Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-03-19
KILLED AS He
SITS ON TRACK
Peter Zozak, of 685 State
Street Hill by P. r. r.
Local Last Night.
INTOXICATED AT TIME
Despite feIts of Companion
He Refuses to Move Head
Horribly Crushed.
INTOXICATED AT TIME

While seated on a rail, supposedly
in a drunken stupor, Peter Zozak, of
685 State street, was struck and in
stantly killed by a local Pennsylva-
MIA train about loo yards south of
the Central bridge In North Amboy
last night. His head was ground
into an indescribable mass of flesh
and bone and his left hand was badly
muti1ated. Coroner James j. Flynn
found pieces of the head and hand a
hundred feet apart in places along
the track. The victims companion,
Theodore Stanik, who was with him
at the time of the accident, became
alarmed and hurried home after the
accident, only telling his boarding
boss. No. report was made of the
fatality until John ]. Haremza, a Le-
high. Valley brakeman, stumbled
over the mutilated form at $3.50
O'Clock. He promptly telephoned to
police headquarters and Sergeant
McDermott notified the coroner.
Both Men Had Been Drinking.
According to the findings of Cor
oner Flynn following an investiga-
ton which lasted almost an hour,
Zozak and Stanik were out drinking
hklu OLnO1 MlEC galllu01a6 LhChtoStFOo
He found Stanik in an intoxicated
had also teen tipsy. Stanik told Mr..
Flynn that they had walked along
the Pennsylvania track In a norther-
ly direction and about 100 yards
south of the bridge over the Penn
sylvania tracks zozak, he declares,
said he was tired and sat down on
the easterly rail. He buried his face
in his hands and sat as though in 9
stupor. Stanik went ON to tell that
when a local Pennsylvania passenger
train running into the State street
terminal came along at 7:45 O'clock,
he told Zozak to get up and later
yelled at him. He says Zozak, in
stead of getting up, raised his head
a trifie and fell over on the rail. An
instant later the train came thunder
ing along and ground him to death.
Stanik became alarmed, it is as
serted, and ran to their boarding
house without stopping to see If his
chum was dead or alive. He told his
boarding boss, switick, what had
happened, but neither of them
| breathed a word to the outside
Iworld about the accident, fearing
that something would happen. The
| body laid there until Haremzs
| stumbled over 1t at Se20 o'clock. He
told Coroner Flynn that he passed
along the track at 7:15 O'Clock when
on his way home, but did not see
the body at that time.
Near Death Five Months Ago. I
zozak narrowly escaped being
| killed at his boarding house five
months ago when he plunged from
the third story. He escaped with
! slight injuries.
When Patrolman Durham investi-
gated his sudden death last night he
asked Coroner Flynn IL 1t would be
advisable to lock Stanik up for al
examination. Mr.. Flynn stated he
had learned all the details he desired
and was satisfied Stanik could MOI
be held responsible for the accident
The train crew, including the en-
| gineer and fireman, did not know
| the train had killed q man until they
met Mr.. Flynn during the investiga
ton that continued this morning
Each member was surprised to learr
of the accident. The train was II
charge of Conductor William Nc
JFatu, Oh street, EhLrlct
Sullivan, of State and Centre streets
was the engineer in charge, and H
A. Andrews, of Fayette street, wa
the fireman. The train was attached
to engine No. 1908.
The discovered the loco
motive in the State street yard thi
morning and found blood marks an,
hair low ON the left side of the pilot
indicating hat the man toppled to
wards the engine as 1t was about t.
strike him. The victim was unmar
ried and the body Is at the coroner
morgue awaiting a claimant.