The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-09-12
they were convinced that no live men
remained IN the pile


'unne and the Cu' Pieces of stone
slipped from under HE fee; as the crash
came and he made a Mid leap 4 thiIty
feet into the open cut
A. he started 90 g. he grabbed McCor-
mick by the shoulder and together they
la'@ a unhurt IN a pile ~ crushed stone
Martin sutton. a seventeen year -old
water boy living az lac Beacon avenue.
vas supposed 20 b. In the tunnel. and
ais father started very active search
for his body Sutton learned later thar
MS boy was az home eating lunch az the
time of the collapse
Capt Nicholas Toppin Of tho Fourth
precinct was IN command Of the police
reserves, and soon after his arrival he
nARan 60 look ny the bosses on the job
Tor the purpose Il placing them under
arrest Toppin said az sundown that
\. l.. MoTr-head resident engineer Of
ne Erie Railroad was n charge % the
work He had been informed that Morris
7ead was around az the time Of the acCi-
lent but went away soon afterNS ard.
foppin said he wanted MoTrshead and
John Smith, the superintendent of CON
struction work. very badly.
The dead who were recovered yester-
lay from the cave-n are:
John Blass. 30 wears old, Baldwin and
u. Pau.s avenue left leg amputated:
LED at the city Hospital
James Feeney. 50 years old. la ST Paul's
venue
Angelo Triano - years old. IS Porter
-treet
vincenzo Collen7ono. ST years old. ,?s
Fifth srre-t
Unidentified man about IS years old.
feet inches toll wearing employees
heck l72.
Unidentified man about IS years old
heck ls4J.
william Hailisy. 20 years old. 81 Oakland
rNenue
Jsicntlne Scinlebi. 20 years old. $50
iobuNen avenue.
Joseph Bauman. 70 years old. black
-mths helper. 8S4 summit avenue
Edward Iolcman, 30 years old 2Is Lsidlaw
avenue internal injuries died az NJ clock
~ the tity Hospital.
The nine known 20 be injured are.
George Blash. "a years old. 500 Newark
avenue. chest. arms and legs crushed city
Hospital
carmen REQ. 10 years old. WALES avenue.
Jersey city. right leg broken. Christ Hos.
pital
Pantalecne Cort"llto. IS years old. Third
street jersey city. right leg crushed. city
Hospital
" > tombstone u years old SaS Palisade
avenue Jersey city. right leg crushed.
christ Hospital
Angelo DeHlamo. 50 vears old. Newark
avenue Irr~ey city. head aud body bruised
Dity Hospital
John Lewis. colored ~ wears old. Mon.
rruurh street. Jersey city. fractured legs
rushed. ~ Francis Hospital
Ronsnat'o. 50 years old ~? Bergen
West New York. injuries TO head
..BI r1iy. 'Ifv Hospital.
Leo Forfeit 80 wears old. Boulevard.
Jersey CITY body bruises ~ Francis Hos /
pital
Joseph Cptone IS Years Old. - Broadway |
jersey city. legs rushed city Hospital i
IL was reported that several laborers /
were inside IN" tunnel when the roof /
collapsed Woram"n declared they saw 4
.hre- pr four men run out 81 the hol. /
TO safety bat others We're positive nobody /
was IA that part of the tunnel which [,
cayed in. All those who wer. buried !
q was said. went in vith the roof.
II was believed 10y all hands engaged I
N digging for the dead that more than |
ten bodies would be found. but none was |
taken out after O'Clock. The work OF /
clearing out the rock was continued by |
electric light all night Crowds watched /
the operation from the boulevard.
At l:25 o'clock an outgo. ng train stopped I
at the west end 81 the cut and James NJ |
Erie, stepped off and lonk-d over the
wreck. Mr. Barrett said
This accident Is one Of those unavoid-
able unfortunate occurrences II seems .
To be case Of somebody playing with ,
fire. The responsibility seems 10 be up
- the hard rock men They ought 10
have known what the risk was
The Erie sent chicken sandwiches nv
another train and many Of the searcher- .
ate them ~ they worked
William Charlock. "a detective in Prose-
cutor Of the Pleas Pierre p Garvens .
office. reached the cut early aud got first
hand information which will b. used in
an Investigation 20 b.. made Dy the .
Prosecutor Office James Quill. clerk
to the Hudson county Grand Jury, also
took notes Of what he saw
A wear Or ~ ago the Willard Clns'ruc-
ton Company was indicted nv tho Hudson
county Grand jury 10 connection with /
its work Of aNCava;lnE for the Eric cut
IL was claImed that blasts we're rcckle~-ly
set on and that wDTkfu'u were uilneCcs-
sarily MANNED land killed The iIdlCt-
ment followed the iniuriug ~ Mrs Wes-
tell, the mother e John Wc-tel sIper-
visor II the census tnr Hudson county,
by a rock which Was projected into her
kitchen hy "a blast She vas knocked "Gt
Of her rocking chair. IL" Indictment
was -ched Ul"i frr trial ~ the Last term
OF court. but was iEIi over
The nuinb"r II men aIilsd while The open
cut was under CONSTRUCTION by tn" Mil
nearly 200 Report has IL that IN" police
never got IA" name, Il MANY who died
from injuries received at their work
The hospital records show that 900 vere
wounded and .iiiel during "a period q
over thrc" wears
4 representative ~ The Prosecutors
ONCE said la-' night that an Investigation
which proceeded the indictment disclosed
that tho death list was not very great
com pared with ~" number injured bv
falling rocks and Improperly protected
blasts.
County Physician Charles n Converse
vieSsd the bodies at HIEhess norgue
yesterday afternoon and ordered an in
quest in the case 81 james FAenev II
will be conducted by Coroner Jane.
HoIghton
William Hli'i-y. ono Of those Instantly
killed. had been ont q work for a long
time He landed l.- Job Yesterday morn
ing and went Lom". telling his wife that
good luck had come az last He leaves
two small IN .dreu
George Bass foreman who was
Haaaa 80.