The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-08-03
PATERSON LAWYER
KILLED AS TRAIN
CUTS DOWN AUTO
Another Man Dying, Three Bad
ly Injured in Accident at
Unguarded Crossing.
STATE RAILROAD BOARD
LIKELY TO INVESTIGATE
Place Long Regarded as Death
T~rap-Victim Had Started on
Ride Against His Will.
Especial to the Evening start

Especial to the Evening Star.1
HACKENSACK, Aug. 3.-One man
is dead and another is dying today as
a result of a collision between an auto
mobile and a locomotive on the New
York and Susquehanna railroad at Bo-
gotta last night.
THE DEAD:
HOLMES, DONALD. lawyer, Of
Paterson; top of head crushed.
THE INJURED,
SHAW, JAMES, chauffeur; skull
fractured and injured internally, dying
in the Hackensack hospital.
CURTIS, DR.. JAMES, Church street.
Paterson; injured internally and leg
broken petwee thigh and knee, con
dition precarious. Hackensack hospi-
tal.
PAUL, WALLACE c., Ellison street,
Paterson; secretary to the receivers for
the Metropolitan Railway Company;
head and body cut and bruised and
suffering from shock. Hackensack
hospital.
TURNER, w. H., 394 Fifteenth ave-
nue., Paterson; shoulder wrenched and
severely cut abou face and body.
J Wounds dressed at Hackensack hospi-
tai, and taken home today.
/ FERNBACK. Harry, of Paterson;
slightly cut and bruised. Went home.
The party had been playing gelf at
the North Jersey Country Club just
across the Passaic River from Pater-
son, and after dining at the clubhouse
decided to go for an automobile ride.
They had no particular destination, so
far as could be learned. and We're
speeding toward the Palisades when the
accident happened, apparently on their
way to the Fort Lee ferry.
Didn't Want to Go. \
According to Fernback and Turner,
Holmes had no desire to so with the
others, and only joined the party after
considerable persuasion. After the
start was made in a car rented by DR..
Curtis, Holmes was one of the liveliest
in 1t.
The crossing where the accident hap
pened has long been regarded as dam
gerous. and recently a physician Sc
cured a judgment for SIS 900 for the
loss of a leg in an accident that &C.
Cured there. The railroad tracks are
hidden from view, and it is impossible
to see an approaching train as one
nears the crossing.
According to Mr.. Fernback, who was
the only one able to describe the ac-
cident coherently, it was Holmes who
discovered the approaching train. As
the automobile was squarely on the
tracks he shouted:
My heavens. there's a train
The crash followed less than a sec
ond later, and Holmes. was dead when
picked up. The top of his. head was
crushed in, but there was not a scratch
on his face.
train crew, the train was, going at a
slow rate when it struck the automo-
Bile. This is believed to account partly
for the fearful result. The automobile
was reduced to a motley heap of
splinters and junk, and parts We're dis
tributed along the tracks for a distance
of fifty yards, part being on the cow
catcher when the train was brought to
a stop.
Victims dentit Mistaken.
The six men were picked up along
the tracks. Fernback and Turner We're
the only ones conscious when the pas
sengers rushed out to see what had
happened. The ~first-named rushed
back to Paterson, while the others were
taken to the Hackensack hospital.
Turner'S dazed condition is RESPONSE
BILE for an unfortunate mistake in iden-
tifying the victim. At first it was re-
ported that Shaw was the dead man
and that Holmes had been seriously in
jured. When Undertaken Ricardo look
charge of the remains he discovered
the excellence in the quality of the
clothing and reported it to the hos
pital authorities. Turner was again
asked and exclaimed;
TT must be Holmes, then; / couldn't
see Shaw's face when he was on the
operating table because of tho BAN
dages; they We're about of a size"
Coroner W. w. Curry, Of this city, has
e%mpaneled a jury and will hold an In
quest 10 place the responsibility. The
crossing is unguarded between : y. m.
and : a. M. II is expected that the
State Railroad Commission will take
some action in regard to the matter at
its next meeting.