Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-21
THREE ARE ACCUSED
IN PENNSY WRECK
One on Train Is Injured Fa-
tally and 60 Are Hurt in
Crash With Stranded Car.
BY the Associated Press.

! BY the Associated Press.
ELIZABETH, N. j., July 21.-Three
men whose automobile wrecked a pas
senger express train from Philadelphia
! to New York Saturday night causing
were under charges Of manslaughter
! today.
| Arthur Alcroft. an Elizabeth build
| ing contractor; his brother Jones, a
member of the faculty of Ohio North
| ern University, Ada. Ohio, and Will
! liam McNair of Elizabeth were held
| in connection with the death of John
Craig 148 McDougal street Brooklyn.
Craig died yesterday in Elizabeth Gen
eral Hospital of fracture Of the skull
and internal injuries received in the
wreck
None of the so victims who remained
in hospitals is expected to die.
The locomotive and tender were over
| turned and two coaches hurtled down
! a 30-foot enbankment at trestle after
| the train struck the automobile short
| distance east of the South Elizabeth
| Station of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
| In his cell, Arthur Allcroft explained
! that his car had been abandoned on
| the tracks in the path of the onruSh-
| ing train. He had driven down a
I street WHICH diOtlSoluC
1 the tracks. THE first thing l knew,
he said, Il drove on to the south end
of the station platform of the South
! Elizabeth Station and my front wheels
! dropped down to the tracks foot be-
! low the platform
| With the headlight of the approach
] ing train visible about a mile down
| the track, Allcroft drove the car of
! the platform. planning he said, to back
I Al. lNn
| ing train. His brother and McNair got
out AS he drove off the platform The
wheels skidded on the tracks, however,
| he said, forcing him to jump a mo-
ment before the car was struck.
List ofsInjured.
A list of the injured persons taken
from the wreck to the Elizabeth nos
pitfalls follows:
ST. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Robert
Howaland, Metuchen. N. j., condition
critical: Charles Marlborough, Newark;
John Haslinger u. S. S. Collier, Phila-
delphia, Charlotte Fulton, Trenton, N,
j.; George Esterley Poughkeepsie, N.
Y; Michael Sisti, Trenton; Leroy Ia
gere. u S. S. Colorado, Brooklyn Navy
Yard; Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Henson,
New York; John McDadeysen, Phila-
! delphia; James Lewis. Philadelphia;
James johnson, Brooklyn; Frank Muir
ply Philadelphia; Lewis Cizmadia,
Trenton, N. j.: Paul Horn. East Lans-
downe, Paul Taylor, Faulkraft Hook
Pa; Mrs. Rose Zimmerman, Philadel-
phia: Joseph Costello, Philadelphia;
Thomas Turner, Bristol, Pa; Jacob
Kyzer, New York; John Hoslinger
New York
At Elizabeth General Hospital-Sam-
uel Greenberg, Philadelphia; Alfred
Gettres. Brooklyn; Ambrose Summers
Edgley, Pa; Nathan Ingbrer, the Bronx
New York George Thompson Sloan
New York; w r. Harvey. Wrigley, N. c..
C. A. Olson, New York; Leroy Terhune
Newark; Max Paxson, Morrisville, Pa.
Harry Goldberg, Philadelphia; Ernest
Irwin, New York; John Austin, New
York; Isadore Silverman, New York
George Harrington West Philadelphia
Isadore Seldman, New York; w. b
Haney Murpheysville. N. C.: Mary Paar
New York; Francis Citizens, Brooklyn
John Craigh, Brooklyn; Leon di Cir
lora, New York; e. S. Llewellen, III
Sycamore St. Columbus, Ind; D. e
Lewellen and Miss Llewellen, Battle
Greek Sanitarium, Mich; Jacob Hey
man, Newark; Herbert Furman, the
engineer; Mary Rye, Philadelphia; Pear
Hosenburg, Brooklyn; Mrs. w. P. Kelly
and daughter, Philadelphia: Edna Huff
Ridgeway, N. j.; John Muff, New York
Mary Dublnndy, Jersey City; Auanits
Fall, Philadelphia; Capt. Jacques M
Swaad, New York.