New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-11-06
FAST EXPRESS IN WRECK.
THE BLACK DIAMOND RUNS INTO
FREIGHT ENGINE
FOUR BADLY HURT AND THIRTY OTHERS
SLIGHTLY INJURED. INCLUDING CAR
RE NATION. WHO DENOUNCEs
THE ROAD

-Four persons were seriously injured and about
thirty others were more or less hurt when the
Black Diamond Express of the Lehigh Valley
Railroad, which left the Pennsylvania Railroad
station. Jersey City at 12:14 D. m yesterday.
was in collision few minutes later with a
Pennsylvania Railroad freight engine and
caboose which stood on siding near the rail-
road shops on the Kearny meadows Those
seriously injured were:
GARNER William H. coored. porter. Of No s7s FIFTH
st. Jersey city hands and bruised
HALL William Frank hfty-nine years old Of No 4aa
body.
JOHNSON Frank engineer of freight train right arm
brokel.
ROBINSON Samuel colored poultry dealer. Shelby
VILE. III; scalp wound
The express train consisted Of a locomotive.
buffet car and three vestibuled cars The ac-
cident was due to an obstruction which became
wedged in an automatic switch. Exactly what
1t was could not be learned. but it threw the
express train from the main track to the siding.
where il ran into the freight engine and caboose,
throwing them from the track and leaving them
hanging over the edge Of an embankment
When the express train struck the freight
engine the engineer Of the express John Tur-
ner, jumped and escaped uninJured The first
three cars left the rails and the third car fell
over on lts slce Ihe fourth car slid from its
trucks but was not overturned.
All passenger cars were filled and the mas
sengers We're badly shaken up About thirty
of them suffered bruises or were cut by pieces
of flying glass from broken windows. but only
three. the names Of whom are given above, were
seriously hurt. They taken 70 St Francis's
Hospital. but afterward left for their homes The
others. who were only slightly hurt. declined TO
give their names.
Among those in the car that was overturned
was Mrs. Carrie Nation who was on her wav
TO Easton. Penn. When she and the other pas
sengers were helped out through the windows
she denounced the company for maintaining a
buffet in which rum was sold saying that
accidents on such road might always be ex-
pected.
graphed to Jersey City a special train was
at sent 10 the scene. 1t contained Drs
McGill. Stuart, Rector Wolfson. Sauer
and Bowyer. They dressed the wounds
sengers were placed in the special train and
carried back TO Jersey City. There the three
who were the most injured We're sent to St.
Francts's Hospital and all the other passen-
gers including those slightly hurt sent
to their destination by a special train which
left the station at 2:45 p m.
Among these Carrie Nation. who an
nounced that she would waive all claim TO dam
ages If the company would abolish buffet cars
and stop the sale OF liquor along its line In
order to ascertain exactly what her injuries
were and what claim she might have To dam
ages DR. McGill caused her To be examined
by five physicians. They united in a certificate
that she had slight bruise on the head and a
cut on one Of her hands.
Half a mile from the scene of the accident
fifteen persons killed in accident on
the Lackawanna Railroad a few years ago. A
rear end collision occurred between PennsyI-
vania trains nearly on the same spot seven
years ago. Several persons were hurt