Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-12-22
3 Die IN WRECK
ON PENNSY NEAR
NEW BRUNSWICK
ccontinued from Fir-t Pase.)

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erfed people who had not already
clanbere6 out. thinly clad, into the
freezing air and snow-covered ground
outside. Physicians found that by
great good fortune none had been seri-
ously hurt. Miss Dora Ruperloss, OF
South Third street, Philadelphia, had
been sleeping in the Hummei on the
left side and she was hurled from her
berth and badly hurt in the fall. About
ten other passengers in the Pullmans
awoke to find themselves SPRAYING on
the car floors. and some Of them were
slightly cut with flying glass, but none
others went to the hospital, ard all
proceeded to their destinations a little
later in a special train sent out from
Jersey city.
As soon as the passengers and the
injured lac been taken care of q
wrecking rain pulled the passenger
train away from its dangerous prox-
unity to the dozen burning freight
cars and they were left to be de-
stroyed.
So great was the force of the crash
of the trains that a big signal bridge
stretching overhead Just above was
completely torn 20 pieces and flung
hundreds Of feet along the railroad,
Tracks Blocked for Hours.
Rails and ties were torn up for fifty
yards on three tracks, and gondola
cars, tangled into almost indistinguish-
able iron heaps, We're strewn about the
scene. For four hours all the tracks
but one OF the Pennsylvania line were
blockaded and the schedule could not
be resumed until afternoon.
The first car to leave the tracks
when the passenger was s~ideswiped
was United States mail coach No. j641
half-filled with registered letters. I'm
mediately after news of the wrecks
reached the officials they dispatched Z
corps Of ten detectives, under Captain
j. NJ. Coak1ey, of Newark, n includ-
ing Detectives William Jenkins and
Charles Mccarthy, also of this city.
This force look control Of the situation.
provided for the passengers and
guarded the valuable mail car until II
o'clock this morning, when, still under
strong guard, it was emptied Of Its
contents, which were transferred to an
other car and rushed on to Philadel-
Dhfa.
After Coroner Hubbard had viewed
the bodies and had received the testi-
mony which seemed TO put the re.
sponsibility upon the dead hagman, he
had the bodies sent to New Brunswick
He Will continue the probe with th'
aid Of the Pennsylvania officials today
All day long the scene Of the Wrecl
was thronged with visitors from New
Brunswick and all nearby towns
Thousands viewed the tangled mass o
steel and the half-wrecked Pullman.
and wondered how o tremendous dis
aster had been ayerted. Among th'
sightseers were nearlys 300 young girl
from nearby boarding schools, who hur
ried TO the wreck in automobiles, anC
said they had been given a recess 81
that they might see it..
Frank Knox. the young express fire
man from Elizabeth, who met instan
death in the crash. was one Of thu
best known employees OF the Pennsyl
vania. Fellow workmen recalled thl
morning that only a short time ago hi
father was also killed in an accident OF
the line.
Last night young Knox, who was onl,
"a. was entitled to be off work., bu'
with Christmas close he had taken thu
4 fatal run on special duty He live,
at $50 Grier venue n he is survived
by a wife and an infant daughter,
When the express came to a hal
after the crash it raj pointing direct
~ at the little shanty wherein iiv'
Michael Rod, an Italian trackwalker
and his family-snd il was not twent,
feet away.