Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-01-29
i WEN7Y-FOuR ARE
KILLED IN A WRECK
Royal Blue Express Crashes
Into Rear of a Local at
GraceIand, N. j.
FATALITIES ON LocA-
Passengers on the Flyer Escaped I'm.
injured, Except for Trf'ins Bruises
Many Dead Consumed
by Fire.

| New York, Jan. 29.--One of the most
| appalling railroad wrecks that HAS oc-
| cured in the vicinity of New York for
| many years-the estimated loss of life
'anging from twelve to thirty persons
took place last night at Csraceland ON
the Central Railway of New Jersey,
near Westfied, N. j., when the Royal
'lue Line express ploughed at top spec i
| INTO the rear of a local train.
| Immediately after the crash three of
The shattered cars of the local train
.ook fire, rendering impossible the res
,ue of many of the wounded Who were
| pinned fast in the wreck. Many bodies
! IRE believed to have been consumed.
| On board the flyer all the passengers,
although badly shaken UP, escaped UNI
injured, except for tritling bruises
List of Killed and Injured.
| The dead, so far as identified, are:
EDWARD WILLIAMS, New York law
9: p. THAYER of Plainfeld secretary
| TO Thomas c. Plat.
H HAKY 8 isa HAND ef New Ss York city
! GosEoRGE % RED of Scotch Plains,
EDWARD I'YI.NN of Plainiield
| In addition to this list there are many
.harred bodies Unidentified stil at mo
scene of the wreck
The list of the injured at the hospital i'm
Plainfield is as follows:
Edward Clark
I William Sampson.
Miss Lizzie Cutter.
William Dunn.
George Force
Howard r. George
Miss Mildred Everett
Mrs ID. U. Cumming
h. NJ. Brokaw
Frederick Kannen all Of Plainield.
Roy Apgar and
William Frederick of Dunellen, n. j.
The train which was run into left
New York at 5:45 o'clock and runs ex-
press to Bound Brook making stops at
Elizabeth, Westfield and Plainhcld. Be
Yond Bound Brook it runs as Il local
The Royal Blue train left fifteen
minutes later, but travels at a higher
speed and makes no stops except ;i.t
Elizabeth, and is scheduled TO overtalsc
The slower train just beyond Grace
and, where the latter switches TO per-
nit the Royal Blue to pass.
Hot Box Caused Wreck.
This evening freight train was
Z blocked on track No. 4, and the local
received orders to proceed on the ex-
press track to Dunellen, and there take
after receiving orders the train had to
stop for hot box. which delayed her
so that when she got under way again
she was due at Dunelien. She had lust
started and was moving slowly, when
he Royal Blue travelling apparently at
tull speed, which Mt that point usually
ipproximates sixty-five miles an hour,
crashed into the rear end
The heavy engine of the Royal Blue
ore Its way into the rear car and at
he same time drove the forward end
Of that car into the rear end of the car
ahead, which in turn was driven into
The third car, and this in turn WAS
driven into the fourth car from the
rear. The fourth car was only partly
wrecked, but the last three We're torn
% pieces.
At 2:3o o. m. it is known there are
.wenty-four dead. Sixteen chalred
bodies have now been taken out Eight
Head We're previously taken from the
wreck.
| OF the twentyfour dead only one APP
pears to be woman, and there is some
loubt whether the body is that of a
woman.