Railroad Accident

NewaBX, N. J., July 8. At ten or fifteon minutes past eigüt o'cloek this morning, the 7:45 train froni New York and the 8:05 train ñora Xivark aighted each other, then d.ishing albng at fnll speed. " THE 0OLI.I8I0S. No whistlos were blown and without any dimunitioa iu ímpetus they approached tho switch at Brill'8 Farm, which tho railroad runs through. A gravel train had last been switched off there, and the switch had not been replaced and the trains meeting each other immediately at the junction the New York train ran off the up track on to the down track and cut right into its vis-a-vis, and jumping from the tracks bounded DOWN THE EMBASTKMENT, into a diteh, dragging with it three of the foremost cars. Tho smoking car of the down train was thrown upon the tender of the engine, and tho first passenger car behind telescoped into it for full fifteen feet. In a few inoments subsequent to the calamity the terrible fact became appaent that THE CAE8 AIÏD ESQINE8 WEEE ON FIKE. The flames spread rapidly and soon enveloped everything within their reach. The greatest ALARM AND TERROR Provailed among the passengere. Ladies screamed and men becamo fnghtened and terror stricken and rushed to the doors, while othors threw baskets, bundies, &c, and in some cases small children from the windows. The terror thus croated was augmented by the report that a score of human beings were in tho burning carriages unable to effect thcir escape. THE FIEE ALARM. Tho fire alarm was rung and the firemen were on the scène promptlj' to extinguish the flamea. The scène of the disaster is a fearful sight. For 150 f eet the tracks are lined with the debris of the destroyed cars. Two engines and one hundred men are working clearing away the rubbish. Hundreds of people are congregating at the scène. One man jumped out of tho window at the moment of the accident and thus saved himself. All the killed were employés of the road. THE KILLED. The following is a list of the külnd : Geo. Hill, engineer, roasted alive under tho engino ; Frank Kiernan, engineer' horribly mangled, and died in ten minutes ; Dave White, brakeman, and Wm. McManus, toman on the up train. THE ISJURED. The number of passengers injured cannot be loss than thirty. George Banks of New Haven, and Frank Adama, of Newark, are the only ones supposed to be fatally wounded. LATER. New Yohk, July 9. Five persons were killed and 15 wounded in the Newark railroad disaster yesterday. Wm. Thompson, the brakeman, who left the switch uiisplaced and caused the accident, was arrested last night, and lodged in the Newark city prison. He has ieen in the employ of the company nino years and was always thought a most trustworthy man. The railroad company loses $100,000 by the accident, which is the first of any importance that has ever occurred between Newark and this city. Frank Kiernan, the engineer who was killed, seems to havo enacted the heroic part. Just before he died he said to a friend, " I do not expect to live. I did all I could to stop the niin. I fecl satisfied. I feel sure that I could have saved myself by jumping intotho ditch, butl hoped to save my engine and train." THE CORONEH's INTESTIGATIOJT. New York, July 10. The investigation into the circumstancos attending the accident on the Newark & New York Bailroad terminated to-day bv the jury bringing in a verdict that " George Hill, Frank Kiernan, Daniel S. White, John Rockafellow and Samuel Taylor, employés of the Newark and New York Eailroad, caine to their death in consequence of of a misplaced switch ; and we, the jury, do say that the misplacod switch was the result of the carelessness of the switch tender, Wm. Thompson : and we do also censure the company of the Newark & New York Eailroad for cmploying, or allowing to be omployed on their road young and inexperienced persons to responsible positions." The switch tender was remanded, but will probably bo admitted to bail.