Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-09-23
RETURNS no CAPITAL
President Roosevelt and Fam
lily Back In Washington.
BY BROKEN LOCOMOTIVE
First Accident to a Train on which
the President Has Travelled.
His Party In No
Danger.


WASHINGTON, Sept. 23.-President
Roosevelt and party arrived here owe
the Pennsylvania railroad from Oyster
Bay at G:52 O'Clock yesterday after.
noon. The presidents train was de
layed about thirty-six minutes by an
accident to the rear drlvewheel of the
locomotive as 1t entered the tunnel Mt
Baltimore. This engine was immedi-
ately detached and another m was
procured to pull the train to Washing
ton. The accident caused no damage
TO the train.
Fortunately the train was proceed
ing ut Il very slow rate of speed when
the accident occurred or the result
might have been much more serious.
1t was nOte making more than three
miles an hour when in some unac-
countable manner the tire of the rear
drivewheel on the left side of the
engine broke and curled off. One end
of it protruded upward and jammed
through the boiler of the engine, caus-
ing an almost immediate shutting Off
of the steam.
This soon deadened the engine, and
the engineer, Joe Weatherby, realiz-
ing that something was wrong.
promptly put on the air brakes. and
the train came to a stop without de
lay. A hurried investigation con
WINGED the engineer and his crew that
the engine was useless for further
service until repairs could be made.
and word was Immediately SEN to the
yard to have another engine sent to
the scene. The call was promptly re-
sponded to, and after Il delay of about
half an hour another engine was at
tached to the train and ii proceeded to
Washington. where it arrived without
further accident.
The cause of the tire breaking. ac-
cording to the railroad officials was
| quite ineXplicable. The engine. No
5064, had been attached to the train
just before leaving Philadelphia and
had been thoroughly tested and found
to be in first class condition. The ac-
cident. railway officials say, was one
of those which will happen in spite
of every precaution. The president
and his party took the matter very
cOolly and did not manifest any alarm.
Some members of the train crew went
back to the presidents car to shake
hands with him on the run from Bal
timore to Washington and in their
brief conversation with him spoke of
the accident. The president. however,
assured them that he had not been
alarmed and remarked that if all his
troubles were as slight as that he
would be getting along beautifully
This accident is said to be the first
which has happened to Il train on
| which President Roosevelt has Travelled
during his administration.
The president was given n cordial
welcome home by Il large crowd of
people as he came through the train.
shed and walked out to tine street,
where his carriage was waiting. The
crowd lined both sides of Sixth street
for Il long time before the train ar
rived, and when he made his appear
ance and stepped into his carriage he
was enthusiastically checred. In COM
pany with Mrs. Roosevelt and three of
his children, Archie, Quentin and
Ethel, he was Immediately driven to
the White House. Mr.. and Mrs. Cliff
| ford Richardson, New York friends of
| the president and Mrs. Roosevelt, came
with them to Washington and are
| guests at the White House. Senator
| Philander c. Knox of Pennsylvania
joined the party ut Philadelphia and
| came on to Washington with them.
The senator announced that his speech
to the Philadelphia Business Mems
club will be delivered on Oct. 1. AT
the station to meet the presidential
marty were Major McCawley, Colonel
| Bromwell, the superintendent of pub.
lie buildings and grounds; Marshall
| Palmer of the District of Columbia.
| and Miss Hagner, Mrs. Roosevelt's sec
rotary.
The president and party Travelled
from Jersey City in Il special train
made up of the private car Signet, a
combination baggage and passenger
car and two cars used for the 'transpor
tation of the presidential horses and
carriages back to Washington. In addi-
ton to the president and Mrs. Roose-
welt the party included Secretary and
Mrs. Loeb, Assistant Secretary Barnes
and the White House clerical and mes
senger force of nine persons, who have
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