The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-27
PembertOn Local Runs Into
Atlantic City Express.
Wrecked Cars Ab!aze.
BLAME Fog FOR DISASTER
Dead Are From Mt. Holly,
Merchantville and> Stanwiek.
The( and Other Victims
We're Aboard the Accom-.
modation Train.

CAMDEN, Dec. 27.--Three persons
were killed and eighteen were injured
In a collision on the elevated tracks of
the Pennsylvania Railroad today a
short distance from the station in this
city when Pemberton accommodation
train ran into the rear Of an Atlantic
City express. The cars were badly
smashed, and fire added to the diff
culties of the work of rescue.
r All these killed or injured were pas
sengers in the first car of the Pember-
ton accommoda ton.
The dead are:
e. p. SontjeB. StaDwick, n. j.
j. l.. Gasbarini, Mt. Holly. N. J.
n. L. webster, NIerchantVllIe, n. j.
The injured:
Robert Clarke. Merchantville, con-
fused chest and legs and ears cut.
Carl Piggett, Merchantville, slightly
hurt. Il
Howard Street, Merchantviile, bruised.
J. K. Mendenhall, Hainesport. N. j..
badly hurt.
w. II. Abbey. Mt. Holly, slightly in
jured.
William Mason, Mt. Holly. badly
hurt
Samuel Dobbins. Mt. Holly. slightly
injured.
A. H. Milford, Merchantville, badly
injured.
Bernard Steward, Merchantville
badly injured,
Harry D. Snyder. Merchantville.
chest hurt.
William Dix, Merchantvlle, hand cut
II, J. Cooper, Mt. Holly, leg and face
/. D. Roberto. Moorestown. slightly
hurt.
John r. Slater, Merchantville. shaken
up.
J. L. Slater, Merchantville, shaken up.
S. L. Page, Moorestown. leg broken.
c. II. Brown, Moorestown, N. j.,
slightly hurt.
Unidentified man slightly injured.
Several Of those injured may die.
The trains involved were due in the
Camden station at 1881. There was a
very thick fog when the accident oc-
CURED, and it is believed that this
condition is the primary cause of the
collision.
The express train was made up of
two baggage cars, one parlor car and
three coaches, and the accommodation
train consisted of a combination car
and four coaches. Both trains, 1t is
said. were running cautiously as they
approached the station. The Atlantic
City train was duo to arrive first, and
it was stopped just as 1t was about
TO enter the station.
The engineer of the Pemberton train
because of the fog did not see the At
lantic City train, it is said, until he
was close upon it. He jammed brakes
down but it was too late. The trains
came together with considerable force.
The tender of the Pemberton train
telescoped the first car of its train.
killing three persons and .fnjuring
others. The rear car of the Atlantic
City train was wrecked but not so
badly as the first car on the Pemberton
train.
No one was killed on the Atlantic
City train.
The wreckage Immediately took fire
from the hot Goals from the Pemberton
locomotive and the police and fire de-
partments of Camden were called into
service.
It was at first feared that many of
lfle luJulGu WIZ 0CAS pm
ioned under the heavy twisted iron
and wood would be burned to death.
The fact that the collision oc-
CURED on the elevated structure made
the work of rescue difficult. The res
cuers could not reach the structure
from the street, but had to go to the
wreck from the station at the foot OF
Market street. All available help from
the station and men from tbs railroad
yards and shops were pressed into
service and the injured were quickly
taken from under the mass of wreck
age. Uninjured passengers assisted in
the rescue work.
The injured were conveyed to the Cooper
Hospital and the West Jersey Hospital.
The FIRE was extinguished before it reached
any of the victims pinned under the
None Of the cars left the elevated struc-
ture.