Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-02-22
TEN PEOPLE
KILLED IN WRECK
Occurred on Amboy Division Of the
Pennsylvania,
BOTH TRAINS FULL SPEED
when Collision Occurred go Accident
Was Caused Through II Mistake In
orders Removing Bodies,

Princeton. N. j., Feb 2l,--One Of the
worst collisions In the history Of the
Amboy division of the Pennsylvania
railroad occurred at about $3.50 o'clock
this afternoon at Kustngs Siding, near
Bordentown, and about eight miles
| south of Trenton The Nellie BLY,
express from New York for Atlantic
| City collided with passenger train No.
$50. running from Camden to Trenton,
The number OF dead so far as known is
ten. and the injured upward of twenty.
| i've A special train, which arrived at
o'clock from the scene Of the wreck,
brought four dead bodies and eighteen
wounded. The wounded were dis
tributed among the three Trenton hos
pitfalls. Other wounded passengers were
taken to Cooper hospital at Camden.
KILLED.
Walter Earl, engineer Of the express
James Birmingham, baggage
Of the local train.
Eight Italians.
INJURED.
Frank Boland d passenger on train
No $50. an employee Of the Pennsyl-
yania Railroad company, had both legs
cut off, The doctors say he will die.
Michael McGraw, fireman on the
Nellie BY, was badly injured, but Is
expected 10 recover.
Frank Thompson, engineer Of No.
$50, had leg broken and Is badly
bruised. He Is In precarious con-
dition.
Edward Garwood fireman on No. $3.50.
was badly bruisedby jumping. but will
recover.
Edward Sapp, conductor Of No. $50,
was also injured by being thrown for
ward on the floor Of the rear car Of his
train. His wounds are not believed to
be serious.
Most Of the remaining injured are
Italians. The Italians were riding In
the smoking car Of the express train,
They We're being taken to Atlantic City
to do construction work for the rail-
road company,
The two trains collided at full speed
and both engines Were completely de-
molshed, The forward cars Of each
train. in both instances a combination
baggage and smoker were entirely de-
mplished also, and the wreckage took
fire. The second car Of the Nellie
BLY, turned over on its side and the
passengers had to climb out through
the windows. In this they We're as
sisted by passengers from the cars that
did not leave the track. The track at
this point is so close to the Delaware
and Rartan canal that the passengers
In getting out of the overturned
coaches,got into the canal and many Of
the bodies OF the dead and injured had
to be taken from the water.
Thomas Lawrence Of Trenton said he
saw one man buried beneath the ruins
and crying for assistance. He tried 10
pry him out, but found he could do
nothing 10 help him. He believes the
man persisted in the flames. The scene
OF the wreck was far from outside as
sistance, and when the wrecking train
arrived from Trenton II was after dark
and the work Of clearing up the debris
and removing the bodies was neces-
sarlly slow.
The Nellie BLY, was running IN three
sections and It was the third Sec
ton with which No. $50 collided. The
local train had taken the siding to per-
NIT the express 10 pass, and II Is be-
lleVed that through some misunder-
standing or mistake, the local came
out on the main track after the sec
ond section had passed, mistakng it
for the third section.
The latest information shows that
there were nine persons killed OUTRIGHT
besides Frank Boland who Is expected
10 die from his injuries. Eight bodies
have been brought to Trenton and at
least one other is known TO be under
the debris. Birmlngham's charred body
was taken from the wreck late tonight