Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-05-07
Little One Wedged in
Millionaires' Train
CoWCatCher.
WOMEN FAINT AS FLYER
RUSHES BY STATIONS
Express Finally Halted at Rose
viIle-Child Dies in
Hospital.

While the Dover express on the Lack
awanna railroad, filed with brokers on
their way to business in New York. to-
day Numbered by the stations between
< Orange and Roseville, frantic persons
IN the station platforms tried to signal
fl,e engineer that boy. his face dis
ftorted with agony and covered with
blood, was wedged on the cow-catcher.
Meanwhile the keys of the dispatchers
were busy and the telephone operators
never worked harder with the MESSAGE
"For Gods sake stop that train;
\child's life may be saved" In response
Ito all these urgent messages scores
tried in vain to flag the train.
At the Roseyille avenue station, in
this city, one of the railroad en-
ployees got right IN the path OF the
oncoming train, and with q red flag
brought it to a standstill. Then the
brokers fiocked out and turned away as
trainnlen pried the childs sbody--he was
9-year-old Frank Zarilli, Of Columbia
street, Orange--from the cow-catcher.
The lad was still conscious but died
an hour later OH the operating table in
the City Hospital in this city.
M Passengers See Accident.
The Zarillo boy with six others had
taken advantage of the school holiday
and got UP early to pick dandelions.
They were returning with their arms
laden with the flowers when they
started to cross the Lackawanna
tracks at Lincoln avenue. Zarillo was
in the lead and started to scamperl
across just as the express train ap-
preached 4t ez58
lincoln avenue is one block west of
the Gone street station in Orange,
Wfiefe hundreds of persons were gath
cred waiting for the next. local New
York-bound train. 1t was the rush
hour of the day. Those at the extreme
western end of the station platform
saw the boy start to cross the ira cks
as the train bore down on him and
yelled cry of warning But it was
too late, and women sickened as they
saw the child tossed high in the air
and come down again on the catcher
with his head caught in the centre and
his legs spread out over the steel bars.
There was a chorus of distressing
yells and cries to the engineer to stop
from those gathered on the station.
The noise Of the train drowned the
warming and the train sped along. 1t
was not scheduled to stop again before
EIoboken
AS one person the crowd on the plat
form dashed into the waiting room and
pleaded with the dispatcher and the
telephone operator to catch the train
at the Brick Church station. The op-
orator ratified at the keys and the tel
ephone rang and the crowd groaned
when the dispatcher told them that the
Etsir Church 4
speed and the engineer evidently hadn't
any knowledge of the child who was
pinioned to the front of his engine.
Women Faint at Sight.
At the Brick Church. East Orange
and Grove street stations, hundreds
OF persons turned away horri1ed as
the train whiyzed by and they noted
the child's white, bleeding and plead
ing face. Women tainted, while men
Yelled to the engineer and train hands
to stop the train.
Dispatchers who had received the
messages ran out and Joined in the ef
forts to attract the engineer It was
not until the Roseville station was
reached, however, that it came to
stanosti in response to red flag
waved by station hand.
The boy was alive and conscious
when released from the cuwcatcher. In
one of his hands he held bunch of
dendelions. His blood was spattered
all over the cowcatcher. He was taken
80 the City Hospital, where 1t was
found that his skull was fractured and
both arms and legs broken His left
foot was SO badly crushed that it was
decided to anputate it. Before he was
placed o. the operating table Father
Quirl1 ad ninistercd the last rites OF
the Catholic Church. While the sur
geons were using the knife he died.