The New York herald., 1922-07-04
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ure out the wreck happened at lib
A. NJ, during the height of the storm.
At exactly that time the telegraph in
strument in the dispatcher's office at
Atlantic City began to tick off an ex-
cited call Everett Cannon, assistant
yardmaster, leaped to the wire and lis
tened in It was De Walt who was send
ing and he said. MY God I have sent
No. SO on the wrong track" That was
the last that was seen or heard from
the towerman until he was found In
his homo here later in the morning at
the point of nervous collapse.
When the train left the tracks and
catapulted down onto the Pennsylvania
Railroad tracks it carried with it
Pullman and four day coaches. The
smoker, which was in the extreme rear
of the train. did not go over the en-
bankment, but toppled over on its side
in the mud. The day coaches and Pull
man piled moundlike over the engine.
/ Phone Girl Gets Aid.
Some of those injured managed to get
to telephone and conveyed word to
Miss Margaret Loughmann night tele-
phone operator here, of what had zap
pened Miss Loughmann called every
physician in her list and flashed word
to score of surrounding towns, in the
meanwhile notifying the Fire Depart
ment. the American Legion and the
Hammto1 chapter of the Red Cross.
simultaneously Cannon. the yardmas-
ter at Atlantic City. who had picked up
De Waits message. was outfitting re-
lief trains and flashed word to Cam
den to do likewise. Cannon notified the
Atlantic City Hospital that a relief
train would leave in five minutes and
to have every available physician and
nurse ready to move. The internes and
nurses were rushed to the railroad sta
tion in ambulances and commandeered
taxicabs. Miss Nellie McGurran, super
intendent of the hospital called many
nurses and physicians from their homes
While relief was being rushed un-
injured passengers were cropping in the
dark and rain to render what aid they
could William Miller a University of
Pennsylvania football player. was act
ing as brakeman on the wrecked
train for the summer Although
painfully injured and bleeding about
the head and arms he managed to
find an axe and with this he climbed
over the pyramided cars. breaking the
windows SO the imprisoned men. women
and children might have more air. Mil
Ter hauled more than score of women
ministered first aid to them as they lay
along the roadbed of the PENNSYLVANIA
tracks.
John l.. Linehan, q, of 171i Allegheny
avenue, Philadelphia. was caught be-
tween two seats with three dead bodies
on top of him. One of his arms had
been amputated. but he managed to
extricate himself from the wreckage and
directed the rescuers for more than fif-
teen minutes until he was dragged away
himself by physicians only to die a
short time later.
Bride and Groom In Hospital,
In the Atlantic City Hospital on cots
almost adjoining each other, lie Mr. and
Mrs. Louis kolker OF 1924 Columbia
avenue. Philadelphia. bride and groom
OF day. for Whom the physicians hold
cut little hone. They were married yes
terday In philadelphia and went from
wedding supper to the "fiier" for Allan
tic City. where they had intended to
spend their honeymoon. The husband
Is suffering from a fractured skull and
fractures of both legs. His bride was
injured internally.
Roy Cope OF 240s North Sixth street
Philadelphia. who figured prominently
in the rescue work and was taken to
the Camden Hospital SUFFERING rom
lacerations of the head and body. told
how a man rushed UP to him and tossed
n baby into his arms and then dropped
dead. Just who tho man was has not
been ascertaned. Neither is 1t known
&c whom the baby belonged as the child
was passed on to others in the confusion
The rescuers encountered difficulty
working in the dark. The hundreds Of
automobiles that rushed to the wreck
lined up along the roadbed to turn their
lights on the ground. There was no way
of getting light down into the cut where
the train had fallen. as the flier, when
1t went over the embankmont, ripped
down an electric light pole. tearing the
wires. thereby throwing all of Winslow
junction and the greater part OF this
town into darkness. 1t was not until
after daybreak that the work of rescue
really could be entered upon energeti-
cally. BY that time one train carrying
the injured had started for Atlantic City
and another for Camden.
Heard brakes Applied.