The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1913-07-07
TWO DIE, SCORE HURT
IN CRASH ON COASTER
Loaded Cars Are Smashed Into
kindling at Palisade J.
Park.
OCCUPANTS TOSSED OUT
Scenic Railway Train Backs
Down Incline and Another
One Hits It.


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Two men were killed and mord
han a score Of persons hurt. two IA
ally, last night when a train of two
'ars on the scenic railway in Palisades
Park, across the Hudson from 129th
trcet backed down an incline and was
ahmed by another train. flying down
he grade of fifty foot drop
The injured wers taken to the EngieA
wood and North Hudson Hospitals.
The Dead.
OLSON. ARTHUR. 1875 Washington ave,
LIE CLAIR. FRANK. motorman Of second
ear IL Morton street. Jersey City.
List Of the Injured. =.
.cAsPAR, OTTO. ?s7 Thir,y.,hird street.
DIG. CLARENCE. s5l Fast iss,h
pEFrBEMAN. WILLIAM. u years old.
lss7 Washington avenue The Bronx head
poKLEy, LEONARD Park avenue. Naples
Go'L6sTErx. DAVID. Jersey city, rac-
HiGGiSs FRANZ Jersey cit ci'y. u con: con.
'usions 20, 81 che-t and severe cuts
JOSl.NN. WILLIAM. 1857 Washington ave.
nue. The Bronx. right arm and right leg
cut.
KANE. TERENCE o. VA Henderson
street. Jersey CITY. internal injuries and
KANE LORETTA. legs and ankles
crushed
LAMBERToN. FRANCES 7:s Green.
avenue. Brooklyn, suffering from nervous
LENAFkEoFKY EDWARD. 20 year. old.
,nsTn" sbn injnTss w' " M.,
oKEf, LEONARD. Park avenue. May>
MHY sao M TSi ave Avenue ,.r.
RULE. MAY. sao Baldwin avenue. Jersey
SHIRE JAMES Little Falls y. j; cu,a
about limbs and body
sToLAN. sAMrEI:, :is Eas. NINETY"
Tote. MRS. CHARLES. EdgeNater, y. j;
cuts and bruises.
wEInANp; /. T. ss7 E,sh,e.n,h a,".rl, streets
wlI.DERMAN KATE. 81 Eas; Eighty.
ninth street, Manhattan. colarhone brokenA
Both Trains Crowded.
Both trains were crowded when ths
accident happened. The one ahead. in
charge Of Frank Leclar, was filled with
women and children. shouting and
laughing as 1t took the hazardous dips
and the sharp turns ut breakncck speed.
II got past the first eighty foot in.
cline all right and the second one. which
is about fifty feet high. ON the third
something happened and the train
stopped and commenced to slide hack.
I.eclair threw or the brakes and tried
his powcr--the cars are run by the third
rail system like the New York subway
but the Juice" wasn't there.
The train went SLOWLY back to tho
bottom Of the railway. almost on level
with the ground There 1t stood for
three minutes. while the passengers
joked with one another. waiting for the
power To come on again. instead of get
ting out and giving up the ride as they
could have done in perfect safety.
Block system Fails.
The park management says that
while this car was AT rest 1t was pro-
tectpd 10y block signal system devised
10 prevent Just such accidents as hap
pcned q second later
The power was thrown on again in
few minutes. but before the stalled car
could get under way "A second one,
loaded down with passengers too, came
shooting over the dips top and down.
Before those I'm the first train could
move or even shout they wer" thrown
in mass of wrcCkaeo som" twenty
feet from the track and some right
under the sma shed cars. Twenty thou
sand or more persons were in tho park
and the screams Of the injured brought
the greater part of tn" crowd To tho
spot
There was great confusion for a few
minutes and the injured were left mo-
mentarily To care for themselves.
Finally the panic OF excitement was
STOPPED and the park employees wore
able tn get through the throng to
where the passengers were.
Autos LOADED with Injured.
Two automobiles. kept for Just such
emergencies. were brought Ia tho scene
and loaded with injured. Then hogan a
rapid run down the Palisades to the
North Hudson Hospital, In III" mean
time the hospital ambulance" had reached
the park ana tnhV 700 WAS nlI'n, WHl't Il
private ambulance took two men To tho
EnGcwood Hospital
Most of those NJ tho North Hudson
Hospital were unconscious when they
were carried into the institution. The
first work Of the half dozen doctors who
had been called there was In revive
them.
Leonard Okcy 0f haywood, y, j.,
couldn't bc brought To and 1t war ap-
parent that he could not live long. His
body was badly crushed and he was
hurt internally,
on the way down in the automobile
Father Edward Fields of St, Angus.
tines II. q. Church held okcy in his
arms and administered the last rites "
the church. When he was through with
that. the priest turned his attention TO
the others In the hig machine and
helped them as much as he could.
Confusion In Park.
Among those I'm the park the ron-
fusion continued Many had seen THAR
friends and relatives waiting to board
f,r tri, h, h,,ic