Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-01-03
OTHER VICTIM
is IDENTIFIED
Known By Clothes Which He
Wore at His Sisters Wedding
The Night Before.
GRAPHIC STORY OF SURVIVOR.


Traced, Was Albert Smith, and He
Was Not Injured at All-Another
Boy Hurt-Body Taken to Newark.
The body of the fourth boy victim
of the railroad tragedy at South
Plainfield Tuesday night was identi-
fed by his brother-in-law yesterday
afternoon about $50 o'clock at Ferd
Garretson' S morgue and was taken to
Newark on the GA o'clock train.
He was Emil Reils, fourteen years
old, of As Quitman street, Newark.
The other boy who was known TO
have been one of the party, could not
be traced, was Albert Smith. of A
Quitman street. He was not even
scratched.
Reils was identified by his clothes,
which had been bought for him TO
wear at his sisters wedding the night
before. His death strikes his parents
doubly hard. as they are just recover
ing from the shock received last SAT
urday, when their younger son, Fred,
fell from a third-story window of the
Jewish hospital to the court below.
1t was only on Monday that the doc
tors told them that he would live.
Graphic Story of Survivor.
Smith was the only survivor who
could tell coherent story, and when
seen last night, said: I'VE were
walking along the track, close to-
gether. / was almost in the middle
of the track when l felt train COM
ing behind me- | heard no noise, but
Just felt the Jar and the wind and
threw myself to one side as the cars
flashed past. None of them touched
me, and | ran right around to the
other side in time to see one of the
boys reeling around with his hand
to his head. | caught him and held
him up for moment, but he fell
down and had to pick him up again.
Only Felt the Wind. :
"Then | left him and went down
the track to where saw another boy
lying He was Emil ReiisS who lived
across the street. and when \, spoke
to him he wouldn't answer, so Invent
on to the others, but they all seemed
run back to the station. When | got
back to Emil again, l was going to
pick him up, but just then a man
came along and said, Don't tcael
him. he's dead. | said that | wished
he was alive again. | didn't hear the
whistle blow, or know the train was
coming, until felt the wind
Thomas Smith, father of Albert,
said that the boy got in the house
about o'clock Tuesday night, and
went right to bed, saying nothing
about the accident, and 1t was not
until noon, yesterday, that he know
his son had been with the boys who
had been killed. Albert's brothers
say that all night he was saying, in
his sleep, Keep Off the track, boys;
keep off the track!"
The last body to be identified was
that of Emil Reils. His parents knew
that he had gone out with the others,
and, when he had not returned at
late hour Tuesday night, they were
much worried. But once before the
boys had gone off ON a freight train,
and had not come in until the next
morning, and they thought he had
done the same thing again. Shortly
before noon a friend of Emil's father
told him that a boy answering his
sons description had been killed the
night before in South Plainfield.
ReiI's Boy Identified.
The boys aunt went over to see
the Smith boy At first he would not
even admit that he was with the
party at the time of the accident. but
later told them how he had seen Emil
living dead beside the tracks. George
Anschuetz, Mr.. Reil's son-in-law, hur-
ried to Plainfield, but it was not un-
til s o'clock last night that he found
and identified the body and had 1t
sent to Newark.
Lawrence Bennett, of 81 Wander
pool street, who was slightly bruised
about the head and legs, said he did
not know what had happened until
a man picked him up, and after wash
ing the blood from his face, told him
to go home "I could not get car,
he said, 80 had to come back on
another freight.
John Casey, who was with his
brother William at the time of the
latter's death, is still in a very nerv-
GUS condition and under the doctors
care. His injuries were not serious,
and it was he who brought the priest
to the Muhlenberg Hospital in time
to perform the last offices for his
brother and William Till.
Oar DeraiIed on State Street.