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LEAVES THE RAILS FREIGHT TRAIN THROWN IN FRONT OF an EXPRESS. Singalar Accident on the Pennsylvania Road Results in the Partial Wrecking of Two Trains and the Loss of Two Lives-Rail Breaks Under the Freight Train Just as the Express is Flying by on the Other Track- Passengers Escape Miraculously Other Accidents The Criminal Record. New York, Nov. 24.-Two men were killed and two others were severely injured in a double train wreck on the Pennsylvania railway, near New Bruns wick, N. J., today. The casualty involved the Washington express, for this city, which at the moment was running at the rate of sixty miles an hour, and the marvel is that it did not result in the death and maiming of scores of passengers. This train and a freight train were running on parallel tracks, when the breaking of a truck on one of the freight cars threw it from its course and directly in the way of the express. The locomotive of the latter train struck the freight cars, and wrecked eight of them. It was overturned and plunged down an embankment twelve feet high, falling upon and killing Engineer Joseph M. Ea gan and Firman H. W. Chichester. The mail car and the combination car were also caried over the embankment and the first of the three sleepers stoped at the very brink of the incline. Mail Clerk Lambert of Washington was unconscious when taken from the wreck. He had sev eral ribs broken, and was otherwise Beverely hurt, but will recover. Robert Tabaddon of this city, a passenger, was passing from one car to another when the crash came and he was hurled to the ground. He was badly, but not fatally. injured. There were a number of people in the day coach who sustained bruises and scratches, but none of them will suffer more than a temporary inconvenience. None of the people on the freight train were hurt. Senator Quay's private car was on the train as far as Philadeiphia, but there it was detached, the senator remaining on it. CAPTAIN DONELLY'S BATH. Tonawanda, N. Y., Nov. 25.-Captain Wiliam E. Donnelly of the schooner Katie Brainard, lumber laiden from Sheboygan, Mich., which arrived here last night had a terrible exeprience during the trip down the lake. While assisting in tightening a rope, the rope broke and the captain was thrown into the icy waters. The heavy sea carried him close to the rudder of the schooner, where he caught a small chain hanging there. The crew had given him up for lost, and it was nearly half an hour before the captain's cries for help were heard. When brought on deck he was almost frozen to death. The captain lost $150 out of his pocket when he went overboard. TO PREVENT A LYNCHING. Lexington, Mo., Nov. 25.-Lon Lackey and Jesse Winner, charged with the murder of Mrs. Winner and her two children, were spirited away from the jail during the night to prevent mob violence, and brought here early this morning. The prisoners will be closely guarded, as the feeling against them is intense. MIGHT BE SUICIDE. Decatur, Ills., Nov. 25.-Sponser at Springfield, sold the revolver that killed Rev. Mr. Miller at Decatur, Ills. The sale was made Monday to a man 55 years of age, and with grey whiskers, who was well dressed. This is Mr. Miller's description. The suicide theory is now being accepted, though friends hesitate to believe it, andwill not admit it. HAD THEIR CONFIDENCE. Kansas City, Nov. 25.-George E. Ross, for several years money clerk at the Union depot office of the Pacific Express company, has been mysteriously missing since Monday. Ross had the entire confidence of the company and had the handling of thousands of dollars every day. The case has been placed in the hands of detectives, and Ross' books are being gone over. KOZEL IS SENTENCED. Chicago, Nov. 25.-Anthony Kozel, expresident of the West Side bank bearing his name, and which collapsed last May, pleaded guilty to larceny today and was given an interemdiate sentence in the penitentiary. The small tradesmen and workingmen who were the chief bank lost everything. as
