The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-12
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nurtna,..n luggage and smoking ear.
. lay coach and two Pullmsna. II left
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tho ier-.y central terminal NJ II m. The
train vn4 nll~l y lot ~ passengers having
teep picked mp ~ Lakewood. tho Las, stop
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,tta, hcflrr the express was due ~ Eaton.
town an engine and two freight cars pulled
m 4, tho aidiur there 40 NJ Ia allow the
,,rt,a. Nv lass. ~ the limo has a single
Track The rear brakeman of the freight
should have gone rack and shut the switch,
hi' APPARENTLY this was not done. Tho rail.
and officials who made an investigation
declared lOSlIlN'lO lHh' wv SWtNoh wv pNVi
lst oran There Is a sharp curve in tho
track ~ the station at Eatontown. On
account of the switch being on this curve,
II il sad 10 he a rule Of the road that all
,rpins shall slow down in Ia king the curve.
According to the passengers on the wrecked
train, 'hi~ was not lone and the train was
making fifty miles an hour when II took
the switch.
Twenty feet beyond the switch there
ia a swamp over which the main truck and
the switch run on embankments. As the
big camelback locomotive hit the switch
il Jumped clear Of the rails, shot over the
ground between the two diverging tracks
and plunged into the swamp. 1t was buried
in mud above the wheels, Elijah Egbert,
the engineer. jumped just before the engine
made the plunge and escaped injury, but
Robert Hackett, the fireman, was badly
hurt internally by being pitched into the
tender.
The combination smoker and baggage
car took the switch, but was yanked of
the tracks by the engines leap and fell
over on its side in the swamp. part Of 1t rest
ing on the engine. The day coach ran
along the main track a short distance and
was then pulled of and hurled in such q
way tina one end rested on the switch en-
bankment and the other on the embank-
ment Of the main line so hat it just spanned
the swamp. The two Pullmans took the
switch, the first one crashing into the
freight train. The end Of the Pullma an
was 30 smashed that the negro porter had
to be chopped out. Nobody on the Pull.
mans was hurt.
II was in the overturned smoker that
the worst harm was done. The passengers
had Just time to get a grip on their seats
whom the car fell into the swamp and
turned over, throwing them all together
in a heap in the mud and slime. Possibly
this saved many from more serious in
juries.
Van Duzer was the manager and one Of
the members Of the vaudeville company
known as the Elite Four They have
played all over the country and were re-
turning from an engagement at Atlantic
City. All Of the members were In the
smoker, and when It started Oh the track,
according to some of the passengers, Van
Duzer. who was sitting beside an open
window, tried to dive out. The train turned
over on that side and he was found, with
his head crushed, buried 10 the mud under
meath the car. He lived at 2f West 18Sd
street and was % years CID. His wife and
two children sat waiting for him with the
midday meal all prepared, an he had tele-
graphed that he would be home for lunch.
He did not come, 80 his wife went down
town later and bought a paper containing
news Of the wreck. The paper CAV no
names, but she hurried home end found
a telegram from Van Duzer's brother, who
had been with him on the train. inform
ing her Of what had happened. She left
Immediately to get her husbands body,
which had been taken to ~Eatontown,
The first people to arrive at the wreck
from Eatontown assisted in helping the pas
sengers In the smoker to climb out through
the windows. Many were cut and bleeding
and all we're plastered with mud. Several
physicians from Eatontown got busy dress
Ing the wounds, and they were Joined later
by physicians from Long Branch and Red
Bank. Several trained nurses who were
attending patients from New York in the
neighborhood volunteered and a temporary
hospital was fitted up at the little station.
News OF the accident quickly spread and
automobiles rushed to Eatontown from
hed Bank, Long Branch and many other
places. Many of the injured we're taken
away in these automobiles.
A special train was made up and cent
from Long Branch, and this took away the
Passengers and many OF the injured, The
more seriously hurt were taken to the
Memorial Hospital at Long Branch. The
only person who 1t was feared might he
fatally hurt was Otto Metzloh Of $40 East
hghty-seventh street. a member Of one OF
The orchestras at Atlantic City. He was
taken out unconscious and seemed TO have
oeen hurt internally. Late last night 1t
was said he would probably recover. Rob-
ert Hackett, the fireman, had to be dug ont
Of the mud. He was placed on the station
Platform and seemed to be badly hurt.
when a doctor started to examine him he
insisted that he fix up the passengers first.
ne was taken to his home at Red Bank.
The Passengers in the day oh were all
thrown from their seats when 1t was slung
around and many were bruised and badly
shaken up Mr.. Hallock and his wife,
VINO had been at Atlantic City over Sunday.
were sitting near the end Of the car and
were thrown over to the opposite side with
uR rest, Mr.. Hsl!ock recsived several
Commissions and his wife suffered severely
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