Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-11-30
Six People Were Killed
and Many Injured.
CARS WERE DEMOLISHED
An Awful Scene When the RescuerS
Started in Their Work of Getting
Out the Injured Joe Wheeler's
Nephew is a Hero.

New York, Nov. 29.-The west bound
Buffalo express on the Delaware & Lack
awana railroad While standing at the
Wrinkle station in Paterson tonight was
run into by a fast moving accommodate
ton train and six persons were killed and
90 seriously injured. The injured We're
taken to the hospital in Paterson and the
work of removing the debris is proceed
ing.
The dead so far as known are:
MRS. Mary Roe, wife of David Roe,
of Ithaca, N. Y, and two daughters.
WALTER WELSBROSk, Cornell coll
lege, Ithaca, N. Y.
MILLER CRAIG, New York.
UNKNOWN WOMAN.
The Buffalo express was waiting for the
moving of a local train that had been
delayed at the station and the Phillips
burg accommodation was following the
express, but a short distance behind.
The two rear cars of the express We're
Broken to pieces, most of the passengers
in them being either killed or injured.
The engine of the i'niH;psburg train was
completely wrecked, the engineer and
fireman escaping by jumping. The en-
gine plunged into the rear Of the express,
a Pullman day coach, and plowed through
the. heavy tinabers almost it's entire
length. This car was lifted from the
track and pushed the next to the last car,
also a Pullman, carrying off it's end and
almost completely telescoping it. The
engine of the P~hillipsburg train was torn
to pieces. The wreckage caught fire, but
the flames were soon ~extinguiShed.
Within a few moments police reserves,
firemen and crowds of people came to the
rescue of those in the terrible tangle of
wood and iron. From the wreck came
sroans and shrieks 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.
The firemen, police and train hands and
several scores of citizens turned in to rip
the fearful pile to pieces. 1t was desir-
able 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 seen the body of a man hanging
half was out of one of the rear windows
On one side-and a woman hanging from
a window On the other side. Both were
in rear seats in the real car and when the
engine hit the car and tore through it
their mangled bodies We're crushed
through the windows and hung between
the sides of the car and the engine.
One man was found standing upon his
head in a corner, held fast by the wreck
age which had piled up about him. He
was taken out unconscious, and it was
thought he was dead, but he revived and
proved to be slightly injured.
Lizzie Kane of B~inghamton, N. Y,
was oun with her feet held fast between
two heavy beams. The remainder of her
body was clear, but she had to lie there |
suffering great agony While the men We're
trying to get. her out by digging down
through a heap of broken wood and iron
and free the upper beam.
Agne Mcdonald of Oxford, N. Y. was |
taken out with great difficulty. Her legs |
We're feaTfully crushed. She suffered ter
rible agony during the half hour it took
to cut and free her.
David Roe, who is in the hospital with
ms right leg badly crushed, became fran
tic when he found that his wife was not