New-York tribune., 1902-08-20
KILLED IN COLLISION.
PETNSYL V4NLA AND ". j. CEN
TRIAL TRAINS TELESCOPE.

LITTLE GIRL DIES IN SIGHT OF HER
PARENTS -wRECKAGE PILED so FEET
HTGP-TwO BODIES RECOVERED.
Asburv Park. y ! Aug ia regular Penn
svlvanic train on the New-York and Long
Branch Railroad, bound north, was run into
froEr the rear at the Belraar station this evening
hv 3 specigl train on the Central Railroad OF
New-Jersey II is feared that several were
killed although only two bodies have been re
covered
THE DEAD
BISHOP o- RTcGETT Alice thirteen years OLD, % Rah
way: crushed between last car and car ahead when
labore- possibly name is Alton
THE INJURED.
roAL. Joseph E brakeman Of No % Eal'dZy-., Yer
ighS G later rnfeT TsoTIed SERIOUS ana PeThsps fa5s
FTTZGERALD, EdwaI5 railE9ad eEaPloye Psnnsylysns
boarding house Asbury PARK: injuries not likely 70
van conductor .. Central train: slightly
Several persons were only slightly bruised and
cut by flying glass
STOPPED TO PICK Up PASSENGERS.
The Pennsylvania train had stopped at the
Belmar station 10 pick UP passengers The Cen
traI train was running north also and was
empty. It had been sidetracked at Point Pleas
ant during the day. having brought down an
excursion 10 this city The train was IT'S way
here 10 pick up IT'S load. The engine Of the
Central train telescoped the rear car Of the
Pennsylvania train
ore Of the saddest features Of the wreck was
the killing IF the little Biggert girl She was
n the company Of her father and mother The
three were about 70 board the Pennsylvania
train The child stepped up on the platform
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mother onto the lower step when the crash
came Father and mother escaped injury and
saw their child crushed to death within three
feet Of them without being able TO save her.
Six cars in all were wrecked The engine Of
the Central train ploughed into the rear part
of the Pennsylvania train and drove the rear
car into The car ahead. Four Of the Central
cars piled up on the engine. and the others we're
more OF less damaged. The rear car Of the
Pennsylvania train and the first two cars Of the
Central train were reduced almost to kindlins
wood The wreckage was piled thirty feet
high The freight shed at the depot was de-
rnolished and the station itself was DANA ged.
Their wreckage added TO the heap on the rails
Fitzpatrick, the brakeman, OF West Asbury
Park vas caught in the wreckage and badly
scaldea by the escaping steam and not water
from the wrecked engine de was released from
under the wreckage which hsl1 him down and
being attended by a doctor He has not told
his story. as the doctors viii not allow him to
be seen
KNEW LITTLE ABOUT WRECK
Immediately after the wreck the forward cars
Of the Pennsylvania train were detached. EX-
cept for broken glass they did not appear TO be
greatly damaged and proceeded north This
vas done so quickly that those in the forward
coaches knew little about the wreck beyond the
fact their train had been run into.
The wreck caused a bad congestion here. as
II tied I'D the roads while the crowds waited 10
get horae Trains were run down from points
north. including Red Bank. Railway and Perth
Anboy. and by switching at the station here
the pressure was relieved, and so we'll was the
scheme worked that all the visitors were gotten
out safely with comparative little delay. ToWle,
the brakeman. was not seriously injured
Lippircott. engineer Of the Central train, stuck
TO his post but his fireman jumped, and is
said to have been injured. After the accident
Lippincott lighted his pipe and sat smoking
in his cab until railroad official arrived and
took him away Those who were first on the
scene say il was strange sight 70 see the
engineer sitting amid the wreckage, through
which he later craw wled to get out. he seeheo
numbed by the accident and perhaps dazed'
but smoked mechanically
NAY BE DEAD UNDER wRECKAGE
The two hundred feet Of the roof Of the depot
platform fell on the platform. and had not yet
been raised and no attempt explore il has
been made There may be dead under AZ A
woman who was the platform says there
were several others there and near the sides
She was standing close to the station and near
door When the crash came she turned TO
fee. and reached the door just as the long root
collapsed on the platform Her dress was torn
by il as It fell, and as she went through the
THE BUSY MANS TRAIN.
The Pennsylvania Special TO Chicago only %