Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-08-26
JUST MISSED BEING
ON THE FATAL TRAIN
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ternoon a porter walked through the
cars reading a dispatch telling of
the calamity at Manchester. AS the
colored man approached the quartet
from this city he stopped, rubbed his
eyes. and looked, again Sure enough,
the party was from down Jersey
way" and a general h~andshaking de-
layed the porter's announcement for
a few minutes. 1t was Charles
Mitchell. who for many years was
porter for the Packer House and
Rarttan Yacht Club in this city.
Special By United Press Wire.
Rochester, N. Y, Aug. 26:-A
mass of shattered wood, glass and
metal at the bottom of an embank-
ment today marked the scene of the
most disastrous wreck In the history
of the Lehigh Valley railroad. In
the temporary morgue at Shortsville
are the bodies of twenty-five victims
of the terrible disaster, while -four
others are dead In Rochester. Tenn
porary hospitals here and the big
relief hospitals in Rochester house
more than fifty badly injured victims
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railroad company's official statement
places the number of dead at thirty
three and it is feared that before
the grim total is completed it will
reach forty.
On the train were nearly 100 vet
Grams who were returning to their
ZONES from the national encampment
al Rochester. 1t happened that they
were not in the cars where the loss OF
life occurred.
The cause of the disaster was a
broken rail twenty feet from the
bridge.
The dead:
Beaker, John, brakeman, Wayerly,
N. Y; Belt, B. N, Los Angeles, Cal;
Durham, E., Brooklyn; Hicks, Charles,
Newark, N. J.; Hicks, Clara, Newark,
N. j.; johnson, @. F., Oberlin, O.; John
son, Dr., Philadelphia; Johnson, G. B.,
Philadelphia; Kuniskle, A. NJ, Vnland,
Ont; Madden. Timothy, Trenton, N. j.;
Pangborn, Edward, Ellis island; Smith,
Mrs. Harry, sayre, Pa; Uncle, F. f.,
Smithville, Pa; Uncle, Mrs. f. f,
Smithville, Pa; Goodrich, Mrs. Bar
bara, Philadelphia.
The unknown dead:
Father, mother and son, twelve years
old; man, sixty-fve years old, cuff but
tons, with initial "P.p; woman, light
hair, blue striped waist and gray skirt;
woman, thirty years old, light hair,
blue eyes,, wore skirt and green and
white striped waist; woman, forty
years old, ITO pounds, dark hair, black
skirt; woman, slight Of figure, checked
dress and carried watch with initials
"E. T. Pr; woman, ring initiated &c.
e. B. to NJ. L.; woman, thirty years
old, ring with initials IN. E. H.;
woman, hfty-hve years old, pin marked
an. G. H.; woman, thirty years old,
ring initiated 20. L. v" and M. o.;
man, ifty-fve years old; woman, sew
enty years old, "a. NJ. K" on ring,
and boy, six years old.
The injured in the Rochester hos
pitfalls are as follows: Mrs. Chatam.
seriously, residence unknown; Charles
II. sadler, Sharon Hill, Pa, slightly;
the Rev. and Mrs. j. P. Whipley,
slightly and seriously injured respec-
lively; ]. B. Hyde and wife, New York,
seriously; Mr.. and Mrs. T. B. Water
bury, Toronto, Ont, seriously; Emil
Kealer, Lancaster, Pa, slightly; Mrs.
P. j. Spindle, Olean, n. Y, seriously;
Howard Headley, Philadelphia, slight
ly; F. A. Draper and daughter, Emma
line, Lancaster. Pa, slightly; Mrs.
Agnes Gardner. Atlantic City, slightly;
O. Z. Johnson, no address, slightly; II.
81 Douglas Newton Square. Pa, pain.