The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-01-10
LEH|GH TRAINS MEET
At FR|GhTFUl SPEED.
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both legs hroEen.
Mrs Henry Locxhart. Big Nine Run.
legs broken.
Mrs Lecknarfs mother, legs crushed
Mrs. Harry Johns. S1Amokin, seriously
injured about the legs, 81. Vincent hos
pital. New York.
l. S Waters. lawyer. Mount Carmel.
legs broken
William Feelln. PostsviIle. leg frac-
tared.
Mrs Bsitz, Ashland. Pa. both legs bro
ken.
FREIGHT Wreck Blocked One Track.
head-erd collision on a double track
road was made possible only bs a freight
wreck which occurred al BoGndxoek AZ
o'clock this morning, when the axle OF =
freight car broke ard zine cars were piled
on top Of each Other. The completely
blocked the east-ooand track and all
through the morning Lenigf Valley trains
bssnd for New York were switched from
their own track 10 the wessoouad track.
| going over these rails from Boundorook 10
Newmarket. distance OF six miles. AMI
changing at the latter place back 20 the
right side Of the road. To permit this
mode OF traffic all wess-bound trains were
held at South PiaInfieId until their own
/ line was clear os trains going In the oppo-
! site direction.
Train Nc. -. which left Shamokin, Pa,
al / g. m. was 20 heavy with human
freight that Ii had 10 be broken into three
sections. The frs. TWO sections arrived
| AT Boundhro0k, switched over to the other
i track. switched back al Newmarket ana
/ reached New York in safety The third
section OF this train was almost an hour
! late I;s seven cars were crowded with
/ ~ excurSionists, most Of them from Mount
+. carmel and Shamokin. Mahanoy City.
/ Hazeltcn, Ashland and Pottsyille. Pa.
THIRD section Goes to Destruction
| The party WAS travelling under the
| auspices o. the Business Mems Excurs.on
/ an annual event which many patronize fer
tnree-dass' visit to New York Not a
Few or the excursiofSlsts were coming 10
witness the McCoy-Sharkey fight Their
train switched over al Boundbrook and
/ proceeded ike The preceding section on the
/ wes;bound track.
+. Meanwhile there had been waiting a,
Newmarket a local train that plies between
New York and Eoundbrsok II IL due In
Boundhrook at 1i:59 a. IN. Owing 10 the
! traffic all going on os track Il was alrr1os,
/ an hour late. At last the train dispatcher
| at South piainfieit gave Il permission to GO
Just before re6ching West Duneilen. En-
i gineer Rick slowed his .rain down. be-
! cause he stops for passengers If there are
/ any. Martin Brennan. the sigma, man.
threw up his arms and waved them ss IL
| 10 say there were no passengers, so the
] local put on steam and headed round the
/ curve, going at about twenty-five miles an
| hour. There were only four passengers on
the local
! In The cab OF the excursion train was
I Ia ska
! fireman. George Cheshire They saw the
/ local as IL started on the curve With
sarssking whistle and brakes grinding
sparks from the Wheels the excursion train
bore down 10 what seemed certain des.ruc-
I ton The passengers. alarmed at the con-
: tsnned wnfstling, opened the windows
mothers snAtched their children In their
arms. men started from their seats. bu, be-
fore they had time 10 find out what was
/ the matter they were hurried headlong
knocked senseless and many killed outright.
| Tender Cuts Through . Car.
The two engines, from which both crews
had jumped. came together with an awful
| crash. The excursion train was preisa b,y
| going at about fifteen miles an hour. TIE
| local engine, ga II tripped in its faster dight
| turned q complete somerSouit and come
/ crashing down beside its now acuoilshed
obstruction. But its career was net ended
| before Il had tsmn1esi the tender os ths ex-
cursion train almost from one end 70 ,ae
other OF the first car from Shamoktn T.na
tender stopped few seats from the rear
door. The car. or what was left or q
. relied over carrying with L ,hs ifnhessS
tender. the fragments OF a dozen bodies ana
the imprisoned wounded. who had been car
lied with the Jagged iron on itz relentless
/ COURSE through tho coach
II was in the first ear OF the excursion
train that all the deaths and most ~ -ha
! casualties occurred. The ether cars. though
their occupants were badly shaken ma
stayed en- the track ana we're In con9i;Io,
/ 90 be hauled OF. The baggage car in th.
! front cf the local train Mas rather hsaly
! smashed up.
From Duuelien Boundhrook ana other
places surgeons were quickly summoned
j They came over The Central railroad -
New Jersey. whose tracks run uarsI,ol
with the Lshigh at this point. about SO
yards distant.
WreCkins trains were oulcki, on hand
~ he dead were taken from the seuroI.
iShed car they were put in the roar rars
OF The excursion train ard taken 30 Ro,trs-
brook. where coroner's inqvest w.s hai,
iansght- The injured we're pus in ne rars
az TIE local train. Twenty-one were taken
! q the flairfied hospital while IA. less
seriously injured were sent On 20 Jersey
| Cay scd New York
| Both Engineer. VIII Die.
| Eogineer prer3ergass. WIN wefehs a.
-nost 30 pounds. Jumped too lafa n. was
! caught under his engine aad for three
! hours lay IN srightfnl agony When at lac,
! huge crane lifted she iron or his hos;y
Re was found 50 badly .njured that he !.
/ expected % die
Tee ics< 81 Ife inflicted uoon his .ra.-
vo1id prahah5y have been nothtnw az.
" hst St was had Il nos bregs for .he fec.
/ iaat ~ Aauch chunk re harxara cav \.
ne excursion trsin was found To nave /,