The evening world., 1903-02-25

and that its passengers were not warn
ed Of their danger. W.,
startled Prosecutor Riker and Coroner
Holman with her testimony
The gates were not down when we
went on the railroad tracks" she said.
Mr.. RiIser in an excited voice, and the
very much interested.
NO. SIR" replied the witness. at
was very cold that morning. | saw
Ike the gates"
Q. They could either have been coming
down Just then or standing pcrpendicu-
wreck" 4. Nothing. walked ont
through the car
Sidney, Stein, a schoolboy, said that
more than thirty feet away from tho
railroad tracks when he first observed
the gates. They were down, and he felt
safe. The car was moving slowly, but
time. and consequently when the car
went through the sGtes he took the
sound of the breaking timber for the
cracking OF ice.
Car Was Moving slowly.
Nearly all the survivors of the
wreck seem 10 he agreed on one
point, the trolley car was not
moving AT a speed faster than n
brisk walk when II was hit by the
LaciSn wanna train.
Mortimer Sayre. High Sshoo, pupil,
had n miraculous escape from death. y
girl who was standing within, foot OF
ment OF the accident was all over ne
found himself standing in the same
place In the car that he had occupied
FOR blocks, Sayre was one of those who
emphasized the slow speed OF the car.
Antonio GenevesO, the Italian whose
duty II was to sand the rails on the Cl!t-
ton avenue grade. and who has been un-
der arrest since the disaster, was
quest room. He had to speak through
an interpreter and proved most un-
willing witness
81 came 10 this country in June last, %
he said aud ] have been working as
sandmaV since December. I was told TO
pu, down sand when II was wet, when
i showed put salt down. ON tne morn
Ing OF tho accident there was hal. a 70 II
OF snow on the tracks. ! put four pals
OF salt on the rails right down 10 the
railroad crossing. As soon az put the
salt down Wagons would come along and
throw snow back over Il again.
me sand Mas Frozen.
"The morning Of the accident l
went 40 get sand 10 pat down on
the inside rail. cOuid not get
any. The sand was frozen. 1t had
been damp when they put IL Into
the box"
O. How long did You nave dry sand?
A. lip 20 the middle al January AftH
| that IL was always Wei
] - Sid you saw 6nvthInE to YOUR
bosses-.,o Pratt and Parker, a, Yes.
told tFs@ "a, '0lS sdo5 pm tnp pIrksc sSs 9t
"SSu'%T q. %hat Se di B4i parker isy% :'S <, u,
! said he couldn't help II, tha' he did
/ not know where 20 set dIy sand. ...
O. Why didn't you complain ,H TO Pratt;
10 Pratt and It did no good. rne motor.
| men got after me on account oG the
sand, but could nc, help It. Parker told
ssaS:s tss' e eeE EspfSEd 2GTa sy syepSs sS0d sS
had been turned down. The morning OF
| the accident Mr., Pratt came 10 tho boz
where ! kept my sand. II was frozen
II iI'S Was TAKEN nor out after ~ The ihe wrssck. EEK whsr
| Mr.. Pratt saw the, sand and I told him
that II Was no good and that ] had been
using salt. he said: IAN right"
nestlna Miller, was called to ldentii,
| what was left OF the girls body She
knew II was Ernestlne's from some
clothing and a little earring. The Eir
would have been sixteen years old OF
Prof George c. sonn, of the Newark
High henool. testified that he eNamiae
the rails after ths acc cideat.
II concluded thn.' he ssid, ''thai
ne accident sas due 70 slippery rails
don't believe they ware used.
o'clock tomorrow mOr6inE w :