The Penn's Grove record., 1909-11-12
PENNs GROVE. N. j.. FRIDAY. NOVEMBER p. 1909.
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 a score or more OF
persons were 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 de
rection IN 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 the passengers
were, with a single exception, were
Of the new steel type.
The collision vas between the
CINE drawing the 8.47 a. m. express
from Philadelphia and a detached n
CINE that was backing into the ter
minal to take out one of the morning
trains for Long Branch, N. ]. The
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 when the Philadelphia trains
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into the engine that vas coming In.
The dead are: Specie Droskie, a
t~rack-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 Anlevski, of III Morgan
street. Jersey City, trackwalker;
compound fracture of the skull.
Frederick E. Binns, of 55 Sawyer
street, Elizabeth; shock; semi 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;
gerious 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 Me
Garry, baggage-master of Philadel-
nhis train; cuts and bruises; sent
home. Daniel Mead, of 374 South
Nineteenth street, Newark fireman
of Philadelphia train; internal inju-
ries; City Hospital. Melville J.
Quinn, of Is Hedden Terrace, New
ark; cuts and shock; went home.
John Rolfe, of Metuchen; arm
sprained; sent home. George L.
Senday, Of PA Wright street, New
ark; possible fracture of the skull;
in st. Francis Hospital. William
Siebert, of Trenton; mail clerk on
Philadelphia train; shock; sent home.
Henry F. Simpson, mail clerk on.
Philadelphia train; three ribs bro-
ken; sent home. George Smith, of
107 Elizabeth avenue, Newark
shock; sent home. Kenneth Spear
of Metuehen; 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.
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of SO Camp street, Jersey City
bruises; proceeded to New York City
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., a 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 n the
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