New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-07-11

! Erie and a call for surgeons made, the railway
officials quickly ordered the hospital train made
! up and summoned over the telephone all available
! Jersey City physicians. Dire. McGiH, Hart
! Hill, Faison Mulvaney, Wainwright and Wirtz
hurried to the station. and the train consisting
| of the hospital car and a passenger coach, ana
! drawn by an express engine, left Jersey City at
| 80 o'clock. The road was cleared for fast
run. Stops were made at Newark. Montclair
| Pompton Plains and other places to take on
| physicians.
The hospit,l train. with the right of way,
| made quick run, and under the direction of the
! physicians the severely injured were tenderly
| and expeditiously carried into the hospital
car Those who had slight bruises were put
aboard the passenger coaches. Two passenger
cars were added to the hospital train. which was
started on special schedule for Jersey City. An
order was telegraphed for ambulances to meet
the train The three hospitals of Jersey City
St Francis's, Christ and the City Hospital-sent
their ambulances and the police patrol wagons
with stretchers in waiting at Twelfth and
Monmouth SITS. the east end of the Erie
tunnel when the hospital train arrived. at $40
o'clock
crowd Of two or three thousand persons had
congregated. The injured had received atten-
ton from the surgeons on the journey, and
large number were able to go to their homes.
Those in a serious condition were hurried TO
the hospitals. one OF the unfortunates survived
his removal only few hours. He was William
REM. His legs were crushed and amputated>at
St Franciss Hospital where he died at p. m.
Isadore Tanner, his wife Esther. and their two
young sons Isadore. jr, and William, were In
the telescoped car. The mother and her boy
Isadore occupied a seat on one side of the aisle
and the husband and the other son were in the
seat on the opposite Side Of the aisle. The father
and the son at his side were killed. The VIE
and mother saw them crushed TO death. She and
the boy with her were injured, but the shock
caused by the death of her husband was so Sc
we're that her condition is critical.
Among the injured at Christ Hospital, Jersey
City. are Frank and Andrew Holmweddel.
brothers. Frank had with him his eeven-year-
old son Walter The two brothers were on a
seat together. conversng. and the boy, Walter,
was on a seat across the aisle when the CRASH
occurred The boy was killed
STORY OF THE WRECK.
In the scenes which followed the wreck the
work Of pat" Vickers. a special policeman OF
the Erie road who was in the train. stands
out PROMINENTLY Like a trooper he worked, pull
ms; dead and dying. injured and sound from the
tangle of splintered wood and twisted iron
Later. whea the wreck cleared, he mounted
guard over the dead. going with then. in their
tourney from Midvale to the improvised morgue
at Little Falls.
Edward Oxenford. his partner, and two special
policemen from the first train. Ed Burke and
Tim" Corridan, also worked like mad. People
from both trains and people from the village
aided them nobly.
Word had been sent Immediately to Jersey
city, and a wrcckiug train sent out.
general alarm had been sent TO all the nearby
towns for physicians. and long before the train
from Jersey city reached the wreck. Drs. Young
and Smith, of Little Falls. and Or. CofaN OF
Pomptou, were there, caring for the injured
IN marvellous faqhs1u the wreck cleared up
In an hour the injured had been dug out, treated
hastily ana bundled into a car from the rear
train which went speeding hack to Jersey city.
one by one. as they brought out. the
dead were laid to one side. and covered with
sheets which women Of Midvale tore from their
beds BY this time tho wrecklng train, bring
ing with il railroad officials, had arrived. and
with derricts made short work of the rest Of the
wreckage. Working calmly with the rest were
two Catholic priests. As the injured We're
dragged out these men would minister TO them
giving extreme JUNCTION where they deemed II
necessary. sitting the cries Of anguish, comfort
ing the hysterlcal women who hung about tho
workers In a little church nearby was another
minister who, ~ he heard Of the wreck. dis
missed his flock, urging them to accompany him
10 the wreck to render what aid they could.
Immediately after the telescopng Of the train
excited passengers from both trains and the
village wild over the apparently gross careless
ness which had caused the loss of life sought
Landmaster and Bowers.
Pistols appeared as If by magic. and
clubs and axes were Gourished as the crowd
surged around >the engine. The engineer and
fireman We're not there, however. Realizing the
ugly temper Of the people they had taken refuge
in a small hotel where they hid until nightfaIl
when they went to Jersey City, it was declared
County Physician Mcbride declared last night
that he had men looking for them, and could lay
his hand them when he needed them.
INQUEST JURY ALREADY ORDERED.
Before the wreckage had been cleared away
Coroner Mortimer Blauvct and County Physi-
clan Mcbride had arrived from Paterson. They
had the fifteen bodies put into a box car. which
then to Little Falls. The County Ply
sican ordered the coroner to impanel a jury of
six men. This viii be done to-day. and the jury
viii view the body Of Sheror The jury will then
adjourned, witnesses VIII be subpcenaed and In
four or five days the inquest will be held. After
this has fixed the responsibility the coroner will
ask Prosecutor Emley to act
VICKERS TELLS OF COLLISION.
j. Vickers told the following story:
was sitting pretty well back IN our train as we
went into Midvale. Our train running very
slowly, because Were to stop there. We went
on by the station. though, and stopped. did not
think anything Of it for a minute or two Then
saw people come running back. women crying, men
groanlns. got out ran up forward and saw
two Of the forward train into each other