The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-01-10


Accident due TO II Blundcr in Or
dcrs-NInny orthc Injured not Ex.
pcctcd 10 Survive.
NEW YORK, Jan. 1O.-Thc Herald
says that five Of those wounded In the
Lchigh railroad collision ut Duncllcn,
y. j., died during the night. making the
total dead eighteen.
NEW YORK. Jan. BY q hcad-on
collision between two passenger trains
OF the Lehish Valley railroad at West
Dunellcn. n. J., at l2:4T p. M. to-day,
thirteen persons were killed and over
twenty-five were injured.
The dead are: Martin Keenan,. hotel
keeper, Mount Carmel. Pa; W. II. Hin
kel. contractor Mount Carmel. Pa:
Jacob Heller. tailor. Mount Carmel.
Pa; II. j.. Welkcll, twenty-five years
old Mount Carmel. Pa; Frank Fischer,
shoe dealer. Mt. Carmel. Pa: William
II. Leader. twCnty-four years old, dry
goods dealer. Mt. Carmel, Pa. He Is Il
son OF C. c. Leader president Of IL
bank in Shamokin. He was only re-
Gently married. Frank Market. fifty
four years Of age. Shamokin. Pa; Theo-
dore S. Kohn. Shamokin, Pa; Abner $.
keifer. carpet dealer. POttsvillc, Pa; A;
William H. Market, Shamokin. Pa:
James JarvIs. twelve years old, Mt.
Carmel, Pa: two women who are still
to be identified.
The inJured-L. 7. Walters, OF Mt.
Carmel. Pa. leg broken.
Martin Keenan,. Of Mt. Carmel, leg
broken and head injured.
Stablcy Day. OF New Market, n. j.,
badly bruised.
William Corell. New Market. \. ].
- Keenan,. of Locust Gap. Pa.
William FclIn. OF Little Valley. Pa,
leg broken and badly bruised.
Mrs. Jarvis, mother Of the boy who
was killed. had her leg broken.
Engineer Prendcrgast, who was pin
ned under his locomotive. Hc was res
cued and removed TO the Plainileld hos
pital.
The following injured are at the
Muhlenburg hospital. Plainhcld:
Edward Rick. OF Bound Brook. en-
G!ncer of the local passenger train, both
legs broken.
Oliver Shaefier South Easton, Pa,
bruised about had and body.
James Prendcrgast, engineer OF the
HaZelton express will die.
George Lanasky, Mt. Carmel. leg
broken.
Nicholas 4. Borrpau. Shamokin. Pa.
leg broken. His wife wns crushed and
cut and Is not expected 10 live. Their
two sons each lost both their legs and 1t
Is feared that both will die.
West Dunrllen' Is three miles from
Bouad Brook and about thirty miles
from New York city. At the spot where
the disaster occurred there is sharp
curve in the LehiCh Valley tracks and
steep cutting but the accident was due
IN the first place to some terrible mis-
take In train orders and in the second
place TO another accident that occurred
at Round Brock earlier in the day. The
scenes which accompanied the collision,
the Surferngs Of the Injured and the
panic that reiSncd among the 400 pas
scngcrs were well nigh indescribable.
Worst Collision in Recent Years.
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 railroad men that this was
one of the worst collisions In the his
tory of railroads in recent years.
IIead-on collision on a double track
road was made possible only by n
freight wreck which occurred at Bound
Brook 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 cast-bOund
track and all through the morning Lc-
high Valley trains hound for New York
switched from their own track to the
west i-bound track. going over these
rails from Bound Brook to New Market.
a distance Of six miles and changing at
the latter place back to their right side
of the road. TO permit this mode OF
traffic, all west-bound trains were held
nt South Pla!nheld until their own line
was clear OF trains going N the oppo-
site direction.
Train No. 20, which left Shamokin,
Pa. at Il. m.. was so heavy with
human freight that 1t had to be broken
into three sections. The first two sec
,ions arrived ut Bound Brook. switched
over TO the other track. switched back
to New Market and reached New York
In safety The third section OF this
train was almost an hour late. Its
seven cars were crowded with 400 cxcur-
siODistS, most OF them from Mt. Carmel
and Shumoltin, Mahanoy City. Hazel
ton, Ashland and Pottsville. Pa. The
party was travelling under the auspices
of the Business Mems Excursion. an
annual event which many patronize for
three days visit to New York. Not Il
few OF the eNCursloni3ts were coming to
witness the Mccoy -Sharkcy fight
Their train switched over at Bound
Brook and proceeded like the preceding
sections on the weSt-hound track.
Meanwhile there had been waiting at
New Market local train that plies
regularly between New York and Bound
Brook. Its number on the schedule Is
II, and 1t was due In Bound Brook Mt
1859 n. m. Owing to the traffic all go
ing on one track. 1t was almost all hour
lutc. At last the train dispatcher at
South Plainilcld gave 1t permission to
go. Just before rcachnG West Dune-
len engineer Rick slowed his train down
because he stops for passengers II there
are any. Martin Brennan, the signal
man threw up his arms and waved
them as II there were no passengers. so
the local put OIL steam nnd headed
round the curve going at about twenty
five miles an hour. There were only
four passengers on the local.
The Awful Crash.
In the cab OF the excursion train was
james prenderEas;. the engineer, with
his H. nan. George Cheshire. They
saw tn local as It started on the curve.
With shrICkIng whistle and brakes
grinding sparks from the wheels, the
excursion train bore down ta what