Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-11-30
Says That Red Light Should
Have Warned the Second
Train of the Danger.
BODIES ARE ALL IDENTIFIED
One Family of Four Was Completely
Wiped Out in the DisaSter--Injured
In the Hospitals Will All Probably
Recover it is Thought.

! New York, Nov. 30.-Six persons were
! killed almost instantly and twenty seri-
ously injured in the train wreck at Pat
erson, N j., last night, when an accom-
modation train on the Lackawanna rail-
road crashed into the rear of the Buffalo
express standing near the station The
engineer on the accommodation train
was John Riordan. He stuck to his
post. The fireman is said to have jumped
just before the locomotive struck the
end or the smoker Riordan escaped
practically unhurt. He said that he had
seen no danger signal and did not know
that the Buffalo train was on the other
side of the curve, as it was an hour be-
hind it's regular time.
Superintendent Russell of the Lacka-
wanna road said that the flagman near
the station should have given warning
to the approaching train and that Rior-
dan should have seen the red lights ON
the ends of the Buffalo train to avoid
the accident.
Riordan says that the sharp curve on
the road at that point hid the rear red
lights on the Buffalo train from view.
Whether the station man signaled was
not cleared up last night. Riorian saws
he saw no signals. II seems to be q GER
tainty that no one thought to send a
man back to the curve to flag the APP
preaching accommodation train. which
was running on it's usual schedule and
the people at the station should have
known that the train was due
Superintendent Russell of the Lacla-
wanna made this statement:
Train No 96, the Philipsburg accom-
mediation, overlook Train No. 6, the Buf-
faio express, at Dover, and picked up a
hn lln1
overlook No. again at Lincoln Park,
"A place few miles west Of Paterson
and the Nc. 6 flaeman returned to his
train. Those in charge of Train No. 90
We're thus fully cosnizant of the prox-
unity of Train No. g. Notwithstanding
this knowledge Train No 96 seems to
have entered Paterson at a careless rate
OF speed and to have run into No. 6. RI
understand that the head of No 6, which
was long train, was at the station and
that the passengers who were to leave
the train al that point were about to be
discharged. Under the circumstances
those in charge of Train No. 96 seem to
be wholly culpabie. All of the crew of
that train have been suspended"
The bodies OF the SIX persons killed in
,ast nights wreck on the Delaware,
I.ackaWanna & Western road were posi-
lively identified today Those Killed |
We're:
ALEX CRAIG OF Scranton, Pa, busi- |
ness manager of the Tribune.
ESTHER CRAIG, his wife.
ESTHER CRAIG, their l5-year-oId !
daughter.
JESSIE CRAIG, their 11-year-old
daughter.
MRS. MAYBERT ROE, Ithaca N. Y.
WALTER J. WALBROOK, Is years
old. New York
Walbrook was student at Cornell.
It was not until today that the identi-
fication of the two children killed VOC
made positive. Relatives of the Craig
family went to Paterson today and iden-
lifed the children. The accident Wiped
put the family. They were on their way
70 spend Thanksgiving with relatives in
Brooklyn.
All persons in the hospitals at Pater-
son are doing well and it is believed all
will recover