The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-11-09
-FOUR KILLED IN
JERSEY CITY WRECK
Pennsylvania Train Jumps the
Track on Elevated TrestIe.
SCORE OF PASSENGERS HURT
Fearful Loss of Life Prevented by
Cars of New Steel Type, Which
Stood the Shock, But Smoker
Crumbled and Turned Over.


Jersey City, N. -Four persons
were killed and score or more Of
persons we're more or less badly in
jured in a wreck on the Pennsylvania
Railroad here. The wreck was caused
by a peculiar collision between two
engines, both running in the same d.
rection on parallel tracks, and that
the loss of life was not greater rail-
road men say is due to the fact that
the cars in which Nthe passengers
were, with single exception, were
of the new steel type
The collision was between the en-
CINE drawing the SAT a. m. express
from Philadelphia and detached en-
CINE that was backing into the ter
minal to take out one of the morning
trains for Long Branch, N. j. The
Philadelphia train was crowded with
passengers, most of them commuters
from nearby towns in New Jersey.
The persons killed were the engineers
of the two engines, the fireman of the
Long Branch engine and a track
walker who was caught in the wreck
age whens the Philadelphia trains
engine jumped the track and crashed
into the engine that was coming in.
The dead are: Specie Droskie, a
track-walker, address unknown;
James Mcclure, of Newark, fireman
of Long Branch engine; John Mon
roe, of Perth Amboy, engineer of
Long Branch engine; John Spilley, of
Trenton, engineer of Philadelphia
train.
The injured are: A. c. Allison, of
81 Nassau street, New York City;
internal injuries; ST Francis Hospi-
tai. Joseph Anleyski, of III Morgan
street, Jersey City, trackwalker;
compound fracture of the skull.
Frederick e. Binns, of 55 Sawyer
street, Elizabeth; shock sent home.
Miss Anna G. Brook, of 81 Elm street,
Elizabeth; bruises and cuts; in st.
Francis Hospital S. H. Clark, of
Metuchen; scalp wounds; in City
Hospital, Max Donaldson, of AZ
West 135th street, New York City;
serious internal injuries; City Hospi-
tai. William L. Douglass, IL Emmett
street, Newark; cut and bruised;
went home William Ewing, of AL
lendale; unconscious from shock and
possible internal injuries: IN Christ
Hospital, Charles Hudhizer, Ran-
way; shoulder sprained went home.
Raymond Magyar, Railway; bruises
and cuts; went home Frederick Nc
Garry baggage-master of Philadel-
phia train; cuts and bruises; sent
home. Daniel Mead, of STA South
Nineteenth street, Newark; fireman
OF Philadelphia train; internal inju-
ries; City Hospital. Melville j.
Quinn, of 10 Hedden Terrace, New
ark; cuts and shock; went home.
John Rolfe, of Metuchen; arm
sprained; sent home George l..
Senday, of 244 Wright street, New
ark; possible fracture of the skull;
in st. Francis Hospital. William
Siebert, of Trenton; mail clerk on
Philadelphiatrain shock; sent home.
Henry F. Simpson, mail clerk on
Philadelphia train; three ribs bro
ken; sent home. George Smith, of
l07 Elizabeth avenue, Newark;
shock; sent home. Kenneth Spear,
of Metuchen cuts on head; sent
home. G. e. Spittlehouse, of Eliza
beth; shock; in ST. Francis Hospital.
George Tench, of 224 Light street,
Newark; internal injuries; in st.
Francis Hospital. Mrs. E. G. We'll,
of So Camp street, Jersey City;
u uAoC0s PlOCCCuCQ W ANSW 1OIh OlLys
s. Zelarski, of 43 Herman avenue,
Newark; shock; sent home.
The scene of the wreck is near a
little flag station in the Jersey City
municipal limits known as Waldo.
The engines came together on the
elevated structure over Railroad ave-
nue., few hundred yards south of
Brunswick street. The place is
densely populated The railroad
structure passes through crowded
tenements that line both sides of the
avenue. The structure carries four
tracks at the point of the accident,
two outgoing and two incoming, and
it was on an incoming track that the
collision occurred Both engines
were wrecked and several of the
steel cars twisted, but not one of the
cars gave way under the strain.