Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1921-08-12
SERIOUS AUTO ACCIDENT
AT BURLEIGH CROSSING
One Killed and Three Injured
When Express Train Hits Car
ON Main Seahore Road
CORONERS JURY GIVES YER
DICT OF -CARELESSNESS

One man is uedu ana three OIner
persons were injured as the result of
an auto crashing into a Pennsylvania
train at Burleigh on Wednesday last.
The dead and injured are:
Samuel Sloan, age so, 4351 Main
street, Manayunk killed.
Charles w. Sloan, age 80, same adj
dress, a Civil Wal veteran, three frac-
tured ribs, shoulder bruised, cuts and
other bruises.
John Kuhn, age 29, driver of the car,
1852 Cresson street, Manayunk, elbow
fractured and cuts about head.
Regina Kuhn, age %, sister of above,
same address, cut about face and badly
bruised.
The accident happened at the Penn
~sylvania Railroad crossing at Bur-
leigh, about three miles from Court
House. The train which hit the auto
was the bridge train for Wildwood and
had just left the junction at 1898
standard time. The car, owned by the
Sloans, was coming south OF the main
seashore road. The road and tracks
are both very open at the point and
it is a mystery how such an accident
could happen.
The party had come down to Angle
sea Tuesday afternoon, intending to
stay until Friday. They were stopping
at Ludy Bishops New Hereford hotel
and had gone out for a ride that
morning and were returning to Angle
sea when the accident happened.
Kuhn claims he did not notice the
train until he was within a few feet
of it and did not hear the whistle or
bell. He is a stranger to these roads
and while he knew he had crossed
railroads when on the road before,
didn't know how close he was to one
until he looked up and saw the train
within a few feet of them. He then
endeavored to turn the a to the left
and went off the road, but was evil
IDENTIFY going too fast to make the
turn and the auto ran into the engine.
The victims were picked up and hur-
ried to Wildwood where they were
taken care of by DR.. Kelchner at the
Emergency Hospital and the body OF
the dead man was placed in charge of
Undertaken Ingersoll. The victims
sister, Mrs. Harris, of New York City,
came down to claim the body.
Immediately after the accident~the
auto, a big Briscoe touring car, took
fire and was completely destroyed.
The car contained Pennsylvania state
license No. 3S0-176.
Mr.. Sloan, the dead man, was stew
ard of the 21st Ward Republican Club,
Main and Carson streets, Manayunk.
Charles w. Sloan, one of the injured,
showed wonderful courage. He is
eighty years of age, but seemingly
hearty and bravely submitted to the
doctors treatment of his wounds.
A coroner's inquest was held at the
scene of the accident on Thursday
evening by Coroner B. c. Ingersoll,
assisted by County Physician DR..
julius, Way. The jury, composed of
William H. Law, foreman, Joshua Will
liams, Edgar Endicott, Henry Spauld-
Ing, JdulGS MuuSy anu OohlOS L v" -
brought in the following verdict:
I'VE, the jury appointed by the
court to try the ease whereby
Samuel N. Sloan met his death,
we find the same was caused by
carelessness of the driver of the
automobile. We also recommend
that the West Jersey and Seashore
Railroad station a fiagman during
the summer months at the same
crossing"
witnesses called were Alexander
Douglass, who lives on the farm at the
corner of the railroad and main sea-
shore road. He saw the accident and
helped get the victims in autos and
off to the hospital. He said there
should be no real cause for an acct
dent, as it is all open there, but
thought it a good thing to have a
Waterman there as a great number of
autos pass there. His daughter
counted % cars pass in one minute
last Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Douglass
was also called and told of seeing the
accident from her porch and her and
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