Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-11-06
CARRIE n A WRECK
THE "sMAsHERv WAS SOMEWHAT
SMASHED ON THE LEHIGH.
FOUGHT AGAINST WHIsKEY
Tried to Break Bottles and Other
Vessel. Containing the stimu1nnt
Administered to the Injured-And
Then She Went on to Lecture.

JERSEY CITY, November 5.-(Specia1)
Fifteen persons were injured. several ser
ious1y. in a wreck of the Black Diamond
Express, the finest train on the Lehigh
Valley railroad, just outside Jersey City
this afternoon.
Among the seriously injured were Mrs.
Carrie Nation, whose Ratchet brought her
fame. She was removed from the wreck
and after being attended by surgeons,
was brought in a cab to a friends house,
!! this city. She was badly, though not
seriously cut about the head.
James Johnson. engineer of the Penn
sylvania railroad is probably fatally in
jured.
| A wild cat Pennsylvania engine crash
ed into the five-car vestibule train of the
Lehigh Valley road half way between
Jersey City and Newark. Two cars were
! thrown from the track
One car was partially overturned down
the bank. when the express was finally
brought to a stop Screaming men and
women jumped from the cars and ran
about the meadows on either side Of the
track. Word was at once telephoned to
Jersey City for ambulances from the rail-
road shops nearby. These vehicles had a
long run across the Heights and out to
the scene of the accident
CARRIE REFUSED WHISKEY
Mrs Nation was cut in the head and
had one Of her arms bruised She de-
clared, however. that she did not mind
the railroad wreck and her cut head, but
she did draw a line at the efforts made
by the rescuers to give whiskey to ''help-
less women, as she expressed it,
Mrs. Nation was SO indignant over some
ones attempt to revive her by admins
terlng a dose Of whiskey that she gave
the railroad officials piece of her mind
when she got back to Jersey City and
followed this up by delivering a temper
ance lecture.
In the midst of the lecture the railroad
people requested her to come to the point
but she declared the only point about it
was the matter of giving whiskey to the
injured, and the lecture was continued
until she took the train for Mauch
Chunk.
SHE TRIED TO "SIASH.''
Railroad officials said when the res
cuers We're endeavoring to revive the
fainting women who had been injured,
by administering whiskey, Mrs. Nation
became very much excited and made seve-
raj strenuous efforts to knock cups and
bottle containing "the nasty poison" as
she expressed it, from the hands Of the
impromptu nurses
The erstwhile saloon smasher was in
the coach which was overturned and it
was after she had been extricated and
set apart with those whose injuries were
to be attended to, that she raised the
protest about the whiskey. Mrs Nation
| emphaticaly declared that nobody could
ever make her take whiSkev. even if her
| mead were cut and her arm bruised. and
she said it was shame anyway that the
stuff was being passed around there.
She hurried on into Jersey City, and
when she saw Claim Agent Rose, in
formed him she had no claim against the
company for injuries, but was going at
! once to Mauch Chunk, where she was to
lecture tonight, "cut head or no cut
head"
Then she proceeded to read curtain
lecture to the claim agent on the general
subject Of the administration Of alcoholic
stimulants to victims of railroad wrecks.
Its bad enough to be hurt in that car
without being poisoned by rum she de-
clared.
Il Just told them to take the stuff
out and throw it away. It's pretty bad
when a person can't ride on train where
car, but it's great deal worse when they
try to force helpless women to drink
the poison
Mrs. Nation talked temperance until
train time and then departed for Iauch
Chunk still uttering a general protest
against Whiskey as a restorative. Rail
road officials said it was only by the use
of stimulants that many of the victims
were brought around.