The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-06-05

left Gladstone at 8 o'clock and Bernard
The train had left Bernardsville and
was speeding at about fifty miles an
noun when it passed through Igor
and then approached Wilmington. In
making a curve at high speed h rails
spread and the Onward truck of the
engine first left the track. The whole
train followed and in a few seconds
was up against a steep embankment,
the cars tipped to an angle of 40 de-
grees.
some of Big Men Aboard.
Among the other big New Jersey
men with Offices in New York, nearly
all members of the famous Bernards-
vile Club, who were on the train,
were Judge ]. M. Dillon, chief counsel
for the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany and the Gould interests; William
H. Page, a prominent lawyer of Man
haitian; Colonel George b. Post, engi-
neer and architect; Henry J.. Harden
berg. president of the New Jersey Zinc
Company; Frederick and Seymour w.
Cromwell, lawyers: Percy r. Pyne,
Princeton, '03, former golf champion
of the United States and big stock
holder of the Lackawanna Railroad;
Grant B. Schley, of Moore g. Schley;
Clarence Blair Mitchell, Charles w.
Chaplin n Charles w. Squibb, stock
holders of the New Haven and Hart
ford Railroad. AND well-known drug,
chemical manufacturer, and lawyer
William J. Kearns, of Newark.
Leon EmInons, a brakeman, had his
skull fractured in the crash and Con-
ductor Charles Cortes. not stopping to
see what damage had been done, ran
back with a red flag to warn and stop
the through express train which was
following.
Engineer Henry Dalrymple leaped
from his cab when he had shut off the
power, after the engine left the track,
and saved himself from severe injury.
h widest confusion followed. Many
of the rich men in the club car and
several women in the parlor car were
shaken up and bruised, besides those
mentioned.
Among the Newark passengers on
the train. all of whom were more or
less bruised. were ~Assemblyman Henry
Young. jr., Schuyler s.. Wheeler. of the
firm of Croker & Wheeler; Zachariah
Belcher and his two sons. of the
watts-C Campbell Company, n Will
lam Prout, the lawyer.
Adrian H. Joline. the big New York
lawyer and receiver for the Metropoli-
tan Street Railway Company was in
the club car, and was severely shaken
up.
Assemblyman Young. in speaking of
the wreck, said:
Awful Catastrophe Averted.
1T was in the smoking a when we
passed over a switch outside of the
Millington station, which was out of
repair or was being repaired. A little
beyond this we went Off the track and
the engine and the smoker went down
the track 100 feet. n 1 saw the cars
after us follow off the track. The pres
ence of a high embanl1ment on the out
side of the track saved a big loss of
life. The derailed ears were thrown up
against this ~embankment and thus
saved from a catastrophe.
when the cars came to a stop they
were lying at an angle of 46 degrees
against the embankment. Had the
train left the track 300 yards down the
track, where there is a very deep and
steep embankment, the whole train
would have been hurled down this,
and many would nave been killed"
Wealthy residents Of the vicinity, who
had not been on the train, hurried to
the scene in their automobiles, and
many of the injured were taken to their
homes by these machines. Several OF
the passengers were brought into New
ark in automobiles.
Schuyler S. Wheeler, of the Crocker-
Wheeler Company, said:
"I was sitting in the Bernardsville
Club car, which was one of those de-
rallied. with a distinguished member
Of the New Jersey bar, when the first
thing l knew the train was. on it's side,
and we seemed to be hopelessly mixed
up with the wicker chairs. We were
all frightened but when the train had
come to a stop we realized the danger
was past and with difficulty crawled
from the car.
Many Autos Come.
Immediately the telephone wires
commenced to get hot, and about a
hundred automobiles were quickly on
the scene. Many doctors and clergy
men also came from the vicinity, and
many sat around for about two hours
until the relief train came. 1t con-
sisted of three baggage cars and n
passenger coach. The company must
have thought there were a lot of dead
people to be hauled back"
Former Senator John F.. Dryden n
his son. Forrest F. Dryden, generally
travel in the club car On this train
when coming to Newark. Senator Dry
den decided today not to come to his
office.
It was only at the solicitation of his
wife that Forrest Dryden was not a
passenger. He had intended to come
on 1t when Mrs. Dryden stated that
she intended to come to Newark She
said she would start a short time after
the train would leave and asked Mr..
Dryden to wait for her. He said that
he had a rush of business today and
wanted to come here as quickly as pos
sible and that he wanted to take the
rain.
Mrs. Dryden finally prevailed on him
TO wait, and he made the trip by
motor. In the Office today he thanked
mis- wife when he heard of the acct
lent.
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