Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1906-10-29
MANY PERISH
IN ACCIDENT
Street Cars Plunge
From New York
Draw Bridge.
KNOWN DEAD LIST 53
Coaches Submerged and Pas
sengers Drowned Slowly
.--Scenes at Morgue.


details OF yesterdays terrible wreck
on the electric line of the West Jer
sey and Seashore Railway developed
during the night the disaster became
more appalling. The total number of
persons instantly killed is probably
sixty-six, with nearly score injured,
several of whom it is thought will
die. Fcrty-eight bodies have been
brought to the surface.
Ninty.three Persons on Train and Few
Escaped.
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 70.
This leaves eighteen unaccounted for
and they are supposed to have been
drowned. 1t is possible that some of
these ioated through the broken win
dows and were carried to sea. The
wreck, occurred on a draw bridge
which spans the waterway about a
mile outside Of the city.
Drawbridge Failed to Lock, Causing
Accident.
1t was directly due to the draw fail
ing to work properly. The train of
three cars dashed onto trestle at
high rate of speed before the draw
was properly locked The cars jump
ed the rails and the first two plunged
into the water. while a third caught
on an abutment and remained sus-
pended. 1t was from this car that
nearly all of the injured escaped. The
cars which went into the water were
entirely submerged and as the tide
was running in rapidly. the divers had
hard work getting to the bodies for
several hours.
Ffty-one Bodies Found at Noon Today
At II o'clock today fifty-one bodies
had been recovered from the two
cars which dashed into the thorough
fare yesterday. How many remain
in the second car, which has not yet
been examined is unknown, but a
survey will be completed by noon.
Divers Worked All Night and Were
Worn Out.
Three fresh divers arrived from
Philadelphia this morning to take the
place of those who had worked all
night to recover the bodies of those
who perished in the railway disaster
at Thoroughfare last evening. The
efforts of these men resulted in bring.
ing up three more bodies. The scenes
in the temporary morgue when the
public was admitted We're heart rend-
ing. Among the pathetic cases, was
that of Samuel McElroy. of Philadel-
phia, who found his family wiped out
by the disaster His wife and five year
old daughter are in the morgue and
his three year old boy is missing. A
few minutes after ten O'Clock the
wrecking crew brought from the wat
er. the first car. No bodies were found
in it, but three bodies were brought
up with the lifting of car from It's
bed which seems to bear out the
theory that some bodies may have
noated out through the windows.
List of Identified Dead From Wreck.
Among the identified dead are;
FREDERICK BENECKERT AND
TWO CHILDREN, of Philadelphia
w. l.. WALKER, of Philadelphia.
DAVID FRIED, of New York.
MRS. CORA BIDDLE-BROWN, OF
East Port, Maine.
LAURA LAWRENCE. of Philadel
phia.
MRS. BRADISH, of Atlantic City.
FRANK MONROE, of Camden. N. j
DIR, PAUL F. FEI.sBERG ANL
WIFE. of Philadelphia.
MRS. EVALENE McELROY AMI
| CHILD, of Philadelphia.
I MRS. w. l.. CARTER, Of Philadel
phia.
MRS. ELLA RITTENHOFFER AMI
! DAUGHTER, OF Philadelphla.
MISS MARTHA T. RICE, of Phila
delphia.
VIM. EDWARDS, of Woodbury., N. J
B. Fl. FINKELSTElN, of Reading
Pennsylvania.
FRANK AND JOSEPH HEWARD
OF Philadelphia.
EMANUEL BERNARD of New
York. an actor and nephew OF San
.,ernard, we'll known comedian.
Fifty.three Killed In Terrible Aeelden
Fifty-three persons are positivel!
known to have lost their lives in tn
Electric Railway accident Yesterday a
Thoroughfare. OF these, forty-sevel
have been identified, two are missinl
and four bodies remain in the morgu'
unidentified The two missing arr
known to have perished.