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Show HEAVY STONE DROPPED ON FAST TRAIN AS IT PASSED UNDER BRIDGE BAYONNE, N. J., March 28. An attempt to damage a New Jersey Central train while it was passing through Bayonne last night, running at the rate of about fifty miles an hour, narrowly escaped resulting in death or at least In-Jury In-Jury to many passengers. The train was heavily loaded. As It was passing under un-der the bridge at East Forty-sixth street, some one dropped a stone weighing about thirty pounds from the bridge to the top of the coaches It Is supposed the purpose was to. drop the rock on the engine. The rock had a twenty-foot drop. It hlt'4he roof of the first passepger coach, broke through, shattered the gas chandeliersand fell into the aisle between seats that contained passengers. The noise of the stone tearing through the roof and dropping to the floor caused women to scream and faint, and there was general excitement In the car. A brakeman, not knowing what had occurred, pulled the emergency brake cord and the train was stopped suddenly. |