Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1902 — FIFTEEN DIE IN A TUNNEL. [ARTICLE]

FIFTEEN DIE IN A TUNNEL.

Trains Collide While Running Underground in New York City. Fifteen persons were crushed, |burned and scalded to death Wednesday in a rear-end collision in the New York Central Railroad tunnel in New York City. The list of injured includes more than twenty victims, a number of whom are said to be fatally hurt. Smoldering flames, smoke and utter darkness added to the horror of the wreck. The trains in collision were an accommodation on the New York, New Haven and Hartford road from Norwalk, Conn., and a suburban on the Harlem branch of the New \ r oi-k Central. The Norwalk train had stopped on signal, and while awaiting orders to'move was struck by the Harlem train, which came tearing through the darkness of the subway. The two rear cars of the Norwalk accommodation were telescoped and the tunnel was blocked with wreckage, from which were heard the screams of the* injured and dying. Escaping steam from the wrecked engine of the Harlem train scalded and suffocated a number of victims before assistance arrived. After the first few moments of darkness the wreck caught tire, and Jho living who ha;l escaped in the first shock of the collision were threatened with a more horrible death. All the ambulances in the • city were summoned and the work of rescue was begun in*the face of great difficulties. The promptness with .which assistance was given to the imperiled passengers caught in the wreck and the resourcefulness of the rescuers undoubtedly saved many lives.