The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-07-03
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camden-AtIantic City Express
Turns Turtle at VIM
slow Junction.
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Complete Investigation Of Ac-
cident Being Made by Three
Bodies Today.
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ATLANTIC CITY, N. T., July 8.
An open switch sent seven per-
sons to their death and resulted in
the injuring of about seventy five
others, about hal, OF them serious
". early today wnen the Camden.
Atlantic City, night express on the
Philadelphia & Reading Railway
running at full speed, left the
rails at a curve at Winslow unc-
tfon and rolled down an embank-5
ment. The dead and injured
were from South Jersey points 1l
from Philadelphia and vicinity.
Nearly all the injured were re-
moved to this city.
John F.. Dewalt. an operator
who has been in the service OF the
company for twenty four years, is
in a state OF collapse at ms
home IN Hammonton, NJ ne
is under the surveillance OF tue
State Police.
The engineer Of the express,
waiter Westcott, is~dead. He was
killed instantly beneath the wreck
OF his locomotive.
A statement issued by Vice
President Charles H. Ewing of the
Reading. it was said that the tower
man had set the switches for the
movement of a train to the cape
fNav bran CHI OF the road seeming
" in the belief that a train OF
empty coaches which had previous
" passed was the express. the
signals as displayed, apparently
were not observed by the engine.
man of the express, the statement
said and he took the Junction ae
full speed ~
accident is being made by the
company in conjunction with the
Interstate Commerce Commission
and the New Jersey Board .rt 81
Utilities.
William T. Souder, Atlantic City.
Francis Corbett, Philadelphia.
r r Selden, Pullman porter.
s. Worth, telegraph operator,
Mays Landing, employed by Read
ing Railroad.
T. Dilasua, Pleasant Valley, N j.
Unidentified man. weight lIo
pounds, smooth face, about 70 years
old, wore grey suit.
The train left Camden at H.
last night and carried four day
IScoaches, a parlor car and combtna-
tion baggage car It carried elgnty-
nine passengers. The express was
running at high speed when It
rea ,Eed the. curve and It's momen-
tun caused it to leave the rails,
turn over on its left side and fall
down an embankment. The loco
motive and the first day coach,
which was empty, turned on their
side. The parlor car landed upside
down on the locomotive and next
three cars turned over on the1:
side. The ombination car did not
leave the rails An electric light
pole was snapped off and turned
the scene into darkness.
| Calls were sent for help to Cam
den, Hammonton and Atlantic City,
and it was some time before aid ar
rived as the junction is an isolated
point in South Jersey. The unin-
1ured worked to extricate the in
iured, and precautions were taken
to prevent fire from the engine ig!
hitting the wreckage of the parlor
car. A heavy storm hampered the
rescue work
By daylight the dead, with the
! exception of Engineer Wescott, had
been removed and the injured had
been sent away.
There was crowd around the
Atlantic Hospital when the injured
began to arrive. At the railroad
station. police patroled the plat
form so that the injured could be
removed from the relief train. "A
large staff Of physicians was on
hand at the hospital.
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