AWFUL FOG TRAGEDY.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 8408, 6 January 1899, Page 3

AWFUL FOG TRAGEDY.

New York, Nov. 23. A frightful accident occurred ou the Pennsylvania railway at half-past eight this morning, near Harrison, New Jersey. The Philadelphia express, running at "a speed of a mile a minute, dashed into a party of workmen engaged in repairing the track, killing eleven outright, and terribly injuring several others, two fatally. Another express, bound in the opposite direction, had just passed, and the men stepped on to the next truck, forgetting that another train was due. The dense fog and tUc noise and smoke of the first train served to conceal the approach of the second. With a wild shriek of its whistle the great engine ploughed through the mass of humanity, hurling the victims y.irilc away with broken bones and bleeding bodies. Several of the men were literally cut to pieces, and when the train stopped OOOft beyond the scene of the disaster, die front of the engine was found to be covered with blood and shreds of flesh and clothing, anil the track lined with maimed and dead victims. Many of the passengers fainted at the awful sight. The train hands attended the injured men until a medical emergency train arrived, and the mangled remains of the dead were actually gathered in shovels. The news quickly spread, and a great crowd had assembled at Jeisey City station when the trains arrived. Most of the dead men had lived in the neighborhood, and their weeping families and friends created a sad scene.