Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-06-13
Wreck Claims
Its Sixth Victim
tcOntinuea from First Paee.)

second section of the train coming
along so swiftly that I knew it could
never stop in time to avoid hitting
our train.
II fumbled with the gate, praying
that 1 might be in time to jump,
but l wasn't quick enough. This may
give you an idea of how fast the
other train was coming. The engine
damned itself into the rear end of
the parlor car of our train, and the
next I knew I was sent spinning
through the air to the ground.
1.-The shock of my fall to the hard
ground dazed me for several minutes,
and when l got up I heard cries of
pain and shrieks for help coming
from the wrecked car 1t seemed to
me that the heavy engine had torn
its way half through the car. and
| instinctively l thought there must
be many dead.
"A number of persons ran to the
rescue at once and began breaking
the windows of the splintered car
and dragging persons out of the Win
dows. 1t was terrible.
IT am sure that if the crew hadn't
all been busy looking toward the
head end of the train, the thing
might have been avoided
Edward ]. Kelley, who was trying
to draw his wife through a window
of the car when she died, said
TT is impossible to describe what
happened in that old Pullman car
.hen the crash came. We had not
the least warning. / was talking
with my wife when suddenly the 10
connective shot through the rear of
the car with a terrific noise and rush.
No one had time even to stand up.
We were caught in our seats.
INSTANTLY there were frightful
screams and cries and means. 1 saw
several men and women crushed
downward by the wreckage which the
engine pushed ahead of it.
II crawled out of the broken win
| dow and ran back to where my wife
was hanging, unconscious, partly out
| of a window. l felt of her pulse and
| she was still alive.
II shouted down into the street for
a ladder, and then other passengers
from the other cars came and we
! tried to get my wife out, but her
pulse stopped beating while 1 had
hold of her hand"
N. w. Griggs, of St Paul, Mimi,
was one of the few passengers in the
Skylark who escaped without serious
injury. He came in on section No. l..
He thus described his experience:
1T was sitting in seat No. of the
Pullman, on the right hand side and
rather to the front of the car. We
were motionless in front of the SIAM
ford station, where, | was told, they
were putting on an electric locomo-
tive. I don't know whether 1t had
been connected or not.
IT was reading a newspaper and
was interested in an article when
suddenly was hurled out Of my seat,
upward and forward. l described =
complete somersault, striking my
nose against the top of the chair in
front of me and then landing in a
heap upon the chair still further for
ward.
1.-THE first thing | appreciated was
that there was a young girl scream
ing close by me, and 1 looked down
and saw her lying on the floor, pinned
down by two heavy chairs.
grabbed her by the skirt and hauled
her free, and then, for the first time
! I saw what it was that had caused
|; the blew.
There was an enormous locomo'
tive crumpling right through our car
coming directly toward us. hauled
the girl as fast as I could away
from it. but it seemed every second
as though the monstrous thing would
overtake us and grind us down. TIT
wooden car seemed to just crumpl'
apart. 1t didn't leave the rails o.
topple over; it simply was split open
"I could hear them-men grooming
women screaming with fright ant
pain. But there was no way to ge
! back to them to do them an,
service"
Rescues Girl.
F. H. Scott. of New London, Conn
gave this account of his experiences
II was a passenger in section No
Z l and a few moments previous to tn
] accident / was seated in the rear o
& the Skylark. / decided that neede
a smoke, and it is to this desire I
j smoke that l am alive now and abb
6 to tell you about the wreck. ros
Z and started to walk forward to tn
y smoking car. Then the crash came
| had just reached the front Of tn