The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-02-19

/ the scene the police, under the direc-
ton of Coroner Schwannecke, began
the task of removing the dead From
a livery stable near by a policeman
had brought a plank runway This
was used to bridge the ten foot jump
between the walled gully and the
track below One policeman stood at
the top of this bridge with lantern.
For hours procession of policemen
carrying stretchers passed over this
footway and up the bank to the place
where wagons were awaiting to carry
the dead down to the Bronx Park po-
lice station. The crowd which packed
the entrance to the gully had to be
pushed back with clubs.
A child red wooden mitten was
tagged t'No 70" and placed on the
same stretcher with bundle which
had nothing human about it except
long yellow curls.
McCreary's livery stable, which
stands on the bank just above the
scene of the wreck, was converted
into temporary morgue during the
first hours of the work of removing
the dead. Here the dead were
placed in rows down the long lane be-
tween the stalls of the horses. The
horses soon became SO FESTIVE that
they threatened to break from their
stalls and trample the MANNED bodies
on the floor. Then it was that after
the first hour of confusion had passed
the dead we're removed to the Bronx
Park police station.
Assistant District Attorney Smyth
declared that the broken wheel had
nothing whatever to do with causing
the disaster. He said that the new
electric motors are too heavy for the
roadbed equipment. He said he found
a section of rail ripped out of place
and the spikes which had held it in
place on the ties cut as if with
knife. Mr.. Smyth said the electric
motor which hauled the train was as
heavy as a great locomotive and ten
der combined, but, being shorter and
more compact than a locomotive the
great weight is concentrated.
The bolts holding the rails were
unable to withstand the tremendous
pressure of the ponderous motor as
it whirled along the track, according
to Mr. Smyth The great weight and
the terrific speed formed a combina-
ton which the roadbed was unable to
resist.
If his conclusions prove correct,
Mr.. Smyth said that it would amount
to criminal negligence on the part OF
the responsible officers of the New
York Central road, and their arrest
would follow.
The identified dead are:
Mrs. Florence Brady, Golden's
Bridge; died in Lincoln Hospital;
identified by her husband, Edward
Brady.
Miss Bessie Beals, nineteen years
old, Bedford Station; identified in po-
lice station by brother, Howard Beals.
Miss LIME Elwell, Hawthorne, N.
Y, eighteen years DID, identified in
police station by William F. Bach.
Myron e. Evans, thirty-five years
old, No. II Fisher avenue, White
Plains, civil engineer; identified by
wife in police station.
Mrs. Catherine K. Farrand, thirty
years old, Pleasantville; identified in
police station by husband, Hiram A.
Farrand.
Miss Clara L. Hudson, No. 1875
Colfax avenue West, Minneapolis,
Mimi, eighteen years old.
Miss Jessie M. Joubin, superin-
tendent of music in White Plains
High School; died in Fordham Hos
pital.
Cornelius Kelly, North Salem,
twenty-six years old.
Miss Annie Leovoni, White Plains,
servant.
Mrs. Annie H. McLane, employed
in Bloomingdale Asylum; widow.
Mrs. Mary Kinch, Chappaqua, N.
Y. identified in police station by E.
J. Meehan, of Chappaqua.
Miss Annie Morehead, sixteen
years old, student in Briar Cliff
School; residence in Pittsburg, Pa;
died in Lebanon Hospital.
Mrs, Dorothy w. Perrin, thirty
years old, Bedford Station; identified
by her husband, Henry o. Perrin.
Charles F. Page, No. 40 Barker
avenue, White Plains.
Robert ]. Rosborough, thirty-nine
yeays old, salesman, married, No.
1899 Longwood avenue, Bronx.
Miss Bessie See, thirty-five years
old, stenographer, Pleasantville.
Miss Julia w Storm, eighteen
years old, Bedford Station.
Miss Elsie D. Warren, No. 240
West End avenue. Manhattan.
Mrs. Isaac l.. Webster, thirty-eight
years old, White Plains.
One woman, badly smangled, still
awaits identification in the Bedford
Park police station She was dressed
in black suit, blue macintosh coat
and wore double strand watch chain
about her neck She had a ladies'
hunting case gold watch bearing the
1919. The body was No.
10 taken to the police station.