The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1899-01-13
HAD AWFUL RESULTS.
Somebody's BIunder Sends Two
Trains Crashing into
Each Other.
EIGHTEEN PERSONS DONE TO DEATH

Tender Driven Almost Through a Crowd
ed Passenger Car and the Travellers
Ground to Pieces-Twenty-Five Less
Unfortunate People Wounded--Original
Cause of the Wreck Was Another Wreck
on u Double-Track ROad-AnOther Mis-
hap the Cause of the Fatalities.
New York. Jan. 10-The Herald says
that five of those wounded in the Lee
high wreck died during the night, max
Ing a total dead of eighteen.
New York, Jan. 10.-By a head-end
collision between two passenger trains
Of the Lehigh Valley railroad at West
Dunellen. N. j., at 12:F p. m, yester-
day, thirteen persons were killed and
over twenty-five were injured.
The death roll includes the following:
Martin keenan,, hotelkeeper; w. H.
Hinkel, contractor; Jacob Heller, tailor;
H. e. Weikell; Frank Fisher, shoe
dealer; William H. Leader. dry goods
dealer-all of Mount Carmel Pa; Frank
Markell and Theodore 8. Kohn, of
Shamokin, Pa; Abner S. Keifer, carpet
dealer. Pottsville. Pa; William H. Mar
KEEL, Shamokin, Pa; James Jarvis, II
years old, Mount Carmel, Pa; two wo-
men who are still to be identified.
These are the worst injured: Arthur
Tregembo, Llewelyn, Pa, both legs
broken; Nicholas Parecca, Shamokin,
legs crushed; Henry John Parecca,
Shamokin, legs crushed; Louis Parecca,
Shamokin, legs crushed; Mrs. Mary
Parecca, Shamokin, internal injuries,
may die; o. S. Schaeffer, fireman, South
Easton, Pa, skull fractured, may die;
Edward w. Rick, engineer, legs broken,
body crushed. expected to die; Joseph
Malesky, Shenandoah, Pa; Mary Jar
vile, Mount Carmel, Pa; - Maiosta,
Shenandoah, Pa; George Launsky,
Mount Carmel, Pa; unidentified man;
James Prendergrast, engineer, Easton,
Pa, likely to die; - Josephs, full
name and residence unknown; Harry r.
Foster, plumber, Pottsville, Pa, both
legs broken; Mrs. Henry Lockhaven,
Big Mine Run, legs crushed; Mrs. Lock-
haven's mother, legs crushed; Miss An
ME Johns, Shamokin. Pa, seriously
about the legs; L. S. Walter, lawyer,
Mount Carmel, Pa, legs broken; Will
lam Feelin, leg fractured; Mrs. Biltz,
Ashland, Pa, both legs broken.
One of the Worst of Recent Years.
West Dunellen Is three miles from
Bound Brook and about thirty miles
from New York city. At the spot where
the disaster occurred there is a sharp
curve in the Lehigh valley tracks and
a steep cutting, but the accident was
due in the first place to some terrible
mistake in train orders, and in the sec
ond place to another accident that &C.
Cured at Bound Brook earlier in the
day. The scenes which accompanied the
collision, the sufferings of the injured,
and the panic that reigned among the
400 passengers were well-nigh in
describable. The blood stained wreck
of tangled and twisted iron and wood
bore witness to the truth of the general
verdict of railroad men that this was
one of the worst collisions in recent
years.
How a Collision Was Possible.
A head-on collision on a double track
road was made possible only by
freight wreck which occurred at Bound
Brook at o'clock yesterday morning,
when the axle of a freight car broke
and nine cars were piled on top of each
other. This completely blocked the east
bound track, and all through the morn
ing Lehigh valley trains bound for New
York switched from their own track to
the westbound track, until they got
around the wreck. Train No 20, which
left Shampkin, Pa, at Z a. m, was so
heavy with human freight that ii had
to be broken into three sections. The
first two sections 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.
Its seven cars were crowded with 400
excursionists, most of them from Mount
Carmel and Shamokin, Mahanoy City,
HaZelton, Ashland and PottsVille. Pa.
The party was travelling under the
auspices Of the business mems eXcur-
sion, an annual event which many pat
ronize for a three days visit to New
York. Not a few Of the excursionists
were coming to witness the Mccoy
Sharkey fight. Their train switched
over at Bound Brook and proceed d.
like the preceding sections on the west
bound track.
Death Waits for His Prey.
Meanwhile there had been waiting at
Newmarket local train that plies
regularly between New York and Bound
Brook. Its number on the schedule is
seventy-one. Owing to the traffic all
going on one track it was almost an
hour late. At last the train dispatcher
at South Plainfield gave it permission
to go. Just before reaching West
Dunellen Engineer Rick slowed his train
down, because he stops for passengers
IL there are any. Martin Brennan, the
signal man, threw up his arms and
waved them, as If to say there were no
passengers, so the local put on steam
and headed round the curve, going at
about twenty-five miles an hour.
CRASH COMES A MOMENT LATER.