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Show Rear-End Collision and 1 7 Dead NEW YORK. July 10. Sevontcon pooplo wero klllod and about fifty Injured In a. colllolon which oocurred at MIdvalo, N. J., Just beforo noon today, when a regular paEBonger train on tho Greenwood Lake branch of tho Erlo railroad ran into an excursion train that had boon Hloppod to tnko water. All tho dead and Injured lived In Hobokcn, Jersey City and Now York. The Dead: Tho klllod In tho ucoldont are: Heurv Ottorstedt, Hobokcn, William Weldomeyor, Jr., Hobokon, William Ronso, Now York. ' Mxh, Anna, Lomfcolu, JSaw, Yorltp William Lane, Hoboken. Hcnrv Beokcr, Hobokon. William Rohllnsr, Hobokcn. William Wlndcrknccht, Hobokcn. Georgo Sohcer, Hoboken. Honry Koch. Hobokon. Jnadoro Manser. Hobokon- , Frank Holnwcddcll (child), Hobokcn, Georgo McDormott. Hobokon. William Wlotow, Wont Hobokcn. E. IC. Kelloy. Jcrsoy City. Agnes Lemokohol (ohlld). Now York. Boy, named supposed to bo Batterson. Tho acoidont is bellovcd to have, rosult-od rosult-od from a towor oporator having lowered his nlgnal loo soon. The train which was run Into was a spoclal carrying moot or tho Plattdoutschor usHoolatlon of Hoboken Hobo-ken on their annual outing and had be- I hind poEflengdra, It oonDiotcd of twelve cars aad vo flnfflnw, Th uxs ODfiino had takon water and tho train had movod up and stopped with tho oocond cngluo beside tho tank, when tho rogulnr train drow near. Tho flagman of tho special signaled tho engineer of tho oncoming train, but, owing to a curve In tho road, his flag was not seen until too late.. It is said that tho engineer of tho regu-Inr regu-Inr train had slowed down to about ton rnllos an hoar beforo ho crashed Into tho speolal. but his onglne toro through tho roar oar and drovo tho forward end of that car Into tho car ahead Tho killed and Injured wero In theso two cars., Tho wrcckago did not catch fire, and I tho work of taking out tho dead and I maimed was accomplished quickly. An engine and cars wero sent from Llt-I Llt-I tlo Falls to tho ocono of Uio wreck. AH i thoeo hurt woro oventuolly takon cither to tbolr homo or o hospital. |
