New-York tribune., 1909-11-07
WRECK KILLS FOUR
COLLISION ON II. X. X.
More than Score Hurt on Jcr-
sen Ctr Trcstlc.


-Four mon were instantly killed. another
was probably fatally injured and more
than twenty passengers received minor in
9uries yesterday morning. when the Phila-
delphia accommodation train OF the Penn
sylvanis Railroad due al the Jersey City
terminal al sa5 O'Clock. ana running on
time. sideNiped light engine running in
Tho same direction. The accident occurred
ON tho elevated tracks OF the railroad. and
tfanlc was completely tied up for three
hours and then run on framway schedule
curing tho remainder 81 the day. The dead.
Fil Of whom were employees OF The COM
psnY we're.
DoZczwoskI sTANISi.AN' for-y-one years.
trscksalser. No i0> lac, street Jersey city.
u II 30 aohn. thifsy ZesTs. fireman Nesark
MUNReE. John. forty soars. ensineer. Perth
sPIII.E. John. forty FIVE sesrs engineer. Tren-
r1n
The man fatally hurt is Joseph Anlewski.
fhiriy wears old. of No. III Morgan street,
Jersey City. . Polish laborer employed by
fhe company. whose skull was fractured.
lIe was removed 20 the city Hospital un-
conscious. and was still alive az the close
of the day. bur could not be revived. and
no hope was entertained for his recovery
Tho Injured. who were conveyed 10 the
hospitals for treatment, are
n. -
lsfi leg punciured: -. Francis Hospital.
BROOKS Miss A G. twenty -four wears, No 81
Islm strsei Elizabeth. bruises on rigtt sioe'
DANIEIlsoN NaNueIl. forty wears. porter, No.
la2 West lS5th street oontusions ana shock
sINrsoN Harold. twenty -sirht wears. railway
clerk, three ribs fractured ST Francis Hos
ptsl
iig- Tasf Brasd siIest E!irabeth confusion
rigti hin. 81 Francis Hospital
1ENca cSors. thiTty-Se ,Ss Hs s5S,,o, s wTss; 80
HANDS. Francis Hospital
PASSENGER ENGINE LEAVES RAILS.
The accommodation train was running on
the eastbound inside track and was just
sbreast Of the light engine, which was
running on the outside track, when the
passenger engine left the rails and side
wiped the other engine. The tender OF the
FORMER was torn from its trucks; the mail
car. which followed. was derafied and
thrown across the tracks and the smoking
car fell over on it's side and hung over the
street The other -four cars which made
up the train an left the rails. AL the in
sured passengers. with the exception OF
Miss Brooks. were I'm the overturned car.
The light engine was driven a hundred
wards down tho track by the force Of the
collision aud the nutilsted remains OF its
engineer and fireman. Munroe aud Mcclure,
were found in the cab. The body of
Smile. engineer OF the passenger train, was
hurried under the wreck. u is thought
shs, he attempted TO Jump from his en-
sine IS his fireman. Mead. who stuck 10
tho cab. escaped serious injaries. although
nc vas badly bruised. The Polish lahorer
vas found i'm the wreck. He had been hit
lv the coach which overturned.
Vmploves of the company and other pas
.engers RESCUED those who were imprisoned
IN the smoking car by lifting them through
thr windows ~ the upturned side The
injured were carried 10 another car and at
tended by an army of physicians who re-
spouded quickly TO a general call for assist
ancr The more seriously injured we're
saken away in ambulsnoes and patrol
wagons. which had been ordered 90 the
scene Immediately after the accident oe-
CURED.
when II Was found that all four tracks
we're completely blocked the railroad com
panv informed its agents in Newark and
Elizabeth # the accident and arrangements
ucre made win the central Railroad ot
New Jersey 10 carry the delayed passen-
rers from those stations. Passengers on
fl,e eNpress trsiqs were held for hours
Tho surface lines from Newark TO Jersey
Cty we're crowded all dsy.
ONE TRACK CLEARED BY NOON.
shortly before noon wrecking crews
opsned one track and the company heesn
the task of despatchinE seveniy-fve de-
lsved irsir.s and maintaining the regular
schedule The interlocking switches ana
automatic signals were out 81 commission
because ~ the deTailed engine and cars
and trains were operated slowly. one OF
the first westbound trains sent out was a
special train chartered 70 carry passen-
gers 20 attend the football game between
the Princeton and Dartmouth teams at
Princeton. There were three special trains.
the last moving out OF the station az 2.2o
O'Clock, ono hour later than II was scheo-
uled 20 leave the terminal
The congestion continued and the station
was flled with anxious and impatient pas
senrers az il O'Clock last night; trains were
dispatched irregnlaTly and at long inter
walls. ana the Long Branch express train
due az -:2l. and tho express trains that
fellow 81 on the schedule. had not arrived
The accident demonstrated the protection
60 the steel cars 20 passengers IN the event
oe wreck, and also showed that they were
q hindrsnce in clearing the tracks after a
smash. Experts began an investigation Inn
rnediately. hut al late hour last night ha1
not determined the cause of the accident
according 20 information given out at Tho
general superintendent ONCE me ''eois
IVES that the passenger engine left The ralis
because 81 broken hange-
ON. man Who saw the accident wished
N,esterdsy that he had not bern standing az
that fatal instant IN = window n the Dixon
Crucibie Compsny's factory. which over
looks the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks n
Jersey city.
7 couldn't help seeing the whole thing,
said the man. who Is one OF the assistant
sllperintendents Of the company. and !
shall never forget the horror OF II. The
engineer of the Philaaelphis train Wa
crushed 20 death between tho cab and the
tender. From my place IN the window
saw the poor follow killed outright. And
then / saw the fireman creep into the dilspi-
dated engine and pull his fires after fndins
out that his partner tho engineer. was dead
and that all his efforts TO eNtricste him
were unavaiing.