The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-21
ONE KILLED; MANY INJURED,
FOUR HEAI'Y JESTIBULED CANS
OF ERIE EMPRESS DITCHED
Plunge over Fifteen Foot Embanl'men'
broken Glass Caused Most Of the
InJurles-tlrl Killed Had Raised VIM
dow 10 Get Relief From Headache.

InjurleS-tlrl tlllcu tau hhlstu VIM
dow 10 Get Relief From Headache
Train No 40 OF the Erie Railroad. running
az an express between sufiern n. Y, and
Jersey City, and going at fifty miles an
hour. jumped the track yesterday morning
at point four miles north Of Paterson
The four heavy vestibuled cars ofthe train.
including the club car made up at Tux
edo. plunged over fifteen foot embank-
ment into a ditch. where two Of the cars
turned over on their sides. The locomotive
and tender did not leave the rails. Grace
Matthews, 10 years old, who was on her
way from Sufern to look for place as
stenographer in this city, was killed Her
head was almost cut of.
+ A list made up by the railroad company
showed seventy-one persons Injured
counting all those who had cuts and bruises
The most seriously injured were the fol-
lowing:
Baines. Harold surern. n. Y. right leg
crushed suffern Hospital. >, ,
Conover, Mabel. Sunern, y. l., lhteThui
injuries. Suffcrn Hospital.
Dugan, Mrs Theresa, Tuxedo y. Y, In,
,ures TO spine. may die Paterson uenerai
Farrell. C. A: Tuxedo. y. Y. head Injured
and hands cut. st. Joseph's Hospital Pater-
n,
Jacamain, Fred Monroe. \ y head and
face cut ST Joseph's Hospital
Noonan Mrs. Joseph. Chester, y. y, scalp
torn and right eye Injured, 81. Joseph hOs-
Norwood. Carlisle lawyer. es William street
cuts on head back and chest =. 3, -,,A,
Montgomery. III. W: Su1ern. y. 4, rlgIt
ear partly severed, bruised about head.
Paterson General Hospital .h,ch
Van Houten, Lottie, Suf1ern, y, Y. thlEh
Injured Sunern Hospital.
IN I)IN1gIOn
Superintendent Elston, who made an in
vestigation yesterday afternoon, was due
to the breaking of part of the rear truck
Of the locomotive tender just west OF the
Warren Point station and about third OF
a mile from where the train was ditched.
The right side of the truck pounded along
the ties until it came to a switch. As the
broken truck struck the frog 1t tore the
heavy steel rails apart and four coaches
following left the rails
Engineer Henry Palmer put on brakes
but the coupling between the tender and the
first car broke and the engine and broken
tender ran along ahead. The momentum
of the train was such that the four heavy
coaches ploughed along the ties ior about
$50 feet. and then one after tho other went
over the embankment. The first two cars
rolled down and landed on their sides
The Tuxedo car and the one ahead of IL
sid of their trucks but did not go COM
pletely over The car had only a few
Tuxedo people in it, the next train being
the favorite one for the business men of
that colony. They we're the frat TO Gambler
out and 20 to the assistance of the people
in the overturned. oars.
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Passengers in the two Goa ches that toppled
over had felt them running over the ties
and nearly every one had instinctively
grabbed something and was prepared
Tor lust what happened when they went
down the embankment. They were shaken
like chips in basket and men and women
landed in heaps Many OF them went
through the windows and il was the broken
glass that caused most Of the injuries.
The Matthews girls case was a particu-
ary aad one, az she had narrowly missed
the train. and would not have caught 1t at
all at Sufern had not the conductor seen
her coming and held II for her as be knew
her She was with her friend Jessie
Cooper. and when they first got in Jessie
sat next to the. window. Just a minute
before the accident Miss Matthews com
planned Of having a headache and got tie
put the window UP a little. and tie next
minute the train rolled over. Her head
went out through the window, and as tie
car slid along over the ground on It's side
| her head was almost severed. HE Cooper
| girl fell over her and was badly bruised.
President y. II. Cutler OF the American
| Shoe Brake Company was on the car ON his
way TO his Office. He felt the car turning
over and put his arms over hts face. He
was thrown through the window. Others
had the same experience. When the men
came TO they found 1t impossible to get out
/ tnn 70 a
closet at the end Of the car. By climbing
on this they we're able to pull Themselves
! through the windows of the upturned side.
Most of the women were pulled out an this
manner. Nearly all came out with their
faces streaming with blood and their clothes
in ribbons
The Tuxedo men got whiskey and brandy
from the buffet Of their car and we're the
first to give assistance. The wounded
we're taken 10 the Warren Point station.
A freight train had taken news TO the near
eat Telegraph station. four miles west, and
II was sent from there to Jersey City. Help
was asked from Paterson and doctors hur-
ried TO The scene. The Erie officials sent out
their hospital car with Jersey City doctors.
and the more seriously wounded were
placed aboard this and taken to Paterson.
The caf then went up TO Suffern with tie
wounded from that place.
Scores Of men and women were attende d
In the little station by doctors. Those
who didn't want TO go on the hospital car
TO the hospitals were placed aboard eoial
train of four cars which went west 10 Ridge
wood junction, where two Of the cars were
sent TO New York, via Paterson, and two
were sent up the line 10 Suffern and stations
beyond TO Middletown. In this way the
wounded got home Practically every
| one aboard the two cars that reached Jerst y
CITY about 10 o'clock had on banda ges
! and not whole piece Of clothing They
/ rushed TO telephone and telegraph wires
| 10 reassure their friends
Supt Elston said the accident was the
most remarkable in his railroad expert
enoe Of twenty years In that only one per-
son had been killed. Had the coaches
not been OF the latest vestibuled style. he
said, they undoubtedly would have been
badly smashed.
! The train which was wrecked Ia one OF
the fastest on that division OF the Erie
II covers the distance OF thirty-two miles
from suffern TO Jersey City in thirty-seven
minutes, mainly by reason Of the cutoff
| by which Paterson is avoided.
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