Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-07-31
TWO KILLED
And 26 Injured in a Wreck
at Lackawaxen, N. Y.
CIoudburst Causes Landslide by Which
a Freight Is Ditched.
Chicago Express Crashes Into Wrcc,;-Thrce
More Persons Are Missing.

slide, resulting from a clDudburst
caused an accident on the Erie Rail
road, Il mile east OF Lackawaxen, n. ",
last night, in which two persons were
killed outright and 20 others more or
less injured. The casualties were:
KILLED
stephen Outwater, Port Jervis. engi-
neer of derailcd engine.
Fred Sells. Port Jervis, firemen Of de-
rallied engine.
INJURED.
q. T.. Stephens, Chicago. bruises and
minor COMMISSIONS.
r. Wet. New York. cut head and
right arm.
q. II. Boyd. Sharon. Pa, scalp
wounds
Mrs. 6. Boyd. Sharon, Pa bruised
back ana shoulders.
Bernard Shay, Port Jervis. engineer.
freight. pclvis broken.
Fred Smith. Port Jcrvis, brakeman.
shoulder broken.
j. NJ. Trimmer, trainman No. Z,
shoulder injured
Michael Thornton, porter, shoulder
bruised.
Timothy Wclch. conductor of No. :,
back and legs injured
6. +. Belz, Cleveland. Ohio. cut head
hand burned.
J.. 4. Parker. New York, hands
burned.
Mrs. +. {. Heath. New York, cut
head injured.
+. l.. MrrGott. Newark. n J.. slight
confusion. bruises left leg.
F. :. Fitzpatrick. Denver. slight in
juries.
+. l.. Drake, Pullman conductor,
slight injuries.
jeanette Moore. Cleveland. Ohio,
". f. Ecybold, Hoboken. n y, slight
injuries.
\. :. Collins. Buffalo. y. Y. slight in
jures.
Richard Smith. Chicago. slight in
juries.
Miss Florence Abel milford New
ark.
Mrs. Elizabeth Hunt, Newark.
bruises.
John Bronter Ithaca. y. y. baggage
master, head cut, bruises
Frank NJ. Sanford. New York. chef.
bruises. scalded.
VIM. Dunbar, New York. second cook.
burns ana bruises.
VIM. Lovcjoy. Jersey city, waiter.
burned hands.
Robert Frazer, Jersey City. waiter
scalded hands.
a cloudhurst ana storm which lasted
nearly two hours, occurred. shortly be
fore midnight ana a section of the
hank fol- on the east bound track di-
rcctlyin front Of the east-bound freight
train composed Of 60 cars. Several
trees went down with the bank and the
freight cars ana the engine We're turn
ed over across the west-bound track of
the E;ria Railroad. Twenty-Five of the
ears We're derailed and pIIed up on the
west bound track just as the west
bound Chicago express for Buffalo.
which left New York. at II o'clock last
night. put in an appearance. running
At the rate of 80 miles an hour.
The engine Of the express train
crashed into the wreck and the bag
gage car. combination ana buffet car
and two Pullman sleepers We're piled
up on the tracks Immediately in front
of the wrecked freight cars. The first
sleeper was split in two parts as a re
suit of the accident ana the passengers
We're thrown 30 feet down a bank. \
fire at once broke out and four cars Of
the express train and nine Of the
freight cars We're burned.
Baggagemaster Becker. who found !
himself under the baggage car door.
recovered consciousness only TO discoV- |
cr that he was all alone in the heart of |
the wrecked passenger cars. He man |
aged to crawl from his position only |
to find blaze starting in front of him. |
While half OF the car was somehow |
braced up Immediately over him.
He called for assistance, but there |
was no response. Then he saw the |
passengers who had been hurled down
the 30-foot embankment endeavoring |
to eXtricate themselves from the debris
and make their way up the bank. All |
were clad only in their night clothing
and they were shivering with the cold.
Some We're bleeding and moaning, but |
all were daZed.
Members of the train crews COM
menced to search different portions Of
The wreck and assisted those who wern
to escape. Blankets were
brought in from the Pullman cars and
around the shivcring hysteri |
cal women and half conscious men.
Word was telegraphed to Port Jer-
Wis, a relief train was at once arranged
for. and physicians and nurses return
ed for the purpose of caring for those
needing assistance. The relief train
soon reached the scene of the accident
and nearly all Of the injured persons
were removed to the hospital.
OF the persons injured and now at |
The hospital Barnard Shay of Port Jer-
Wis. the engineer of the freight train.
and G. f. Belz of Cleveland Ohio,
were most seriously hurt, but it is not
thought that their wounds will of ne
,essity prove fatal.
Several thieves from Port Jervis. who
t is supposed reached the scene of the
wreck on the relief train, ransacked the
clothes of the passengers during the
period of excitement.
After several hours search the bodies
IF Engineer Outwater and Fireman
Sells were found under their engine by
persons attached to the wrecking train.
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