Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1889 — AS BY A MIRACLE. [ARTICLE]

AS BY A MIRACLE.

Wonderful Escape from Death of Passengers on a Derailed Train. • The fast express on the Pennsylvania road, composed of two combination parlor cars and three coaches, passed the main depot at Raft way, N. J., running at the rate of sixty miles an hour. The engine, j ust as it reached the east end of the Long bridge, jumped the tract and was followed by the three cars. The crash as the whole train left the track was terrific and was heard by people at the depot a quarter of a mile west of where the accidaut occurred. The train ran along the ties for 200 feet, when the couplings broke between the cars and each car shot in a different direction, tearing up the rails and ties and digging into the stone ballast roadbed. There are four tracks at this point and the cars were twisted around in such a way as to completely wreck the road bed and the cars themselves. When the cars finally stopped, the passengers, who were naturally badly frightened, came out of the wrecked cars unable to comprehend what had happened. The only persons injured were two women who were cut by flying gla=s. De Wolf Hopper was a passenger on the train and received a severe shaking up, as did all of the passengers. The accident was due to the spreading of the rails, which were new, and, it is said, had not been properly spiked by the section men who laid them. Struck by a Take Shore Train. Franklin (Pa.) dispatch: J. C. Davison and his daughter were struck by a Lake Shore train as they were driving across the track at this place, and so terribly injured that they will probably die. The horse was kil'ed and the wagon was reduced to kindling wood. At the point where the accident occurred the Lake Shore road runs parallel with that of the Erie. Mr. Davison saw a train approaching on the latter road track and drove hi* hom an the Lake Shore tracks to avoid it.