The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-10

the Lehigh Valley railroad at West
Dunnellen, N. j., at 12:45 p. m. to-day,
Is persons were killed and over %
wounded. The dead:
MARTIN KEENAN,. hotelkeeper,
Mount Carmel. Pa.
w. H. HINKLE, contractor, Mount
Carmel.
JOHN HELLER, tailor, Mount Car
mel.
H. E. WE1KELL, % years old. Mount
Carmel
! FRANK FISCHER, shoe dealer,
Mount Carmel.
WILLIAM H. LEADER, "a years of
age, dry goods dealer. Mount Carmel.
He is son of C. c. Leader, president
of a bank in Shamokin
FRANK Markell, 81 years of age,
Shamokin.
THEODORE S. KoHN, shamokin.
ABNER KEIFER, carpet dealer,
Pottsvlle, Pa.
WILLIAM II. Markell, Shamokin.
JAMES JARVIS, 70 years of age,
Mount Carmel
flied.
The injured:
Arthur Tregembo, Llewellyn, Pa,
both legs broken.
Nicholas Perecca, Shamokin, legs
crushed.
Henry ]. Perecca, shamokin, legs
crushed.
Louis Perecca, shamokin, legs
crushed.
Mrs. Mary Perecca. Shamokin, in
ternally injured, may die.
Q. S. Schaefer, fireman, South Easton,
Pa; skull fractured, may die.
Edwin w. Rick, legs broken, body
crushed; expected to die.
Joseph Malesky Shenandoah, Pa.
Mary Jarville. Mount Carmel.
- Maista, Shenandoah Pa.
T. George Lanski, Mount Carmel.
Unidentified man with j. j. on his
cuffs.
James Prendergast, engineer, Easton,
A.; likely to die.
Joseph, full name and residence
unknown.
! Orlando S. Lane, Sanbury, Pa, bruis-
ed, ankles sprained.
Harry r. Forster, plumber, Pottsville,
Pa; both legs broken.
Mrs. Henry Lockhaven, Big Mine
Run, leg broken.
Mrs. Lockhaven's mother, legs crush
ed
Mrs. Harry Johns. Shamokin, serious
~ injured about the legs, St. Vincent
hospital New York.
l.. S. Waters, lawyer, Mount Carmel,
legs broken.
Mrs. Biltz, Ashland, Pa, both legs
broken.
West Dunnellen is three miles from
Bound Brook and about 30 miles from
New York city. At the spot where the
disaster occurred there is a sharp curve
in the Lehigh Valley track and a steep
cut. but the accident was due in the
first place to some terrible mistake in
train orders and in the second place to
another accident that occurred at
Bound Brook earlier in the day. The
blood stained wreck of tangled and
twisted iron and wood that was still on
the tracks tonight bore witness to the
truth of the general verdict of railroad
men that this was one of the worst
collisions in recent years.
A head-on collision on a double track
road was made possible only by
a freight wreck, which occurred at
Bound Brook at O'clock this morning,
when the axle of a freight car broke
and nine cars We're piled on top of
each other. This completely blocked
the eastbound track and all through
the morning Lehigh Valley trains bound
for New York switched from their own
track, going over these rails from
Bound Brook to Newmarket distance
of six miles. and changing at the latter
place back to their right side of the
road. To permit this mode of traffic,
all westbound trains We're held at
South Plainfield until their own line
was clear of trains going in the opposite
direction.
Train No. 20, which left Shamokin,
Pa, at 7 a. M, was so heavy with hui
man freight train it had to be broken
into three sections. The first two Sec
tions arrived at Bound Brook, where
they switched over to the other track
switched back to Newmarket, and went
on to New York in safety. The third
section of this train was almost ma
hour late. Its seven cars were crowded
with 400 eXcursionists, most of them
from Mount Carmel and Shamokin
Mahonoy City, Hazleton. Ashland and
Pottsville, Pa. The party was travel
ing under the auspeces of the Bust
ness Mems exclusion. an annual event
which many patronize for three days
visit to New York. Not a few of the
excusionists were coming to witness
the Mccoy Sharkey fight. Their train
switched over at Bound Brook and pro-
ceeded like the preceding sections. on
the westbound track.
Meanwhile there had been waiting at
Newmarket local train that plies be-
tween New York and Bound Brook. It
Is due in Bound Brook at 1859 a. m.
Owing to the traffic all going on one
track 1t was almost an hour late At
last the train dispatcher at South
Plainsfield gave it permission to go
Just before reaching West Dunellen
Engineer Rick slowed his train down
because he stops for passengers if there
are any. Martin Brennan, the signal
man, threw up his arms and waved
them as II to say there were no pas
sensers, so the local nut on steam and
headed round the curve. going at about
rs miles an hour There were only four
passengers on the local. In the cab of
the excursion train was James Prem
dergast, the engineer, with his fireman.
George Cheshire. They saw the local
as it started on the curve. With
shrieking whistle and brakes grinding
sparks from the wheels the excursion
train bore down to what seemed Ger
tain destruction. The passengers,
alarmed at the continued Whistling,
opened the windows. mothers snatched
their children in their arms, men start
ed from their seats, but before they had
time to find out what was the matter
they were hurled headlOng, knocked
senseless and many killed outright.
The two engines, from which both
crews had jumped, came together with
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