The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-10
AWFUL WRECK
DISASTER ON THE LEHIGH VALLEY
ROAD AT WEST DUNNELLEN, n. j.
Head-on Collision Betweeen Passen-
ger Trains Caused by Another Acct
dent and a Terrible Mistake.
THIRTEEN PEOPLE KILLED
AND THIRTY MORE NAMED, BRUISED
AND OTHERWISE INJURED.
Most of the Victims ExcursiOnists,
Some En- Route To New York to See
the McCOy-Sharkey Fight.
TENDER JAMMED INTO COACH
OCCUPANTS OF THE CAR MANGLED
ALMOST WITHOUT WARNING.
Collision on the Union Pacific at Su-
mol, Neb.-FOur Lives Lost and Sew
en- People Severely Hurt.
A
TENDER JHMMED INTO COACH
OCCUPANTS OF THE CAR MANGLED
ALMOST WITHOUT WARNING.
Collision on the Union Pacific at Su-
mol, Neb.-FOur Lives Lost and Sew
en- People Severely Hurt.

NEW YORK, Jan. BY a head-on col
Ilsion between two passenger trains of the
Lehigh Valley Railroad at West Dunnellen,
n. j., at 12:47 o'clock this afternoon thirteen
persons were killed and over twenty-five
injured.
MARTIN KEENAN,, hotel keeper, Mount
Carmel. Pa
w. H. HINKEL, contractor. Mount Car
mel, Pa.
JACOB HELLER, tailor, Mount Carmel.
Pa.
H. E. WEIKELL twenty-five years old,
Mount Carmel, Pa.
FRANK FISCHER, shoe dealer, Mount
Carmel, Pa.
WILLIAM H. LEADER, twenty-four
years old, dry goods dealer. Mount Carmel,
Pa He is a son of c. c. Leader, president
of a bank in Shamoxin, and was only re-
Gently married.
FRANK Markell. fifty-four years of
age, Shamokin Pa.
THEODORE S. KOHN, Shamokin, Pa
ABNER S. KEIFER, carpet dealer, Potts.
vile, Pa.
WILLIAM II. Markell, Shamokin, Pa
JAMES JARVIS, twelve years old, Mount
Carmel, Pa.
TWO WOMEN. who are still to be identi-
fed.
The Injured
ARTHUR TREGEMBO, Llewellyn, Pa,
both legs broken, Plainfeld Hospital.
NICHOLAS PARECCA, Shamokn, legs
crushed, Plainield Hospital.
HENRY JOHN PARECCA, Shamokin,
legs crushed, Plainfeld Hospital
LOUIS PARECCA, Shamokin, legs
crushed, Plainfield Hospital
MRS. MARY PARECCA, Shamokin, in
ternal injuries, may die. Plainfeld Hospital.
o. S. SCHAEFFER, fireman, South
Easton, Pa, skull fractured, may die, Plain
field Hospital.
EDWARD w. RICK. engineer, legs
broken body crushed, expected to die,
Plainfeld Hospital.
JOSEPH MALESKY, Shenandoah, Pa.
MARY JARVILLE, Mount Carmel, Pa,
Plainfeld Hospital.
- MAIOSTA, Shenandoah, Pa, Plain
field Hospital.
GEORGE LAUNsKY, Mount Carmel, Pa,
Plainfieid Hospital.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN with 81. J.' on
his cuffs, Plainfeld Hospital.
JAMES PRENDERGAST, engineer,
Easton, Pa, likely to die. Plainf1eld Hos
pital.
- JOSEPHS, full name and residence
unknown, Plainfield Hospital
ORLANDO STAINE, Sunbury, Pa.
bruised. ankle sprained St. Francis Hos
pital. Jersey City.
HARRY r. FOSTER, plumber, Pottsville.
Pa, both legs broken, sent home.
MRS. HENRY LOCKHAVEN, Big Mine
Run, legs crushed, sent home
MRS. L0CKHAVEN'S MOTHER, legs
crushed, sent home
MRS. LoUDENsLAGER. not very seri-
ousy.
MISS ANNIE JOHNS, shamokin. Pa.
seriously injured about legs, st. Vincent's
Hospital, New York.
JOHN PRENTICE. Marblehead, Mass.
not seriously, proceeded home
FRANK L. MINTYRE, Mauch Chunk
Pa, cut and bruised, went to a hotel in New
York.
L. S. WALTER, lawyer, Mount Carmel
Pa. legs broken, left in a house in Dunn
ellen.
WILLIAM FEELIN, Pottsville. Pa. leg
fractured taken to a. hotel IN New York.
MRS. JOHN BALLoU, Sunbury, Pa,
shock, severe bruises.
JOHN BALLOU, husband of Mrs. RaIIou
similar injuries
IL.
slightly injured, taken to a hotel in New
York.
MRS BILTZ, Ashland, Pa, both legs
broken, sent home
CONDUCTOR PRICE, of the local
slightly injured
HARRY RIDDLE. conductor of excursion
train, slightly injured
RALPH L. REED. baggagemaster of the
local. slightly injured.
2. o. HEINZ, Sunbury Pa, scalp wound
hands injured.
STANLEY DAY, New Market, N. j.
bruised about body and legs.
WILLIAM CORRIE, New Market, n. J..
similar injuries.
AT A SHARPE CURVE.
West Dunnellen is three miles from
Boundbrook. and about thirty miles from
New York city. At the spot where the dis
aster occurred there is a sharp curve in the
Lehigh Valley tracks and a steep cutting.
but the accident was due in the first place
TO some terrible mistake in train orders
and in the second place TO another accident
that occurred at Boundbrook earlier in the
day. The scenes which accompanied the
collision. tho sufferings of the injured and
the panic that reigned among the four hum
dred passengers were well-nigh indescrib-
able. The blood-stained wreck Of tangled
and twisted iron and wood that was still
on the railroad tracks tonight bore witness
to the truth Of the general verdict of rail-
road men that this was one Of the worst
collisions in recent years.
A hesd-on collision on double track was
made possible only by "A freight wreck which
occurred at Boundbrook at o'clock this
morning, when the axle of freight car
broke and nine cars were piled on top OF
each other. This completely blocked the
sast-bound track. and ali through the nagn-