Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1903 — NINE KILLED BY TRAIN. [ARTICLE]

NINE KILLED BY TRAIN.

High School Pupils Are Run Down in a Trolley Car. Running nt almost full rpeed, a train on the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad at Newark, N. J., crashed Into a trolley car loaded with pupils on their way to the high school. Eight or nine of those on the car, most of them young women, were killed and at least fifteen were Injured, some so badly that It Is feared they will die. The trolley car was one of the special vehicles which the North Jersey Street Railway Company runs between 8 and 9 o’clock five mornings in the week for the ■pedal accommodation of high achool pupils. It was crowded with young men and women from all parts of the dty, many of whom had transferred from other lines. The sight after the collision was sickening. Mutilated bodies of children were ■cattered in every direction. The unhurt passenger* carried the Injured children to nearby places of temporary refugo. The trolley car could not be stopped, although the motormnn appeared to make frantic efforts to do so. There were about twelve children on the front platform grouped around the motorman. It Is not known whether they hampered his movements. The frout part of the trolley car was picked up three block* down the road between the two tracks.