The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1899-12-01
KILLED in
A WRECK
Terrible Disaster at D., |. & W.
Station in Paterson.

Six Dead and Twenty-one Injured
Express Standing Still When Ac-
commOdation Ran Into It-List of
CasuaIties-Offici Statement.
The Buffalo express, east bound, while
waiting outside the station on tAe Della
ware, Lackawanna and Western railroad
at the Van Wrinkle street crossing in Pat
erson, N. j., Wednesday night was run
into by an accommodation train bound
from Phillipsburg, N. J., to Hoboken.
At least six persons were killed, and
there are now 10 injured at the hospital
in Paterson, of whom some will probably
die, while some of those not seriously in
jured were able to go to their destina-
tons.
The Buffalo express was in charge of
Conductor Capwell The Phillipsburg
train was in charge of Conductor Burke,
with Engineer Reardon. The Buffalo ex
press was waiting for a local train to
move that had been delayed at the sta
tion, 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 passengers
on them being either killed or injured.
The engine of the Phillipsburg train was
completely wrecked the engineer and
fireman escaping by jumping.
The official statement of the D.. l.. and
w. holds Engineer Reardon of the ac-
commodation responsible for the disaster.
The corrected list of the dead is as fol-
lows:
Alexander Craig of Scranton Pa, busi-
ness manager of the Scranton Tribune;
Mrs. Esther Craig, his wife Miss Esther
Craig, 10 years old their daughter; Miss
Jessie Craig, II years old another
daughter; Mrs. May B. Roe, wife of Da-
vid Roe of Ithaca, n. Y; Walter Jacob
Brock, 10 years old, Cornell student, of
500 West End avenue, New York.
The body that was thought to be that
Of a boy proved to be the infant daughter
of Mrs. Roe All the bodies have been
removed to the morgue.
The injured were as follows:
Oscar Aronson, Scranton, Pa, legs
crushed Thomas A White, Ithaca, in
; jured about the head; John White, son of
L. A. White, ithaca, leg broken, badly
cut by glass; Louis Baron, Dover, N. j.,
face and body badly cut; ]. r. Howe,
Jr., Brooklyn cut and bruised about head
and body; Sterling S. Smith, Brooklyn
head injured; Max Muscovitch, New
York, head injured; Louis Freedman,
Scranton, Pa, legs crushed and head
bruised; w. H. Furbush, New York
head injured cut by glass; Charles Rem
sen, Brooklyn, thought to be internally
injured; Isaac Gordon, New York, head
injured William G. Ossell, 1882 Boule-
arl 1ne. l. 81 To-
well, Hackettstown, n j., seriously
bruised and cut; Mamie Doyle, Bingham
ton. left arm broken and injured about
body, may die; Lizzie Kane, Binghamton,
both feet crushed; Agnes Mcdonald, Ok
ford, N. Y, both legs broken, face cut;
Samuel Mendhellson, Wilkesbarre, Pa.
body bruised and legs broken and crush
ed; David Roe, Ithaca, n. Y, husband of
the woman killed, right leg crushed; -
Mccormack, resident of Michigan, slight
ly injured, able to proceed to New York;
A. B. Cordlay, New York, slightly in
jured.
The wreck that occurred at Paterson
Wednesday is attributed to the care
Iessness of the engineer of the Phil
lipsburg accommodation in running at
too great speed and following too
closely on the express. The rules of
the road do not allow the approach of
any train to station at the rate main
tanned by the accommodation.
Superintendent Du Puy, of the di
vision, said this morning: "The crew
of No SO, the accommodation, acted
carelessly, for their train was run at
too great speed. {"
EG. Russell, general superinten-
dent made the following statement:
''Train 96 overlook train 6 at
Dover and picked up fagman who
had been sent back by train 6. At
Lincoln Park, few miles west of
Paterson, train 96 again overlook
train 6, and then the fiagman who had
been picked up was returned to train
6. This fact shows that those in
charge of train 96 were fully cogni-
zant of the whereabouts of train 6.
Notwithstanding this knowledge,
they seem to have run into Paterson
at careless rate of speed and to have
run into train which l heard was at
the station discharging passengers at
the time of the collision. Under the
circumstances those in charge of train
SO seem to be wholly culpable. The
crew of this train has been suspended,
and it is my intention to make
thorough investigation.