The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-01-10


on collision between two passenger trains
of the Lehish Valley railroad at West
Dunellen, n j., at 1917 p. m, today Is
persons were killed and over l5 were in
jured. The dead are:
Martin keenan,. hotel keeper, Mount
Carmel, Pa.
W. II. Hinckls, contractor, Mount Car
mel.
Jacob Heller, tailor, Mt. Carmel
II. Il. WeikelI. Mt. Carmel.
Frank Fischer, shoe dealer. Mt Carmel
william IL. Leader, dry goods dealer,
Mt. Carmel. he was a son Of q. G. Lead
er, president of bank in Shamokin. He
was only recently married.
Frank MiA keel. Shsmokin. Pa.
Theodore SIsokla Kohn. Shamokin.
Abnar s. keifer, carpet dealer, Potts.
vile, Pa.
william II. Markell, Shamokin.
James Jarvis, lo years old, Mt. Carmel.
Two women who arc still to be identi-
fed.
West Dunsllen is three miles from
Bound Brook and about 80 miles from
New York city. At the spot where the
disaster occurred, there is sharp
curve in the Lehigh Valley tracks and a
steep cutting, but the accident was due
in the first place to some mistake in
train orders and in the second place to
another accident that occurred at Bound
Brook earlier in the day. The scenes
which accompanied the collision. the
sufforings of the injured and the panic
that reigned among the 400 passengers,
were well nigh indescribable.
THE BLOOD-SrAINED WRECK
of tangled and twisted iron and wood
that was still on the railroad tracks to-
night, bore witness to the truth of the
general verdict of railroad men that this
was one of the worst collisions in recent
years.
A head collision on a double track road
was only made possible by freight
wreck which occurred at Bound Brook at
O'Clock this morning when the axle OF
"a freight car broke and nine cars were
piled on top of each other. This COM
pletely blocked the eastbound track AID
all through the morning Lehigh Valley
trains bound for New York switched from
their own track 10 the west bound track,
going over these rails from Bound Brook
to Newmarket, distance of six miles
and changing at the latter place back
TO their right side Of the road. To per-
trains were held at South Plain field un-
til their own line was olea r Of trains go.
iIg In the opposite direction. Train No {.
20 which Left Shamokin. Pa.i at a. m. /,
was SO heavy with human freight that 1t
had TO be broken into three sections.
The first two sections arrived at Bound
Brook, switched over to the other track,
switched back at Newmarket and r cached
New York in safety. The third section
Of this train was almost an hour late.
Its seven cars were crowded with 400 ex-
cursionists, most OF them from Mount
Carmel, and Shamokin, Ma honey City
Hazslton, Ashland and Pottsville, Pa.
The party was travelling under the aus
pices of the business mems excursion,
an annual affair which many patronized
for q three days visit to New York. Not
few of the exoursionists were coming
to witness the MoCoy -Sharkey fight.
Their train switched over at Bound Brook
and proceeded, like the preceding sections,
on the west bound track.
Meanwhile there had been waiting at
Newmarket a local train that plies regu-
iarly between New York and Bound
Brook. Its number on the schedule is
II, and 1t was due in Bound Brook at
II. SO a. IN. Owing to the traffic all going
on one track, 1t was almost an hour late.
At last the train dispatcher at South
Plainteld gave it permission to go. just
before reaching West Dunellen. Engineer
Rick slowed his traiL down, because the
train stops there for passengers If there
are any. Martin Brennan, the signal
man, threw up his'arms and waved them