The Penn's Grove record., 1899-08-04
WRB(kED ON fHE ERIE.
FREIGHT Ran Into a Landslide and Pas.
senger Train Followed.
ACCIDENT DUE T0ACLoUDBURST
The Engineer and Fireman Killed and
Many Injured - Passengers Hurled
Down a Thirty-Foot En,banEment-
Fire Added a New P~eril-Thieves From
Port Jervis Loot baggage and Clothing.

PoRT JERvIs, N. Y. Especially The Erie
passenger vestibuled traia No. 4. for Buffalo
and Cleveland, leaving Jersey City at 7.3t
o'clock, was wrecked and burned two miles
east OF Lackawaxen, only two cars escap.
ing the flames. The train consisted OF a
mail car, express car, cafe car, and three
Pullman cars. The wreck occurred during
a storm which caused q landslide. An
east-bound Erie freight train was first
wrecked, and the passenger train plunged
into the freigh. wreck. The engineer and
fireman of the passenger train we're killed,
and fifteen passengers and a number of the
crew OF both trains were injured. The
killed are stephen Outwater. engineer. and
Frank Sells, fireman, both OF Port Jervis.
The wreck, which occurred shortly be-
fore midnight, was preceded by u cloud
burst and storm which lasted two hours.
A section of the rank fell on the e~ast-bound
tracks directly In front OF the freight train.
Several trees went down with the rocks and
the earth, and the freight cars and engine
were turned over directly across the west
bound tracks of the Erie Road. Sixty
freight ears constituted the train, thouy III
only twenty-five were derailed, and
the debris was piled up on the w~estbound
tracks just rs the No. 7 Buffalo and Cleve-
land express put in an appearance, run
/ ming at the rate of fifty miles an hour. The
engine of the express train crashed into
the wreck, and the baggage and mail car,
combination and buffet car, and two Pull
man sleeperG were piled up on the tracks
Immediately In front of the wrecked freight
cars. The first sleeper was split into two
parts as n result OF the accident, and the
passengers were thrown thirty feet down II
bank. Fire at once broke out and four
cars OF No. Z and nine Of the freight cars
were burned.
himself under the baggage car door, re-
covered consciousness to discover that he
was alone in the heart OF the wrecked pas
senger cars. He managed to crawl from
his position only to find a blaze starting in
front of him, while half OF a car WAS some
how braced up Immediately over him. He
called Tor assistance, but there was no re-
spouse. Then he saw the passengers who
had been hurled down the thirty-foot en-
bankment, endeavoring to extricate them
solves from the debris and make their way
up the bank. They were clad only in their
night clothing, and many of them were
bleeding and moaning.
At once the unipiured passengers and
members of the crew began a systematic
work of rescue. Blankets were brought
in from the Pullman cars and wrapped
around shiyerlng, hysterical women and
half conscious men. Word was tele-
graphed to Port Jervis, II relief train was
at once arranged for, and DR.. Cuddeback,
DR.. Swartout, DR.. Johnson and several
trained nurses returned for the purpose OF
caring for those needing immediate assis-
lance. The relief train soon reached the
scene of the accident, and nearly all OF
the injured persons were removed to the
hospital.
Several thieves from Port Jervis, who, it
l. @-~l- EI- A. 49,
on the relief train. ransacked the clothes
of the passengers during the period OF ox-
element. f. yleu. of New York, lost cloth
ing containing $500 in bills and a gold
watch. +. s.. Fitzpatrick, OF Denver, lost
800, a gold wateb, a diamond pin aud u
diamond stud. On the way to the hospital
he noticed a man wearing his trousers.
Together they went through the pockets,
but found the none gone. The man said
the trousers had been given him by one of
.he trainmen. but claimed that the money
and valuables must rave been taken before
he received the present of the clothing.