The evening world. Newspaper, February 19, 1903, Page 2

(Continued from ied from First Page.) words, is in a pocket. Only yesterday a passenger train struck a milk wagon there, killing one of the hors: ABOUT 100 PASSENGERS ABOARD. ‘The trolley car, a special run for the convenience of the High School pupils, had about 100 passengers on board, the great majority girls and ‘boys. As the car approached the crossing the motorman noticed that the gates were down, this being a warning that a train was duc, He applied the brakes, but the rails were covered with ice and the wheels would not hold. The car skidded like a sled to the crossing, crashed through the gates and stopped directly on the track on which the Morristown local was approaching. Almost without warning the crash came and ten bright young lives were erushed cut. f. Neither the engineer of the train nor the motorman of the car could stave off the accident. The motorman, Henry Brady, who was probably fatally injured, did ail in his power to stop the car, even to the extent of *) ending tho tracks and reversing the motor. ‘As in the Westfield disaster, ghouls were on the scene soon after the | accident attempting to rifie the pockets of the dead and the injured, Some } of the thieves went so far as to sleal the little lunch-baskets and packages of books scattered along the tracks. Residents of the neighborhood threw | open their houses to the injured, one woman, an invalid, giving up her mat- tress to the rescuers, Of the impending danger the schoo! children knew nothing. Those that knew of the breaking of the gates and the uncontrollable condition of the ear laughed and considered it a good joke. The girls, all comfortably wrapped in furs and cloaks, laughed and joked as they had done on every other school morning. The fact that the car was crowded pleased them.. There was more fun, it was sald, than was ‘usual. The heavily laden car was bumping across the railroad tracks, a stone's throw from the school where they were all to alight, when suddenly their _ merriment ceased as the shrill whistle of a locomotive was heard, The * whistle came in the form of two or three quick jerks. There was time for no more, Almost at the instant that the last blast ..of the whistle was heard the thundering locomotive crashed Into the car, ° Where a moment before there had been laughter there was now a mingled chorus of shrieks of terror, which in a few seconds changed to heartrending moans of pain and suffering. With the sound of the whistle the merriment in the car stopped. ‘The children plunged for the doors front and back, The doors were not large enough to afford instant escape for all of them, and they were jammed In @ struggling mass, unable to get out. Those who chose the rear dvor escaped serious injury. Those who went toward the front door went to their death. The great pllot of the * jocomotive plowed Into the car, toppled it over on Its side and then rushed ~ on, grinding its victims tu death and mortal injury. CUT RIGHT THROUGH THE CHILDREN, So great was the speed of the express train that, although the engineer applied the brakes before the crash came, it cut its way through the car and carried many dead and mangled school children on with it for more than a hundred feet. A young woman who had reached the platform was hurled by the impact fully fifty feet. comotive were carried on with it until they dropped and were crushed under » the wheels of the great machine. When the train did stop, two blocks beyond the scene of the accident, the horribly mutilated body of a young woman was found wedged between the slats of the pilot. To go that distance with the brakes on it fs sald that! the train must have been speeding at a rate of fifty miles an hour, | Those children who had crowded bavk in the car were scratched and bruised and some more seriously injured, but the deaths were restricted to those who took the front part of the car. Those in the rear, when turned over in the car, scampered out and extri- ated themselves trom the muss, the front part of the car being torn away. It was found a block and a half down the track. Death came to those in that part of the car in a most horrible man- ner. When the locomotive struck the car it plunged its great black nose into dozens of young women packed at the door. It mashed them into an unrecognizable mass. It crushed them under the walls of the car In which they were and carried them along the track in a fearful array of bleeding, mangled and dying humanity. As this part of the trolley-car rolled before the speeding express, the body of a girl would occasionally drop from those carried along. The wheels of the locomotive would then crunch over it. For a distance of more than two blocks, stopping, arms, legs, feet, hands, occasionally a head, were svattered. To these fragments of the bodies of young women sometimes there clung a piece of clothing and by the clothing the pieces of the bodies were identified. Mounted Policeman Stuckey, of the Fourth Precinct, saw the accident, ‘As soon as the crash came he galloped away for a telephone and sent the alarm to Police Headquarters, From there all the available ambulances and patrol wagons in the city were sent to the scene of the accident. George Gould was conductor of the trolley car. He sald; “It Is the custom for trolley conductors to’ leave their cars as this crossing is ap- proached, and as the car stops to run ahead and see If the track {1s clear, “I should have done that this morning had I not seen that the gates were lowered. Naturally 1 concluded that the car would stop, and the first thing I knew of any danger was when we went crashing through the gates.” ENGINEER DAZED BY THE TRAGEDY. When the engine came to a stop the engineer, L. O, Burelift, seemed to be dazed. It was impossible for him to realize what had happened for @ time, and several men had to pull him from the cab of the engine. but that he had hardly done this when the crash came. ‘Then the worst of the horror was to come, He had seen his engine, which he ‘Wet ‘nearly every foot. Peter Brady, the motorman of the wrecked trolley car, was picked up many feet from the place where the train struck the car. way to the hospital sald that he would probably dle. Witnesses say that Brady made every effort to stop the car, but that Jt was also) the slippery rails, with the steep incline, made it impossible, “found that Brady had opened the sand valve, but without avail, and Miss Dorothea Hays, of No. Nathan, of No. 47 Napoleon street, Lafayette street. escape being seriously injured. »EYE-WITNESSES TELL OF HAVOC OF THE CRASH, Miss Wilhelmina S. Wien, of Hast Orange, was one of the first to arrive fe New York trom the scene of the wreck, She was met by an Evening World and told the following story: minutes after it happened. bee hee it in a thousand pieces, Others whose arms and legs and clothing caught on the lo- | which the train travelled before | He said that he was upon tho trolley car before he knew that it was on the tracks; that he had pulled the whistle lever and reversed the‘brakes, says he was powerless to stop short, because of the condition of} the wheels and rails, roll the mass of children in front of it, killing them| His skull had been fractured, and the ambulance surgeon who examined him on the Two school girls on the car who were Only scratched were Miss Cora 382 They were standing together and were hurled about feet. The roof was torn out, and in that way they were tn a position “{ was on the train behind the one that crashed into the trolley car the Clifton avenue crossing and arrived on the scene of the accident a “Ae far as I could learn the gates of the Clifton avenue crossing were the motorman of the car, which was filled with schoo! children, of the car and it broke through the gates and dashed directly | path of the engine, The engine struck the car near the middle and a horrible thing to see, and though | arrived a few minutes after begun in clearing up the wreckage and caring for the injured When I saw the awful debris that was scattered about, the of the women who were on the train that crashed into the THE WORLD: THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 19, 1 PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN AT THE ‘SCENE OF THE AWFUL TROLLEY CAR TRA GEDY IN NEWARK TO-DAY. trolley car fainted when they heard the terrible grinding and crushing of the car full of school girls. “Some of the bodies were thrown for a distance of from fifty to a hun- jdred feet, crushed and mangled. Bloody clothing and several limbs strewed | the white snow. The screams of the injured were heartrending. When the engine struck the car the engineer immediately put the brakes on, but the train went several times its length before it stopped, and in this way allowed the pessengers a view of the awful havoc. “As far as I could learn a few minutes after the accident everybody on the trolley car realized their peril when the car started across the tracks and made a mad rush for the door to get out. In doing so they all got jammed in the doorway, and when the engine struck they were practically torn to ribbons between the broken and twisted timbers of the car. Two of the bodies that lay by the tracks were interwoven together and man- gled out of all human semblance. Tho clothing of many of the dead and Injured was torn from their bodies and scattered about in the snow. “A curious thing about the accident was that while the front platform was crowded with boys, not one of them was killed.” George A. Middleton, a furniture mover, has his stand at No, 20 Clifton avenue, He saw the car pass him and slowly slide down to the car tracks just as the train came along. “There were at least one hundred and ten or one hundred and fifteen children on the car packed in tight. The platform was crowded with boys. I saw the car slowly slide down the decline on to the rallroad tracks just as the train came along, “The locomotive struck the front end of the car, but the force of the collision dragged tho trolley car from the track and the remainder of it was reduced to splinters. “I saw the motorman carried thirty feet in the mass of wreckage before the engine finally flung him one side,” Richard Finnessey, a horseshoer, has a shop at No. 20 Clifton avenue, not more than fifty feet away from the scene of the accident. He heard the crash of the collision and rushed from his shop. Some of the dead children were lying beside the railroad track when he got to the scene. Others we One boy, who was on the back ran screaming up the street as tf crazed. shop and afierwards sent him home in a slelgh. a number of the dead and injured in his shop. EUGENE HAGEN SAW ENGINE | penned in by the wreckage. platform and who had not been hurt, Finnessey took the boy to his Winnessey took charge of Eugene Hagen, a Clifton High School boy, said to an Evening World reporter: “We did not have time to get out. Before we knew it the train had struck us, There were about ten or twelve boys on the front platform, and I thought they had interfered with the motorman so that he could not apply the brakes when the car broke through the gates, “When I heard the whistle everybody stopped laughing and giggling and rushed for the doors. 1 looked out of the window and I saw the train coming, It was so near that I remember I had to look almost straight. up in the air to the top of the smoke stack, “The root was knocked off our car, and {f {t had not been for that 1 guess we would all have been killed, The roof was knocked off, and when the car was thrown over we, in our end, were all thrown out on the tracks next to where the express train was running, “I was thrown out in such a way that I could see the rest of the car being carried on by the locomotive, In the awful pack of people I saw on the pilot of the engine were many I knew. There was one young lady the “It didn't come along, and so I decided’ to walk to the school. I had crossed the railroad track when | heard a car coming along behind me. 1 ‘looked back to see if the car was crowded, and Just as 1 looked the railroad {rin came rushing along and dashed into the trolley-car. “It was an awful sight. 1 saw some of my fellow-pupils flung twenty feet in the air. I saw dead bodies dropped by the railroad track, and the screams of those injured were something awful, 1 did not wait to see any wore. J ran bome and told my mother. Then I started back to school, but found the schoo! had been dismissed for the fay e ———*+-- SIGHT NEARLY CAUSED THIS WOMAN TO FAINT. Miss G. B. MacRvoy, a stenographer in the law office of William Hard- ing, at No. 120 Broadway, was a passenger on the Lackawanna train and ab eye-witness of the collision, above the scene of the accident,” said Miss MacKvoy, oar, crossing. Then the slippery rails may have had a lot to do with it “The train was moving slowly. It had pot gotten up speed after leaving CRUSH HIS YOUNG FRIENDS.) “I boarded the train at the Roseville street station, which is five blocks “Tl wae in the second The accident, as I saw it, was due to the apparent recklessness of the motorman in not alecking his car on a down-grede approaching a dangerous down automatically as the train approached the crossing. Suddenly the trolley car came into sight, bounding down the hill at top speed. The EYEWITNESSES TELL OF TROLLEY TRAGEDY. We Mail You Sample Free , A perfect emulsion of cod liver oll, guaiacol, glycerine and the hypophosphites of lime and soda. REPELS Colds, Influenza and La CURES Consumption, Catarrh, Bronchial Affections and all Pulmonary Dis- eases, Makes Weak Children Sturdy, the Old and Enfeebled Strong. Gives that Wonderful Vitality which is the Foundation of Perfect Health, If you suffer from Pulmonary Coughs, Grippe. motorman tried to put on his brakes, but the car slid along the rails, crashed through the gates and the train collided with it. “We felt the shock, and then a scraping sound as the train grated along the front of the car. As my window flashed past the car I saw the trolley toppling over Inside of it was a tangled mass of legs and arms. The sight was so sickening I had to hold on to the seat to keep from fainting and slipping to the floor. “The train stopped within two hundred feet after the crash, Everyone got out, but the nen ran back and told the women not to go forward. Some of those who did fainted. They told me there were 102 fares rung up in the trolley. “It seems strange to me that only girls were killed. As I saw the car coming down the hill I noticed that the front platform was crowded with schoolboys.” 2 42—___—— SAD SCENES AS PARENTS IDENTIFY THE DEAD. The crash of the train into the car and subsequent screams could be heard at the Clifton High School. Wayland Stearns, the principal, and Miss Green, his assistant, called all the teachers, including Miss Watson, Mrs. Morgan, Mr. Taylor, Dr. Haskell, Prof. C, L, Safford and Mr, Soha, and they ran to the scene of the accident, being among the first to arrive. They picked up the injured and carried them into nearby homes and| helped identify the dead. Messages were soon sent throughout the city and parents and relatives of the school children commenced to arrive, The pathetle scenes attending the identication of the dead and injured were indescribable. A father who a few minutes before had kissed his beautiful seventeen-year-old daughter good bye at their home, found her mangled dead body under the wreckage of the car, With a groan he sank in the snow and was carried away by others, One body which was taken to Holle’s morgue has been identified as Viola Il, daughter of Henry 11], manager of the John Toler Iron Foundry, one of the largest Industries in Newark, and a niece of Dr, Edward J. Ill and Dr. Charles Ill, She was sixteen years old and one of the most beautl- ful children of her age in Newark, Her father and mother heard that ehe had been injured and they went to the city hospital with the two Drs, Il. There they found a girl who was mistaken for Viola, This girl had a frac- tured skull and the doctors exerted every effort to save her life. (Vhinking their daughter might recover, father and mother went home and there found Albert J, Holle, the morgue keeper, a friend of the family, who told them that Viola's body lay in his morgue. The mother is unconscious and may die as a result of the shock, | ++ CARING FOR THE LITTLE VICTIMS OF THE CRASH. Before the arrival of the ambulances the dead and injured were cared for by residents near the scene of the accident, who threw open their homes and did everything in thelr power to relieve the victims. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Smith, of No. 212 Railroad avenue, were eyewitnesses of the accident. They ran out and carried Eda Fox into their home. She had one eye knocked out and her head and face were mutilated. Mr. Smith says that he picked up the top of a boy's skull, which had been severed as top of whose head had been torn off, It was the worst sight l ever saw, It}cleanly as though cut by a knife, made me sick for a while.” Three injured girls and one boy were carried into Tweedy’s saloon at John MeCabe, a High School pupil, had a very narrow escape. He usu-| No. 21 Clifton street, George Middleton, who was In the saloon, ran to the ally takes the Clifton avenue car at Clifton and Orange streets. He was] wreck and lifted out a girl with her arm cut off and her head crushed, He ahead of time this morning, and, recelying his transfer from the Orange] put her in a sleigh and took her to St. Michael's Hospital, street car, waited a moment for the other, Mrs. Kate Smith has three little rooms at No. 11 Clifton street. She was sick in bed, but when she heard the crash of the wreck she jumped up and threw her little home open to the injured, She took the mattresses from her bed and placed them on the floor, On (heso were stretched five injured girls and the conductor of the trolley car, One of the girls, whose body was almost cut in two, died among her unconscious companions. Three girls, a boy and a man were carried unconscious into the home of Mrs. Burckhardt, at No. 268 Orange street. Two dying girls were taken in by Mrs. Mary Ford, of No, 9 Clifton street. 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