Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1906-10-29
Electric Cars Plunge Through
Draw That Seems to Have
Been Out of Fix.
PROBABLY SIyTY-SIx ARE
NUMBERED WITH THE DEAD
No Doubt Some Bodies We're
Washed Out to Sea--0ne Man
Lost His Whole Family.

Atlantic City, N. j., Oct. 29.-Fffty-
three persons are positively known
to have lost their lives in the electric
railway accident yesterday at Thor
oughfair. OF these forty-seyen have
been identified, two are missing and
four remain in the morgue unidenti-
fed. The two missing are known to
have perished.
The Identified Dead.
! Among the identified dead are:
Mrs. Frederick Benkert and two chill
dren, Philadelphia; w. l.. walker,
| Philadelphia; David Fried, New
York. Mrs. Cora Biddle Brown, East
port, Me-; Laura Lawrence, Philadef--
phia: Mrs. Bradish, Atlantic City:
Frank F. Felsberg and wife, Philadel-
phia: Mrs. Evalene McElroy and
children. Philadelphia Mrs. w. J..
Carter, Philadelphia; Mrs. Ella Rit-
tenhoffer and daughter, Philadelphia;
Miss Martha I. Rice, Philadelphia;
VIM. Edwards, Woodbury., N. j.; b.
II. Finkelstein, Reading, Pa; Frank
and Joseph Herward, Philadelphia:
Emanuel Bernard, New York, actor,
nephew of Sam Bernard, comedian.
Only One Car Examined.
At IL o'clock today fifty-one bodies
had been recovered from the first
car which dashed into the Thorough
fare yesterday. How many remain
in the second car, which has not yet
been examined, is unknown. but it's
survey is to be completed by noon.
New Drivers Bring New Bodies.
Three fresh divers arrived from
Philadelphia this morning TO take the
place of those who worked all night
to recover the bodies of those who
perished in the railway disaster at
Thoroughfare, near here. last even
] ing. The efforts of these men result
ed in bringing up three more bod
les. Scenes in the temporary morgue
twnsn the pdbiict Vas admitted were
heart rending.
Among the pathetic cases was that
of Samuel McElroy of Philadelphia.
who found his whole family wiped out
by the disaster. His wife and g.
year-old daughter are in the morgne
an dhis 3-year-old boy is missing.
A few minutes after 10 O'Clock the
kwrecking crew brought from the
water the first car. No bodies were
found in it, but three bodies were
broughte UP with the lifting OF the
car from its bed in the mud, which
seems to bear out the theory that
some bodies may have foated out
through the windows.
Caused by Bad Draw.
AS details of yesterdays terrible
wreck on the electric line of the West
Jersey & Seashore railway developed
during the night, the disaster became
more appalling. The total number of
persons instantly killed is probably
sixty-six, with nearly a score of in
jured, several of whom, 1t is thought,
will die. Forty-eight bodies have
been brought to the surface.
There were ninety-one persons on
the train and twenty-five have been
accounted for, which with the bodies
recovered, brings the total up to sew
enty-three. This leaves eighteen un-
accounted for and supposed to have
been drowned. Possibly some OF
these floated through the broken win
dows and were carried out to sea.
The wreck occurred on a draw
bridge, which spans a waterway about
mile outside of the city. The ac-
cident was directly due to the draw
failing to work properly. A train of
three cars dashed onto the trestle at
high speed before the draw was
properly locked. The cars jumped
the rails and the first two plunged in
to the water, while the third caught
on an abutment and remained sus-
\ pended. II was from this car that
nearly all the injured escaped. The
cars which went into the water were
entirely submerged, and as the tide
Is running in rapidly the divers had
hard work in getting the bodies for
| several hours