The age-herald., 1901-02-22
AWFUL CLASH
 OF TWO TRAINS Ten Persons Dead and TWen-
 t-fVe Wounded WAS 4 SCENE OF CARNAGE Car Containing Twenty-four Italians Was Smashed to Fragments
 and All the Inmates
 Buried in Debris
WAS 4 SCENE Of CARNAGE

Trenton, N. J., February Alone of the boy division of the Pennsylvania Rail- road occurred at about 5:30 this evening st Rusting's siding, eight milse south of Trenton. The Nellie Bly, express from New Yorw for Atlantic City col lided with passenger No. 33o running from Camden to Trenton.
 The number of dead, so far as known, Is ten, and the injured Is upwards of twenty-five. A special train tonight brought four bodies and eighteen wound ed persons to Trenton The injured were distributed among the three Trenton hos pitfalls. Other injured passengers were taken to Cooper Hospital at Camden. Most of the killed were Italians.
 Thomas Lawrence said he saw one mau buried beneath the ruins and crying for assistance He tried to pry him out but found he could do nothing to help him.
 The story of the wreck, as told by the passengers, Is as follows
 Many Passengers.
 "The Nellie By" express was made up of a day coach. containing as far as known twenty-four Italians, a baggage car, day coach, combination car and two more day coaches. The car with the Ital- ians was directly behind the engine. The express was slowing up just north of Bordentown when the accident occurred. At this point there is a curve. The first thing the passengers knew was a sudden jolt of the train, caused probably by the engine putting on the brakes. and the next moment came a terrible crash. Both engines were reduced to confusion of broken and twisted iron. The car contain ing the Italians was crushed to splinters and all it's occupants were buried under the mass of wreckage. The second car piled upon the first car, and the third car crashed into the mass and tumbled into the dry canal along side the railroad. The latter coach was filled with passengers from New York and all went down with the car Every one, however, got out or was chopped free from this car. some of the passengers being severely injured.
 Narrow Escape.
 The survivors said if the canal had been filled with water they would have been drowned before they could have es- capped from their prison.
 The local train did not fare as badly as the express. It was made up of three cars, and the first two were badly splin- tered. As far as the passengers knew. no one was killed on this train, but sev- eral were badly used up.
 The survivors shuddered as they de- scribed the scene of carnage. They said the cries of agony coming from under the wreckage where the Italians were con- fined were heartrending. The debris took fire from the wrecked engines, and 1t is believed a number of the Italians who were not killed outright were burned to death.
 One of the first bodies taken out was that of Engineer Waters of Atlantic City, who was in charge of the express. He was killed instantly. his head having been cut of. Then the body of James Birmingham of Bordenton, N. J., bag gagemaster of the local train, was found.
 Willing hands went instantly to work. and 1t was due to the good work of the uninjured passengers that many lives were saved.