The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-11-30
INTO THE REAR COACH
Crashed the Engine Of Swiftly Moving
Train.
SIX WERE KILLED AND MANY INJURED
Cars Were Torn ana splintercd nnd
5 Unfortunate Passengers Caught
Fnst in the Wreckngc.

standing outside the station at Paterson
moving accommodation train bound from
Phillips. N. j., to Jersey City. At least
six people were killed and there are now
twenty injured at the hospital In Pater-
son, of whom some will probably die,
while some of those seriously injured were
able to go to their destination.
! The dead as far as known are:
Mrs. Mary Roe of Ithaca, N. y. and two
daughters.
Walter welbrock. Cornell college,
7 Ithaca.
Miller Craig, New York City.
/ Unknown woman.
A body that was at first thought to DO
that of boy, proved to be the young
daughter of Mrs. Roe.
! All the bodies have been removed to the
morgue.
The Injured include: Miss Agnes Nc
Samuel Mendesor, Wilkesbarre. legs
broken; Miss Mamie Doyle. Blnghamton.
N. Y, arms broken and crushed: Miss LIZ
zie Kane, Bingbamt1n, feet crushed; David
Roe. Ithaca, husband of the woman killed.
right leg crushed; Oscar Aronson, Scran-
ton, Pa, legs crushed; John White, Ithaca,
leg broken. badly cut by glass; Louis
Darwin. Dover N. j., face and body badly
cut; Louis Freedman, Scranton, Pa, legs
crushed and head bruised Charles Rem
sen, Brooklyn, thought to be internally
injured; William C. Ossell, Chicago, leg
crushed Daniel Maxwell, Hackettstown.
n. j.. seriously bruised and cut.
The Buffalo express was waiting for a
local train to move that had been de-
layed at the station, and the Phillipsburg
accommodation was following the express
but short distance behind. The two
rear cars of the express were broken TO
pieces, most of the passengers on them
being either killed or injured. The en- i
CINE OF the Phillipsburg train was com
pletely wrecked, the engineer and fireman
jumping.
When Engineer EeardoA of the accom-
mediation saw the lights ahead the dis
lance was too short to avoid collision.
His train was going at full speed. The
express. Pullman day coach, and
ploughed through the timbers almost it's
entire length. This car was lifted from
the track and pushed into the next to the
\ last car. also a Pullman, earrying of Its
end and almost completely telescoping 1t.
The wreck caught fire, but the flames were
soon extinguished.
Within a few minutes police reserves,
firemen and great crowds of people came
I 10 the rescue OF those in the terrible tam
gle of wood and iron. From the wreck
came shrieks and groans and prayers foi
death or deliVeraDce. 1t was intensely
dark at the scene, and as the broken wood
was taken out of tho wreck 1t was thrown
! 10 the side of tho track. Then II was set
on fire To furnish light for the rescuers.
The fireman police, trainhands and sew
erai score of citizens turned in to rip the
fearful pile 10 pieces. An endeavor was
made to draw the engine ant but II was
found this could not be done because IL
would result in death to some Of those
imprisoned in the debris
Before the wreckage was attacked there
/ was the body Of man hanging halfway
! out of one of the rear windows on enc
side and woman hanging from a window
on the other Both were in the rear seats
in the rear car and when the engine hit
the car and tore through il. their mangied
bodies were crushed through the windows
and hung between the sides of the car and
the engine.
The rescuers took the man and woman
out OF the wreckage IN rapid succession
and they were hurried away to the hos
pItals.
In many cases 1t was necessary to chop
away the wreckage about the injured
in order TO get them out One man was
found standing upon his head in corner,
| held fast by the wreckage which had piled
about him. He was taken out unconscious.
IL was thought he was dead, but he re-
vved and proved to be only slightly in
jured. The Whites. father and SON were
found with their arms about each other.
The sons leg Is broken while the father
is badly bruised and his face and hands
cut by flying glass.
One of the men killed is thought to be
\ Miller Craig OF New York passbook
found on his body indicates this
Those who were chopping through the
roof of the car and freeing the victims up
! there. We're treated to a piece of splendid
I courage when they came to Sterling
Smith, Cornell student and a nephew OF
4 General Joe Wheeler. Tho hoy lives In
! Brooklyn and was going to PHILADELPHIA
Today to see the football game between
Cornell and the university OF Pennsylva-
MIA. Ills right leg was terribly mangiet,
and jamned between heavy iron and wood
! work. but he was conscious when the res
cuers reached him.
Don't bother about me-" he yelled 10
the rescures. there are women below
me. Get them out first can wait n
while. My leg Is broken see II wiggle?"
and the youth tried to smile
| One OF the resouers said as he chopped
| away: You are a brave young chap"
II don't know about that" said Smith
but my mother Is n sister OF General Joe
Wheeler and guess I've got the right
| stuff in me-"
The leg which he referred to as broken
was mashed almost into a shapeess mass
and II "wiggled" because the bones were
splintered and L was hanging simply by
shreds OF flesh and tarn tissues. At the
hospital later the doctors made imme-
dtate preparations to amputate It.
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