The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-02-23

FOURTEEN WERE KILLED.
Several Injured in the Trenton Wreck
 Will Die.


 charred human bodies were this morn ing discernible beneath the shoulder ing wreck resulting from the head-on collision between the Atlantic City flyer and the Amboy local train on the Am boy division of the Pennsylvania rail- road, near Bordentown, at about 6 o'clock last evening, making total of fourteen dead.
 There are twenty-six in the hospital who were injured in the wreck, all but four being Italians. Five of these are so badly injured that the hospital sur geon this morning said they would probably die during the day.
 The bodies discernible beneath the wreckage this morning are so badly charred that all are beyond recognition, but Coroner Bowers is having search made among the remnants of clorhing for some token that may lead to the identity of the dead
 The list of dead and wounded so far as Jobtainable is as follows:
 / THE DEAD.
 Walter Earle, forty-five years old, en- gineer of the Nellie Bly, of Haddonfield, head cut off.
 John Birmingham, baggagemaster of the local train, of Bordentown, scalded to death
 J. Walter Hale, thirty-three years old, of Trenton, passenger on the local, head and body badly crushed and burned be- yond recognition.
 William Mckinney, of Florence twenty-two years old, single, passenger on local, burned beyond recognition.
 Unknown man, apparently an Italian laborer, about thirty-five or forty years of age, five feet six inches In height, top of head entirely cut >Off
 Unknown man, apparently an Italian laborer, about twentyeight years old. above the knee.
 Unknown man, apparently an Italian laborer, about thirty years of age, five feet eleven inches in height; had in his pocket wallet containing S60.
 Unknown man, laborer, about twenty five years of age, five feet six inches in height, right side of head and body crushed.
 Unknown man. body recovered this 
 Unknown woman, only portion of body recovered found under boiler
 There are bodies in sight beneath the wreckage.
 THE INJURED.
 vN,,lx pound fracture of leg and jaw un- known Italian, forty years old, will aie; Lawrence Messa, fortyfive years ,ld, New York, right hip injured; Frank Repbach, Brooklyn, twenty-three years old, ear and eyes cut; Bart. Blu oarta, forty-five years old, New York, severe scalp wounds, shoulder injured; Toe Pedricki, twenty seven years old, New York, compound fracture of both | ,ones of the leg; B. F. Thompson, en- ,ineer Bordentown, both legs cut off, { critical Charles Davis, Phil- | ,delphia, fractured skull and leg. con- | lition serious; Frank R. Balden, White | Hill, N. J., railroad employe, fatally ir- ured; Vincent Speno, New York, inter- lal injuries, probably fatal; Dominic Costello, New York, back broken and ! kull fractured, fatal; Dominic Ferrello, Jew York, severe scalp wounds; Fred < )oriego, thlrty-f1ve years old, New [ York city, compound fracture of the ag; Pasquale Zanarda, thirty years Id, New York city, bruised and cut bout the head and limbs; Glen Bar aro New York city, cut about the andS and legs. James Tumell New York city, broken collar bone and cut bout the face head and legs.
 The scene of the wreck is less than wo miles this side of Bordentown, and bout mile from what is known as ,usling station, on the outskirts of this ity. Where the wreck occurred there , a curve one mile In length, and the urns are very sharp The trains run n an embankment, separating the .aritan Canal from the swamp lands. The responsibility at this time can ot be definitely learned, but it is be- eyed that 1t was the result of a mis- of orders on the part of 1e Bordentown trains crew in pulling ut of a siding, when the express train ound for Atlantic City, which was the lird section of the Nellie Bly, was en- tied to the right of way.
 General Manager Hutchinson, of the railroad, says: , "The wreck was due to the failure of ain 330 to obey orders. She should ave met that third section al a siding ear Bordentown, but failed.'
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