Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-22
TRAIN PLUNGES
THROUGH SWITCH
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| a lucky moving picture camera man
! had been removed from a post which,
/ if he had held it, would have engulfed
| him in the steam He would not have
| had a chance for life. as he was on
uneven ground among bushes and
tangled grass.
/ Cars Catch Fire,
| As the white death belehed from the
/ pitifully prone engine, the three cars
caught fire, and great red flames soon
| shot higher than the bank. A few
moments afterward the same cars
were smoldering. dull red, while rail-
| road men stood about numbed by the
pseudo-tragedy. thankful that no life
had been lost, but mindful that they
viewed a pyre valued at $4,000.
A luxurious meadow pillows up to
! the embankment, and this was laid
! waste over a triangular stretch ex-
! tending a hundred yards from the
seething dome The triangle's base
was no less than one hundred and
fifty yards.
| The engine was from the Long
Island Railroad. 1t had no business
on the Raritan River Railroad, and if
it had stayed at home it wouldn't have
been wrecked. The cars were Raritan
River Railroad cars, and suffered from
| being in the engines company. The
| locomotive was a fiftyton affair,
about twenty years of age, which, for
an engine, should be years of discre-
| ton.
But this perversity of the engine
does not account for the escape from
punishment of the Raritan River Rail-
road employe who left that switch
open. He is absolved because he
merely obeyed the orders of Superin-
tendent Himmelberger. And Super
intendent Himmelberger gave those
| orders because he didn't car hoorah
what happened to the engine or to
the cars.
Yes, il was real wreck, but the reel
we mean should be spelled with a
double "e" The cars were smashed
and it was a great old smash, but nc
lives were lost, for everybody knew
the wreck was coming off, and there
| were no recent insane asylum es-
capes. The only person ever in any
danger was the operator mentioned
and he wouldn't have been in even q
dangerous spot il anybody had an
ticipated the steam's action. The only
reason he was removed was that he
wasn't placed right, in the opinion o1
Director Ince. AS for the monetary
expenditure, leave that to the Vita
graph Company.
Filmed by Six Cameras.
The imperiled crank turner was onl.
one of a corps of six of the Vitagrapl
people had on the scene. When vol
spend 900 you don't take chanc
or having nothing to show for it.
The spectacular picture is fit int
a film known as mo. 413," which re
counts the lurid adventures of
Jekyll- Hyde sort of a scout, who live
a cocktail life, with equal portions o.
high society doings and smuggling es
capades. On one of these latter ex
PLOTS the authorities get close enough
to his heels to see the nails, and HI
steals a train. He rides to death OF
the train. Movie actors. despite th'
popular notion, have their limitations
and a dummy, instead of the lead,
rode to death yesterday When the
locomotive landed on its side thu
dummy was underneath the side.
Although everybody Knew as YOU
do now, that it was all prearranged
it was thrilling to the Nth degree
Magnificent is the adjective to apply
to the spectacle of a big locomotive
and three cars plunging to their end
1t would have warmed old Neroi
heart.
) The man who got the greatest thrill
of all was Engineer Mcclure. He wa.
getting a ten-case note for his part
and he was determined to earn it, So
after Fireman Peter Banks had go
up steam galore and had departed
from the cab, Mcclure 'let 'er go
Suddenly he realized he had intentions
OF being married in the fall, and tina
his bride-to-be was one of the 50
waiting to see the crash. He decided
to Jump. And then he realized his en-
CINE was making thirty miles an hour
He described it later as some jump.
The specially constructed false switcl
was a mile away. When the train go
there its speed was fifty miles al
| hour.