The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-10
ucIO END CRASH ON LEHIGH.
,orrEN PERSONS KILLED AND
iH'' TWENTY-FIVE INJURED.

IL
IN an Annual Excursion,
coiun 10 See n Prize Fight.
,ious Accident Made the Col
PossibIe-Sccnes of Horror
,t the Wreck.
,.- York Jan. 9.-By head end col
te-reen two passenger trains on the
'g-b valley Railroad at West Dunellon,
- 17.t7 p. m. to-day, thirteen per
r.re killed. and over twenty-five were
hasd
gRTTN VA KEENAN,. hotel keeper, Mt
cane. Pa.
TH HINKEL, contractor, Mt. Carmel
ncoB HELLER, tailor, Mt. Carmel
gr vE1KELL, 25 years old. Mt. Car
ua Pa.
VILLAIN II. LEADER, % years old,
Az goods dealer, Mt Carmel. He is a
SsIC. c. Leader president of a bank
Sbamokn. Pa He was only recently
4 married Gu,
THEODORE S. KOHN, shamokin, Pa
AMER 5. KEIFER, carpet dealer
& Rtsrle Pa.
WILLIAM H, Markell, shamokin,
JAMES JARVIS, p years old, Mt. Car
a reL Pa.
Two women. who are still to be identified
yos, of the wounded are from Pennsyl-
ura. Some Of the men are badly hurt,
and erral may die.
81 West Dunenon is three miles from
Bound Brook and about thirty miles from
New York city. AT the spot where the
Disaster occurred there is a sharp curve
81 he Lehish Valley tracks, and a steep
cutting; but the accident was due in the
ty. place to some terrible mistake in train
elders, aud in the second place to another
Gadent that occurred at Bound Brook
aIIer in the day.
Scene of Horror.
81 The scenes which accompanied the col
kon. the suferngs of the injured and
Tie panic that regned among the 400 pas
Slgsrs We're we'll nigh indescribabie. The
y a0od-stainel wreck of tangled and twist
81 Cd iron and wood that was still on the
nlroad tracks tonight, bore witness to
The truth of the general verdict of rail
rad men tnat this was one of the worst
4 collisions in recent years.
A nea1-end collision on a double track
road was made possible only by a freight
wreck which occurred at Bound Brook at
1ocock ihi9 morning, when the axle of
8 iFeght car broke and nine cars were
ilei on top of each other. This COM
Ptey blocked the west-bound track, and
a through the morning Lehigh Valley
aIs pound for New York, switched
Wm their own track to the west-bound
ga.h going over these rails from Bound
HooA TO New Market, a distance of six
u. ana changing at the latter place
AA to their right side of the road. To
nm' tAls mode Of traffic all west-bound
uins were held at South Plainfield until
asl own line was clear of trains going
.he opposite direction.
The Fnted Train.
yam No 90 which left Shamokin. Pa,
d. m was SO heavy with human
s'oA' mat It had to be broken into three
p-S, me first two sections arrived at
sIu hrook, switched over to the other
s A switched back to Newmarket. and
- New York in safety. The third
I ol this train was almost an hour
4S seven cars were crowded with
aAcurslonists most of them from
Fg Oaimei Shamokin, Mahoney CITY.
s. AsAand and Pottsviile. Pa. The
was travelling under the auspices of
M u9l'eSS Mems excursion, an an
ut which many patronize for a
I'M. 'ays u!p to New York. Not a few
~ A9uISlonists We're coming 10 wit
mn uIe McCoy-Sharkey fight. Their
n..., ",lued over at Bound Brook and
b v.s. llAe the preceding sections, on
r1Sl-o2uud track.
slanwhle there had been waitiro. =.
6r 'Aet a local train that plies reeu-
~ %l"een New York ana po,7ra
@t I'S number on the schedule Is n
an was due in Bound Brook AZ II "a
s.t,..," wing to the traffic all going on
IN ,o o1N' ii was almost an hour late A.
hd go,. uain dispatcher at South Plain
rsbir- ~ mission to go. Just before
aved "'Si Dunellon Engineer Wvck
ere for u'h down, because he STOPS
i'Ssengers, if there are any.
run speed to Death.
@p, @"n Bfennan, the signal man. threw
hn , -i's ana waved them as if TO saw
Nm no passengers, so the local
ehg o., lam ana headed round the curva
ngs a"5ut twenty-five miles an bonr
bal Only four passengers on tbe
onior the cab of tho
egre,, am was James Prenderpast
They ss ~" his fireman, Gcore Cheshire
4 curve 0,. lie local as it started on the
gribrg sArieking whistle and brakes
Gso. sl'iNs from the wheels the ex-
d.tr,', 'ol' down to what seemed certoi,
he c5rt,r.. ne passengers, alarmed at
Cows n,, whistle, opened the win
n telr ,r,. natched their children in
s. Mblf.r men started from their seats
4 tas HI, '-''y had time to find our what
4 Mg tr, '',er' they were hurled head
n @r.g5t ,I senseiess and many killed
hb oro. me two engines. from which
s Nh An nad jumped, came together
N. an awful crash. 'ose'ier
Il aa5ogt .s 'oH train was probably going
tgno miles an hour. The Local
n ene ,ripped in its faster aigbt
ha7~ 'lhpIete somersault and came
Fl &r "oWn beside its now den,o1isrn1
n aAf. But its career was not a,d
B agrso5 naH Jammed the tender of the
y &aa,r vi %a'h almost from one end "a
% ,erJ., 'ne iirst ear from Shamokjn
I N dao- topped a few seats from tho
i n1sI me car, or what was left oe
4 alq oFef' carrying with a the i'm
u @e. s,-I the fragments of a dozen
ara the wounded. " "0Neh
TO the Excursionists
h "iH 4u the fret 1o . .