The Delawarean., 1900-06-06
BAD RAILROAD ACCIDENT
SIIRS THE STATE CAPITAL.
Loss Of Property, Life and Limb From Train
Crash at delaware Railroad Station.
TOUCHING SCENE AT BURIAL OF VICTIM.

The sensation of the week at the
State Capital was a disastrous rail
noad accident which occurred here Sat-
urday afternoon when the town was
alive with business activity.
Local freight train No. was slight
]y delayed at the Delaware railroad
station and had broken" to take water
The engineer called in his iagman and
just as the train started to pull out,
Southern freight No. d thundered
around the Peterson curve ait the rate
of 40 miles an hour. 1t crashed into
the rear of No. 4, telescoping eight
heavily loaded refrigerator cars.
Two cars were converted into spin
tiers. Steel rails were broken like pipe
stems. Eight cars were piled upon
one another, taking fire from the bur-
led locomotive, flames leaped high in
the air. The fireman was saved, but
the engineer was fatally injured. Three
tramps we're buried beneath the wreck,
all of whom were saved after prodig-
ious forts of townsmen and the Rob-
bins Hose company, though one of
them afterwards died. Another had
both legs and ribs broken; another was
hurt in the shoulders.
The local fire company fought the
flames for three hours.
The Wrecking train arrived from
Clayton about five clock and procee-
ded to clear the tracks. Superintend-
ent Holiday came upon the scene and
gave it his personal supervision. The
two trains were composed of more than
one hundred heavily loaded refrigera-
tor cars, and the collision was terrific.
Thousands of people visited the scene.
Trainmen and volunteer firemen
spent all lof Saturday might, before
great crowds of people, digging away
the remainder of THE two berry trains.
1t was not generally known until
moon Sunday that more men were not
buried alive under the awful mass of
wreckage, and this, together with the
thrilling scenes of Saturday evening
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made an exciting Sunday for the people
for miles around.
No more of the injured have died
and Bartholomew Hussey and George
Simons, who were dug from under the
cars have been sent to Farnhurst Hos
pital. The man who died while being
administered ito by Father Waldron of
Holy Cross Church, and who had given
The name of James Golden, acBnowl-
edged to the priest that he was Thomas
Ryan of Washington. Father Waldron
notified the Chief of Police of that city,
and was advised that Ryan's people
would be searched for.
Real Cause of the Wreck.
The real cause of the $4,000 railroad
wreck which stirred all this commun-
ity since Saturday became known Sun
day afternoon at the coroner's inquest
when Conductor B. F. Harrington, be-
ing pressed for several minutes by Ju-
ror E. H. Fell, swore that the Grain
known as D 4, which his train ran into
and demolished, should have been ON
the way to Ginn's siding twenty miles
above, where he should have overtaken
her. His was through freight and he
received his last orders ait Harrington
TO run Through to Edge Moor ait good
speed. He obeyed orders but instead
of overtaking train at Ginn's, he
found her around the Peterson curve
at Dover, and saw her just in time Ito
leap from his train to save his life.
The inquest was over the body of
James Golden, one of the victims, and
the jury found that he met his death
in a collision of trains, ON one of which
he was riding without authority, and
the jury exonerated the company from
all blame
Dead Man Identified.
James Golden was identified
by kilograms which Father Waldron,
the priest who administered Ito him be-
fore death, received from New York
Mills, N Y. He had given
to the priest the name of Thomas Ry-
Am, of Washington, just as he died Land
this was believed to- be his real name,
but 1t has developed that the name of
Jas. Colder, (which he gave newspaper
man, was his real name. Miss Carrie
Golden telegraphed from the NewYorlz
town Monday. els 1t mot James Col
den? Has scar on back of neck" The
scar was found, and Monday might