Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-10-18

The fireman was removed to the Rah.
way Hospital. also suffering from
burns about the body, and was said
TO be in a very serious condition.
The wreck. it is believed. was due
10 the thick fog which covered this
section last night, making 1t impos>
sible for the engineer of the pas
senger train to discern any stop sig<
nails which the freight train might
have had out. The freight. No,
3507, was a special, eastbound, and
was standing still at the time of the
collision. the rear end of this train
being crashed into by the passengeI
train. a local No. 202. which was
going in the same direction.
The passenger engine overturned
both engineer and fireman being seS
verely scalded with steam before
they could be extricated from the
wreckage. None of the passenger
cars were damaged, outside of a few
windows being broken, although the
passengers were given a bad shock
and several of them bruised when
thrown TO the floor or against the
side of the car by the force of the
impact.
The theory was forwarded this
morning by Pennsylvania railroad
man. that the freight train might
have been derailed before the pas
senger train struck it, this explained
the fact that several of the freight
cars were off the track
The collision resulted in wreckage
being strewn about the tracks and
this together with the overturned
engine and derailed freight cars
blocked up two of the tracks. There
are four tracks at this particular
spot. of which three were clear
shortly before noon today, one still
being blocked. Service over this di-
vision was badly crippled for the re-
mainder of the morning, the trains
creeping along at a slow pace far
behind schedule.
The dead engineer is Edward
Quail thirty-eight years old, of 2,706
Brown street. Philadelphia. He was
removed to st. Peters hospital in an
ambulance sent from that institution
and died at GAS o'clock this morne
Ing. He was married. The fireman.
who was removed to the Railway
hospital. was Tony Traraglio, twenty
one years. of S54 North 44th street,
Philadelphia. He was badly burned
but not injured otherwise.
Water Traffic DELAYED.
Although all other traeic on the
water in this section this morning
was held up because of one of the
worst fogs so far this season. the
ferry boat Perth Amboy of the
Staten Island Rapid Transi. Rail-
road made regular trips over the
SOUND. With the exception of some
or the early trips that were cut out
the ferryboat maintained its regular
schedule. The trains on Statc1 Island
were running late at the early hours,
There We're no accidents reported
during this morning.
No Auto Accidents.
Despite the heavy fog. which set
tied over this district shortly after
sun down last night. no automobile
accidents were reported to the police
here. Cars running between this
city and Woodbridge found the fog
so dense at the. foot of the Spa
Spring hill at times that 1t was nec-
essary to constantly sound their
horns in order TO warn other cars
or their presence. no lights being
dlscernible at o. distance of more
than few feet. Careful driving on
the part of a majority of the auto
lists was responsible for the lack
of accidents.
All of the trains were running late
this morning on the Pennsylvania
and Central railroads through this
city as result CT the dense fog.