Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-06-17
DEATH VICTIMS
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was in this car that most of the
passengers received their serious or
fatal injuries.
Early rescuers found the engi-
neer, Fred Thomas, Of Scranton,
with his hands still on the throttle
and his dead fireman, Carl Haen.
beside him. 1t is believed both were
Killed before the escaping steam
reached them.
Nathan j. Banker, of Scranton, a
conductor of the Lackawanna Com
pany, was passenger but not on
outy at the side. His body was ter
rlply scalded and he died this aft
ernoon in the Easton hospital. Bar
ney Judge, trainman, and James
Scanlon, fiagman, also of Scranton.
are missing and are believed to be
dead.
The crash could be heard far
above the terrific peals of thunder.
Farmers from all nearby sections
We're aroused by the noise and scores
OF volunteers hurried to the scene
and assisted in searching the wreck
age for victims and aiding the
wounded who had managed to make
tnelr way from the car windows.
Lyman Gulick, who resides near
py, is believed to have been the
first to reach the scene of the wreck.
After the crash he hurried in his
automobile racing up and down the
roads footing his horn and calling
for help.
AS soon as a semblance of order
had been restored two of the pull
mans that had not left the rails
were coupled to locomotive and
they were filled with victims when
they reached Easton shortly after 6
O'Clock.
In the meantime news of the dis
aster had spread to such an extent
throughout Easton and Phillipsburg
that it was practically impossible to
engage a taXicab, all having been
pressed into service as ambulances.
When the relief train reached the
Easton station of the Central Rail-
road of New Jersey many were
awaiting the arrival of the injured.
A produce dealer threw his green
goods into the street, loaded four
victims onto his truck and rushed
them to the hospital
At the Easton hospital where
most of the victims were received
there were narrowing scenes for
some time after the first patients
were received, due to the suffering
of the men, women and children
taken there. Because of the condi-
ton of many of the patients it was
them in the corridors on chairs and
on benches until proper provision
could be made for them.
The train left Buffalo, n. Y, yes
terday at six p. M. At Portland,
Penna., it was routed over the old
Lackawanna main line replaced by
q cutoff twelve years ago and now
used principally by trains of the
Morris and Essex branch. The
trains entry into New Jersey was
heralded by a violent thunderstorm.
a storm that washed gravel over the
tracks tsthe Rockrort crossing, in
to which the train plunged as it
gained momentum for the rise
ahead.
The engine ploughed over ties for
$50 yards before it struck switch
and left the tracks.
Two day coaches and pullman
were piled on top of the engine as
it toppled over. One other pullman
car was derailed and three remain
ed upright.
BY automobile, special train and
ambulance the injured were taken to
the Boston, Pa. General Hospital;
the Warren County Hospital at
Phillipsburgh. Morristown Memorial
Hospital at Morristown and Dover
General Hospital at Dover. -
Eighteen of those taken to Easton
are dead, Morristown reported two
deaths, Dover. five and seven bodies
are in the morgue at Hackettstown.
The homes of all except the train
crew are in Chicago and vicinity.
August Fox was the first man on
his feet after the wreck. followed
by Henry Steqens, Carl Engel and
Reinhardt Tschke. all of Chicago
and all more or less injured. They
labored heroically pulling dead and
injured from the twisted steel cars,
until help arrived from Hacketts-
town.
Above the rumble the thunder and
lashing of the storm the crash of
the wreck awakened Mrs. Duncan
Dunn, who lives at the State Game
Farm about 500 ~ards distant. She
communicated with Hackettstown
over badly crippled wires, arousing
physicians who in turn sent emer-
gency calls to surrounding hospitals.
In the wrecked engine buried be-
meath twisted coaches could be seen
the bodies of Engineer Fred Loomis
of Scranton, Pa, his hand still on
the throttle, and of his fireman Carl
Haehn. also of Scranton. On the
ploughed up roadbed beneath the
locomotive lay the twisted body of
little girl in a flimsy nightgown.
Men. women and children, scald-
ed by the live steam and pinned be-
meath the wreckage, pleaded for
death.
Ambulances arrived with the dawn
and farmers from far and near
Joined the rescue workers. Blankets
and sheets from the pullman cars
were spread on the rain soaked
ground on both sides of the track.
On the right was the emergency hos
pital, and on the left the little row
of dead. Many of the living were so
scalded as to be unrecognizable.
Jars, bottles and tins of oil were
piled by the twisted, pried-up rails
and a dozen doctors and nurses be-
gan relieving the pain of the burned.
The three unwrecked pullman cars
were laden with 42 injured for hos
pitfalls in Easton and Phillipsburgh,
three dying on the way. The Motor
Transport Company of the New
Jersey National Guard was pressed
into service for carrying injured at
Morristown.