The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-02

could not be learned yesterday. num- Der of the cars on the second train were empty and were being brought back to the yards. One of the cars, however, had a very valuable cargo, being filled with silverware for under takers use and included candleabras, coffin, plates and handles, etc Railroad Officer J. Burke was undoubtedly the means of saving the contents of this car from being stolen. He arrived at the scene of the wreck shortly after 1t occurred, and although the door of the car was broken open he stood guard over the cargo thereby assuring its safety from thieves. It is not thought that any of this cargo is badly dam aged.
 Another car on the second train which was wrecked was filled with bricks, and these did not tend to tighten the force of. the impact when 1 the trains came together.
 1 Among the eight cars hurled from the rails was one near the center of the second train. The jar from the brick car which was near it was so great that it was hurled up the embankment and through the wooden walls of the lumber room of the Hooker Carriage 1 company. The wall of the building over the railroad cut was broken down and the car was smashed into kindling wood, almost. Some time later in the day big crowd of people gathered in the back yard of the property at the point opposite where this part of the wreck occurred, and 8 moment after they had been hurried back from the wall, the side caved in from the weight of the many people who had been I standing there and from it's weakened condition caused by the wreck. Lucxi- ly all the spectators got back in time for if they had been standing there 1 they would have been thrown into the bottom of the cut, about twenty feet below.
 When the second train struck the first the engine at the rear of the second train made matters worse by it's continued added force. The train was so long that this engine was almost under the Hillhouse avenue bridge when the crash occurred and the en- gineer, of course, had no means of knowing that anything was wrong un- til he and his fireman were thrown from their seats by the full impact. The power was then immediately shut off. This engine was not badly dam aged although the front of the head engine was broken to pieces and the boilers smashed.
 l Ar +Ia cS1 hbo r5 crowds hurried to the scene. All avail able policemen were sent there and the | two police ambulances. In addition to this all the wrecklng apparatus in this section was summoned out with big squad of laborers. All the railroad po- lice in this city were also sent for to assist the local police in keeping the sightseers back. The. main track was blocked until about il o'clock, and To- calls were made up in this city to take travellers to New York. Another pe- culiar incident of the wreck was the fact that although cars were hurled with their big heavy trucks right and left the tracks themselves were but | slightly damaged. News of the wreck brought people to the scene during the day from all directions, and it is esti- mated that 1t was viewed from various points of vantage during this time by fully 25000 people. The police had to be summoned to No, 2's engine house, SC great was the crowd inside of 1t right after the collision occurred. .s..
 The work of clearing the tracks was rushed along, and at Il o'clock in the morning the main line was opened, all though it was not until late in the aft ernoon that the Northampton tracks were cleared and repaired. Where il was possible the broken cars were drawn in the freight yard for repairs Among these were the car with the silverware in it. It was West Shore and Pennsylvania car, and the goods were being shipped, it was said, tc Philadelphia.
 It would be most difficult matter tc state just how much damage the wreck did, but one of the officials of the company who was at the scene yester- day stated that in his opinion it would amount to at least $20,000. The cause of the accident will be fully investigat. ed by the officials this morning,
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 INSANE MAN ARRESTED.