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Show ... ' ' ". , mm mm iiommh : Ym m mm wmm to iidqe ' .. - " ' v t ; . : ; : - : Electric Train Goes Through Open Drawbridge Draw-bridge and Passengers, Caged in Cars, Are Thrown Into Watery Victims k Packed in Ends of Submerged Cars, '; ' ATLANTIC CITY, N. J Oct. 29.--Mends of Walter . Bcott, motorman of the .wrecked train, who is among the dead, told a story here last nignt that Scott had a quarrel with his father and mother in Camden before starting for his day s work. The father, an old locomotive fireman, insisted in-sisted that the trains. run over the electric railway were not safe, and that they were sure to come to grief. Mrs. Scott hung on her son's arms and begged him not to take tJ Jrairi out, but the young man brushed his parents aside. Rsjt stuck to his controller and threw on the air brakes ks is train left the tracks. Survivors say they felt the gripping of the iron, shoes on the wheels, and the. second and third cars' sloweH up If thV couplings had let go, it is probable that only the first coach would Jiave fallen.pff , the bridge, but the couplings held fast. - . - - MRS. ELLA EITTENHOFER, Philadelphia. Phil-adelphia. ELLA RITTENHOFER, daughter. .MISS MARTHA HICE, Philadelphia. WILLIAM EDWARDS, Woodbury, MRS. ,WH. STEWART, Wenona, N. J. . : WILLIAM S. KLTSE, 7 yeara old, .Wenona v . ;; . ALBERT KES8EL, Camden,. IT. J," ALBKBT-?BTTMAN.; Philadelphia:-?B. Philadelphia:-?B. IL FINCKELSTEIN, Beading, I FRAKK.ITERWARD, JOSEFH HEIT-WARD, HEIT-WARD, brothers, Philadelphia. -VICENZO DONIELE, Atlantic City. GEORGE TURNER, colored, Atlantic City. H. N. BURCH of Philadelphia was with Andrew Taylor, also of Philadelphia, Philadel-phia, the two sitting side by side. Taylor Tay-lor was saved and Burch was. drowned. Missing.' Joseph McElroy, S years old. . Gertrude Hayes, colored, Camden, J. , ' . Dajored. . r - William H. Stewart, WenoLa, N. internally, fatal. '. Frank Deceri, Philadelphia, internal, fatal. John Fortunato, Philadelphia, internal, inter-nal, fatal. Joseph Devito, manager Tosca 'a band, Philadelphia, internal, severe contusions. contu-sions. Angelo Granzein, Philadelphia, serious. seri-ous. , Andrew Taylor, Camden, fatally. Ida Taylor, Florence, N. J., internally. inter-nally. Edward Morgan, Scranton, concussion of brain. Al Reese, Scranton, severe. O. R. Natello, Philadelphia, concussion concus-sion of brain. H. B. Joseph, Camden, N. J., contusions. contu-sions. ' John Dougherty, Philadelphia, cut about head. George MeGee, Philadelphia, wounded about body. Draw Falls to Work. The wreck occurred at the drawbridge draw-bridge which spans the Thoroughfare, a small waterway about one mile outside out-side of the city, just on the eastern edge of the meadows, and was directly due to the draw failing to work proper! prop-er! r. The schooner Sinbad. which was recently re-cently wrecked off Winter Quarter shoals light, a short distance -rom the Delaware breakwater, had just passed through the drawbridge. As the schooner schoon-er was entering the draw the electric train hove in sight and started across the meadow from the direction of Pleas-antville. Pleas-antville. Before the draw had swung into place the three cars, which were running at a high rate of speed, dashed on the trestle. With a lurch the forward car left the rails and dashed into the guard rail, the other two cars following. One Oar Suspended. At the point where the ears jumped the track the top of the trestle is nearly twenty feet high. The first two ATLANTIC CITY, N. J, Oct. 29. As the details of yesterday's terrible . wreck on the electric line of the West Jersey A Seashore railroad developed during the night,. the disaster became moro appaSing. - - The total number of persona whoso lives were snuffed jot almost instantly .Js. rrctably aixty-nix,' " with nearly a score- injtire'severajrorvrfidm" it Is" thought, will die, . ; At 11 o'clock: today llfty-ona bodies lad been recovered from the two cars loaded with men, women and children, "which dashed into the Thoroughfare, and one of the-cars had been brought to tho shore. Of the dead forty-two have been "identified. How many, if any, remain , in the second car, is not known, but, with the aid of the divers who were brought here from Philadelphia it is thought that the second car will be completely com-pletely surveyed "before noon. The fact that some "bodies were recovered re-covered outside of the cars leads to the belief that possibly not all of these drowned may ever be recovered. - Ninety-One on Train. There were ninety-one persons on the train. Twenty-five of this number have been accounted for which, with the bodies recovered, bring the total to sixty-six. This leaves fifteen persons not accounted for and who are supposed to have been drowned. It is the belief of the ' divers ' that some of the bodies floated through the broken windows out into the Thorough- - fare and were carried by the swift cur-rt cur-rt out into the Atlantic. t police headquarters it was stated - XuiP morning that the effects found on bodies were not sufficient to permit of identification of more than six, and that identification will have to be made by personal inspection. All of the bodies are being embalmed. The early morning trains brought many persons from Philadelphia and other points who were anxious to learn if a dear one bad been swept to death by the awful disaster.. List of Identified Dead. - MRS. FRED' K. BENCKERT, Philadelphia. Phila-delphia. CLARENCE BENCKERT, 12, and HARRY BENCKERT, . W. L. WALKER, Philadelphia. "DAVID FRIED, New York. J. P. DEMPSEY. Camden, N. J. MRS. IDA DEMPSEY, Lambertville, V. J. MRS. CORA RIDDLE . BROWN, Eastport, Me. MRS. SELINA W0MFER, Camden, n. j. . JAMES- EAGAN, Atlantic City, N. J. LAURA LAWRENCE. Philadelphia. MRS. BRA DISH. Atlantic City, N. J. SAMUEL IFFEL, Germantown, Pa. WALTER SCOTT, Atlantic City, N.J. - , T - FRANK MONROE, Camden, N. J. VICENTE DONNELLE, member Tosca Tos-ca 's Royal Militarv band, Philadelphia. PASQUALE MOZELLE, Tosca ' band, Philadelphia. - FREDERICK D. SOCERESCO, Tos-ca's Tos-ca's band, Philadelphia- $ P. ANGUEROFO, Tosca band, Philadelphia. Phil-adelphia. ' DR. A. L. HUDDERS, Boxborough, Philadelphia, Pa. - MRS. CATHARINE HUDDERS, his DR. PAUL FELSBERG, 38, Philadel-PhMRS Philadel-PhMRS FRANCES FELSBERG, his J IDIE NIESS, 5 years old, Philadel- vrVylVIA MTLROY Philadelphia, ' vV MRS. W. L. CARTER, Philadelphia. JOHN ZIMMERMAN. Philadelphia. with another motorman and his death was the result ears were instantly submerged, but the third car of the train caught on an abutment and remained suspended. It was this car from whieh nearly all of the injured escaped. The news of the disaster was quickly telegraphed to' this city, and in less than an hour the work of rescue had begun. . At the time of the accident the tide, which rises about ten feet, was running in and the work of the divers was slow. It was not until several hours, later that the divers were, able to make any progress. . . Awf nines of Disaster.' Then the awful evidences of the disaster, became more apparent. When the two cars struck the bottom of the waterway they stood almost on end, and the first man to descend reported that the victims were packed in the lower ends of the submerged cars so tightly that it was difficult to move them. One by one the bodies were carried to a waiting train and' laid side by side, later to be brought to this city and placed in the Empire theater, which was used as a temporary morgue. Thousands of persons quickly gathered at the scene or the disaster and a score of boats surrounded the spot where the cars disappeared, but they were unable to render any aid. , Pathetic Scenes at Morgue. . At the morgue the scenes were pa-thctic-r Persons who had friends on the ill-fated cars crowded about the door, and with difficulty were restrained from forcing their way into the building. One of the most heart-rending incidents inci-dents was furnished by Frederick Benckert, who lost his entire family, a wife and two children. Benekert was not informed of the accident until too late to catch a train, and he hurried here in an automobile. When he saw the bodies of his wife and two little boys lying side by side on the floor, "Benckert collapsed and had to be carried car-ried from the building. Walter Scott, the motorman, was killed because of his anxiety to spend part of the day with his wife here. It was Scott's custom to run only as far as Millville, but today he swapped runs |