The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-31
Under a Land Slide on the Erie
Railroad.
Passenger Train Runs Into the
Pile of Wreckage.
TWO PERSONS KILLED.
A Number Thrown Down an
Embankment and Hurt.
Cars Take Fire and Thieves
Plumber the People.

Port Jervis, N. Y, July Alan acci-
dent the Erie railroad growing out
of a landslide a mile east of Lacka-
waxen occurred Saturday night. The
fireman and engineer of the derailed
engine of the west bound Chicago ex-
press, which turned over on the track,
were killed, and a number of passen-
gers on the express, the vestibule pas
senger train for Buffalo and Cleveland,
which left New York at Z o'clock Sat
urday, We're injured.
Following is a complete list Of the
killed and injured, as far as known at
the present time:
KILLED.
STEPHEN OUTWATER, Port Jer-
Wis. engineer of Chicago express.
FRED SELLS, Port Jervis, fireman
of Chicago express.
INJURED
c. L. Stephens III Garfield avenue,
Chicago; bruised; minor contusions.
F. View, New York; cut head and
right arm.
wounds.
Mrs. G. H. Boyd, Sharon, Pa; bruises
back and shoulders
Bernard Shay, Port Jervis; engineer
of freight; peIvis broken.
Fred Smith, Port Jervis; brakeman;
shoulder broken.
J. NJ Trimmer. train man. of Chica-
go express; shoulder injured.
Michael Thornton, porter; shoulder
bruised.
Timothy Welsh, conductor of Chi
cago express; back and legs injured.
E. E Belize, Cleveland; cuts on head
and hand injured.
L. z. Parker, New York; hands
burned.
Mrs. F. c. Heath. New York; cut
head and back injured.
f. L. Meigott, Newark, N J.; bruises
on left leg.
F. S. Fitzpatrick. III Seventeenth ave-
Denver n
F. l.. Drake, Pullman conductor;
slight injuries.
". Freyboid. Hoboken; slight in
A. S. Collins, Buffalo; slight injuries.
Richard Smith, 298 Milwaukee street,
Chicago; slightly injured.
Miss Florence Abel MulfOrd, Newark.
Mrs. Elizabeth Hunt. Newark; bruises.
The wreck, which occurred shortly
before midnight, was preceded by
clOudburst and storm which lasted two
hours. A section of the bank fell on
the freight train. Several trees went
down with the rocks and earth, and the
freight cars and engine were turned
over directly across the WeStbOund
tracks of the Erie road. Sixty freight
cars constituted the train, but only
twenty-five were derailed, and the de
bris was piled up on the WestbOund
tracks just as the Chicago express put
in an appearance, running at the rate
of fifty miles an hour. The engine of
the express train crashed into the
ton buffet car and two Pullman Sleep
ers were piled up on the tracks imme-
dlately IN front of the wrecked freight
cars The first sleeper was split into
two parts as result of the accident
and the passengers were thrown thirty
feet down bank. Fire at once broke
out and four cars of the express train
and nine Of the freight cars were
burned.
Baggagemaster Becker, who found
himself under the baggage car door, re-
covered consciousness only to discover
that he was all alone in that part of
the wrecked passenger cars. He man
aged to crawl from his position only to
find a blaze starting in front of him.
While half of the cars were somehow
braced up Immediately over him He
called for assistance, but there was no
response. Then he saw the passengers
who had been hurled down the 80 foot
embankment endeavOring to eXtricate
themselves from the debris and make
their way UP the bank. All were clad
only in their night clothing, and they
were ShiVering with the cold. Some
were bleeding and moaning and all
were dazed. Members of the train crews
commenced to search different portions
of the wreck and assisted those who
were struggling to escape. Blankets
were brought in from the Pullman cars
and wrapped around the shivering wo-
men and half conscious men.
Word was telephoned to Port Jervis.
A relief train was at once arranged for
and DR.. Cuddeback, DR.. Swartout, Dr.
Johnson and several trained nurses re-
turned for the purpose of caring for
those needing immediate assistance.
The relief train soon reached the scene
of the accident, and nearly all of the
injured persons were removed to the
hospital.
One of the persons injured and now
at the hospital, Barnard Shay, of Port
Jervis, the engineer of the freight
train, and G. E. Belize. Of Cleveland, are