The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-07-31
BAD WRECK ON ERIE ROAD
TWOPERSONS KILLED 4 4NDTWENTY-
 SIX OTHERS INJURED.
Lackavyaxep, N. Y,, and the Chicago Express Crashes Into It-Was Travel- ling Fifty Miles m Hour Fire at Once Breaks Out-Scencs of Suffering.

Breaks Out-Scencs of Suffering.
 Port Jervis, N. r., July BOA land
 slide resulting from cloud-burst caus-
 ed an accident on the Erie railroad a mile east of Lackawaxen, N. r., last
 night, in which two persons were killed
 outright and twenty-six others more or
 less injured. The killed are; stephen
 OutWater. Port Jervis, engineer of de-
 raied engine; Frederick Sells, Port Jer-
 wis, fireman of derailed engine.
 The injured are: G. L. Stephens, Chi
 cago, bruises, minor contusions; F.
 Flew, New York, cut head and right
 arm; G. N Boyd, sharon, Pa, scalp
 wounds; Mrs. G, H. Boyd, Sharon, Pa,
 bruised back and shoulders; Brainard
 Shay, Port Jervis engineer of freight,
 pelvis broken; Frederick Smith, Port
 Jervis, brakeman, shoulder broken; J. M. Trimmer, trainman No. r. shoulder
 injured Michael Thornton, porter
 shoulder bruised; Timothy Welch, con-
 ductor, No. ', back and legs injured;
 G. E. Belz, Cleveland, O., cut head,
 hand bruised and burned l.. E. Parker
 New York, hand burned; Mrs. r. c.
 Heath, New York, cut head, back in-
 jured; F. L. Mergott, Newark, N. J., slight confusion bruises left leg; F. S. l K iln1triplx T0enyor c1iult ipi
 l.. Drake Pullman conductor, slight in- 1 juries; Jeanette Moore, Cleveland, O.,
 slight injuries; w. Freybold Hobolxen,
 N. J., slight injuries; A. s. Collins, Buff
 falo, N. Y, slight injuries; Richard
 Smith, Chicago, slight injuries Miss | Florence Adel Mulford. Newark, and
 Mrs. Elizabeth Hunt Newark, bruises; John Brenter, Attica, N. Y, baggage master, head cut, bruises; Frank M. Sanford, New York chef, bruises, scald- ed; William Dunbar, New York, second cook, burns and bruises; William Love
 joy, Jersey City. waiter burned hands; Robert Frazer, Jersey City. waiter scalded hands.
 A cloud-burst and storm which last ed two hours, occurred shortly before midnight and a section of the bank fell on the east-bound tracks directly in front of an east-bound freight train composed of sixty cars. Several trees went down with the bank and the freight ears and the engine were turned over across the west-bound track on the Erie road. Twenty-tWo of the cars were deraled and piled up on the west bound track just as the west-bound Chicago express for Buffalo, which left New York at II o'clock last night, put
 in an appearance, running at the rate of fifty miles an hour The engine of the express train crashed into the wreck and the baggage, combination, buffet and two Pullman sleepers were piled up on the track in front of the wrecked freight cars. The first sleeper was split in two and the passengers were thrown thirty feet down the bank. Fire at once broke out and four cars of the ex- press train and nine of the freight cars were burned Baggagemaster Becker, who found himself under the baggage car door, recovered consciousness only to discover that he was all alone in the heart of the wrecked passenger cars. He managed to crawl from his position only to find a blaze starting in front of him. He called for assistance, but there was no response. Then he saw the pas sengers, who had been hurled down the thirty-foot embankment, endeavoring to extricate themselves from the debris | and make their way up the bank. All | were clad only in their night clothing, | and they were shiverng with the cold. | Some were bleeding and moaning, but 1 all were dazed. Members of the train | crews comenced to search different DOT tionms of the wreck and assisted those | who were struggling to escape Blan- kets were brought in from the Pullman cars and wrapped around shivtring, | hysterical women and half-conscious men. Word was telegraphed to Port Jervis, a relief train was at once ar- ranged for and physicians and nurses returned for the purpose of caring for those needing assistance. Nearly all of | the injured were removed to the hospi- tals Barnard Shay of Port Jervis and G. F. Belz of Cleveland were most seri- ously hurt, but it is not thought that their wounds will prove fatal
 Several thieves from Port Jervis, who, it is supposed, reached the scene of the wreck on the relief train. ransacked the clothes of the passengers during the period of excitement
 After several hours search the bodies of Engineer Outwater and Fireman Sells were found under their engine by per sons attached to the wrecking train. Both bodies had been burned to the waist Conductor Welch, who was re- moved to his home, was not seriously He had train check in his showing three persons as yet for. Two were from Cleve- land and one from Cattaragus. The man travelled on an editorial ticket. It is believed that they had talk en refuse in the vicinity of the wreck and that they will be heard from later. Thousands of persons visited the scene of the wreck to-day and many who looked over the wreckage expressed the opinion that the remains of the missing men would be found there.
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