Extra 1104 - The Story of the Rockport Train Wreck
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- Steaming fifty people to death, the train wreck of Extra 1104 in 1925 stands today as one of the most disastrous train wrecks in New Jersey. For over 90 years, the complete full story of this tragedy remained largely untold until local filmmaker John General set out to reveal what really happened on the fateful night that put courage, selflessness and pure heroism to a true test. "Extra 1104 - The Story of the Rockport Train Wreck" is the only film to ever tell the full story of the deadliest disaster in Warren County's history that left Rockport, a small rural village with no electricity or medical personnel, shaken for decades.
Written, directed, shot, and edited by John General.
Featuring:
Michael Connor
Alfred Dellicker
Don Mayberry, Jr.
Andy Parke
Bill Wilson
Copyright (C) 2020 John General Productions
www.johngeneral.com/extra1104 - Krátké a kreslené filmy
The Brunners were our family...they are buried in Chicago. Such a sad event. Thank you for the film.
In a time where people are trying to erase a lot of our history, it is moving and humbling to see someone trying to preserve these events. Thank you Mr General. Yes, these were real people!
@@deadwendy6870 I'll bet you're a Democrat!
So true!
Thank you for keeping the memory of this disaster alive and of course remembering the names of those who died .
Greetings from Derbyshire, England.
If Porter Oscar J. Daniels sacrificed himself like he did in combat,
he would have a posthumous Medal Of Honor.
He does in my book.
This video is a beautifully made memorial to those killed, hurt and affected by such a terrible tragedy.
this was a very well done video project. i would be interested if it had ever been entered into a film fest? as a film /video grad my self i can appreciate all the contributions by historians , first and second hand accounts handed down by relatives who still inhabit the area and the eloquent narration by all who were interviewed for this project. being from this area my self i had always herd about the train wreck and had seen a photo but never knew any of the details of what actually happened ..until i watched this video...great job John General !.
Thank you John General for this enlightening story of a terrible train wreck that happened nearly 95 years ago. I passed this story to my son who recently lived in Easton, PA and worked in central New Jersey.
I lived in Hackettstown for years and never knew about this. Well done video.
Great video, John. Really professional lighting, sound recording, videography, and editing. It was masterful. BTW, I was a loco engineer for 39 years on the CNW/UP and retired in late 2013. I have also made video compilations no where near as good as yours, and I know a little bit about video editing. You did a fantastic job.
Truly sad the loss of life .The production was very detailed and very informative.Well done.
Beautifully done - more people should see this.
How incredibly awful! Those poor, poor people. I can't imagine what they and the rescuers went through. Thank you for this. I've never heard of this disaster.
Finding information on this wreck was difficult when I was researching our family years ago. It is indeed sad that the steam took their lives.
Very professionally done
Very well put together, a great piece of work. It is always good to remember any history so as to not forget those who were part of it. We must never forget….
Grew up in Port Murray (now live in Long Valley) and had no idea. I pass the pheasant farm and these tracks once per week on my way to my dads and NEVER knew. cool little doc. Good work
You should look for the marker!
A dreadful, dreadful accident, clearly ghastly to remember or recount. It is an event to remember and has been done so here in a sensitive, respectful way. It’s well made and well told, thank you.
Thank you for sharing this well made documentary , what a treasure .
very good and well done......I lived in Washington most of my life and I don't remember anyone talking about this wreck....thank you for the history
Excellent and professional documentary of a tragic event.
Fantastic documentary about this horrible train wreck.
Imagine being in such agonizing pain getting steamed alive they were begging to be killed..?
That line was always meant to be brought back in commuter service when many city residents made a mass exodus to the Poconos.To this day it still hasn’t and never will again,so everyone is bound to riding the bus daily.To this day i still hear someone jokingly say they’re almost done working on the new Lackawanna rail line...
Two others not on the list were Elizabeth Wilgermein’s daughters Irene (age 12), and Catherine (age 15). I just came across their graves doing research for another CZcams channel which led me to your video.
Were they also from Chicago?
@@donnap3153 if I remember right they were. Mrs. Wilgermein and the girls all died. Mr. Wilgermein later returned to Germany. I’m wondering if it was too devastating for him to stay in the US.
@@kywy1984 Likely...especially since everyone was gone. My grandfather lost his wife in Chicago after my mom was born. He left and moved to Louisville. We just found about the birth family about 15 years ago, which is how we found our about this train accident, via mutual research by multiple members of our family, all of us searching. Most of us have met and are great friends now.
Well done. Thank you for taking so much care with this film.
This was well put together. A wonderful memorial for those involved.
This video is so important. Thank you.
Wow! I ran across your documentary while looking at train videos. I had heard about this wreck, but very little available (except Wikipedia) on this DL&W wreck. Thank you for keeping alive this piece of history and also recognizing the valiant and selfless efforts of Pullman Porter Oscar Daniels.
It is amazing how much information is now available. When our family members were searching for another, we only had the newspaper clippings...
Well done. I know the area very well, having lived down the road. I never knew about this!
Hi John, I came across this documentary while searching for my next subject. This is superbly done! I certainly don't need to tackle this subject now. Great work!
Great video, I live near by. Great to hear more info on it.
Great story it was done really well
>Road crew utterly screws up
"No one was to blame. It was an act of Providence!"
EDIT: Also, wonderful documentary. It's scandalous that this isn't more widely known.
Very well done
My mother was one year old when this tragedy happened. Dad wasn’t born yet, but my aunt, his sister was age six, and all four grandparents were living. All lived in New York, Manhattan. At that time, most of New Jersey was rural, the middle of nowhere with farms sparsely arranged between small villages.
Remembering the victims on this anniversary of the crash.
Excellently and sensitively researched, remembered and told. Just a sidenote: Oscar Daniels, the hero porter who saved so many lives by racing thru his train car to shut the door, to block steam, sacrificing himself: from his photo he appears partly African-American. He heroically sacrificed himself, in an era often racist, to save white German-Americans.
Most Pullman porters were African American. Apparently Pullman did that because they could pay them less. However the Pullman conductors were white . (trains with Pullman cars had both a conductor from the railroad and one from the Pullman company)
@@keithalaird Thanks for info. From looking at Oscar Daniels I could see he's white enough he could (and apparently did) "Pass" for white. I could also tell he's "Partly African-American. He heroically sacrificed himself, in an era often racist, to save white German-Americans."
These terrible things still happen! Life can be way too short for some.....
How sad…..:(
Nice documentary
You have to do a video on the NS Savannah, soon before she is sunk or scraped.
You'd be amazed at what you don't know.
Talk about having PTSD! I bet there were a LOT of rescuers, not to mention surviving victims, who had PTSD.
Does anybody know what engine was involved in this like what railroad it was from?
I worked as shop foreman in this industrial green house and we grew plants year round. There were at the time 5 huge boilers and 4 smaller ones thought out the 44 acres of green house. I had a fellow that worked under me , Big strong fellow but not the brightest. Anyway I left that job for a new one and the company put him to work with a team upgrades in the place.
The one section of the green house had two huge boiler pipes runs that where the main header supplies to branch off from ,, This fellow thought these pipes were shut down and he started removing bolts for a cap plug and this poor guy was steamed, he died a day later. I am so lucky not to have been there when this happened. I haven't even thought about it for years. Very sad. The hospital couldn't give him more pain meds or it would have killed him out rite, Worst pain I think anyone can go thru. RIP.
How awful.
Like a steam locomotive rolling down the track, they're gone, gone, nothin's gonna bring them back.
You still here unfortunately..?
First of all this was well done. Second were you ever able to find any descendants of survivors or deceased from this accident and speak with them
Hi Enrico - this is a question I get every time the film is presented during a Q&A actually so great question. Unfortunately I still have not been able to find descendants of the survivors. I have, by way of descendants reaching out, been fortunate to connect with family members of some of the deceased who have provided some rich history of their family's connection with the crash. Since this was an excursion train, there was no well-kept, official passenger log which makes locating passengers' names rather difficult. Newspaper outlets at the time are some of the only surviving sources that I know of that point to any indication of a partial passenger list though that reporting should typically be taken with a grain of salt. Thanks for watching and glad you enjoyed the film.
@@JohnGeneral, myself and many others in our family researched this wreck that took many of our family members years ago (the Brunners). They are buried together in Chicago. My cousin , who now lives in CA, is more closely related but the entire incident is tragic.
0_0 l live in Scranton PA...I never heard about this!
I grew up in NJ & never heard of it. Was watching a ghost show Dead Tenants & a house up the road from the tracks was being investigated. That’s how I found out.
What rail line was this?
Lackawanna
@@samanthab1923 oh wow
New Jersey had a bad train accident record.
After the wreck and because of his heroism, the Pullman Company named a 16-1 sleeper as "Oscar J. Daniels" ... the only Pullman car named after a black man ... even though thee Pullman Company hired many black men as car porters and attendants.
Is Alfred still alive? As of December 2021?
He died May 8,2017
12:09 I... Don't like how her eyes almost look blacked out in that photo😰
Hey Andy Parke, I'm your granddaughter, Katherine, and I have a son. My brother has a daughter. You're a great grandfather of 2 and a grandfather of 2. Thanks for the nose btw, I wonder if I have your feet too, mine look just like Gary's, my father.
Trains don't wreck sitting still , nor do they jump good tracks going 25 mile a hour - speed is the most like cause
The devils way out
_Steamed alive_
Well put together but you need to tone down the horror. It distracts from the story. You dont want to hit your audience over the head with a shovel , which is what you do here. Pay the nasty stuff its due and move on. You don't see airline disaster docs detailing the injuries. Just a tip. Good job overall.
Newspaper of the time really went to town on the horrors of these tragedies. Victorian papers were even more insensitive than the 1920s one - our modern rags, for all their many faults, have learned to show a bit more sensitivity and the TV news warns us if 'distressing' footage is coming up. Different days, different ways.
While this may seem horrific, my cousin and I had researched this incident (as the Brunners are our relatives). I appreciate the details in this film. It adds a little more substance to our family story.
Normally I would agree, but not here. The shocking detail was very sensitively told by people who are clearly still very moved. For once this detail really opens a window onto the enormity of the crash and how it destroyed lives over a long, long period. Unfortunately I know all to well the result of someone very close dying as a result of a similar accident. The scars in the family last forever.
It’s pathetic that they never blamed anybody for it. It was providence. Which is a lie the devil. Somebody was to blame. In Jesus/God will hold them accountable.
"The deadliest disaster in Warren county history." Um, probably the only disaster in Warren county history. What kind of trash did I stumble upon?