New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-09-30
EXPRESSES IN CRASH.
THREE DEAD; MANY HURT.
z. r.. r. Engineer Unable to Stop
Train in Time.

past signal set against 1t and a fagman who
was wildly waving a warning TO the engineer. a
New York express train bound for Philadelphia
on the New York division of the Pennsylvania
Railroad crashed into a stalled Long Branch
press at Eddington, nineteen miles north Of this
city, to-day, with the result that three persons
are dead and forty injured, several of whom
| believed TO be fatally hurt. That more persons
| were not killed is considered remarkable three
| of the cars of the Long Branch train were COM
! pletely telescoped by the terrific impact Of the
! heavy New York express.
! The list Of dead and injured is follows:
| THE DEAD.
| CoNNELI4 Mrs. W H. Trenton y. J.. wife a rail-
! CRoNIN. Mary. Philadelphia; died in hospital
! oMALLEY. Mary. Railway. N J.
! THE INJURED.
BREsLIN Thomas J. Freehold. n. j; slightly injured
BUSH Egbert P. Stockton n. bruises of right leg
CAswELI. J. H. Washington. D. C; of right
CONWAY A j. Central Falls R. L: sprained
G1LLIATT Mrs. W. South Orleans. Mass; right side
GLASGOW. John P. Asbury Park y. j.: iacerated hand
HALE, Mary Clegro). Atlantic City; body badly in
HICKS Mrs NJ CSegro,. Mountain Penn; right
JEWELL Miss NJ. Trenton n. J.; right side bruised
KRAFT. Miss Margaret New Britain. Penn; bruises Of
LEFFoRD Mrs. j. Mcveytown. Penn sprained back
MANELLA. J.. Trenton. y. ]: back hurt
owERy. Rosa j., DoVnington. Penn; bruises OF both
ROBERTSON Louise CSesro). Washington. D. C.: injury
| SCOTT Thomas providence R. I: sprained back.
STANTON Albert York: tooth and lip cut.
! TAYLOR Rachel. Red Bank. N J.; bruises OF body
WARRICK. Matilda z. (Negro). Washington. D. CT
badly hurt.
wEArHERLY. Mrs l.. Trenton. n. J.: sprained back.
wHITMER. William c. ROckhilL 9. c.; badly In
WILSON Miss Helen Trenton. n. J: badly bruised.
The Long Branch train left the seashore at
/ 7:lO a. m. and due in Philadelphia at 9:3l
a. m. The other express left New York at I 30.
and was due here at 9:35. At Bristol, about
four miles north of Eddington, the New York
express was fourteen minutes behind the Long
Branch train and running at high speed in
order to make up a loss of nine minutes. The
| Long Branch express was compelled to stop at
/ Fddington because of a faulty airbrake, and
while the trainmen trying to find the cause
! Of the trouble the rear brakeman went back 10
yards to flag approaching trains. He stood about
half way between the rear of his train and the
automatic signal which set against other
| trains
COULD NOT STOP TRAIN.
Van Arsdale. engineer of the New York ex-
! press who was not hurt said he saw the req
! signal as well as the flagman. but was unaole
n bring his train 20 a standstil, although he had
Trenton. which was the last stop he had made
/ Rounding the curve near Eddington he was hor-
/ riAed To see that danger close ahead and
as every effort to halt his train was without
avail he could do nothing but wait for the crash
The last four cars of the stalled express were
/ day coaches and some Of the passengers were
strollng along the tracks waiting for the tram
to start. The instant they saw the onrushhg
train they set up cry of warning, but 1t was too
in las thrae
Tho engine struck the car with terrific
.orce causing II 10 be completely telescoped. Th-
NEXT coach was lifted from its trucks and forced
through the coach ahead.
The havoc done was so great that it was at
first believed by witnesses that every one in the
last two cars had been killed The Wreckage
was piled high in a tangled mass. but workers
from the New York express, on which no one
was hurt and unintured passengers from the
Long Branch train quickly set 10 work and
found that most Of the imprisoned passengers
were alive, though many were unconscious.
RELIEF COMES QUICKLY.
Word was sent to the village of Eddington
ord several doctors the scene,
and others from Bristol and nearby towns
e,,r,u,oued by telephone. In the course OF
bour the dead and ali the injured had been re-
,noved and laid at the sides Of the railroad
aprai,iug relief trains. one train was made up
a. Rristol but before il arrived eastbound
e-cv York express was tagged. Some of the
,r,,,red were placed on IT and rushed TO Bristol
"a OTHERS were started for Philadelphia on the
pndanaged section Of the Long Branch train.
- he mean time the railroad officials had
os,,ed the Philadelphia police bureau send
>, ,be West philadelphia station all available
,,h,Iences and police patrol wagons. This was
done. and the unusual number Of such vehicles
t,,,, ar the station caused much excitement
-. storted the widest kind OF ruTnors Of great
Ioss Of life only five OF the seriously injured
20 brought TO this city. Some were taken to
-, The bodies o. the two dead pas
ninth.