Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-12-20
TRAIN WRECK
HIGH IN AIR.
Two New York Central Trains
Come Together One Dead
Forty Injured.

NEW YORK, Dec. 20.-One passen-
ger was killed and between forty and
fifty injured, many of them seriously,
in a collision between two trains on
the New York Central structure be-
tween One Hundred and Fourth and
One Hundred and Sixth streets in Park
avenue, this city. Both trains We're
filled with passengers, the majority Of
them commuters, and when the crash
came there was a scene of wild con
fusion.
Only n man.. w. Knapp of New
Rochelle-is known to be dead. When
Knapp's body vas taken from a smash.
ed car of the New Haven train Il mob
thousands strong made a demonstra-
ton that required the reserves from
two police stations to suppress it.
One train was raked by the other I'M
til most of its cars were shredded like
corded wood.
Many Of the injured were pinned in
the wreckage and had to be extricated
by firemen of hook and ladder COM
panies. The shrieks and groans that
came from the wrecked cars were
~heartrending.
The collision occurred on a part of
the structure on which both the Cen
trail and New Haven trains run, about
fifty feet high. The trains in the crash
were the Poughkeepsie express, going
north, and a New Haven local, also 60
ing north. One of the trains was run-
ming on the middle track, and as 1t
it was to take u switch and run on an
other track.
In taking the switch the train went
off the track and hit the other with ter
rife force. Both were going at almost
full speed, and several cars in both
trains were demolished. The wreck
age was strewn along the track for
four blocks.
One of the engines upset. The engine
driver on the other locomotive brought
his train to a stop quickly, but not be-
fore several of the cars had torn
through the other train.
The passengers in both trains were
thrown in heaps and hurled in all dl-
rections. Some of them were buried
under masses of wreckage. Many of
them were pierced by splinters and cut
by flying glass. There was a terrific
uproar Immediately. Those that were
hurt so badly as to be unable to move
cried wildly for help. Other passen-
gers who were not so badly hurt tried
to give aid to the unfortunate ones,
while more tried to escape from the
structure. Several managed to climb
down to the street and We're attended
in nearby drug stores.
One of the passengers on the New
Haven train, jeremiah Geraty of New
Rochelle, was hurled from the train
clear off the structure by the collision.
He picked himself up and ran as fast
as he could to the One Hundredth
street police station, where he gave the
alarm. He was injured about the alb
domen and face.
The following victims of the accident
were seriously hurt: Emmett A. Scott
of New Rochelle, dangerously; j. j..
Dyer of Stamford, Conn, internal in
%juries; Edward Kleist of New Ro-
chelle, possible fracture of skull; Dan
lei Bella of Portchester, N. Y, both
bones of right arm broken, left hand
fingers crushed, compound fracture of
jaw (Mr. Bella is a Hungarian clergy
NAM; Samuel Foster of Norwalk,
Conn, a brakeman, both bones of left
forearm fractured and right arm LAGER
ated.
The police arrested John D.: Horn,
engine driver of the Poughkeepsie
train, holding him for a coroner on the
charge of homicide.