
crushed.
David Roe. Ithaca. husband of the
woman killed. right arm crushed.
Oscar Aaronson, Scranton. Pa. leg
crushed.
injured about head.
John White. son of r. A White It
haca. leg broken. badly cut by glass.
Louis Baron, Dover, n. j.. face and
body badly cut.
J. S. Howe, Jr., Brooklyn. cut and
bruised about head and body.
Sterling S. Smith. Brooklyn, head in
jured.
n
jured.
Louis Freedman. Scranton. Pa, legs
crushed and head bruised.
w. H. Furbush, New York, head in
jured. cut by glass.
Charles Remsen. Brooklyn. thought
to be internally injured
Isaac Gordon. New York, head in
jured.
VIM. Orasifeld. Chicago. leg
crushed
Daniel Maxwell. Hackettstown. y. j..
seriously bruised and cut.
Daniel Mccormick of Detroit. Mich.
slightly injured.
A. B. Cordlay. New York, slightly in
jured.
A. e. Huxley. Waverly. y. Y. cut
about head.
The Buffalo express was No. i'll
charge of Conductor Capwell. The
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 depot and the
Phillipsburg accommodation was fol-
lowing the express but a 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 fireman es-
Gaping by jumping.
The local train was No. and it was
partly due to its delay that the acct
dent occurred. Apparently the engi-
neer of the Phillipsburg accommoda-
ton did not notice that the express
drew. up some 300 feet west OF the
depot. The express was 40 minutes
late. When Engineer Reardon saw the
lights ahead. too short a distance sep
arated the trains to avoid COLLISION
His train was going at full speed.
The engine plunged into the rear car
Of the express, a Pullman day coach
and ploughed through the heavy tim
bers almost it's entire length. This car
was lifted from the track and pushed
on to the next to last car. also Pun
man, carrying off its end ana almost
completely teleseoping IT. The engine
of the Phillipsburg train was torn ia
pieces. The wreckage caught hre' pul
this was soon extinguished and in this
way those who were pinned down es-
capped being burned to death
-. "a,
firemen and great crowds of people
came to the rescue of the terrible tan
gle of wood and iron. From the wreck
came groans and shrieks and prayers
for death or deliverance. 1t was in
tensely dark at the scene and as the
broken wood was taken out of the
week it was thrown to the sides of the
tracks. Then it was set on fre 10 TUT
nish light for the rescuers.
The firemen, police. train hands and
several score of citizens turned in 10
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 the impris-
oned in the debris.
Before the wreckage was attacked
there were seen the body of a man
hanging half way out of one of the
rear windows on one side and the body
of a woman hanging from 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 mangled bodies were crushed
through the windows and hung be-
tween the sides of the ear and the en-
CINE.
The rescuers took men and women
out of the wreckage in rapid success
sion and they were hurried away to the
hospitals. In many cases it was neces-
sary to chop away the wreckage about
the injuyAd in order to get them out
One man was found standing upon his
head in a corner held fast by th'
wreckage which had piled about him
He was taken out unconscious ami !
was thought dead but he revived an
proved to be but slightly injured.
Lizzie Kane of BinShamton. Wa
found with her feet held fast betWeA
two heavy beams. The remainder 9
her body was clear but she had II L
there suffering great agony Whlle IN
men trying TO get her out aug low