Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1912-07-06
Relatives of Miss Brooks
Reported Dead, Receive
Telegram She Has Not
Been Found.
ELEVEN JERSEY FOLK
ARE AMONG THOSE KILLED
John Kennedy, of Harrison.
ldentified-Mrs. Margaret
Rose, of This City, Among
Those Still Missing.

With eleven New Jersey victims
now numbered in the long death roll
of the Lackawanna wreck at Corn
ing, N. Y. many new tragedies of
the appalling Fourth of July crash
were revealed today.
Miss Emma Brooks, of Il Maple
street. Kearny, was reported today
among the identified dead. So was
her fiancee, John Kennedy, of Harri-
son, who was accompanying her and
little Leonard Brooks on the excur-
sion to Niagara Falls.
This is Leonard's fourteenth birth
day. Instead of celebrating it at the
Falls with his sister and her fiancee.
he is dying in the Corning hospital.
babbling piteously of home and
crying with frenzied anguish for his
mother.
The boys father, grief-stricken and
unnerved by long suspense. left
Kearny late last night to- visit the
Corning morgue and hunt through
the hospitals
At that time Miss Brooks, Mr. Ken
nedy and Leonard were numbered
among the missing. They had not
been mentioned in any of the liss OF
identified dead or injured.
After he had gone the body OF Miss
Brooks was Yeportzd identified This
identification was contradicted, how
ever, in a telegram received today
from the claim department of the
railroad. which stated that she had
y,nf4rofs boar, haord
The body of Mr.. Kennedy, who was
well known in West Hudson, and was
a prominent member of Kearny
Council No. 402. knights of Columbus.
Harrison, was identified today.
At the same time Jules Sampson. OF
1872 Central avenue, Jersey City, was
added to the list of identified victims
Careful checking of the list shows
the number of dead thirty-nine, with
one missing. The latter is the s.
year-old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
William NJ. Armstrong, of Hoboken,
both of whom were hilled. Coroner
Smith believes the child was so badly
mangled that the body was removed
by bits and not identified. More of
the victims were identified today.
There were no deaths during the
night among the five seriously injured
in the hospitals. Three of these ara
expected to recover.
There remain twelve injured in the
Corning Hospital and eight at st.
Joseph's Hospital. Elmira. Steps are
being taken to arrange for the burial
OF the unidentified and unclaimed
dead within a day or two.
The body of Herman Dyuke, who
was one of the victims of the Lacka-
wanna and Western railroad wreck
at Corning, N. Y. was brought to his
home, 80 South Fourteenth street, to-
day. Dyuke was unmarried He is
survived by his mother and a sister
He was chief of the employment bu-
reau at the Edison Company plant
West ORANGE The Edison Club will
take charge of the funeral. The serv-
ices will be held tomorrow evening
Interment will be Monday at Somer-
vile. Dyuke died at the Elmira Hos
pital.
After spending two days and nights
in anguish. Mrs. Anton Nelson, OF
Grove street and Park avenue. East
Orange. is still uncertain as to the
fate of her husband. He is dead. But
no one has had the courage to break
the news to her. His body was iden-
titled as that of Anton Nelson. OF
Jersey City This suggested that there
might be some slight chance of error.
and she has since been cherishing a
faint hope.
A friend of Mr.. Nelson went to
Corning to claim the body. 1t is on
the way to Orange where Undertaken
James J. Maher will take charge Of It.
Mr.. Nelson was 30 years old. He
also leaves one child.
Mrs. Margaret Rose. wife of Gill
bert Rose. of 1858 Plane street, is
among the missing Her husband
put her aboard the Pullman at New
ark, but she has not been reported in
any of the lists of dead or injured
Among the New Jersey victims who
are said to be dying is Mrs. Nellie
Douglas, of 107 Ferguson street, New
ark. She has fracture of the skull.
and is badly cut about the arms and
body.
James Griffin, % years old, of l67
Lafayette street; Miss Mary Bren-
nan, of 459 High street, trained
nurse. are also probably fatally in
jured.
The list of known, New Jersey dead
now stands as follows:
BROOKS. MISS EMMA, of ii
Maple street, Kearny.
LLOYD. JOHN. IL years old. son OF
Policeman John ]. Lloyd. of II wash
ington avenue.
DYUKE. HERMAN, % years old,
of 80 South Nineteenth street. New
ark.
LowERY. MRS. EVELYN, coiored,
lcox.fluuaa -, sa.ou.I n.