Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-02-21
THREE DEAD
79 INJURED.
Erie Flyer Wrecked Near Pater
son Whole Train Down
E~mbankment.

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lives were lost and seyenty-nine per
sons more or less seriously injured
when the Tuxedo club special of tn
Erie railroad was ditched on the Der
gen short cut midway between War
rem Point and Fairlawn, y. j., abou
| four miles north of Paterson. The train
left the track and rolled down an en-
bankment into a deep ditch.
OF the three killed but two have beef
identified-Miss Grace Matthews, OF
her way to New York to seek a posi-
ton to aid her aged mother, and Miss
Mary Speers, eighteen years old, oil
Turner's, N. Y. The third was a woman
about seventy-five years old.
That the wreck was due to a law III
q casting on the truck of the engine
tender was the statement of an ofhclal
of the Erie company. He declared The
accident unavoidable and said no one
was to blame.
OF the $50 passengers on the tram
were many wealthy residents OF IuXe-
do. ,Suffern and other points near by.
They were mostly brokers, lawyers
! and business men on their way to New
( York 70 business. Tie train was made
IN of a parlor car, smoker, q day coach
| and a Tuxedo club special cur. The
| train started from Suffcra and was
halt an hour late. making up lost time
when the accident occurred. .
One mile a minute is said to be the
schedule time Of the club train at the
point where the smoking car left the
rails. The train is said to have been
making nearly that speed, and fov
nearly half a mile the smoker was
dragged and bumped along the track
before the cars and engine left the
track.
In his effort to pull the bell rope and
stop the train when the smoker left the
track Clifford Wall, an office boy EN-
ployed in New York. was hurled
against a, window and severely cut
about the head.
All that saved the wreck from being
one OF the most horrible in the annals
of ~railroadinS in this section was the
fact that after to" cars jumped tn"
track they pounded along on The ties
for a quarter Of a mile before piunging
down the embankmeut. The entire
train of four cars-a combination bag
gage and smoking car-weut inte the
ditch. but speed had been s~lackene1,
and the ditch was full of snow.
The train, running al high speed, had
just passed owe Il switch at Warren
Point when the q truck Of the tend-
or broke. The back of the tender
swung to one side, and this threw the
first of the five cars off the track and
broke the coupling between the car and
The tender. The train plunged ahead
for Il distance OF a thousand yards,
tearing up the tracks as it went, and
finally. while the passengers Were try
ing frantically to reach the doors, all
five cars rolled over the ten foot en-
bankment alongside the track. Three
Of the cars turned completely over and
now lie upside down. The engine did
not leave the track and ran nearly half
q mile before it could be brought to Il
stop.
Those who were killed sustained
their injuries by being jammed be-
tween the seats Us the cars We're
crushed together. Another train fol-
lowing close bchind'toolt the injured on
hoard, where they were cared for.
The wrecked train was running Oh
what is known rs the Bergen branch, Il
short cut from Ridgewood TO Passaic.
Among the injured at Paterson hos
/ )itaI are: .. II. Cutler OF sSuifern, in
ured III back: Frank ,FurnIan OF Suf-
'erI. head aud lee Injured: Il. T.. Mes
Ter Of Middietown. head cut: Waltel
Duryet Of Sutfetn. head cut; Il. II.
Post Of Tuxedo. injured about tho
lead: :. d. Moore OF Tuxedo. head in
| iured; Edward Roberts of Tuxedo.
| BADLY injured about the head and face;
| Carlisle Norwood of Tuxedo. cut about
he face and head; Joseph Scdgarorc OF
S~utfern, injured Oh head; john Van
dout0u of Paterson. injured on head:
!. Il. Ford OF Suffrrn. Injured about
he body; Raymond Wayton OF Monroe.
\. T.. Injured head and arm: Arthur
Day of Tuxedo, injured Oh head; Mrs.
Joseph Nocran Of Chester, X. Y, had
Ter left eye %ou@ed ont. and she was
otherwise injured about the head and
face; Edna Mcdonnell OF Sufrern, cut
lbout face and mead; Elizabeth Mitch
I'll Of Madison avenue. New York CITY.
injured about the face and arms: Wi.
liam O'Brieu Of Washington street.
Brooklyn, injured about the head and
body; G. ID. Moore, injured about the
body.
Otbers injured are: d. 7, Shut OF
Monroe, injured about the body; Jessie
Cooper of Suffern, bead injured
George Frederick. Jr., of Chester, y. Y.
injured about head: Harold Baus OF