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Show THREE SCORE SENT -TO DEATH Terrible Disaster Occurs on Trestle Bridge of Electric Seaboard Line. Train Is Thrown From the Track, Three Cars Plunging Into the Water, the Passengers Being Caught Like Rats In a Trap. Atlantic City, N. .1. Dy tho wrecking wreck-ing of a three-coach electric train on tho West Jersey & Seashore railroad Sunday afternoon nt least fifty passengers passen-gers perished and tho list mny reach tho total of sovonty-flvo when nil Is known. Whllo crossing th draw-brldgo draw-brldgo spanning tho waterway known as tho "Thoroughfare," which separates separ-ates Atlantic City from tho mainland, tho train left the tracks and plunged Into tho water. The passengers In tho first two Clinches, with ono or two exceptions, wcro drowned. Tho nccldcnt was witnessed by many persons on shore, nnd assistance was promptly sent from Atlantic City. Llttlo could bo dono, liowover, townrd saving tho lives of thoso Imprisoned In Uio submerged coaches. Tho wntcr at tho point whoro the train plunged In was not deep enough to cover tho conches nt first, but ns they settled In tho mud nnd ns tho tldo roso they wero soon hidden from sight. Tho ontlro city was thrown Into a stato of oxcltcmcnt, ns tho nows rearJied town n fow minutes after It happoned. Fully 6000 pcoplo crowded tho mendows nnd tho trcstlo, many rclatlvos and friends crying out In do-spalr, do-spalr, asking for loved ones. Chief of Pollco Maxwell had a cordon of pollco swung nround tho death clrclo, and Chief Black ot tho flro department called out his men and mndo them pollco temporarily. |