Evening star., 1922-07-03
! KILLED, Is HURT
AS TRAIN DERA|[ED
Atlantic City Express Goes
Over Embankment, Hero
ism Reported.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ATLANTIC CITY. N. J.. July 3.-An
open switch sent seven persons to
their death and resulted in the in
juring Of about seventy-five others.
about half Of them seriously early
today when the Camden Atlantic City
night express on the Philadelphia and
Reading railway. running at full
speed, left the rails at q curve at
Winslow junction and rolled down an
embankment. The dead and injured
were from South Jersey points or
from Philadelphia and vicinity. Near
ly all the injured were removed to
this city.
John r. de walt. an operator who
Ras been in the service Of the S9ms
state Of collapse at his home in Ham,
monton. N. J. He IL under the sur
vetllance Of the state police. The
engineer OF the express. Walter West
beneath the wreck Of his locomotive.
A statement issued by Vice Presi-
dent Charles H. Ewing of the Read
Ing. said that the towerman had set
train to the Cape May branch Of the
road. seemingly in the belief that a
train OF empty coaches, which had
recently passed. was the express. The
signals as displayed apparently were
not observed by the engineman of
took the junction at full speed.
Probe Being Made.
A searching investigation of the
accident Is being made by the COM
pany. in conjunction with the Inter-
state Commerce Commission and the
New Jersey board of utilities.
The known dead are:
John T. Lineham, .Philadelphia.
Walter Wescott, Gloucester, N. j.,
engineer.
William T. souder, Atlantic city,
fireman.
Joseph Dilasuco, Pleasantville, N. J.
Solomon Worth, Mays Landing, N. J.
p. N. Selden. Pullman porter.
Francis Corbett. Philadelphia
Georgia Fanywerler of this city.
ing description:
Everything was going along
smoothly when suddenly there came
a peculiar. dizzy careening of the
front of the train and next thing I
knew we were scramblins and fight
cd then and 1t was not until l was
lifted clear by somebody and was in
an automobile above the cut that I
realised just what had happened"
she said. when the relief train pulled
into the station at 4:40 o'clock this
morning.
Arrival Of wreckers.
TT was sickening and I turned my
head away. In a short time there
were crowds Of men about .the piled.
up cars below us and automobiles
started to arrive and they turned
their headlights and flashlights down
on the wreckage so that the rescuers
could work! I was taken away then
and saw no more OF it."
Others Of the survivors told Of the
heroism Of a man whose initials were
given as -. T. l." His name could
not be learned. He was caught be-
tween two seats. with three dead on
top of him. Although one arm was
ripped on and he was otherwise ter
ribly injured, he shouted directions
to the rescuers how to get inside with
the least trouble, through wreckage,
to the dead and injured pinioned be-
meath the tumble of interior fittings.
He lived but few minutes after he
had been lifted clear.
A relief train bearing the injured
reached Atlantic City about am,
but it could not be definitely learned
how many persons 1t carried. Two of
the injured, whose names, have not
been learned, died on tho way to this
cfty. Cordons Of police had been
thrown around the station and every
available taxicab was Communicated
to rush them to the hospital.
DR.. Lipschultz, one Of lthe drst
physicians on the scene. who arrived
here exhausted after working among
the survivors, said:
.When went inside / heard no
screams At dfst Many were moan
inr and there were many women
With young children jammed down In
tie WreokaGe. went to those who
appeared worst injured and asked
them questions, trying to flnd those
WHO required immediate emergency
attenfioi. They appeared daxed. Then
"a q twinkling the scene Was changed
The frst shock was over and fuil
realisafion Of whist had happened
aeemed to dawn on them. With the
other pAysictans tried to give All
aid posvible.S. The scene was terrible
nj the atful f1ashes Of light that III
fsred through the windows from IN.
toinobiles that parked about I found
ri. s., XAce, who, j believe, IL the
conductOr, with big hole punched