Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-02-20
EIGHT ARE DEAD.
Trolley Struck by Express Train
at Newark, N. !.
Loaded With School Children Eight
Killed Score Injured.
Motorman and Engineer VIII Cie-
EIectric's Wheels Slipped.

! Newark. n. j., Feb. ia fast ex.
press on the Lackaw.tnna Railroad cut
through trolley VAR crowded with
High school eh.. ren.k at the Clifton
Avenue crossinss today Eight were
killed and Il score or more injured. The
motormaC o. the car who stuck to his
post. will die and the engineer of the
| express WAS so badly hurt that there is
| little hope Of his recovery
| Both tho express and the trolley were
! N steep grades, going at right angles.
i fhe express was signailed and the
crossing gates We're lowered while the
trolley car was yet half way down the
! hill. The mOtorman shut off the power
and applied the brakes, but almost i'm
mediately the car began to slip along
the icy rails. 1t gained tremendous
| momentum and at the bottom of the
hill crashed through the gates, direct
ly in the track of the on-coming train.
The locomotive ploughed its way
through the trolley, throwing the chill
dren in every direction. The dead are;
| Viola Ill, II years.
Maude Baker, 16 years.
Ernestinc p Mueller, Is years.
Mabel L. Karschner, II years, Tiffin,
Ohio.
Alma Liennberg, 16 years.
| Rosebud Kohn.
Ella Werpupp, 10 years.
Evan L. Eastwood, Jr., 16 years.
The injured
Peter Brady, motorman of trolley car,
| skull crushed. will die
Oscar Backliff, engineer of train.
head crushed, probably fatally.
| Jennie McLelland, 16 years, skull
fractured, other injuries; probably ia
tally.
Florence Doll, ankle broken and badly
hurt about head and shoulders.
! Mabel Smith, IA years, head injured.
Frederick Allsoup, injured about
head and body.
George Smith, colored leg fractured.
Carl Raauet, cut about face and
bruised about body.
Maud Van Valen, Il year. bruised
about head and arms.
Walter Burmann, II years, ribs
broken.
Edith Fox Pauline Rich, Marian Lyt-
tie, Margaret Commerford, Frances
Nevius. Helen MeCord, Aline Coursen,
Nina Bull, Lillian Geraghty Marion
Price, Frederick Lindsey, Emily
knight, Arthur Luland and Jacob Wal
lack.
The accident happened within three
blocks of the High school building and
IN the car at the time were nearly 100
scholars. AS many as 30 others had
managed to throw themselves from the
car before the crash came. The trolley
was one of the specials which every day
bring the children to school. 1t had
more than its ordinary load today, ow-
ing to the cold. 1t contained every
child that could squeeze inside and
others stood on the rear platform Be
cause this car had been so crowded.
many who Were waiting for it before
the hill was reached. could not get on.
although some climbed on the front
platform with the notorman. A. score
or more children were compelled to
walk and they followed the car afoot.
The wreck of the trolley car was
complete. The pilot of the engine
struck it almost amidships and turned
it partly around and then the ponder
GUS engine cut il in two. The upper
part of the trolley was reduced to frag-
merts under the drivers of the locomo-
tive. One-half of the car was thrown
10 one side and lay on the tracks. The
other section was hurled some distance
aWay. In every direction lay the in
brought to Il standstill and from the
train and from nearby houses men
rushed to the rescue.
A lad who had been hurled to place
Of safety in snow bank several feet
from the crossing, rose, brushed the
snow out OF his eyes and with Il shrek
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