The age-herald., 1899-01-10
Passenger Trains Collide on the Le-
 high Valley Line.
BLUNDER MADE IN BORDERS
Scenes Which Accompanied the Disas the Suherngs of the Injured and the Panic Which $ ned Among the 400 Passengers Were weIss andescrib-
 abe-List of Dead $ injured

New York, January 9.-By head-end col- lsion between two passenger trains on the Lehigh Valley railway at West Dunnellen, N. J., at 1247 p. m. today, thirteen per- sons were killed and over twenty-five were injured. The dead are: Martin Keenan, hotel keeper, Mount Carmel, Pa; W. II. Rinkle, contractor, Mount Carmel, Pa; Ja- cob Heller, tailor Mount Carmel, Pa. w. E. Weikle, Mount Carmel; Frank Fisher, shoe dealer, Mount Carmel; Vim. II. Lead CT, dry goods dealer, Mount Carmel; Frank Market, Shamokin, Fa. Theo Keohn sham okin; Abner s. Keller, carpet dealer, Potts vile, Pa; Wm H. Markel, Shamokn, Pa; James Jarvis, 12 years old, Mount Carmel; two women who are still to be identified.
 List of e Injured
 The injured are:
 Arthur Tremenbo. Llewellyn, Pa, both legs broken; Nicholas Pareca, Shamokin, legs crushed; Henry John Pareea, Shamo- kin, legs crushed; Louis Pareca Shamokin, legs crushed; Mrs. Mary Pareca, Shamokin, internal injuries, may die; O. s. Schaeffer, fireman, South Easton, Pa., skull fractured, may die; Edward w. Rick, engineer, legs broken, body crushed, expected to die; Jo- seph Malosky, Shenandoah, Pa.; Mary Jarville, Mount Carmel, Pa.; - Maiosta, Shenandoah, Pa.; George Launsky, Mount Carmel, Pa; unidentified man, with U. J." on his cuffs; James Prendergast engineer, Easton, Pa, likely to die; - Josephs, resi- dence unknown; Orlando Skaine, Umbria, Pa, bruised ankle sprained; Harry R. Eos ter, plumber, Pottsville, Pa, both legs hroIr ID;. Run, legs crushed; Mrs. Lockhayen's mother, legs crushed Mrs. Loudenslager, not very seriously; Miss Annie Johns, Shamokin, Pa, seriously injured about legs; John Prentice, Marblehead, Mass not se- rously injured; Frank E. Mcintyre, Mauch Chunk, cut and bruised; l.. $. Walter, law yer Mount Carmel legs broken; William Feely, Pottsville, Pa, legs fractured; Mrs. John Ballou, Sudbury, Pa., shosk, severe bruises; John Ballou, husband similar in- jury; Abraham Algier, Mount Carmel, slightly injured; Mrs. Biltze, Ashland, Pa, both legs broken; Conductor Price, of the local, slightly injured; Harry Riddle, con- ductor of excursion train, slightly injured Ralph l.. Reed, baggagemaster local, slight ly injured; P O. Helm, Sudbury, Pa scalp wound, hands injured; Stanley Day. New market, N. J., bruised about body and legs; William Corrie, Newmarket, N. J. similar injuries.
 Mistake in Train Orders
 West Dunnellen is three miles from Bound Brook and about thirty miles from New York city. At the spot where the disaster occurred there is a sharp clrve in the Lehigh Valley tracks and a steep cut ting 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 Bound Brook . earlier in the day The scenes which &C., companied the collision, the sufferings of the injured and the panic that reigned among the four hundred passengers were well night indescribable. The blood stain- ed 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 recent years.
 The head-on collision on a double track road was made possible only by a 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 eastbound track and all through the morning Lehigh Valley trains bound for New York switched from their own track to the westbound track, going over these rails from Bound Brook to
 
 changing at the latter place back to their right side of the road. To permit this mode of traffic all westbound trains were held at South Plainfield until their own line was clear of trains going in the oppo- site direction. Train No. 20, which left Shamokin, Pa, at a. m. was so heavy with human freight that it had to be brok- en into three sections. The first two sec tions arrived at Bound Brook and switched over to the other track, switched back at Newcastle and. reached New York in safe ty. The third section of this train was al- most an hour late.
 Crowded With Excursionists
 Its seven cars were crowded with 400 ex- cursionists. most of them from Mount Car mel and ShamolSin, 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 few of the ex- cursionists were coming to attend the McCoy-Sharkey fight Their train switched over at Bound Brook and proceeded like the preceding sections on the westbound track
 Meanwhile there had been waiting at Newmarket a local train that plies regular ly between New York and Bound Brook Its number on the schedule is T and it was over at Bound Brook at II 5g q. m. Owing to the traffic all going on one track it was almost an hour late. At last the train despatcher at South Plainfield, gave 1t per mission to go. Just before reaching West Dunnelen, Engineer Rick slowed his train down because he stops for passengers If there are any. Martin Brennan, the sig nal man, threw up his arms and waved them as If to say there were no passen- gers. so the local put on steam and headed round the curve, going at about twenty five m les an hour There were only four passengers on the local.
 In the cab of the excursion train were James Prendergast, the engineer, with his fireman, George Cheshire. They saw the To-