Evening journal., 1900-12-10
Many Bruised and LaCeratcd
by Flying WreCkage
FREIGHT CRUSHES COACHES
Express and Freight Train We're
Both in Notion When Ac-
cident Occurred

Philadelphia, Dec. 10.-By the de-
railing OF a car on a north bound p,
w. & b. freight train at Gray's Ferry
Saturday afternoon, several day
coaches Of the Washington express.
due in this city at 22O o'clock we're
wrecked. three passengers perhaps
fatally injured and about thirty ser
iously or slightly hurt.
Those who may die are:
Graham Glass. "a years, Howard and
Baltimore streets, Baltimore, com
pound fracture OF leg and fracture OF
left arm: University Hospital.
Mrs. Nancy Corson 80 years, 632
DUPONT street, Chester internal in
juries; taken home unconscious.
Miss Ella Little. ga McIlvaine
street, Chester: confusion of abdomen
and limbs; University Hospital.
I Those less seriously injured are:
Henry Matthews, SO years, 1947 Park
avenue. lacerated wounds OF the head
and face and serious contusions OF the
body; University Hospital.
\ Il. l.. Holloway st. Denis Hotel, n.
Y. head slightly injured; treated at
Broad Street Station.
J. M9honey, Chester, injuries slight;
taken to University Hospital; later
sent home.
Mrs Mary Mitchell, 60 years, Col
wyn, Darby lacerated wounds -of
scalp; University Hospital
: William G. Popp, "a years 625 West
Fifth street, Wilmington, lacerated
wounds of head. face and arm; Univer-
sity Hospital.
Lieutenant X. NJ A. Mahoney, AZ
years. 6l2 North Seventh street, Ches-
ter. lacerated wound of the head and
confusion Of the body; University Hos
pital.
Miss Emma Dougherty. 26 years, 344
( East Fourteenth street. Chester, both
llegs broken. wounds of the body; Uni
versity Hospital.
Miss Anna Dougherty, 344 East
Fourteenth street, Chester, scalp lacer-
ated taken home.
Mrs. Kate Rayield 40 years, Ill
East Third street. Chester; lacerated
wound Of scalp University Hospital.
\ Clarence Pullen. 81 years. 145 East
Twenty-frst street, New York, lacer-
ated wound Of scalp; University Hos
ipital
I ID. X. Jackson. Wilmington, Del.
slight injuries about body; went home
from University Hospital.
Richard Barnes. brakeman on
! Washington express; finger badly in
jured; treated at Broad Street Station.
Miss II. @. Bowers. Wilmington, SER
iously injured; University Hospital.
Harry w. Honan, clerk of county
commissioners and member of Council.
Chester; reported badly injured; taken
home by friends.
Mrs. G. NJ Blackwell, 30 years, St
Louis, Mo-. limbs cut and confused;
Jefferson Hispital.
' William M. Roach. % years, Ches-
ter; nervous shock; taken home.
Miss Margaret Burke % years. Up-
land, lacerated face and scalp. She
was sent home from the Presbyterian
Hospital.
Miss Amy Mcdaniel, &c years, Up
land, laceratiOns of nose. face and
scalp; wounds dressed at the Presby-
terian Hospital; sent home.
Miss Louise Culin. 25 years, 1918
Hyatt street, Chester scalp wounds;
Presbyterian Hospital.
Mrs J. Mcconnell. Darby, cut on
the head; jefferson Hospital.
Mabel Smith, 104 East Eighth street.
Wilmington, cut on head and body:
Presbyterian Hospital
Miss Emma Doughty. 1850 Provl
dence avenue, Chester. lacerations Of
the head; taken home.
George c. Pierson, brakeman. bruised
about body
HOW ACCIDENT HAPPENED.
The Washington Express left the
capital city at IL o'clock Saturday
morning and was due in this city at
22O o'clock in the afternoon. The
train stopped at Baltimore. Whining
ton and Chester to pick up passen-
gers for Philadelphia. At Gray's Ferry
Station, just inside the city limits, a
shifting engine was backing a train
Of freight cars west along a track
which runs parallel to the eastbound
passenger track at a distance from it
Of ten feet.
] AS the freight train reached a point
near the Forty-ninth street bridge the
axle of a boxcar at the end of the train
broke and the car bounded toward the
passenger track At the moment the