The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-02-22
And Some of the Dead Bodies and the
Injured Passengers Were Found
in the Bed OF the Ditch.
AN INDIANAPOLIS MAN HURT
w. M. wILLIAMs,s LEG AND ARM IN
JURED AND BODY BRUISED.
Most Of the Victims Italian Laborers
Three Men Seriously Injured
in q vandalia Wreck.

TRENTON, N. j., Feb. H.-One of the
worst collisions in the history of the Amboy
division of the Pennsylvania Railroad oc-
CURED at about $50 o'clock this evening at
Rusling's siding. about eight miles south OF
Trenton The Nellie Bly, express from
New York for Atlantic City collided with
Passenger Train $50. running from Camden
to Trenton. The number of dead SO far
known is nine and the injured upward of
twenty-five. Most OF the dead are Italians.
A special train brought eight dead bodies
and eighteen wounded persons to Trenton.
The wounded were distributed among the
three Trenton hospitals Other wounded
passengers were taken to Cooper Hospital
at Camden. The dead who have been iden-
titled are:
train.
JAMES BIRMINGHAM. baggagemaster
of the local train
FRANK HILL, Of White Hill, railroad
employe, who was a passenger 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 Of the
bodies now are. Another body is still in the
wreck. Thirteen of the eighteen wounded
persons brought here are Italians. The
other FIVE were passengers on the local
train and are not thought to have been
seriously hurt. Among the injured at Tren-
ton are:
WALTER EARL. engineer of the ex-
press.
JAMES BIRMINGHAM, baggagemaster
of train No. $50.
Among the injured at Trenton are:
FRANK BoLAND. a passenger on Train
$50. an empioye Of the PENNSYLVANIA Rail
roao Company; lost both legs; he Will likely
die.
MICHAEL MGRAW. fireman on the ex-
press was badly injured, but is expected
to recover.
FRANK THOMPSON. engineer of the
other train, had a leg broken and is badly
bruised; he Is in precarious condition
EDWARD GARWOOD, fireman on No
$50. was badly bruised by jumping. but will
recover.
EDWARD sAPP. conductor of No. $780,
was also injured by being thrown forward
on the floor of the rear of his train;
his wounds are not believed to be serious.
The injured taken TO Cooper Hospital at
Camden are all Italians. They are:
UNKNOWN ITALIAN, black beard, aged
about forty years; fracture of base of skull
unconscious and will die.
SANROTA yINCENCE, thirty-five years:
compound fracture leg and jaw.
LAWRENCE MESA. forty-five years;
confusion of hip.
FRANK BETTACK, twenty-three years:
iacerated wound OF scalp
WRIT ZUvARTA. forty-five years. Of
New York; lacerated wound of SCALP con-
fusion of shoulder and arm.
PEDRO PEDRICKI, twenty-seven years:
compound fracture of leg.
MICHAEL MCGOWAN, of Jersey CITY.
fireman OF the express: badly cut about the
head and internally injured; he taken
TO Atlantic City.
Most of the remaining injured are Ital-
ians- They were riding in the smoking car
OF the express train. They were being
taken to Atlantic City TO do construction
work for the railroad company.
The scene at the wreck is described bv
those who were present as horrifying. The
two trains collided at full speed and both
engines were demolished. The forward car
OF each train. in both instances a common
baggage and smoker. were demolished also.
and to add TO the horror the wreckage took
turned over and the passengers had TO
climb our 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 close to the
Delaware and Raritan canal that the pas
sengers In getting out OF the overturned
coach got into the canal. and many of the
bodies OF the dead and injured had to be
taken from the bed of the canal
Thomas Lawrence. OF Trenton, said he
saw enc man buried beneath the ruins and
crying for assistance. He tried to prv hin,
ont, but found he could do nothing 10 helm
him. He believes the man perished in the
flames. The scene OF the wreck was far
from outside assistance. and when the
wrecking train arrived from Trenton IL was
after dark. and the work OF clearing the
wreck and removing the bodies was neces-
earily slow.
The express was running in three see-
tions. and IL WAS the third section win
which No. 80 coIIided. The local train had
taken he siding to permit the express tn
pass. and 1t Is believed that through some