Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-11-13
Az DEAD IN
TRAIN WRECK
Immigrant Train Takes Fire at
WOOdVIIe, Indiana Scores
of Bodies Burned.

than one-half the passengers on an I'm
migrant train on the Baltimore and
Ohio road were Killed and injured in u
collision between the passenger and a
freight near WoodviIIe, Ind.
one hundred and sixtS-fve pnssen-
gers were on the train. OF these forty.
seven were either killed outright or
burned to death in a fire that
broke out IN the wreckage Immediately
after the collision, The names OF all
the dead VIII probably never he
known, as forty-fSc df tie bodies
were consumed iii tie flames or were
Sc badly burned TINT identification will
be out of the question.
Thirty eight people were injured, and
several of these wflrdie. Eighty others
escaped unhurt, but lost nearly all
their baggage and clothing.
The disaster w'as caused by a blum
der or some employee Of the railroad
company, but just where the blaine
lies has not as vet been determined.
The passenger train, which was loaded
with Russian Jews, Servians and
Poles, an Of tiem recent arrivals in
this country and bound for Chicago or
places northwest, was the second sec
tion OF d through train from Baltimore.
One report is that the engineer of
the freight train Ind not been inform
ed that the passenger train was run
ming in two sections. The other is that
the first section OF the passenger train
carried no lights or signals Of any
kind Indicating that a second section
was close behind. As soon as the first
section Of the Immigrant train had
passed the switch at Babcock the
freight train, in charge of Engineer
Burke and Conductor Moste, started
eastward. A light snow was falling,
which increased the darkness of the
early morning, and as the freight was
rounding d sharp curve just west of
Woodville the second section of the i'm
migrant train came in sight a short
distance away, tearing toward Chicago
at the rate OF forty miles an hour.
The two trains came together at full
speed, and the impact wrecked both Of
them completely. Both engines were
turned oyear on the south side of the
track and fell clear of the main track.
rhe ears or the Immigrant train were
hurled down a ten foot e~nbankment
and immediately catight fire. Although
every possible effort was made to ex-
tricate the imIniigr hts from the wreck
age, the flames SPREAD so rapidly that
this was Impossible III many cases. and
it is believed TINT fully twoscore were
burned to death before aid could be
given them. 1t Is known that FIVE Of
the immigrants We're killed outright
The fireman of the freight train was
killed, and Fireman Cutler OF the inn
migrant Train. was 40 badly hurt that
he cannot live. Engineers fRennemaii
and Burke or the two trains and Bag
l~gagelnaster Snyder of The Immigrant
train were badly injdrsds
The flames spread through the
wfeckage SO rapidly that it was i'm
possible to save a number of people
who were only slightly hurt, but We're
held fast by tfmbers that weighted
them down, These were burned in
plain sight Of the throng that stood
around the scene of tho disaster. utter
ly unable to lend assistance in any
way. The fire continued Until all OF
the shattered cars were entirely con
sumed, and OF tile forty-seven people
whose death followed the collision for
ty-iye were burned to ashes.
sarsents station Burned In Wreck.
SAN JOSE. Cal. Nov. r.. - West