The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1903-02-26
CHILDREN KILLED
Train Strikes a Trolley Car
Load Of Students at
Newark, N. j.
Eight Instantly Killed and -Four
Others Die Of Injuries at
the Hospitals.
Thirty Or More Others. on the Car
Are Hurt, Some Of Whom
Probably Fatally.
Motorman Unable to Stop the Car on
Grade and It Slides in Front of
the On-Rushing Train.
Scenes Attending Accident Are Be-
yond Description-Body of One
Girl Found on Pilot of Engine.

Newark, N: j., Feb. 20.-A troMeycar
loaded with pupils ontheir way to high
school was u into Thursday at the
Clifton avenue crossing by a Della
ware, Lackawanna & Western railroad
train. Eight of the pupils were killed,
four died of their injuries; the motor
man of the car was fatally hurt and
80 or more occupants of the car were
injured. Five Of these are believed to
be fatally hurt.
Twenty of the injured passengers
were taken to a hospital and the 9th
ers were able to go to their homes.
The Identification of the dead and in
jured was g. difficult task and was ac-
complished very slowly.
List of Dead and Injured.
Z THE Dead
Emily E. Scholl.
Ernestine Mueller.
Edith Faulks.
Viola Ill.
Miss Webb.
Alma Loehemberg.
Maud Baker.
Emily Weinbach.
Levin Eastwoon died at city hos
pital.
Young girl believed to be Miss E..
Knight died in the city hospital.
Rosebud Cohn, daughter of a trav-
cling salesman, died in the hospital.
Mabel Karschner, II years old, of Gin
c%innati, o., died in St. Michael's hos
Pital. She was a pupil at the high
school.
THE INJURED:-Helen McCord, 16
years old; Title Geraghty, II years
old; Nina Bull. II years old; Margaret
~Cammerford, 10 years, in serious con-
dition; Minnie Lytt1e,. "a years old;
Fanny Neyiods, 16 years old; Frederick
Lindsey, II years old; Marion Price.
II years old; unknown girl, likely to
die; Oscar Banclift, of Gladstone, N.
j., engineer of train, cut with glass
about theEhead and bruised.
Couldn't Stop His Car.
The railroad train, which was run
ming at almost it's full speed, was seen
BY the motorman, who putt on, the
brakes and did all he could to stop
his car, but the wheels slipped uponthe
rails, which were covered with ice, and
the car slid forward until it's front
platform projected over the railroad
track. The pilot Of the engine struck
the platform, threw the car around,
and, then toppled it over. The train
went on and was not stopped until it
had gone several blocks from the cross
ing. The body of one of the victims, a
girl. was found on the pilot of the loco
motive when it was broughtto a stand
still.
The trolley car was one of the spe-
cial vehicles which the North Jersey
Street Railway company runs between
eight and nine o'clock five mornings
in the week for the special accommo-
dation of high school pupils. 1t was
crowded with young men and wom-
en- from all parts of the city, many of
whom had transferred from other
Lines.
Immediately after the accident had
been reported all the police reserves
of the Second precinctwere sent to the
scene to keep back the crowd which
gathered almost Immediately. {
The scene of the accident resembled
a SHAMELESS. Dead or injured children
lay in all directions.
Word of the calamity soon reached
the authorities. In additionto the po-
lice reserves, every ambulance in the
city was Don on the scene.
A sickening Sight.
The sight was a sickening one when
the crash came. Mutilated bodies of
the children were scattered in'every di-
rection. The u%niniured passengers
carried the injured children to nearby
places of temporary refuge.
The trolley car could not be stopped,
although the motor man appeared to
make frantic efforts to do so.
Conductor Says Gates Were Down.
The conductor Of the trolley car,
George Gould, said: "It is the custom
for trolley car conductors to Leave
their cars as this crossing is ap-
preached, and as the car stops to run
ahead and see if the track is clear. I
should have done that this morning,
had I not seen that the gates were low
cred. Naturally I concluded that the
car would stop, and the first thing I
knew of any danger was when we went
crashing through the gates"
Policeman Stuckey, who was a wit
ness of the accident, said the trolley
car had projected about four feet over
the track when it was struck. There
were about ~ children on the front
platform, grouped around the motor