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MANY HURT IN TRAIN CRASH
Long Branch Express Hits a Florida
Bound Flyer.
INJURED GET SLIGHT WOUNDS

coIIision Due to Accident to Air Tube
Forty Miles an Hour Plowed Its Way
Through Rear Coach-One Man Killed
Outright.
Elizabeth, N. jim rear-end col
lision, which occurred short distance
west of the Pennsylvania Railroad sta.
tion here, when the Long Branch Elk
press, heavily laden. ran into the rear
of the Florida Special. one man was
killed and twenty-seven persons were
injured. Most Of the injured received
only slight wounds.
The collision was due to al accident
to the Southern train, and could nave
been avoided, it is asserted. had the
engineer of the Long Branch train heed
ed the signal, which was set for his
direction. The Florida Express is COM
posed Of eight Pullman coaches. 1t
had not gone far from the station IN
jersey City when the air tube con-
Meeting the forward coach to the en-
gine parted.
That caused the automatic air brakes
to be applied at once 10 the train. The
extra strain on the engine caused by
the application Of the brakes caused
the coupling. pin between the tender
and the first car to break. and the EN-
CINE darted ahead, while the cars
stopped within a short distance.
The engineer at once applied the
brakes to the locomotive, and as soon
as he was able started back to pick up
his train. He had just reached the
coaches and was about to recouple
them. when the accident occurred.
The Long Branch Express was max
ing forty miles an hour at the curve
when the fireman in the cab saw the
stalled train ahead. He shouted to the
engineer, who. at once applied the
brakes, but not soon enough to prevent
the collision.
The engine struck the rear Pullman,
the England, tearing it's way through
the coach almost to the forward end.
The car was split in half and the parts
fell to either side of the track. No
one except a porter was in the car
when the accident occurred. and
though some of the passengers in the
forward coaches received a severe
shaking up, the injured were on the
two forward cars of the Long Branch
Express.
Dead: David Let's. fireman Of the
Long Branch Express; body taken to
the Elizabeth morgue.
Injured: The Rev. Mr.. Kelley. AS
bury Park; conclusion of the brain
and internal injuries: taken to the Eliz-
abeth General Hospital. Mrs. W. e.
Armstrong. Long Branch. shock.
Thomas Beatty, Long Branch, cut BY
glass. Mrs. E. n. Bennett, East Or
ange; back sprained. B. T. Benson, 30
Wall Street, New York City; teeth
knocked out. Mrs. E. Blanchard, 2S0
Macon street, Brooklyn; back sprained.
Mrs. Richard Bottigheimer. % Lafay-
cite avenue, Brooklyn; nose broken.
James B. Brown, Asbury Park; leg
broken. Mrs. w. L. Craig, Asbury
Park; scalp wounds and cuts. George
L. Crane, Long Branch; face cut. John
F. Fontham. So West Ninety-ninth
street, New York City; shock. Mrs.
Emma Ferguson, Newark; sprains.
H. O. Goldsmith, Wall Street Informa-
ton Bureau; chest wounds. G. Gum
ing, Asbury Park; nose and face
wounds. Mrs. Margaret Garretson.
Asbury Park; teeth knocked out and
face cut. J. A. Jones. Birdsville; leg
broken. Walter Hall, Red Bank;
sprains. Miss L. A. Lane, Ocean
Grove; sprains. P. NJ. Layman, New
York City; side sprains. J. W. Laugh
lin, Belmar: head and face cut. Mrs.
Alice Mumma. Harrisburg. Pa;
sprains. Mrs. A. NJ. McCraig. Eaton
town; shock. Mrs. John G. Sexton.
Long Branch; spine injured. Mrs.
Sadie Smith, 33S East Fifty-eighth
street, NeGYork City: mouth cut. D.
R. Van Brunt. West Spring Lake, N.
j.; sprains. Miss B. M. Weber. Asbury
Park, N. j.: face cut. W. H. Whitley,
81 Morton street. New York City; head
cut. Mrs. Clarence Whiting, Red
Bank; nose broken.