Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-12-22
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[From a staff Correspondent

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NEW BRUNSWICK, Dec. 22.-'"The
OWL. express train on the Penn
sylvania railroad, rushing at sixty
miles an hour on it's way from New
York to Philadelphia, was sideswiped
by the wreck of a freight train at Mill
stone Junction two miles southwest or
New Brunswick, at 2:30 o'clock this
morning. Three trainmen were killed
one being literally burned to ashes In
the wreck for which he is blamed, and
one passenger was seriously injured
Dozens Of others were flung from
their berths in the two Pullmans OF
the express train when that was
thrown from the track. They escaped
death by a miracle. for though every
window in the five cars of the passen-
ger train was broken, the cars did not
overturn.
frank Weiner, of Jersey City. fire.
man of the freight train, was tenn
porarily deranged by the sight and the
shock of the disaster. Hurled headlone
from his cab, he wandered about the
village near by for hours In a dase
before he found his way to shelter
Only the fact that all the Pulimans
and the. coaches of the passenger train
struction and the loss of most of the
lives aboard.
Immediately after the accident the
wreck of the freight train took fire and
BURIED fiercely. Coroner John v. Hub
haftu. of Middlesex county, declares that
ssfhe man named Minahan, found burned
to death in his caboose, Was solely re-
sponsible for failure to prevent the
freight wreck, which sent the express
sideiong into the freight trains across
the tracks.
Railroad Superintendent Tomlison
said this afternoon that both men who
could explain the double wreck are
dead. One, he said, was Minahan, who
slept while he should have been out
signaling a warning behind, and the
other was Engineer Loewenbers. Of the
freight train, who failed to heed the
block signal, placed as second guard
upon the bridge above the tracks.
Two distinct accidents occurred so
close upon one another that the ensi-
neer of the speeding express train mad
not time to save his train.
Five minutes before 1t loomed into
sight long freight train had been
shunting cars into sidings Off the sec
ond east-bound track In the caboose
in the rear was the man named Nina
han the rear hagman. The authorities
say he must have been asleep, for there
was no flag out to warn the second
train, which rumbled up behind and
crashed into 1t, wrecking it's own engine
and half a dozen cars
The impetus of the impact was so
great that the first train buckled and
its caboose, hurled from the track, was
flung close to the west-bound track In
the same second that the express came
careening in from New York.
The second crash followed instantly,
and the wrecked caboose sideswiped
the whole length of the flying passen-
ger train It's engine. mail car. the
Pullmans Mountville and Hummel
with two day coaches in the rear, were
all flung from the tracks upon the side
of the embankment. but by some mira
Gle the train stopped while they still
remained upright and not even all the
passengers were flung from their
berths.
Knox, the fireman of the express,
was sitting in his window on the left
side. He looked ahead just in time to
see the wrecked freight car hurled into
his path and he yelled to his engineer
to lump. But even tnlS ulu Hol Save
his life, for the leap carried him in the
way of both trains and he was in
stantly killed.
moment before in the wreck of the
two freight trains John Loewenbers.
the engineer of the through freight,
had been hurled into the debris, un-
conscious, with a frightful cut in his
head and both legs broken. He was
hurried from the scene by the first
rescuers, who had also come upon the
body of Minahan in the burning ca
boose. The engineer died In the Wells
Memorial Hospital five hours later
without recovering consciousness.
Passengers Chamber Out of Sleeper.
Meanwhile fire had started among
the wrecked freight cars, to add to the
panic among the 200 passengers of the
haif-wrecked express. Firemen rushed
70 the scene from New Brunswick and
nearby towns first removed tho fright
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