Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1888 — TRAINS TELESCOPED. [ARTICLE]

TRAINS TELESCOPED.

A Score of Passengers Injured Near the Bergen Tunnel, Jersey City. A terrible collision occurred about 8 o’clock Friday morning, just outside the Bergen*Hill tunnel at Jersey City, N. J. A Newark way train was standing a short distance from the tunnel, waiting for the main line train, when the Orange express came round the curve and dash* ed into the Newark train, telescoping the rear cars. It was the busiest hour of the morning, and both trains were crowded. The engineer of the Orange express made every 'effort to stophis train, but too late to prevent a collision, and the heavy locomotive cut its way into the rear car of the standing train, crushing it to splinters and wrecking the the passengers, but relief measures were immediately taken. Twenty been injured. Two passengers were probably fatally injured.