Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-02-18
WRECK CAUSED
BY HIGH SPEED
Crowded New York Central EleC-
triC Flyer DeraiIed and Up
set 20 Killed.

dred and Fifth street. and twenty per
sons We're killed, two fatally hurt and
probably 145 others more or less In
jured. OF the large number Of injur-
ed fifty are, according to hospital and
police reports, seriously hurt, and the
death list may be increased within the
next twenty-four hours.
Most OF the others are suffering from
decorations or shock and will recover.
The dead are:
Miss Mary Beals, nineteen years,
Bedford Station, n. Y.
Mrs. Florence Brady, Golden's
Bridge, N. y.
Miss LIME Elwell, Hawthorne, N. Y.
Myron r. Evans, White Plains, n. Y.
Mrs. Katherine X. Farrand, Pleas
antville, n. Y.
Miss Jessie NJ. Jubin, teacher, White
Plains, n. Y.
Mrs. Mary Kinch, Chappaqua, N. y.
Clara L. Hudson, Minneapolis, Mimi.
Miss Margaret Mahoney. Purdy Sta
tion, N Y; died at Fordham hospital
Mrs. Annie H. McLain, widow, aged
sixty years, sister-in-law of Superin-
tendent Lyons of the Bloomingdale
Insane asylum.
Miss Annie Moorehead, Briar Cliff
Manor, N. Y, reported to have former
ly been a resident of Pittsburg.
Il. l.. Page, White Plains N. y.
Cornelius Kelly, North Salem, N. Y.
Robert J. Rosborough, White Plains
N. Y, employee of w. & j. Sloane,
New York city.
Julia w. Storm, Bedford Station,
N. Y.
Mrs. Isaac IT, Webster. White Plains
n. Y.
Miss Bessie See, Pleasantville, N. Y.
Miss Annie Sievoni, servant, White
Plains, N. Y.
Elsie D. Warren, New York.
An unidentified girl, about sixteen
years old; died at Fordham hospital.
Those badly injured are:
Mabel Smith, aged thirteen, Overton,
N. Y, fracture Of skull; probably fa-
tai.
Elsie Sniffen, Englewood, N. j., skull
fractured, proDdDiy Iatdl.
Unknown girl unconscious in Ford
ham hospital, skull fractured.
Ira J. Dutton, White Plains, N Y,
both arms broken; will recover.
Emily Fendrock, White Plains, N. Y,
serious.
Miss Belle Fowler, Pleasantville,
N. Y, legs broken; probably not fatal.
Sarah Merritt, Pleasantville, n. Y,
arms and legs fractured; dangerous.
Ernest Mol, Mount Kisco, n. Y, leg
broken.
The train was double header, with
two electric engines and five cars. The
engines were of new steel type, and
then came five of the old type passen-
ger coaches. The motors and first car
kept upright on the rails, but the 9th
ers were turned over and were wreck
ed, being dragged along on their sides.
The train was crowded, most Of the
passengers being women. According
to trainmen, the motorman, Il. II.
Rogers, was trying to make UP lost
time when the accident happened and
was running, it is said, sixty or sew
enty miles an hour.
Just before the Two Hundred and
Fifth street bridge is reached there Is
a we'll defined curve. Going at a high
rate of speed, which some of the pas
sengers estimated at more than seven
ty miles an hour, the train swung
around the curve, the cars rocking yio-
nrIx. hn 1no oil
the rear car of the train was pulled
from the tracks by the excessive speed.
and this in turn pulled the three cars
in front of it from the rails. The ears
turned over on their sides and went
humping and smashing along. tearing
up roadbed and rails and themselves
being torn into kindling wood. Other
theories We're that spreading rails or
a broken coupling started the trouble.
OF the passengers iii the last four
cars not one escaped injury. They
were piled in heaps when the ears
overturned. Then the sides Of the
cars fell out. and dead and injured
were hurled to the tracks.
The scene along the tracks was
fearful one. For 800 Yards bodies
were strewn in heaps or singly. por-
tions of wreckagc. iron and wood lay
about. practically every foot Of rail
was bent and twisted. and ties were
torn from their fastenings.
Immediately before the accident the
train seemed TO be flying through the
air. All the passengers agree on this
point. Fourteen feet north Of the
bridge the electric engine seemed to
jump clear of the rails and 1t was
declared that when it settled on the
track again one of the tires had be-
come loosened. When the last coach
struck the spot where the engine shot
up the coach 100O described com
plete revolution in the air and settled
over on the right or east side of the
track burying carload Of passengers
it,
Ghouls who tried to rob the dead
added to the horror. In the confusion
following the wreck and
before enough po''rc-.- - --s 49,
to do anything except the work of res
cuing the injured and iomoving the