Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-08-28
DOUBLE FUNERAL
FOR TWO NE WARk
WRECK VICTIMS
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Hicks Will
Be Buried Tomorrow
Afternoon.
SON FINDS MOTHERS
BODY LYING IN MORGUE
Many New Jersey Survivors
Reach Homes from Man
chester Calamity.

The double funeral of Charles M.
Hicks and his wife, Isabelle ]. Hicks,
who were killed in the Lehigh Valley
train wreck at Manchester, N. Y. last
Friday, will be held from the home,
II Paterson street, this city, tomor-
row afternoon. The funeral will en-
tail two parties of pall-bearers, two
hearses and the doubly sorrowful obil-
cations which accompany such an un-
common affliction in a family. The
interment of Mr.. and Mrs. Hicks will
be made in Fairmount Cemetery
The Rev Charles T. Graham, pastor
of the First Presbyterian Tabernacle,
which Mr.. and Mrs. Hicks had at
tended for years, is on his way from
Lake George, n. Y, to officiate at the
double funeral.
Worn out by the grief and apprehen-
sion of the past three days the three
ter-in-law of the victims, are in a state
of collapse The sons are William j.,
Charles, jr.. and Arthur Hicks. VII
liam j. Hicks made the trip to the
scene of the disaster Saturday and
identified his mother, whose injuries
made her almost unacceptable. The
members of the family had not heard
any word of her after the accident. al
though the news of Mr.. Hicks's death
was telegraphed to the home Friday
evening a few hours after the accident
Found Body in Morgue.
Hoping against nope, William j.
Hicks sought to find his mother among
the unidentified at the hospital, and
vas completely unnerved when he
found her remains yesterday at the
temporary morgue near the railroad
He telegraphed the sad news to his
brothers and John H. Broemel, al
undertaken. at 202 Ferry street, whC
met Mr.. Hicks at the Pennsylvania
railroad station when he arrived lat'
! last night with the bodies of his par
ents. The Lehigh Valley train, II
which the return trip was made, pulled
| in an hour late
The pall-bearers for Mr. Hicks will
be selected from the members of the
| Marcus L. Ward Council, No. 205, Jr. O
! L. A. M. and the Central railroad en-
ployees, with which he was affiliated
Members of General Putnam Council
! Daughters of Liberty, of which Mrs
! Hicks was a popular member, will
comprise the pall-bearers at the other
! half of the funeral.
In dozens of Newark homes today
there is great rejoicing over the return
of persons who attended the G.. A. r
! tn ha n.
the fatal accident, and who had moi
been heard from. A party of twenty
persons accompanied Mrs. e. A. Yard
of Austin street, who arrived home
last night. Among those with Mrs
Yard were Mrs. Ellen Curran and hel
daughter, Miss Martha Curran, of 9:
jefferson street; Mrs. Sarah Fitzsim.
mons, of 795 South Fifteenth street
Mrs. Anna Liese, of 1873 Avon avenue
Mrs. Lucinda Stivers, of Thirteenth
avenue and Howard street; Mr.. and
Mrs. Crist Vaudeville, of Woodside; Mr.
and Mrs. j. f. Johnson, of Arlington
and several other persons from Jersey
City and nelghboring towns.
Newarkers Return.
Among those who returned Saturday
night are Mrs. Annie r. Hudson, of 1;
Rector street; Mrs. Phoebe w. Osborne
of 20 Dickerson street; Mrs. Mary De
lane, of Springfield avenue, and Mrs
Mary e. Crisp, of 155 Verona avenue
These persons were affiliated with the
different G. A r. societies and this
ladies' auxlliaries.
Mrs. Yard today declared that sew
eral of the persons who have since ar.
II. t.,N Ill ~
the trip past Rochester. N. Y. and
would have undoubtedly been among
the victims on the Inflated train.
Isaac Meyer, of 434 John street, Easi
Newark, and Timothy Murphy, Of 35i
Highland avenue, Arlington, were
passengers on the ill-fated train, be-
ing bound to their homes from the
University of Michigan, where both
are students They were in the coach
just ahead of the dining room car
which was the first one derailed.
Mr. and Mrs. William Gave and their
son, George, of II Greenwood avenue,
East Orange, were among the Essex
county people who were in the Lehigh
Valley railroad wreck at Mansfield
They were in the third coach and
escaped uninjured. They were return
ing from vacation spent at the Thou
sand Islands.
Charles C. Daily, an employee of the
General Electric Company, Harrison
and member of the G. A. r., was one
of the passengers on the wrecked Lee
high Valley Railroad train last Friday
Mr. Daily arrived home Saturday after
noon and declared that he had never
n pyfI ct0 hot
which followed the wreck He lives at
421 Jersey street, Harrison, and is an
old resident of the town.
CONGRESSMAN LATTA BETTER.