New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-26
One Killed. One Badly Hurt in
Latest Malaga Crossing
Accident.
AUTOMOBILE HITS TRAIN
Salesman's Machine Crashes
Into Express-Man Hurt
Jumping from the
Same Train.
By Telegraph to The Tribune. J

Pitman, y. j., Sept. 25.-An automoDile
containing two men skidded into the side
of an Atlantic City electric express IRAN
al the Malaga death loop. eight mics
below this town. on the main line OF the
West Jersey & Sea Shore Railroad TINS
afternoon. Charles r. Lore, forty-iNe
years old. a travelling salesman. OF NO.
5Sl Carman street, Camden, one of the
occupants OF the car. was instantly killed.
and his companion, George Burdens, OF
Clarksboro. was so badly hurt that it ls
believed that he will die. He is in Cam
den hospital.
At Atlantic City Joseph Gaines. OF that
city. had boarded the same train with
friends leaving town. He failed to get on
before the train started. The train picked
nm speed rapidly. and Gaines, in jumpins'
fall and received a fractured skull. his
condition is critical.
The automobilists had been visiting
stores in the small towns in south jersey
and we're running into Malaga in the ram
storm. They were driving their car al
rapid rate and were almost upon the I'M
protected grade crossing before they
caught sight of the approaching express
train.
Burdens, who was at the wheel )ahlIneu
down the brakes. but the automobile s'o
thirty feet through the mud ana suucA
the speeding train broadside. Inc "fecA-
axe OF the machine was scattered aio4's
the track and the two men were hurIeo
ffty feet Passengers on the Train "eIe
ioIted from their seats by the application
~ the emergency brakes and the eA-
nress came TO a stop few hundred yafus
from the crossing.
I,ore was already dead when the ere"
~ the train reached him ana MS oouE
was taken TO the little railroad stauoh
81 Malaga. which has been converted INTO
,rorrue more than once this summer
tecapse Of the slaughter Of victims al
rhe death loop" Bundens was sun
breatbjnQ He was placed on board the
train ana hurried to the Cooper Hospi-
ial at Camden. His rght snou4uoi
blade Is broken, and he Is believed 10 "a'o
received internal injuries,
Lore is the sixth victim Of the 'dea'h
loon" within less than three months Inc
loon is bend IN the state road runnlhs
trou Camden to the shore, and is popO-
lar route for automobilists. AT this place
The highway takes turn and crosses tue
tracks of the third rail system twice In a
stretch OF a little more than mile
several accidents have occurred on the
loop" which had never been protected
until a few days ago when an automatic
alarm signal was placed at the upper
crossing after three Philadelphians had
been ground to pieces.
This accident occurred ten days ago
Ou July 3 Mrs. Emma Adams and her
tvelve-year-old daughter, Of Nineland'
we're killed when an express struck Their
automobile at the crossing. At that time
Edward ". Stokes. bank president. OF
Melville. father Of former Governor
Stokes. ard his niece. Miss Wjsham. re-
ceived Injuries from which they have not
vet recovered.
The Franklin township committee has
made an appeal to the Public Utilities
Commission for an inspection Of the dan
gerous place, with view 10 its elimlna-
lion.