Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1906-10-30
NiNgry.oNg PASSENGERS.
Many Perssns % From vsrsvs Places
TO Identify Dead.

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Many Psrssas 90 From Various Places
TO Identify Dead.
Atlantic City. N. J.. Oct. is.-Thers
were nisnty-ons persons On the West
Jersey and ssashore train which
plunged into the water near here Sun
day afternoon. Up to noon Monday
twenty-five had been accounted for.
which, with the bodies recovered.
brings the total to sevsnty.thrse. This
left at that time eighteen not account
Cd for, but believed drowned. All the
bodies were embalmed. Early Mon
day morning trains brought many per.
sons from Philadelphia and other
points anxious to learn II dear ones
had dropped TO death.
Up 70 o'clock Monday morning
forty-eight bodies had been recovered
and at IL o'clock nfty-one. At that
time II was thought sixty-six had
pertshed.
The wreck occurred at the bridge
which spans The Thoroughfare."
small body Of water about one mile
outside.
The accident was directly due to the
drawbridge falling TO work properly.
The fishing schooner Sinbad. recently
wrecked OF Winter Quarter Shoals. a
short distance from Delaware Break.
water. had just passed through the
drawbridge. As the vessel was enter.
ing the draw an electric train hove In
sight across The Meadows" from the
direction OF Pleasantyille. Before the
draw was swung into position the
three cars. which were running at a
high rate OF speed. dashed into the
trestle. With q lurch the forward car
left the tracks and dashed into the
guard rail. the other two cars follow.
ing. Az the point where the cars
Jumped the track the top trestle Is
nearly twenty feet high. The FIRST
two cars were instantly submerged. but
the third car caught on an abutment
and remained suspended. II was this
car from which nearly all the injured
escaped.
News OF the disaster was quickly
telesraphed 10 this city. and In less
than an hour the work OF rescue had
begun. At the time OF the accident
the tide, which rises about ten feet.
was running In and the work OF the
divers was necessarily slow. II was
not until several hours later that the
divers were able TO make progress.
Then the awful evidences OF the dis
aster became more apparent When
the two cars struck the bottom Of the
waterway they stood almost on end.
and the first man to descend reported
the victims packed In the lower ends
OF the submerged cars so tightly that
II was dificult 10 move them. One by
one the bodies were brought up. car
He'd to house and laid side by side.
later 20 be borne 10 this city and
placed in the Empire theater.
Thousands OF persons quickly gath.
cred at the scene OF the disaster and
scores Of boats soon surrounded the
spot where the cars disappeared. but
they were unable TO render any aid.
At the morgue the scenes were pa
thtic Persons who had relatives or
friends on the Inflated cars crowded
about the door. and with difficulty were
restrained from forcing their way Into
the building.
The Royal Artillery band Of Phila-
delphia was on the train. =. Anguerso,
a member. could not go. so he loaned
his uniform to another member The
latter was drowned.
Friends OF Walter Scott, motorman
O, the wrecked train. who is among
the dead. told a story. here that Scott
had a quarrel with his father and
mother at Camden before starting for
his days work. The father. an old To-
connective fireman. insisted that the
trains run over the electric railway
were not safe and that they were sure
10 come TO grief. Mrs. Scott hung on
her sons arms and begged him not to
take the train out. but the young man
brushed his parents aside. Scott
stuck TO his controller and threw on
the airbrakes as his train left the
tracks.
Survivors say they felt the gripping
OF the iron shoes on the wheels and
the second and third cars slowed up
II the couplings had let 40 II is prob
able that only the first coach would
have fallen OF the bridge, but the
bnld fast