Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-09-14
TRAINS MANC[E
WEALTHY MAN TO
DEATH IN ORANGE
Local Tosses Julius
Harris Into Path
of Express.
SECOND PERSON KILLED !
AT CROSSING ms DAYS
Life of Negress Was Ground
Out by D., L. and w. Train
on Thursday.

Julius Harris, a wealthy resident
of Orange, was instantly killed early
today, when a west-bound express
train struck him as he was creeping
under the gates at the Lincoln ave.
nue. crossing of the Lackawanna rail-
road In Orange, Mr.. Harris was
tossed against an east-bound train
that was pulling into the Orange sta
ton. block away. His head WIS
crushed and one arm was stripped
from his body
This was the second fatal accident
to occur at an Orange grade crossing
within three days, a negress having
been killed at the Hickory street
crossing on Thursday.
DR.. Henry B. Harris. son of the
victim, was among the first notified
of the tragedy. and hurried to the
side of his dead parent. The body
was placed upon a stretcher at the
side of the tracks and a squad OF
police had quite a task to keep
crowd from the railroad tracks.
which curve toward the west at the
point. Owing TO the many express
trains and locals speeding to New
York with commuters the dangers
were particularly great at the hour,
but the swarms of adults and children
had TO be literally forced from the
tracks by Detective Brown, Rounds
man Fineran and Policemen Brennan
and Patterson.
Freight Car Adds to Danger.
Adding to the usual dangers at the
crossing. freight car the last of a.
string extending to the freight depot
near Essex avenue. was resting on
the easterly side of the street. The
crossing, one of the worst in Orange,
is busy one, especially as the en-
trance to the freight yards Is close to
the tracks.
Mr.. Harris. who was formerly man-
| ager OF an Grange department store.
was engaged in furnishing supplies
| to hat factories, and was on his way
TO the plants in Orange Valley wheir
he met his deaths He was SO years
old and lived at 80 Cleveland street.
Leaves Widow and Four Children.
He leaves a widow and four chill
| dren. The latter are DR.. Harris,
| Myron Harris. New York attorney:
Mrs. Tillie Davis and Miss Mabel
Harris
| Despite years of agitation and a
| long list of fatalities, there has been
no move as yet to abolish the grade
crossings in the Oranges, owing tn
| differences between the municipal Of
ficials and the Lackawanna railroad
In East Orange the hitch Is over
the problem of elevating or depress-
| ing the tracks. the city officials in
sisting upon depression. while tho
railroad holds that elevation alone IL
an engineering feasibility.
In Orange the railroad sought to
get the city to help pay for their inn
provement, while the councilmen and
Mayor Seymour insist that the COM
pany should pay for Its own work.
/ City Counsel William A. Lord drafted
an ordinance restricting the speed OF
trains in the city to fifteen miles an
hour unless the corporation properly
protected the crossings, using gates
of such construction as would pre-
vent the passage of a person beneath
| them when lowered
This was introduced by Councilman
Birkholz In September, 1910, ard
passed. In February, 1911, 1t was re-
scinded.
The gates used in the city are OF
the straight-arm variety, with no at
tachment to make the crossings inn
passable while the gates are low-
| cred.
The body of Mr.. Harris was viewed
at Kunzs morgue by Deputy County
Physician Simmons and later removed
to the dead mans residence