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\tvii.f\T *T Caovnos Twoii'. I smash-up occurred atCroydon Station «m the l‘ It. It. onSunday evening about half-pant mix,which kilted .John M« Xulty. of l*ii flstreet, and Htepln ii Ieni, of Frank-liu street, Bristol, and injured a number of other*. A fast freighttrain on No. 2 track crashed into a passenger car of a constructiontrain, in wbieh were a number of workmen on tl»»*ir way home at theclose of their ltd huh,J)eputy I‘oroner Brennan held anitnjtu st oil \\ rtliii «d;» \, at whn h the crew* of both trams, the operator at Croydon, tin ba ggng* minderand a tlagmau at tin* crossing just alaive the ntntion were examined.From the t« stimonv taken it appears that the eoiintruction train startedfrom Taeony at till with a numlierof workmen who had been repairing the traek* at that point, and waa stopped at Croydon on order* from Jersey City, to pi. k up another lot of wot kmon who were fixing a eros*-in# just a hove the Motion. The con-Htriiction train imd not yet come to a full stop when it was *truek bythe locomotive nf the font freight,the engine plowing itm way half through the ear. Hie headlight of the upproaehing train won *een half a mile l.elow. but it wan supposed to have been oil thf passenger track until too late for ail tne oeeti-pnutN of the car to make their escape. rin1 crew of the construction train, with the exception of the tire-inftb, escaped without injury, and the engineer and fireman of the faat freight jumped in time to *avetheir liven. The baggage-master at the old Sehenek’s station, a *hortdiatance below, havv the freight traincoming on the track behind the construction train, which he knewwan to atop for the workmen, and signalled the train to atop. Theengineer j it the air brakes on theseven car* of the train thu* equipped and bl« vv down hrake» to theerew, hut ho waa then ho clone on to the train that they could notobey the rn.nl. find it not beenfor the warning g»v.u ly the bagrpi go-master several more Would have been k.llcd. The engineer the freight train had clear signals all the w ay lrotu Man tan, and vvkh running at a rate of 1H to 25 miles an hour, nn 1 hud no i:,situation ti t the construction train wa* on the same track ahead of him. The green markers were on the rear end of theconstruction tmiu, but must havebeen ohlitt rated bv the smoke fromits own engine, for be testified tout lie first noticed tin? lamp swingacross, the i:.,. i. that something waswrung, lie had no orders concerning the construction train, and was governed h My by signals w hich were clear and in his favor all the way. In reply to questions put to him by the jurymen he could notsay who was to blame, but was forced to acknowledge that if Jersey City hud notified the operators win work the signals to In I i him back on account of the construction train having to stop at Croydon, that tin accident would m»t have happened The jury was composed of AndrewQuifjiev,l'rank (albert,Christ.pht 1 \\ Mi, John Madden, Michael Kentiiig and 1 ha..k Whitely. After hearing the evidence presented thev retired, an I iu u ,i. . i time returneethe following idict:“That John McNulty and b jjlieicairn* t » tin ir ileuths on con♦atructiou train No. it88 |v beinj run into by extra 1117. We, th jury, censure the dispatcher at Jei scv City for allowing two trains t follow each other so closely, an, running at such u rate of Hpeed o; the same track.”»**»
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Bristol Observer
Bristol, Pennsylvania, US
Sat, Nov 03, 1894
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