The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-04
Several Disasters on Yari-
Gus Lines With Fatal
Results.
JERSEY CENTRAL HAS One
City Flyer Runs Into
Mine Cave-in and Engineer Is
Crushed to Death, While
Twenty Passengers Have
Narrow Escapes.

SCRANTON, Pa, Nov. 4.-One man
was killed and two others were seri-
ously injured by the wrecking of the
Quaker City Flyer on the Jersey Cen
trail Railroad about half a mile north
of Pittston. The train was passing
the Butler colliery, when it ran into a
mine cave-in, which occurred just as
the train was passing.
The dead n Henry Carey, engineer,
of Scranton, married. The injured are
Thomas Cannon, Of Ashley, baggage
master, leg crushed and thought to be
injured internally; Charles Fine, of
Scranton, fireman, badly scalded and
in State Hospital in this city. There
were about twenty passengers on the
train, but none of them was injured.
The train was due in this city from
Philadelphia at 1850 and was running
on time. Tt had just passed through
Pittston and was speeding along by the
Butler colliery, when the engine sud-
denly plunged into a big hole, prac-
tically disappearing from sight. The
baggage car crashed in after it and
the smoker, which was the next car
on the Train, half overturned.
CUMBERLAND, Md, Nov. 1.-Two
men were killed, a third is missing and
one man was injured as the result of a
wreck early today when an extra west
bound freight train on the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad got beyond control
and collided with another fast freight
on the Cranberry grade, near Nc
MILAN, w. Va, about 70 miles west of
here.
The dead are; Jacob w. Gerlach, age
80 years, a brakeman, of Cumberland,
Md; W. E. Hamil, age "a years, a
brakeman, of Keyser, w. Va. Martin
j. Fallon, age 40 years, an engineer, of
Piedmont, w. Va, is missing and is
supposed to be under the wreck. He
was last seen on the running board of
his engine about two miles from the
point of the collision J.. H, Cornwell,
of Grafton, W. Va, conductor of the
front train, was injured about the
head.
At the top of the grade at Terra
Alta, w. Va, the air was tested and
1t is alleged was found all right, but
in starting down the train got beyond
control, reaching a speed of ninety
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+, The collision occurred about two
miles from the bottom of the grade
after the train had run about twenty
miles. The freight apparently was
moving about twenty miles an hour.
Cars were hurled in all directions.
Fourteen cars, including the caboose.
were thrown down the embankment
into the liver.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark, Nov. Alive
persons were killed and many more in
jured in a head-on collision between
a northbound passenger train and a
southbound freight near Riggins's
switch, eight miles from Little Rock,
on the Iron Mountain Railroad, last
night.
The Leaf are: Gady Burke, a negro
railway postal clerk; Alvin D.. Brumb-
low, white, postal clerk; w. Whitaker,
negroatramp; two unknown White boys.
The injured are: Will Neal, extra por-
ter of passenger train, both feet man
gled; Andrew Kraney, engineer pas
senger train. badly scalded about hips
and lower limbs; M. S. Hughes, fire.
man passenger train, injured on left
side; Frank Meek, WINFIELD, La, lac
Grafton of forehead; Alfred Piper, 16
years old, Little Rock, fatally scalded;
j. J. Wright. Little Rock express mes
senger, arm injured and back bruised,
will recover; w. S. Moss, Hot Springs,
knee injured.
Twenty others were injured. some Sc
riously, but their names are not known.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Nov. "A fast
passenger train on the Queen and Crescent
Route, going at a high speed, collided
bead-on with a freight train a mile south
of Morganville, Ga. killing Engineer Spen-
Ger and a negro brakeman, and seriously
iniuring FIVE trainmen and hurting twenty
passengers.
The seriously injured are: H. w. Elliott,
ir. freight engineer, leg broken; ]. M.
Tumlin, fireman; Edward Jackson, ex-
press messenger; w. A. Frierson, mail
clerk: John Street, mail clerk.
Three coaches, a mail car. an express car
and a seeond-cIass coach were burned.
All of the mail and express was con.
DANBURY, Conn, Nov. A bad rail-
road wreck is reported near Redding on
the Berkshire division Of the New York,
New Haven and Hartford Railroad, and
two trainmen were severely injured. They
u,ena brought to the Danbury hospital.