Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-31
HURLED UNDER TRAIN
Woman Killed and Two Hurt in
Runaway Accident.
HORSE BREAKS DOWN GATE.
Drags Vehicle Across Cowcatcher of
Engine.
GIRL ESCAPES UNINJURED
Catastrophe Occurs at Fatal Sea-
bright, N. J., Crossiug-Vic-
tins From New York.
IRL ESCAPES UN1NJURED

PHILADELPHIA. July 31-One woman
| was killed and two were seriously in
! jured at Seabright, N. j., yesterday after
| noon when a horse ran away with the
carriage in which the three and a COM
panion were driving. and, dashing across
the Jersey Central railroad tracks, caused
| the carriage to be struck by a speeding
train.
! The dead woman was Miss Julia EStelle
| Drucker. twenty-four years old, of New
| York city, daughter of the late M. ].
| Drucker. the leather merchant, and Sis
| ter of NJ. J. Drucker, jr.. "a leather mer-
chant at 81 Spruce street.
Two Injured Women.
! The injured are:
Mrs. Louis Manheims thirty-eight years
old. of New York city. wife of Louis Man
| helm. lawyer. Mrs. Mannheim had three
ribs broken and was removed to the Mon
| mouth Memorial Hospital at Long
Branch.
| Miss Julia Rouss, sister of Mrs. Man
| helm. twenty-four years old. She received
several scalp wounds and possible inter
nal injuries. She also was removed to
| the Long Branch hospital.
| Miss Marie Drucker. the twenty-sx-
year-old sister of the dead woman. was
| the fourth occupant Oh the Carriage, Dut
escaped uninjured.
| The accident happened on the Beach
drive at what is known as the second
crossing north of Seabright about a quar-
| ter of q mile from the Jersey Central S
| Seabright station. The four women were
Seabright. along the Beach drive, which
is east of and parallel with the railroad
tracks, when their horse became fright
ened at the passing of a southbound eX-
press train and bolted.
She Chung to Reins.
Mrs. Mannheim hung onto the reins
pluckily. But the carriage, swaying from
side to side with it's four screaming oc-
cupants, tore down toward the crossing
in a cloud of dust, just as the gates
which had been raised for a minute OF
two after the south-bound express passed
lowered again at the approach of a local
north bound train which reaches Sea-
bright at 5:O5 and Atlantic Highlands at
5:25.
The local had just stopped at Seabright,
was gathering speed and going then at
the rate of thirty miles an hour. The, en-
gineer, seeing the runaway horse. blew
his whistle and jammed down brakes.
But just as the locomotive bore down on
the crossing the horse plunged through
the f1imsy wooden barrier. his heavy body
breaking it into fragments. He cleared
the cowcatcher. dragging the front of the
carriage after him.
The locomotive struck the vehicle with
such force that the body was torn from
the shafts. The horse was practically
freed from it and, swerving along the
bound track, galloped ahead of the
locomotive, then turned and ran the en-
tire eight miles back to the Atlantic
Highlands livery stable. Nobody paid any
attention to 1t.
Surgeons Hastily Called.
The bodies of the four women lay along
the track. The engineer, John Thompson.
stopped the train after it had. passed
about one hundred feet beyond the cross
ing. He and the conductor, Walter Gin.
and the passengers ran back. They found
the body of Julia Drucker lying partly on
and partly off the track. The entire train
had passed over it, practically cutting it
in two. Mrs. Manheimer and Miss Marie
Drucker lay unconscious on the south
bound tracks. Miss Rouss lay in the gut
ter on the east side of the track, where
she had been able to throw herself before
the crash came.
All the doctors in Seabright were sum-
moned and an ambulance was telephoned
for and the Monmouth Memorial Hos
pital at Long Branch. Coroners Tetley
and Mcdonald hurried to the scene of the
accident and issued a permit to remove
Julia Drucker's body. 1t was taken to
the undertaking establishment of AMI
Bostes in Atlantic Highlands.