Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-01-04
)EATH IN TIES
Binding Snow Causes
al Fatal Accidents
RAILROADS WERE BADLY n
Collisions Mt Newark, New
Brewster, Utica and Boltol
suit In Fatalities on I
rious Railways.

suit In Fatalities ON
rious Railways.
NEW YORK, Jan. 4.-Deat
With the terrible snowstorm WI
descended upon New York city
surrounding country. Injuries,
hem serious, were numerous, az
he weather expected to turn
older great suffering must folio
At the Newark enu gradd
ng, the most dangerous spot in
City, the Butler accommodated
If the New York, Susquehamfa
Western railroad struck a trolley
pound from Jersey City to Newa
Six were injured, IN woman, NJ
Hannigan Of Newark, so seriously 1
she is expected TO die.
The heavy fall of snow made tray
ng dangerous, and such trains as W1I
semi out were compelled to feel tl14
way through the binding darkne4
-Four men shoveling snow from Il
tracks of the New York, New Hard
and Hartford railroad near New HAxX
were struck by an express train
killed.
Snow fell without cessation din
the day, the storm increasing in "a
lence at night. The surface lines WEI
In trouble, and traffic was deluye
in every part of the city. Few cal
were running, and the Manhattan 81
waited was keeping its trains moyin
with great difficulty and on a slo'
schedule. In Brooklyn the condition
were ven worse.
Every railroad running into this Cit
or ending across the Hudson had dit
Guilty with its trains. No attempt NJ
made to observe time tables. Man
trains were abandoned entirely, Will
others were pushed out into the COUNT
with extreme difficulty.
While standing at the railroad ST
ton of the Harlem division of the Ne
York Central railroad awaiting ordel
at Brewster, N. Y, the Chatham e.
press, consisting of a combinatie
smoker and baggage car, one Puifnaa
and three day coaches, vas tee
from the rear by the locomoJ
tached to the Pawling Local
Charles Roberts of Pawling. q
ger ON the express train, sustail
we're injuries.
The fast mail on the New Yort
trail railroad, six hours late, n
Utica, N. Y, because the air
failed to work and crashed
express car IAH@zkifted
Nun
some time. Engineer Il. Murphy
Albany was killed, the handrail of
engine being driven through his head
While two engines were pulling /
Erie passenger train through the do
snow the forward engine was derai1|
near the Newburg IN. " station. Fil
man John +. Miller Of Newburg bid
both legs crushed and died in the hid
pital. Engineer Samuel M. Hcadl}
escaped with three broken ribs an
bruises.
The Montreal express for Boston =
into q freight train on the Central v
mont railway near the Bolton (Vt.)
ton, and Engineer Charles Hollal
who jumped, was critically injull
The passengers were unframed.
passenger locomotive was wrecked
traffic delayed several hours.
Peter johnson, address unkil6I
was found dead in the snow neal
Richmond County club golf links
Staten Island.
Mrs. Frances Jeanette, sevent
years of age, may die as the re-
exposure to the cold. She was I
near her home in Staten Island
hands and face frozen.
Three boys about ten years Of d.
two named Loundberry and the
named butcher, were frozen to
on the bay at Bayport, Mich. dbl
the terrific storm. The boys were lis
ermen's sons and had gone out to the
parents fish shanties ON the Ice. The
became lost in the binding snow.
AN