Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1924-08-07

The dead are:
Mrs. T. @. Lester. Los Angeles
Thomas Miller. thirty. Highland
Park.
Ray Cole. twenty-eight. IL Cod.
wise avenue. New Brunswick.
John SchesIa. twenty-seven. IA
Remsen avenue. New Brunswick.
Raymond Solder, twenty-eight. 50
Suydam street, New Brunswick.
The injured are:
Il. @. Lester, Los Angeles. Cal.
Mrs. Grover Deppe. Philadelphia
Pa.
Curtis Clark. twenty-eight. 55 Jer.
sey avenue. New Brunswick. ...s
Fourth Man Dies
Raymond Soder, twenty-eight
years old. of SO Suydam street, New
Brunswick, passed away at M1dQte-
| sex hospital early this afternoon. ~
had been suffering from q fractures
skull and Internal IN turieS; ana 81
| the fourth of the five men in the ca
which was struck this morning. "a
| die.
The Los Angeles woman was dead
shortly after the accident and her
husband is suffering from two
broken ribs, numerous bruises and
cuts and his condition is serious. The
second woman in the car. Mrs.
Deppe, is badly bruised. but will re.
cover the hospital authorities have
announced.
Second Accident
A few minutes before 6 o'clock
this morning, five employees of the
Public Service Company. decided to
go to the crossing and view the
scene of last nights disaster before
reporting for work in New Bruns-
wick.
They passed the crossing and on
their way back. Chauffeur Miller
evidently spied the fast approaching
train and endeavored to apply the
brakes before meeting of the en-
gine and the machine at the cross
ing. 1t is said the high powered car
was going at a graf pace. judging
the manner in which the car skid,
ded.
The car was brought practically
to stop on the tracks and in a Sec
ond or so. the engine landed on this
drivers side. Miller. Cole and
Scheska were killed instantly. Soder
Is in Middlesex hospital with a frac-
tured skull and internal injuries.
while Clark is badly burned. Their
automobile was not carried any dis
tance as in the first accident. II
remained in practically the same
spot as the collision occurred.
The Lester car was proceeding to
Philadelphia shortly before s o'clock
yesterday evening and was struck at
the crossing short distance from
Voorhees, station and two miles from
New Brunswick. The automobiie q
closed car, was carried by the loco
motive for a distance of about three
hundred feet.
Under Sheriff William 8. Hanna,
on the way to Trenton, was one of
the first on the scene after the
smashup and assisted the train crew
in taking Mrs. Lester from the
wr 1ckage, and all three were taken
to Middlesex hospital.
The center of the Lincoln High
way along this stretch Is the divid-
ing line OF Middlesex and Somerset
counties. and vehicles using the
right side of the roaa going from
this city are in Somerset. As the
Lester car was headed for Phi1adeI-
phia and evidently was on the right
side of the road, the Somerset coun-
ty authorities are investigating that
Investigation of this mornings
action shows that the car driven by
Miller skidded considerably In at
tempting to stop before reaching the
crossing, and that IL was on the left
and Somerset county side OF the
road when the collision took place.
The Puollc Service men had prev
iously passed the crossing and were
on their way back to this city when
the secohd accident happened.
Under Sheriff Hanna is az a loss
to know how anyone could miss
seeing a train on this railroad, as
the crossing can be seen for half
mile each way. 1t Is evident that
the driver this morning endeavored
to skid from the road to prevent
reaching the railroad, but was not
able to go off the highway on ac-
(Cortin. ed on page 4l
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