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Show By W. U. Telegraph Lino. THE IIOHRIBLK DISASTER NEAR NEWARK, Newark, N. J., S. At about 8 o'clock this morning the 7:45 train from New York and the S:0o train from Newark sighted each other when dashing at full speed. No whistles were blown, and without any diminution diminu-tion in impetus they approached the switch at Powell's farm, through which the railroad runs. A gravel train had last been switched off, and the switch had not been replaced. The trains j meeting each other at the junction, the I New Vork train ran off up on to the . down track, and waB cut right into. 1 The up train, jumping from the track, j bounded down the embankment into i the ditch, dragging with it throe front cars. The engine and three front passenger oars telescoped into it for fully iif'teon feet. In the few minutes subsequent to the calamity its terrible oharaoter became apparant. The care and engine were on tire, and the flames spreading eoon enveloped everything within reaoh. The greatest alarm prevailed pre-vailed among the passengers; ladies screamed, men became frightened and rushed to the doors, while others threw baskets, bundles, and in some instances small children from the windows. The terror thus created was augmented by tho report that scores of haman beings were in the burning cars i unaoie to enect tneir escape. Tne hre alarm was rung and the firemen oame to the Econe promptly and extinguished the flames. The scene of the disastei is a fearful sight. For 150 feet the tracks are lined with the debris ol the destroyed six cars and two engines. A hundred men aro working cleaning away the rubbish, and hundreds . ol people are congregating at the scene. One man jumped out of a window at the moment of the accident, thus saving sav-ing himself. All the killed wera employes em-ployes of tho roads. Search is now ! being made for the dead bodies. The distance from Newark to the scene of the disaster is one mile and a half. The general impression is decided that it was the result of oriminal negligence on the part of the employes of the .road. All travel is suspended on the road. The following ia the list ol killed: Geo. Hill, engineer, roasted alive under the engine; Frank Herman, engineer, horribly mangled, died in ten minutes; C. L. White, brakeman; B.. M. McManus, fireman; Geo. Banks, an engineer, is missing, and is supposed suppos-ed to oe buried uodor the demolished locomotive. The number of passengers passen-gers injured is said to be Jess than 30; Geo. liauks and Frank Adama, ol Newark, are supposed to be fatallj wounded. New York, 9. Five persona were killed and fifteen wounded in the Newark New-ark railroad disaster yesterday. W. Thompson, the brateman who left the switch misplaced aad caused the acoi-j acoi-j dent, was arrested kst night and lodged in the Newark city prison. lit has been in the employ of the companj nine years, uud was thought to De s most trustworthy man. The railroad company loies a Lred thousand bj the accident, which is tne first of an; importance that has ever occurred between Newark and this city. Frank ' Herman, the engineer who was killed, seems to have enacted a heroio part. Just before he died he said to a friend, ' "I do not expect to live; I did all t ; could to stop the train, and feel satU-' satU-' tied; and I am sure I oould have saved ! myself by jumping into the ditch, but I hoped to save my engine and the , train, and hung oii, " |