Perth Amboy evening news., 1913-09-03
george HANEY IN NEW HAVEN WRECK, RESCUES INJURED
Local Coal Dealer was Asleep in
Berth on The White Mountain Ex-
press When Crash Came
WAS UNINJURED

George J, Haney, member of the
MiddleseX County Board OF Taxation
and prominent coal dealer in the
city, was ON the White Mountain ex-
press that crashed into the Bar
Harbor train on tbe N. y, n H. &c
H. railroad early yesterday morning.
Though Mr.. Haney was in the midst
of the dead and dying he only re-
celved a severe shock and a blow on
his head when he awoke abruptly
from his sleep in the berth located
in the third car of the White Noun
tain train.
In the second car from the engine
of the White Mountain express, in
which Mr.. Haney began his trip from
Bethlehem, New Hampshire, there
were numerous victims with broken
legs and bruised bodies which they
sustained when they were thrown to
the floor. This was a day coach,
however, and Mr.. Haney had made
arrangements for his berth in the
third car for the night.
Mr.. Haney, like the rest of the
passengers following the collision,
helped to carry out the dead and
dying. One victim, Frank Condor,
secretary of the Trenton Y. M. c. A.,
who had his eye discolored and was
badly bruised, Mr.. Haney persuaded
to take his berth in the White Noun
tain express and aided in attending
the mans wounds. Some twenty
critically injured, dying and dead
Mr.. Haney helped to carry out of the
debris of the demolished coaches.
The dead were laid alongside in a
field, while the dying and wounded
were placed aboard the undamaged
cars of the Bar Harbor express. Fol-
lowing the arrival of a relief train
from New Haven with nurses, doc
tors and first aid remedies. the Bar
Harbor express pulled out for New
Haven with the injured and dying.
At New Haven they were taken to
hospitals. Mr.. Haney transferred to
this train, which, after leaving the
victims at New Haven. continued its
course to New York, where it arrived
about II o'clock. Mr. Haney said 1T
was a gruesome spectacle to see the
array of the mangled and bruised
bodies before they were taken from
the train at New Haven. Two died
before they reached the station.
Mr.. Haney had been visiting his
wife. who is spending some time at
N. H. He reached there
last Friday and left that place on the
White Mountain Express at o'clock
Monday night. The first he knew of
the wreck was when terrific shock
awoke him in his berth and his head
hit the headboard with a severe pre-
II looked out of the win
dow" he said when seen this morn
ing, "and l thought we had struck a
freight train, because the ground
seemed to be but one mass Of promis-
,uous splinters, so badly were the
asst two coaches of the Bar Harbor
Express smashed. The third car
rom the end was turned over, but
he last two sleepers were demolish"
I'd"
Mr.. Haney blamed the collision on
he engineer, because he said torpe-
iOes had been placed to warn him
hat the Bar Harbor express was hav-
ng trouble and because of its brakes
,r hot boxes had been stalled several
ines and was not making the sched-
lied speed. Mr.. Haney said he inter-
,iewed the fireman of the White
Mountain train, but the trainman
would not say whether he heard the
orpedo signals or not.
at was a good thing" continued
Ir, Haney, that the coaches were
lighted by electricity instead of gas
hat would have set the coaches afire
nd barred the injured all avenues
# escape" Mr.. Haney said he was
sight" when he reached the Grand
central station at New York, with
lis bloody hands and dirty clothes,
which he had soiled in aiding the in
ured "At the Grand Central sta
ion," he continued, was a pathetic
Gene, men looking for their wives,
nd wives for their husbands with
nxious eyes to see them step from
he express to assure themselves that
hey, too, were not victims of the
,reck." Many, however, looked in
ain and their loved ones were
rought home later as corpse, or they
'ere notified to which hospitals they
ad been taken.
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