New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-11-30
WRECK ON LACKAWANNA
SIX PERSONS KILLED AND
TWEN7Y-TU INJURED.
REAR END COLLISION AT PATERSON Be
TWEEN THE BUFFALO EXPRESS
AND THE PHILLIPSBURG AC-
COMMODATION.


AND THE PHILLIPsBURG AC-
CoMMODATIoN.
Paterson, ~ J.. Nov 30 (speclaD.-Six per-
were killed and about twenty-five injured
in rear end collision the Lackawanna Rail-
road at the Van winkle-st. crossing here this
evening. The list OF the dead and Injured fol-
lows:
CRAIG. Miller. New-York City.
ROE Mrs. Mary. and daughters. Of Ithaca, " z.
wELBROCK Walter Cornell University. Ithaca N. 7.
Unknown
ARoNsoN oscar. No. siG Pennsyvania-ave. scranton-
Penn; seriously injured.
BARON. Louis Dover n. j.. rce and body bruised ana
DOYLE Mamie. Blnghamton len arm broken; injured
FREEDMAN Louis No. i33 Pennsylvania ave, scranton.
Penn: head bruised and cut
FURBUsH W. H.. No 44s East one-bundred- and seven
teenth-st. Manhattan; head slightly hurt; cut by
glass hand spraned.
GORDON. j. No 1883 Fifh-ave Manhattan: hurt
5na E wen, ,S EsEh Manhattan sA'
hurt about body and and bruised
KANE Lizzie Bnghamton. ". Y; feet crushed.
MAXWELL. Daniel. HacketstOwn. N. J.; right thigh In
MpoNALD Mrs Agnes Of OXFORD S I pU9 sSs le
MCCORMACK --, resident Of Michigan slightly cut
and injured was able to proceed TO New-York
MENDLEsHosN, Samuel. wnkesbare. Penn; body ana
MosKowITz Max. No. SO Csnnon-st.. Manhattan: in
jured about head
ossBL. william c.. No. 1882 Boulevard. Chicago; leg
PATTI F. T.. No. ssi Tompklns-ave., Brooklyn; scalp
wound.
REMsEN Charles No 325 Newkirk- ave. Brooklyn: side
injured may be internally hurt
ROE David Ithaca n. Y. husband OF the killed.
right lag crushed.
injured about head. leg injured and aferward ampp
leg ar triple fracture OF the other
WHITE. John Of the foregoing: cut by glass and
badly bruised.
The accident occurred at 7;4 p. m. A local
train arrived at the Paterson station a couple
Of minutes late, and instead OF getting out Of
the way. lay at the station discharging passen-
gers when the Buffalo express entered the block
behind and at the beginning Of the station
block stopped. The Phillipsburg accommoda-
ton train was short distance behind the Buff
falo express and it is alleged that 1t ran into
the block where the express was.
The two rear cars Of the express train
reduced almost to spllnters The passengers
were caught in the wreckage, which took fire.
and the local fremen were called to put out
the flames and aid in the work of rescue.
BOTH BOUND EAST
The express was eastbound. was the Phil
lipsburs accommodation. which ran into It.
There is rule the road that while one train
is standing in a station discharging passengers
another train shall not run in upon the other
track The local passenger train was in the sta
ton. The express drew up three hundred feet
west OF the station at Barcay-st to wait for
the local to move out so it could run in the
other track. The express was already forty-five
minutes late and the passengers should have
been in New-York.
The Phillipsburg train running about on
time and was following the express as fast as
the express cleared a block. For some reason
the Phnpsburg train did not stop outside the
block in which the station is. 1t ran into the
block going a full speed. it would appear and
when the engineer saw the lights OF the express
ahead It was too late to stop. He and his fire.
man leaped just before the crash
The engine plunged into the Of the
express, Pullman day coach. and poughed
through the heavy tmbers OF the car almost its
whole length The impact OF the engine against
this car drove it's forward end against and
upon the car ahead, similar Pullman coach.
The cars appear to have buckled upward
VIXEN the crash came. and as the rear cars
forward end arose it tore off the rear end Of
the top OF the second and then leaped into
the air, and falling back crushed the other car.
The forward end of the coach was within
fifteen feet of the forward door Of the coach
ahead when the wreck at rest.
| Before the wreckage was attacked there was
the body OF a man hanging half out Of 'one Of
| the rear windows on one side and woman
hanging from a window on the other side. Both
were in rear seats in the rear car and when the
engine hit the car and tore through 1t their
mashed and mangled bodies pushed part
way through the windows.
TAKING OUT THE INJURED.
The rescuers took men and women out OF the
wreckage in rapid order. and they were hurried
away 10 the hospitals. In many cases 1t was
necessary to chop away the wreckage about the
injured In order to get them out In some in
stances the rescuers had to resort to the slower
method OF saving.
one man, who afterward proved 10 be not
seriously hurt, was fourd standing on his head
In a corner. held fast by the wreckage which
had piled about him. When taken out II was
thought he was dead, but he revived. and was
scious from the rush OF blood TO his brain
Lizzie Kane. OF Binghamton. was found with
her feet held fast between two heavy beams
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