Perth Amboy evening news., 1909-06-14
WOMAN MEETS
DEATH ON L-.V.
R. R. TRACKS
Mrs. GeOrgianna Worzberg-
er, Of Glendale Terrace, Is
Instantly Killed.
SEEMED CONFUSED
AS ENGINE APPROACHED
Victim Not Identified Until
Yesterday When Husband
Went on a Search.

While attempting to cross che Lee
high Valley railroad tracks several
hundred yards west of the New
Brunswick avenue station Mrs. Geor-
gianna Worzberger, wife of George j..
Worzberger, of Ellendale Terrace.
was struck and instantly killed by
passenger train No. 43O, at sos
o'clock Saturday night. The acct
dent occurred short distance east
Of the upper yard, near the scale
house.
AS the train In charge of Conduc-
tor Joseph Afiierbach and Engineer
John c. Arner, was proceeding east
ward, near the scale house the en-
gineer saw several persons cross the
track. A few seconds later Mr.
Arner saw another woman apparent
ly start across. He blew the whistle
but, instead OF stepping back, she
turned partly as If to wark towards
the depot. She seemed deaf or con-
fused and, as the train was too close
for the engineer to stop In time,
she was struck on the right side and
hurled against the Toadbed. Engineer
Arner stopped the train as quickly
as possible and accompanied by the
Grew, ran back to the lifeless body
along the rails
Placing the corpse aboard the train
they carried 1t to the New Brunswick
avenue station where Ii was viewed
by Coroner Garretson, who was un-
able to find any one who could iden-
tify the woman. He took the body
to his. mortuary establishment on
High street, where he found a we'd
ding ring on her finger containing
the Inscription 20. w. to G. r.,
February 26, 1855" !" The police
were told of the initials.
Husbands Search for Her.
Detective Long yesterday morning
learned of the initials and made a
mental note of the clue About /
o'clock yesterday afternoon on Smith
street he met Mr.. Worzberger, who
stopped him and said that he was
looking for his wife who had disap-
peared Saturday afternoon. He said
that he had been told yesterday
morning that "a girl" wearing an en-
gagement ring containing some ini-
tials, had been killed, and he feared
1t might be his wife. The detective
believing that he had found the hus-
band Of the dead woman, took Mr.
Worzberger to the coroners fnorgue,
where he at once Identified her.
Mr.. Worzberger said that his wife
was forty-six years old and was the
daughter of Captain George Redfield,
who at one time was the proprietor
of the Long Ferry Tavern" at the
foot of High street. He said that he
had married her twenty-four years
ago and had repeatedly warned her
to keep off the railroad tracks. He
said that the last time he saw his
wife alive was at 5.45 o'clock Satur-
day morning when he left his home
for the Raritan Copper Works, where
he is employed. When he came home
at o'clock Saturday afternoon, he
said, his wife was not at home and,
by inquiring from the neighbors. he
learned that she had gone out at
o'clock. When she did not return
Saturday night he became worried
and could not account for her abb
sence and early yesterday morning
started out to look for her He said
that his wife's father is dead but
that her mother, who married again,
lives In Brooklyn She was notified
yesterday of her daughters death.
Coroner Garretson made an inves-
tigation of the accident Saturday
night and learned from Mr. Nc
Kenna, checker on the railroad,
: that he had seen a woman answer
ing the description Of the dead wo-
man near the place where the ac-
cident occurred about 73O or TAO
o'clock He said that she was walk
ing very slowly along the track and
that he got off the car on which he
was riding and warned her to keep
off the rails. He says she paid no
attention to him, and did not seem to
realize what he was saying.
Where Mrs. WoFzberger was from
4 o'clock In the afternoon until 73O
o'clock in the evening has not been
ascertained.
Companions Ran or.
Patrolman Hartung also investi-
gated the accident and found a man
by the name of Mr. Miller who said
he was the first one to reach the wo-
man after she was struck. He told
.seae policeman that at the time there
were four other women coming
across the tracks to go through Kirk
land place, but they ran away inn
mediately after the train hit Mrs
Worzberger.
Coroner Garretson says that the
wheels of the locomotive did not pass
over the woman and that he believes
that she was struck by the fender
on the right side and knocked clear
of the wheels. Her right leg, arm
and jaw were broken, the lower part
Of her right lung was injured and
her face and hands were badly
scratched by contact with the stones.