The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-01-10
WRECK ON THE LEH|GA
Thirteen Persons Killed and
Over Twenty-Five Seri-
ous|y Injured.
THE RESULT OF A AacOLLlSION
TWO PASSENGER TRAINS COME
TOGETHER HEAD-ON

One an Excursion Train With 4Ot
Passengers, the Other u Local with
Only -Four Passengers Engine of tho
Local Train Turns a Complete somer-
sau1t-Wreckagc Bespattered with
Blood, Etc.-The Responsibility.
New York. Jan. 9.-By head-on col
lision between two passenger trains OF
the Lehigh Valley railroad at West
Dunellen, N. j., at 12:47 p. M, to-day
thirteen persons We're killed and over
twenty-five were seriously injured. The
dead are:
Martin Keenan,, hotel keeper, Mt. Car
w. II. Hinkle, contractor, Mt. Carmel
Jacob Heller. tailor, Mt. Carmel
II. L. Welkell. MI Carmel
Frank Fischer shoe dealer, Mt. Carmel.
William II. Leader, dry goods dealer, Mt.
Frank Markell Shanokin, Pa
Theodore Steckia Kohn, Shamokn.
Abner s. Keifer, carpet dealer, Pottsvllle,
William H. Markell, Shamokln.
James Jarvis, twelve years old, Mt. Car
Two women who are still to be identified
The injured are:
Arthur Tregembo, Llewelyn, Pa, both
legs broken.
Nicholas Il. Parreca shamokin, Pa, legs
crushed
Henry John Parreca, shamokin, legs
Louis Parreca, Shamokin, legs crushed.
Mrs. Mary parreca, Shamokin, internal
inures, may die.
c. e. .Shaefer, fireman, skull fractured.
Edward. W. Rick. engineer, legs broken,
body crushed, expected to die.
Jose Malasky, Shenandoah, Pa.
Mary Jarvlle. Mt Carmel Pa.
Maiesosta, Shenandoah Pa.
George Launesky, Mt. Carmel.
Unidentified man with u. j. on his
cuffs.
James Prendergast, engineer, Easton, Pa,
likely to die.
- Josephs, full name and residence un-
known.
Orlando Staine, Sunbury, Pa. bruised and
ankle badly sprained.
Mrs. Henry Lockhayen, Big Mile Run. legs
Mrs. Lockhayen's mother, legs crushed.
Mrs. Loudenslager, not very seriously.
Miss Annie Johns, Shamokin, seriously in
ured about the legs.
John Prentice, Marbehead, Mass, not Sc
rously, proceeded home.
Frank p. Mcintyre, Mauchchunk, Pa cut
Gnd bruised
l.. s. Walter, lawyer, Mt. Carmel, legs
broken.
William Feely. Pottsvlle, Pa, leg frac-
Mrs. John Balou, sunbury, Pa, severe
bruises.
john Ballou husband of Mrs. Balou, sim
liar injuries.
Abraham Algier, Mt. Carmel, Pa, slightly
injured, ,,, NJ 4, , ,..,.o
H. r. Foster Pottsville. Pa, both legs
broken.
Conductor Price of the local train, slight
Hairy Riddle. onductor of excursion train,
Ralph L. Reed, baggagemaster. local,
p o.. Helm, Sunbury, Pa, scalp wound
Stanley Day Newmarket N. j., bruised
about body and legs
lar injuries.
West Dunellen is three miles from
West Boundbrook. At the spot where
the disaster occurred there is sharp
curve in the Lehigh Valley tracks and
a steep cutting, but the accident in the
first place was due to some mistake in
train orders and in the second place to
an accident that occurred at Bound
brook early in the day. The scenes
which accompanied the collision, the /
sufferings Of the injured and the panic |
that reigned among the four hundred
passengers were we'll nigh indescribabla.
and twisted iron and wood that was
still on the railroad tracks tonight bore /
witness to the truth of the general ver-
dict of railroad men that it was one of |
the worst collisions in recent years.
A head-on collision on a double track
was only made possible by a freight
wreck which occurred at Boundbrook at
6 o'clock this morning, when the axle
Of iobt
were piled on top of each other. This
completely blocked the east bound
track and all through the morning Le
high Valley trains bound for New York
switched from their own track to the
west bound track, going over these rails
from Boundbrook to Newmarket, dis
tance of six miles, and changing at the
latter place back to their right side of
the road To permit this mode of traf-
fic all west-bound trains were held at
South Plainfield until their own line
was clear of trains going in the opposite
direction.
Train No. 20, which left Shamokin,
Pa at a. M, was so heavy with hui
man freight that it had to be broken
into three sections. The first two sec
tions arrived at Boundbrook, switched
over to the other track, switched back
at Newmarket and reached New York
in safety. The third section of this
train was almost an hour late. Its
seven cars We're crowded with four hun
dred excur3ionsts, most of them from
Mt Carmel and Shamolin, Mahoney
City, Hazleton, Ashland and Pottsville,
Pa. The party was trave ling under the
auspices of the Business Mems eXcur-
sion, an annual affair, which many pa i
tronize for three days visit to New
York. Not a few of the eXcursionists
were coming to witness the Mccoy
Sharkey fight. Their train switched
over at Boundbrook, and proceeded,
like the preceding sections, on the west
bound track. Meanwhile there had 6
been waiting at Newmarket a local ]
train that plies regularly between New {
York and Boundbrook It's number on 6
the schedule is seventy-one and it was c
due in Boundbrook at 1159 a. m. OW- t