The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-01-10

GERS jumped, but Too Late to
Escape Probably Fatal Injuries
Babe Sleeping In Debris.
NEW YORK. Jan. s.-By a head-end
collision between two passenger trains
of the Lehigh Valley railroad, at West
Dunelen, N. r., at 12:47 D. n. today,
thirteen persons were killed and over
twenty-five injured. The dead:
MARTIN KEENAN,, hoteIkeeper, Mount
Carmel Pa
w. H. HINKEL, contractor, Carmel Pa.
JACOB HELLER tailor, Mount CarncI,
Pa.
H. E. wETKEL. twenty-five years of age,
Mount Carmel, Pa.
FRANK FISCHER, shoe dealer, Mount car
mel, Pa
WILLIAM H LEADER. twenty-five years
oil age, dry goods dea-er, Mount Carmel. He
is con of C. C. Leader, president OF tre
bank in shamokin. He was only recen Iy
married.
FRANK Markell, five years of age sha-
mokin, Pa.
THEODORE s. KoHN, shamokin. Pa.
ABNER s. KIEFER, carpet dealer. Potts
vile, Pa.
WILLIAM H. Markell. shamokin. Pa.
JAMES JARVIS, twelve years CT age, Mouas
Carmel, Pa.
fed.
THE INJURED.
rthur Tregembo, HeweIIyn. Pa. both Isez
broken, Plafnheld hospital.
Nicholas Parecca, Shausolzin. legs crushed
Platnfeld hospital
Harry John Parecca, Shamokfn. legs crush
ed Piainfel6 hospital
MRS. Mary Pareeca, Shamokia, Internal IN
Juries. may de, Plainheld hospital.
y. Schaener, fireman, South Eastou. Pa
ska4 fractured, may de, P!ainfeId hospital
reward Kick, engineer, legs broken todv
crushed, exepcted to ole. PIatnfis.d hoz1ftsl.
Jehn Malesky. ShamOkin, Pa.
Mary Garville. Mount Carmel. Pa. Plain
field hospital. "a -
hospital! i11iiue-a
eeis George S.a Lagnsky, Mount Carmel. "a, PAIN
-, Unidentified man. with y. j." on his egss
Plainfeid hospital. 'a''7'
James Prendergast Easton, Pa. rtsl,, g.
de, Plainfeid hospital -AeiS %
hospital. riainne;d
oraldo S. Talne, sunburv, Pa b,n;..,
ankles sprained: ST. Francis hosptaI Is.Se,
Harry R. Foster, plumber Pottsvilie' 1-5a Pa :
- iS6S OiOhSu, sent nome
Mrs Henry Lockhaven. Big Mine Pr, L.,
crushed; sent home.
Mrs. Lockhavenfs mother, legs crushed: sen,
home. sent
MRS. Loudenslager, not very seriously.
MRS. Annie John, Shamokin, Pa, seriously
injured about the legs St vincent's hospital.
New York.
John Prentice, Marblehead. Mass. rot seri-
ously taken home
Frank r. McTn+vra Aso,,.L Gu,
and bruised; went to hotel in New York.
L. s. Walter, lawyer, Mount Carmel. Pa.
legs broken; left in a house in DuneIen.
William F. Felin, PottsviIe, Ps., legs frac-
tured; taken to a hotel in New York
Mrs. John l. Ballou, san5ury, Pa, shock,
severe bruises.
John BallOu, husband of Mrs. BallOu. slight
injuries.
Abraham Algier. Mount Carmel, Pa. slight
ly injured; taken to hotel in New York.
Mrs. Biltz. Ashland, Pa, both legs broken !:
sent home.
Conductor Price, of the local, slightly in
jured.
Harry Riddle. conductor of excursion train,
slightly injured.
Ralph l. Reed, baggagemaster. local, slight
ly injured
P. o.. Helm. sunbury, Pa, scalp wound
hands injured.
Stanley Day, Newmarket, N. J.. bruised
about body and legs
William Corrie, Newmarket, n. J., similar
injuries.
West Dunelen is three miles from
Bound Brook and about thirty miles
flom New York city. At the spot where
the disaster occurred there is a sharp
curve in the Lehigh Valley tracks and
steep cutting, but the accident w6s
due in the first place to some terrible
mistake in train orders, and, in the
second place, to another accident that
occurred at Bound Brook earlier in
the day.
The scenes that accompanied the col
lision, the sufferings OF the injured
and the panic that reigned among the
400 passengers were weli-nigh inde-
scribable. The blood-stained wreck OF
tangled and twisted iron and wood
that was still on the railway track to-
night bore truth to the general Ver-
diet of the railroad people that this
was one of the worst collisions in re-
cent years.
A head-on collision on a double track
railroad was made possible only by
| a freight wreck, which occurred at
Bound Brook at 6 O'Clock this morning,
when the axle of freight car broke
and nine cars were piled on top of
each other. This completely blocked
the east-bound track, and all through
the morning the Lehigh Valley trains,
bound for New York, switched from
their own track to the west-bound
track, going over these rails from
Bound Brook to Newmarket, a dis
tance of six miles, and changing at
the latter place back to their right
side of the road To permit this mode
of traffic all west-bound trains were
held at South Plainfeld until their own
line was clear of trains going in the
opposite direction Train No 20, which
/ left Shamokin, Pa, at a. m, was so
heavy with human freight that it had
| to be broken into three sections.
| CROWDED WITH EXCURSIONISTS.
! The first two sections arrived at
/ Bound Brook, switched over to the
| other track, switched back at New
market and reached New York IN
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