Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1923-09-12

About 800 ties were ripped IN or
torn to shreds by the wheels OF
the freight cars, many of which wes
loaded. Rails on both tracks were
bent out of shape, Overturned or
torn up completely. Several OF the
cars We're damaged during the rough
riding over the ties ana twisted
rails.
News of the accident was duIel<ls
nashed TO the main office of the - Il
road and arrangements were maliS
to shunt off trains by way OF Afon-
mouth Junction, to New Brunswick.
ana thence over the Pennsylvaf1fa
main line to Newark, where The
Central trains again were run o5a
their own tracks. About Q O'Clock
trains commenced to run as far as
the wreck, the passengers being
forced TO alight and walk to the
other end of the wreck, where they
boarded another train and contfn-
ued their journey. The wreck was
responsible for hundreds OF COM
muters being held up until arrange
ments could be made TO run a tens-
porary schedule during the time the
tracks were blocked.
The Lehigh Valley wreeking .raia
was taken to the scene OF the acci-
dent to assist in clearing the tracks
This crew worked from the south
end of the wreck while the Central
Railroad wrecker started on the
north end to place the cars back on
the tracks.
All of the section gangs between
Elizabethport and this city, were
picked up by the Central Railroad
worktrain which came in about
o'clock. Before the arrival OF these
men, about 100 OF them, work in
tearing up the south-bound ties and
rails had been begun by about
twenty-five track repair men who
were taken to the job before o.
clock.
The freight train was made up OF
loaded cars and empties Of all de-
seriptions, including box cars, tank
cars, fiat cars and coal cars. The
train is thought TO have been travel
ing at fast rate when the acci-
dent occurred as the distance from
the point where the sand car LEFT
the track to the point where the
train stopped was approximately zoo
yards.
The south-bound tracks for a dis
tance of about 200 feet were bent out
Of shape, the steel rails giving way
essary to place new sets of-W1eels
under the wrecked sand car before
it could be moved and other cars
had to be repaired before they could
be taken away. A supply train
brought a large number Of new ties
to replace those which had been
ground to shreds and others which
had been too badly damaged to per-
nit of further use. Several lengths
of new rails also were procured
to replace the bent and broken ones
It was estimated by railroad men
that one line would be cleared Of
the wreckage and repaired SO that
service over it could be resumed at
noon or shortly thereafter.
The report of the wreck quickly
spread about the city and hundreds
fiocked to the scene OF the accident.
An early report was to the effect
that a passenger and freight train
had crashed in the heavy fog this
morning but this rumor was soon
found to be untrue by those who
went to the wreck.
Officials from the New York and
Jersey City offices of both the Penns
sylvania and Central railroads were
on hand giving instructions, arranx-
ing to continue service and have
traffic resumed over the main line as
soon as possible. Several police ON
GERS were at the scene keeping back
the inquisitive crowd from the work
men who were working at top speed
to clear away the wreckaee and
make repairs.
At 1890 o'cloc kthis afternoon
the wreck has been cleared away.
and trains were operating over the
rails as usual. The south bound
track was the first one opened Is
traffic. Trains began running over
this track at 1880. Both north and
sout Inbound trains were operated
over the south bound track Until
so. when the north bound track
was also opened. Section men HlII
be employed at the scene 81 fht
wreck for the balance 0f ths day
smoothing out the road bed aud
doing other work about the tracks,