Bridgeton pioneer., 1888-09-06
SATURDAY 'SFATAL ACCIDENT
HOW DIR. JOSEPH MOORE WAS
KILLED..
An Eye Witness to the Fatal Ac.
cident Speaks. An Inquest
fO he Held

to be Held.
The sad accident by which DIR. JOS.
Moore met his death on Saturday
morning, is still the theme of CONVEX
sation, and without exception, the
people demand that something be
done to make the crossing, at which he
was injured, be made. safe Immediately.
On Saturday, SO hastily was the article
referring to the accident written, that
all the details could not be published.
There was only one eye witness to
the accident, and that was DIR. David
Cook, who resides at the corner of
Broad and Giles streets, this city, and
he was interviewed in the afternoon
by the PIONEER reporter. Mr.. Cook
stated that he had been to Roadstown,
and from there had gone to Young's
steam grist mill, and then for some
reason had come in by the Shiloh pike.
His attention was first attracted to the
coming train, by the blowing Of the
whistle for the Treland's Mill crossing,
andahe came slowly down the hill lead
ing from Joseph Burt's residence. He
noticed a carriage coming in the oppo.
site direction, but owing to being near
sighted could not distinguish the
occupant. The animal became unman-
ageable and with a spring was, upon
the track. and the engine waslupon
the rear wheels Of the vehicle, and it,
with the occupant was thrown upon
the western side of the rails, the wagon
going up against the post while the
Doctor was thrown out, he landing
about two feet from the track, lying
parallel with the rails.
Engineer Jacob Truax had put on
the air brakes as soon as he had seen
the vehicle, but~was unable to stop
until the Roadstown road was reached.
Mr.. Cook hurriedly drove over the
track and getting out fastened to the
PROSTATE form of the doctor. He
lrfound bis. head badly cut. and he was
breathing very heavily, but no sound
escaped his lips. His eyes were open,
but he was asunconscious. His shoes
and hat lay some distance from him,
Mr.. Cook waited until some eight OF
ten of the train hands arrived, and
then came in town, not believing that
the doctor could possibly live until he
was put on the train. The men car.
ried the injured man to the grass by
the roadside and placed one of his car.
riage cushions under his head, and as
soon as the. train was backed down,
DR.. Moore was placed upon it and taken
to the depot 81 A 4
The carriage was badly wrecked and
the sign post against which it was
thrown, was knocked very loose by
the force of'fhe collision. After taken
to his home, DR.. Moore was treated as
| best the physicians present could, but
he died abe ut two o'clock, without re.
gaining consciousness.
Conductor Maloney said the train
was running at slow rate OF speed at
the time of the accident, but Mr.. Cook
says the train was running very fast,
and the engineer did not blow for the
crossing until directly upon it.
TIE INQUEST.
The little back room of the MAYORS
Office was packed Monday after.
noon with crowd of persons to hear
in detail the account of the sad death
of DR.. Joseph Moore, from eye wit
nesses, but even after Coroner Barnes
brought out all the testimony he
could, their was still some mystery
remaining and the result of the de-
liberations of the Jury did not seem
wholly satisfactory.
The following gentlemen were sworn
as the Jury Foreman, John Ogden;
Daniel Bacon, Aaron Smith, P. H.
Goldsmith, Charles E. Mulford, William
Moore, Jacob Elwell, Hiram Clark.
William McKirn, Henry Woodruff,
Martin Loder and Samuel Pancoast.
After the Jury was sworn, they went
in a body to the late residence of DR..
Moore, where they viewed the. body,
which lay in an ice box in the west
parlor of the house,
W. Maloney, the conductor of the
train which killed the doctor, was
the first witness called. The train he
was on he said was No. 500, and when
it left the Bridgeton depot for Bay
side, was about five minutes late. He
said he had been. running the train
about three years. He was in the car
at the time Of the occurrence, and of
course did not see any of the accident,
and knew nothing of it until the air
brakes were applied. He said the
train was brought to standstill after
running about 150 yards and he ran
back. The body Of the doctor was
found lying upon his right side parallel
with the track. AS soon as the train
could be brought back to the spot,
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