New-York tribune., 1906-10-30
BODIES FOUND NOW 56.
Ccn.;,res IRON, arst page.

wreck. went TO the morgue. where they looked
over the bodies. and then visited the un-
dertaking establishments where bodies had first
been taken. They adjourned to meet at 10
o'clock on Thursday morning. when the wit
nesses viii be examined No effort VIII be
spared. they say. to place the blame where 1t
he.onss.
Some are holding Daniel Stewart, the old
sridge tender responsible for not seeing that the
rails OF The draw were set and locked before he
gave the clear ahead" signal TO the III tated
train. The railroad officials, however, say no
could not have been anything else but sure. be-
cause fl reaching over to get his signal flags
his eyes we're within a few inches of the tracks.
Another reason why some railroad men do not
hold Stewart responsible is that the draw is Of
the latest pattern and is set and locked by
electricity. One man said Stewart had only to
signal :he man n the tower, and he locked and
dropped the bridge in position by electric
switch.
Mr.. Attcrbury said no one knew at what speed
the train crossing the bridge. Further. he
said, that would rot make any difference. for IT
could have crossed The t-este as safely at forty
miles at ten.
Among the dead is Emanuel Freed. or Nanny
Bernard vaudeville performer and nephew OF
Sam Bernard. He was Identified late this after
noon by his brother. David Freed. Of No. 1927
Madison avenue. New York.
Freed, who only nineteen years old, had
engagement to appear this week at Youngs
Pier Theatre. His brother and sisters had come
the shore ahead Of him. and expected to
spend the week here with him. Freed reached
Philadelphia about noon, and learning he could
get the electric train he crossed TO Camden and |
boarded the / o'clock train.
When he failed to reach this city this morn
ing friends and relatives began to fear for his
safety and Signund Wachter, with a photo |
graph of the missing man, searched among the |
bodies in the Tnorgue He partly identified Freed |
and later full Identification made by a |
brother and sister.
MAN LOSES WHOLE FAMILY.
The whole family of Samuel McEiroy. his wife |
and two children. were killed. Mrs. McElroy |
and Olivia and Joseph. five and two years re-
spectively. started for trolley ride All were |
drowned when the train toppled into tho Thor
oughfare
When Mr. McElroy asked to-day his ad- |
dress. he replied: II did live at No 209e Green
street, Philadelphia / don't know where live
now where shall live in the future. sha!l
never go back TO the old address"
Theodore Lawrence who was IN the wreck
with his wife, but who escaped, while his wife
was drowned, identified the bo6v of Mrs. Law
renee last night. He showed signs Of breaking
down mentally a few hours after the accident.
and this afternoon It was said that he had gone /
hopelessly insane He like child, and went
about crying and moaning and calling for his
wife to come back to him. Friends with whom
Lawrence was staying teegraphed his mother
and brother in Philadelphia and they came
down late this afternoon and took him home
with them, a hopeless wreck. mentally and
physically.
David S Enley, who escaped from the second
car OF the wrecked train and took with him |
little Helen Gilbert. shortly after the train
pitched into the water. was a tall slender man
OF about thirty-fve last night. To-day he looks
like a Of fifty or more. His shoulders are
stopped. and sorrow has written her story on
his face with heavy hand
Il shall never forget that experience in all my
life" he said. 1T terrible. I shall see those
agoniZed faces and hear those terrible shrieks
OF the doomed in my ears TIL my dying day"
After the jury had viewed the bodies at the
rnorgue and undertaking establishments. Coro-
Edmund c. Gask gave permits to local
undertakers engaged by relatives OF the dead TO
prepare the bodies and send them to their homes.
The railroad made up a special train Of several
baggage and express cars. and sent il out late
tonight Nearly all Of the bodies of those
from Camden, Philadelphia and places adjacent |
were put that train. and the morgue was
nearly eInptied