Omaha daily bee., 1899-11-30
KILLS SIX, INJURIES TWENTY
Accommodation Train Runs Into Buffalo
'a Express at Paterson, N, j,
TWO REAR CARS BROKEN TO PIECES
Most of the Passengers on These Cars
Are Either Killed or Injured
One Engine Completely
Wrecked.

NEW YORK, Nov. 29-The easlDouhu
Buffalo express on the Delaware, Lack
awanna q Western railroad, while standing
outside the station at the Van Wrinkle street
crossing at Paterson, N. j., tonight was run
into by a swiftly moving accommodation
train bound from Phillipsburg, n. j., to
Jersey City.
AT least six people were killed and there
are now twenty injured at the hospital in
Paterson, of whom some. will probably die,
while some Of those not seriously injured
were able to proceed.
=. .'t-e List of the Dead.
MRS, MARY ROE, wife of David Roe of
Ithaca, ~ Y, and two daughters
WALTER wELBRoCK, Cornell college,
Ithaca, No. Y. 7H .'
MILLER CRAIG, New York City.
UNKNOWN WOMAN.
The body that was thought to be that Of
a boy proved to be the young daughter of
Mrs. Roe.
All the bodies have been removed to the
morgue. '...'
The injured includes:
Miss Agnes Mcdonald oxford, N. ",
both legs broken. ~
Samuel Mendhelssohn, Wilkesbarre, legs
broken.
Miss Mamie Doyle, Binghanrton, arm
broken and crushed.
Miss Lizzie Kane, Binghamton, feet
crushed. .....-.
David Roe Ithaca, husband of the woman
killed, right leg crushed.
Oscar Aronson, Scranton, Pa, legs crushed
John White, Ithaca, leg broken, badly
cut by glass. '''-' .'
Louis Daron, Dover, N. j., face and body
badly cut. t" 4'F' 'tt "'
Louis Freedman, scranton, Pa legs
crushed and head bruised.
Charles Remfen, Brooklyn thought to
be internally injured.
William C. Ossei, No $40 Dreacle bou-
evard, Chicago both legs broken, Injured
Internally. '"
Daniel Maxwell, Hackettstown, N. j.,
bruised and cut .s' '7
Daniel Mccormick, Detroit, Mich, slightly
injured, able to proceed to New York.
The Buffalo express was No. 6, in charge
of Conductor capwel. The Phllipsburg
train was No &c. in charge of Conductor
Burke, with Engineer Reardon.
The Buffalo express was waiting for a
local train to move that had been delayed
at the station and the Phillipsburg accom-
modation was following the express but a
short distance behind. The two rear cars
of the express were broken to pieces, most
Of the passengers on them being either
killed or injured. The engine of the Phillips
burg train was completely wrecked, the en-
gineer and fireman escaping by jumping.
Too Late to. Avoid Collision.
Apparently the engineer of the Phillips
burg accommodation did not notice that the
express drew up some 800 feet of the depot.
The express was forty-fve minutes late and
the accommodation was following very
closely. When Engineer Reardon saw the
lights ahead the distance was too short to
avoid ap0hfsiong7 istFain was going atfull
speed. The engine plunged into the rear
car Of the express Pullman day coach,
and ploughed through the heavy timbers al
most the entire limit. This car was lifted
from the track and pushed to the next to the
last car, also a Pullman, carrying off its
end and almost completely telescoping it.
The engine OF the Phillipsburg train was
torn to pieces. The wreckage caught fire,
but the flames were soon extinguished.
Within a few moments police reserves, fire.
men and large crowds came to the rescue.
From the wreck came 'groans and shreks
and prayers for death or deliverance. 1t
was intensely dark at the scene and as the
broken wood was taken out of the wreck it
was thrown to the sides of the tracks. Then
it was set on fire to furnish light for the
rescuers. g,
The firemen police, train hands and sew
eral score of citizene turned in to rip the
fearful pile to pieces. 1t was desirable to
draw the engine out, but this could not
be done, because it would result in death
to some of those imprisoned in the debris.
Before the wreckage was attacked there
was the body of man hanging half way
out Of one of the rear windows on CQe side
and a woman hanging from a window on
the other side. Both were in rear seats in
the rear car and when the engine hit the car
and tore through it their mangled bodies
were crushed through the windows and hung
between the sides of the car and the en-
CINE. .'N'
Cut People Out of Wreck.
Tho rescuers took men and women out
of the wreckage in rapid succession and
hey were hurried away to the hospitals
In many cases it wac necessary to chop
AWAY tho wreckage abcut the injured in
order to gFt them out. One man was found
standing on his head in corner, held fast
1y the wreckage which had piled up about
lim He was taken out unconscious and it
40 thought he was dead, but he revived
md proved to be but slightly injured.
i LlEHle name OF blDPHHnltn, n. l., was !
ound with her feet held fast between two .
leavy beams. The remainder of the boiy .
vas clear, but she had to lie there suffer-
ms great agony while the men were trying
o get her out by digging down through
nasj of wood and iron.
Agnes Mcdonald OF oxford, N Y, was
aiken cut with great difficulty. Her legs .
we're fearfully crushed, She suffered terrible .
Igony. during the half hour it took to free
leE. The dead were carried into the
iepot. r'. r
David Roe, who is in the hospital with his
light leg badly crushed, became frantic when
10 found that his wife was not IN the hos
jita He believed she was killed, but he
YaS not told So
The Whites, father and son, We're found
With their arms about each other The
rp,s leg is broken, while the father is
'adly bruised and his face and hands cut
" flying glass.
Ono OF the men killed is thought to be
Ailler Craig of New York, A pass ticket
'ook found on hiS body indicates this.
Preacher Leads In Rescue work.
Rev, C, S, Bullock of Chicago, passenger
n the Buffalo express, led the rescue work
lie was sitting in the parlor car which was
an ba ard Of ha