The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-10-29

three heavy vestibule coaches of the newest type. all electrically equipped left Camden at o'clock this afternoon.
 Walter Scott was the motormAn on the forward car: John [. Curtis of Camden was, the conductor in charge When the train p,liied out of Camden the coaches were comfortably filed, women and children being in the ma- Jority. They occupied the two forward cars. Fifteen members of Toscas artillery band. all Italians. were among the passengers in the rear coarh. One Hundred on Train.
 At Newfield Junction, . few miles from here, about twenty passengers were taken aboard, making the total number on the train few less thaA a hundred. The conductor does not ap., pear to be certain as to the exact numS ber. He had eighty-eight tickets it. his possession when he was brought to this city but he thinks that several tickets were lost and 1t is his opinion that there were from 11O to 1so passen- gers on the train. This, however. seems too high an estimate.
 On leaving Westville the third rail electric car was applied and the trai1 from there on bowled along at t0 customary speed. Not the slightest in., cident occurred to cause the motormsn to slow down. When the drawbridee. which nrosses tho stream populariy known as the "Throughfare,' was ap- preached the motorman saw a clear track before him. There was nothing tc warn him of danger. All at once the forward coaches lurched, the ponder ous wheels leaped the rails and caMe down upon the ties. Swerving to the left the coach dragged the others after 1t and plunged over the edge into the water. The third coach, however. struck heavy abutment and was left mos mentarily suspended in nai6air. Not . single passenger In this car was kill ed. neither did one of them get away uninjured, however.
 Heroism of Enley. l-+
 It Is doubtful if more than half dozen persons escaped from the first coaches. One instance of a heroic and almost miraculous escape from the first coach is the case of David g. Finley, of Camden. Finley reached AL lantic City suffering from bruises about the face and body, carrying in his lac erated arms. eight year old Helen Gill; bert, also of Camden. ,-
 At the first intimation of danger Finley leaped to the platform taking the child with hlrp. AS the coach plang- ed downward he sprang into the water and succeeded Tn swimming ashore with the little one. .,- / The cries of the imprisoned passcn- gers as the coaches plunged into tho water did not last long, and when the tops of the two oars disappeared ubt a sound was heard from 'hose w'l, were being smothered by the thrush 6f water. .Perched on the roof of the last car the rescuers found Conductor Curtis : bleeding from several cuts on the head and was otherwise injured. When asked how the accident happened his only reply was: Good Sod! What is it?"
 When finally induced to talk. hs could give no clear story. When ask ed the number of passengers he re- piled that he had counted 11o, the he said i3o, and finally that he did not eight full fare tickets were found. however, and from this fact 1t Is talk en that the total number of passen- gers 'corresponded with the number of tickets.
 Woman Rescues l'our.
 The stories of terrible experiences are told by those who escaped deatl in the submerged coaches. Mrs McDonald of Philadelphia, who was in the thlrd car, Hdo the ioiio"the 'o say of her experience:
 "eWhen the cars went overheard was looking out of the window. It was terrible. saw that we were all doomed and my first thought was or my husbard. The cars plunged owe and the water rushed into the windows and doorways. Fortunately l am good swimmer. The Lord only known how I broke my way through win
 to the surface I thought of my husband and dove down in the faint hope that l could reach him. I went down ana down and finally grabbed hold of oody. I came up with 1t but discovered that I had rescued some other man ana he got safely ashore. I dove twl'e more and each time I brought up stranr. man. The fourth time I went down reached my husband and sue. ceeded in landing him safely ashore
 Mrs. Mcdonald Is now at the home or T. V. Townsend on Pennsylvania Ave nue. in this city. and her huspand IS with her. Both are badly bruised ana suffering from the shock.
 J. S. Deford, trainman, who was on the Meadows about fifty yards rom ehe bridge when the accident occurreo' said: ~: ,,
 q" was looking out of my bunk win dow and noticed the electric express as 1t entered on the bridge. AS l InoLed saw 1t give twist and the
 .xt instant I saw the whole train go oyer into the water. At this time the t,da had iust started to run in. hur- rie6 over to do what l could ana caught two dead bodies and saved one man.
 Tide Began To Rise.
 .A ue were working hard the tide heran to rise and the cars Wnich Hrs' first showed the tops Of their rooIs' gradually disappeared can weli nm agine the horrible state or allars tna' existed within the cars. l saw a w mans hand sticking out through the ,,ant,Iator in the roof of the flrst car and the fright almost caused. me 10 faint There were hats. coats umorei- las and almost every sort or wearing annarel floating around on the surtace'
 All the hospitals and police statlohs were immediately appealed to ana ev- cry available ambulance and poilce pa +roI a1on was hurried to the scene Phvsicians. policemen. flremen ana CIV ilians responded to summons TOT heip'
 After the injured had been remove" and cared for the rescuers turned thei' attention to the dead and betore mid night fourteen bodies had been taken out of the water. The first five oou.eS were placed on a special car ana con yeyed to the passenger station in thlS city.
 Here a crowd of several thousand persons collected and as soon as II became known that some Of the deah had been brought here there was frantic rush to look at them. With diff ficulty the police held the crowd in check and the bodies were taken to