The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-02-22
WRECK AND FLAMES
HEAD-END COLLISION ON THE PENN
sYLVANIA RAILROAD.
TEN KILLED, MANY INJURED.
MAJORITY or DEAD AND WOUNDED
ITALIAN LABoRERs.

Engineer Earl and Baugnrema.ter
Birmingham Killed, and Other
Trninmen Badly Hurt-Both En-
eincs Demolished, With Cars Im-
medintcIy FOIIOwing-The Wreck
age Took Flre-Dead and WOund-
ed Fell From Overturned Cars In
TO CnnsI-SeveraI Burned Up in
Wreck.
Trenton, n. j.. Feb. 21-One of tho
worst collisions I'm the history of the Am.
boy division of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
occurred at $50 o'clock this evening at
Rusting's Siding. near Bordentown. and
about eight mics south OF Trenton. The
Nellie Bly, express from New York
for Atlantic City col.ided with passenger
train No 1885, running from Camden TO
Trenton. The number of dead so fur az
known is ten. and the number of injured
upward of twenty-five
A special train at about O'Clock from
the scene of tho wreck brought four dead
bodies and eighteen wounded persons to
Trenton. The wounded were distributed
among the three Trenton hospitals. Other
wounded passengers were taken to Coop
er Hospital at Camden
Among the killed was Walter Earl. en-
gineer of the express, and James Bir-
minsham, baggagemaster of the local
train Most of the killed We're Italians.
Frank Boland, passenger on train No.
$50 an employe Of the Pennsylvania Rail
road Company. had both legs cut off The
/ doctors say he will die
Michael McGraw, fireman on the sNel-
lie Bly, was badly injured. but is expect
ed to recover.
FRANK thompson engineer Of No. 1870.
mad leg broken and is badly bruised.
he Is In a precarious condition.
Edward Garwood, fireman on No 9sO
was badly bruised by jumping, but win
recover
Edward Sapp conductor of No. 800 was
also Injured by being thrown forward on
the floor of the rear car of his train.
His wounds are not believed to be- Sc
rious.
Most OF the remaining dead and injured
are Iteliane. The Italians were riding in
the smoking car of the express train
Ihey we're being taken to Atlantic csffv
70 do construction work for the railroad
| company
The VITO trains cbllided at full speed ana
| both engines were completely demolished
| The forward car In both instances q. COM
Dlnation baggage ana smoker, were en-
tirely demolished also. and to add to tho
| horror the wreckage took fire. The Sec
ond car OF the Nellie Bly, turned over
on its side and the passengers had 20
climb out through the windows. In this
| they were assisted by passengers from the
cars that did not leave the track. The
| track at this point is so c,ose to the Della
ware and Raritan canal that the passen-
gers In getting out OF the overturned
coach got into the canal and many OF the
bodies of the dead and injured had 40 be
taken from the water
Thomas Lawrence of Trenton said he
saw one man buried beneath the ruins and
! crying for assistance. He tried to prv
him out, but found he could do nothing
TO help him. He believes the man PERISH
ed In the flames. The scene of the wreck
was far from outside assistance ana when
the wrecking train arrived from Trenton
1t was after dark and the work OF clear
| ing up the debris and removing the bodies
was necessarily slow
The Nellie BLY," was running In thres
sections, and 1t was the third section
with which No. $50 collided. The local
train had taken the siding TO permit
'ii' NApltCo " pass, anu II - DtaleVeu LudL
through some misunderstanding or mis-
take the local came out on the main
track after the second section had passed,
mistaking IL for the third section.
The latest information shows nine per-
sons killed outright. besides Frank Bo-
land, who is expected to die from his in
juries. Eight bodies have been brought 10
Trenton and at least one is known to be
under the debris.
The dead identified are:
Walter Earl. engineer Of the express
train; James Birmingham, baggagemaster
of the local train; Frank Hill of White
hill, railroad employe. who was a pas
senger on the local train.
John Gates of Trenton, passenger on
the local train.
Four Italians. whose names have not
been learned.
Birmingham's charred body was taken
from the wreck late tonight and brought
to the Trenton morgue where all the
bodies now are. Thirteen of the eighteen
injured brought here are, Italians. The
other five were passengers on the local
train, and are not thought to be serious
ly nurt