The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-01-29
PAY TRIBUTE 70 NKNLEY THIRTY. KILLED N WRECK
Royal EIue Express Crashes In
Ito Local Train.
wREckED CARS cAroH FIRE.

WRECK E:D CARS cArci4 FIRE.
Twenty bur Bodies Recovered, Many
of ri \ m charred Beyond Recos-
milton EIpisaster Occurs on Central
aailraiHa Of New Jersey.
New Eork. Jan. 2s.-The most ap-
palling afbilroad wreck that has &C.
currel i-Ethe vicinity of New York in
many yFErs, the loss of life being esti-
mated, all not less than thirty persons,
took plaEss last night at Graceland. N.
j.. on THE Central railroad of New
Jersey, when the Real Blue line ex-
press, whstbound, PUN sed at top speed
into thel Iear Of 9 local train.
Sevenl bodies only have been iden-
tilted, while sixteen more. almost un-
recogniza,ble corpses have been re-
covered. It is almost certain that
many bSodies remain in the
wreck. Immediately after the crash
three of the shattered cars OF the local
train toolN fire, rendering impossible
the rescud, of manv of the wounded
who we,.ek pinned fast in the wreck
List Of identified dead: Edgar Will
Jams, a NeEw York LAWYER; c. G. Sayer,
Harry .G.E Sand, Harry Paterson.
George I'll Reed, Thomas Cumming,
Rowland d'handler, Edward Flynn
Frei.ahit Train Blocks Track.
A freight train was blocked on track
No. and the local received orders to
proceed ON the express track to
DunelleE. Shortly after receiving or
ders the drain had to stop for a hot
box. which, caused delay, so that when
it got IL ndaer way again it was due at
D"nelleh. The train had just started
end was moving slowly when the
ROYAL Blue, travelling apparently at
full speed which at that point usually
e npraxi1naltes siXtv-five miles an hour,
crashed hnto the rear end The engine
of the lRoFal Blue tore into the rear
car. and dfove the forward end of the
car intol THE car ahead which. in turn,
was driFeH into the third car and this.
in turn into the fourth car from the
rear. Tthel fourth car was ONLY partly
wrecked Hut the last three were torn
to piecds
Engilnea' and Fireman Injured.
The dngfne of the Royal Blue left
the rails and turned over on its side,
the engineer and fireman sticking to
their pbsta and going down in the
wreck. IThfv are now in the Muehlen-
burg hospiHal at Plainfield. The engf-
reery is mot believed to have chance
of living more than a few. hours.
Passengers on the flyer say the en-
gineer stpplEed brakes hard 2 minute
or SO hefofe the wreck. The train
ahead had Eent a flaeman hack, but it
seems HE Was recalled when the train
got under Way, and although he lefs
torpedoes on the track, the Royal Blue
Gid not heedI them, OF else was going
100 fast to stop in the short distance
remaining | The man who went back
TO flag the rain had just swung on to
the rear of tis train and is among the
dead.
Fi.-e ikdds to the Horror
The eugind and the three cars worst
wrecked we're piled in an awful heap.
From the mHss came fearful cries for
aid. A iminltte later the wreck caught
fire from the flrebox of the locomo-
tive The screams Of the injured in
the heap W ere intensified as they
found Themselves hemmed in by the
flames. The passengers in the two for
ward cars tPf the first train and all
the men froIm the express and every
one In the nIeighborhood started work
at once to get out the injured before
the flames cokuld reach them. At times
the flames Reached the rescuers and
their clothinIg took fire, but they
worked on, Though in constant danger
Of being killed themselves. Some of
the injured 1yere burned to death.
Wrecked Cabs Blaze Around Victims.
The flremetn after time mastered
the flames. Then the wreckage was
attacked again and the work Of res
cuing the bodies was begun. Out OF
the first car teight bodies were taken.
Men could tbe seen in the wreckage
pinned fast amid the tinbers and
struggling toI be free while the flames
roared around them. The rescuers
were helpless to all them, as they
already had been driven from the
wreck by thes flames.
When the ,fngine plouehed into the
rear car it Hartly split the car open
and at the saline time lifted it UP onto
itself, Most of those in it are dead
Those in thd car ahead, which was
lifted over THE rear car, suffered the
most for SOME time before the flames
reached them! from the car below and
behind them they were enveloped in
smnlSa and Steam. II vas here that
the worst SCENES were witnessed. The
imprisoned ohes begged for death tc
end their agdnies and implored those
who we're labd,rng to get them free tc
crush their hfads with the axes they
were using to chop away the wreck
age.
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