The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-11-30
THE WRECK AT PATERSON,N. j.
A CORRECT LIST OF THE DEAD
AND FATALLY INJURED.
SUPERINTENDENT Russell Says That
the Blame Attaches to the Ac-
,.l-,s comm odation Train People.

New York. November 29.-six persons
were killed almost instantly and twenty
seriously injured in the train wreck al
Paterson, n. j. tonight, when an accom-
mediation train on the Lackawanna rail-
road crashed into the rear OF the buifaio
express, standing near the station.
The dead are:
WILLARD CRAIG of the Scranton. Pa.
Tribune.
MRS. WILLARD CRAIG of Scranton,
Fa.
TWO DAUGHTERS of Mrs and Mrs,
Willard Craig, aged 10 and 10 years
MRS. DANIEL ROWE of Ithaca, N. y
w. j. WELBRoCK. Cornell student, Of
| Ithaca. n. Y.
G. H. White 20 years old, of Ithaca, n.
Y, will die from his injuries,
Daniel Rowe of Ithaca will also die
The engineer on the accommodation
train was John Riordan. He stuck to his
! post. The fireman is said to have jumped
| lust before the locomotive struck the end
! of the smoker Riordan escaped PRACTICAL
| ly unhurt; he said that he had seen no
| Danger signal and did not know that the
! Buflalo train was on the other side oil the
curve. as it was an hour behind It's resu-
/ lar time.
Supertindent Russell Of the LackawanEd
road said that the fiagman near the sta
ton should have given warning 10 the ap,
preaching train and that Riordan should
have seen the red lights on the end OF the
! Buffalo train in time to avoid the acci
dent Riordan says that the sharp curNe
on the road at that point hid the rear req
lights on the Buffalo train from view
Whether the station fiagman signailed tht
train was not absolutely cleared up 70
night. Riordan asserts he saw no signals
II seems to be a certainty that no though
4 of sending man down the road beyon'
the curve to flag the approaching accom-
I mediation train, which was running on ~
usual schedule and the people at the STA
tion must have known It was DUE =
4 Superintendent Russell of the Lacka
wanna made this ,atement tonight
"Train No. 96. the Phillipsburg accommo
dation overtook train No. 6, tho Buifai
express, at Dover and picked up nag
man who had been sent back. 1t oyertoo
, M. 6 again at Lincoln Park, place
few miles west of Paterson. ana the NJ
6 6agman returned to his train. Inos
, in charge of train No. So were thus iuii
oosn.zaut cf the proximity OF tram NO.
notwithstanding this kno@.eage tIai
/ careless rate of speed and 10 nave IN
I into No. g. understand that the heH
! of No. s. which was long tram, was e
the station and that the passengers W.
2 were to leave the train at that point WEI
about to be discharged. Under the circnn
stances those in charge Of train NO.
5 seem to be wholly culpable. All OF Y
crew of that train have been suspendef
s Daniel Mccormick of Detroit was tafe
: 10 a hospital In Hoboken. He was In r.
t smoking car. the third from the rear ofIti
Buffalo express, when the crash cah
j | He said: II was sitting near the ITO
Z Of the ear. Twas pitched. IL seemed 70 IN
i clear into another car, for when W
able Ia realize where ! was ] found myBt
v pinned under heavy woman and my Hg
: foot wedged in between the brokens 81
!, OF a seat and the side of the car Ths c
4 stove seemed to explode scattering y
: live Goals through the wreck Why I
r. cars did not catch fire do not understau
), | managed to crawl out OF the wreck a
d then the sight that met me was hortif
d ing. The two rear cars were reducet
y matchwood The means OF the wound
E were dreadful. tried TO render somel i
e sierance. but found myself unable TOY
q So because Of my crushed FOOT
nj (The above is supplemental 70 the