| Show DA DAY Y FROM DAWN TO DARKNESS fi FILLED WITH BITTER SORROW Hl Hundreds of Mourners About Atlantic City Morgue Only Morgue Only Approximations Approximations Approximations Ap Ap- as to Exact Number of Victims of Disaster FEARLESS CORONER 18 IS S MAKING INVESTIGATION Everything Seems to 10 Point to Faulty Mechanism of the Drawbridge Drawbridge Drawl Draw Draw- l bridge Though O Officials Strenuously Deny That A Anything Was Wrong I n r f Atlantic cn City N N. J J. J Oct 29 After After i L t n a day that thai from ram dam dawn rn lo to darkness has ha been tilled filled with bitter sorrow orrow for hundreds hun bun of mourners about the cH city morgue and undertaking shops shop and amI with hard un unsatisfactory labor for Cor hundreds more of oC rescuers and invest invest- t gators out around th the thoroughfare drawbridge only approximations may yet et be made as as to lo the exact number f of victims stuns o of o- yesterdays yesterday's heartrending rend heart s ing ng M. M t PI and as to the exact cause of the electric trains train's running off Mr the bridge and 31 carrying down its ItH human freIght to th death In the deep deepwater p water below 4 It Is IR now certain that there are aro G dead dad The bodies hodle of f 51 1 have rave been heen re recovered recovered recovered re- re covered and identified d and two persons persons per per- sons In addition to tho those c who ar are known to have been drowned because e el l they th were seen In in the second car of tho the train Just before it took Its fatal Catal plunge The second car r Is still under wat water r r l 1 having res resisted Innumerable efforts of oC the Iho most powerful wrecking cranes Divers who went down to adjust t cables about this car report that the they saw MW five or six Ix human forms among rt jr seat real cushions and other debris In Inside P Two 1 o Curs Cars Searched I he Ii b Ii ni 1 1 t l' til h I 1 two LV e contents The Thc about t tilled filled with water still rests the abutment nt supportIng support- support Ing lug the bridge The former has b been cn hauled Into the shallows near the eastern east ear ern shore of or the thoroughfare In that fifty f feet et of wood and steel over whose top th the sal saU tide ha has drawn lawn lawna a veil of or J. J teensy CleC are the remaining victims If U there ar are an any It is likely likely likely like like- ly however that there ma may be a halt half dozen more bo bodies les yet et to tu recover bringing t the c total number o of dead cu e. e close to sixty It H is IN hardly possible te hut any bodies were carried away by bythe rr the tide for fOI th thoro ro has haR not been a moH moI moment mo mo- H I ment rent since the tho accident occurred when 6 the thc thoroughfare has not been dotted with hundreds of boats containing watchers and grapplers t a f Mechanism Was n Faulty A As to lo the cau cause e e of or the accident there t tt i. i seems to be only one answer possible lo k the drawbridge mechanism m did hl not notE E lock luck properly and th the ou outside rail mil on un 1 the dl draw w span as not in alignment Si j S with It its mute mate upon the solid span tM i P n railroad railroad officials have boon t trying to disprove this nil all day fj f 7 Over and over o again g they have ha operated ed I th draw lo tu show the coroners coroner's s jur jury and other Investigators In how it was mechanically met impossible for fur the Hll i. i draw not to have lucked locked And each cach time the they worked the l levers and hydraulic hy h- lifts the bridge dl did lock perfectly per per- and th the twisted and torn rail 5 which caused the disaster l astr acted exactly exactly exact exact- ly an as the they ald said It should The They de declared declared de- de Blared that It must have bE been cn u a broken brok brok- 4 en flan flange p. p on ol one e of oC the wheels or something which dropper dropped rewn AIom one of oC the trucks that thai caused the Iho rail mil upon th tug draw to be torn from Crom its position ther thereby b throwing the train upon the th tle lies Iles t Coroner Is r. s. s t I nut But u the coroner J J. J C C. Gaskill who I if r r Is 3 a determined fearless official and f 1 his jurors who are tC men carefully sor se- se selected t. t r J ct d for COl their high type o of Rc i tJ gence nce could coul not see ee how this I I c- c was mechanically po possible 0 For between the en end of of the rail t r upon the solid span and the end of or the ripped out rail upon the draw t there thero would have hats been only three- three quarters of or an nn Inch of space had toe tile latter l' l rail rall been In its proper propel place when the tho train rolled upon It f How a broken flange could have caused this to tear away from florn a solid r box ox In which It was waR automatically conOne confined confined con con- fined One when In proper propel posit position no Investigator in investigator In- In ve ator could understand und Neither I. I could it be made clear how an any thing J falling from a true truck could coul have ripped rippee rip rip- i pee ped out the rail tall If the heavy l of track was mated with the length th nf nt solid span nothing er than a n aman's amans amans aman's f mans man's thumb could have hav fa fallen 11 between between bey be be- y t tween them and cau caused one to be bp separated red from the other But tho they were separated an and tho the f i outside rail upon the draw was struck C squarely upon its end by something ti It was bent into the shape of or an at atS attenuated attenuated at- at S S S 'S and after the accident the tho end enil that was struck was lying eighteen n inches away from Its normal f S 'S place Rail Hull Was Vas a Not In Place This afternoon Immediately after the examination of ot the drawbridge 5 mechanism and of or the tho exact spot where the cars started to leave leae the V tracks ks Coroner Gaskill was asked the tho question t What In your our opinion caused that tt rail to be he struck truck and torn away From what I have ha seen 1 I think tho the rail was not riot In Its place he be replied y It looks UH as If it as It had not gone gono down into to lt UM its confining box l but ut was rid riding illS upon one Vile edge edg-e of the box hox 1 I am de de- de ei e- e i 1 i that if Ir this w was s so o wo we will trill learn the r reason n on why 1 When hen the t first r t car was lifted from the tho bottom II by the wr wrecking derrick derrick- Its front WI wheels tR and trucks were WI attached attached at at- to the bOIl body but hilt they slipped hack back Into the till water There TheIl was a report among the spectators who saw taw them that they were Intact and no non n flange was wa broker Beyond a doubt however the accident will co cost t the tilt Pennsylvania railroad an enormous sum stun In damage o suits and settlements for fol It seems IEm certain that some defect in th the bridge equipment or the r c cars cars' running gear was wa responsible for the th frightful I loss log f oC cC life Ilfe A point which Coroner ft ask has already l brought rought out appears appeals bad Hl for forthe forthe the he railroad ont One of the first things that he JH and all nil the other spectators noticed that hat no part of the bridge was wa equipped with guard g Jall rails ails Will Call Many se Railroad officials official survivors hOI spectators tars tors and every one connected tt lIh ith the operation of the ill fated train and andor of or th the drawbridge will twill be rH called ailed as witnesses at th the Inquest t. t which will willbe willbe l be P h held ld on Thurs Thursday a Packed to lit their Ill full capacity every morning Into Atlantic City brought hundreds hUndle s of oC people to 10 the public morgue and un undertaking t establishments establishments establish establish- men ments Is where the till bodies of the victims of the disaster reposed t d In death Throughout the day a n steady stream tream of ot humanity passed through the buildings nn and each ench f face dec cc as ns It emerged t ed tI 1 told Its hs own tale talo of the mIser misery undergone undergo durin during th the Inspection of the ghostly ghastly faces face J The Tho police estimated d between three e j and four i th thousand usand people vi visited the Y w t j Pitiful Scenes at Morgue hH The rhe scenes jocIne inside the morgue morgue were J Jeven even more pitiful than titan on the tho previous 1 evening the Identification l of sons ons and husbands b by mothers and wives at times causing the lie hardened policemen to leave tho room Governor Stokes called upon Postmaster Postmaster Post Post- master this afternoon ex expressing tx ex- pressing hi his sorrow Horrow at th the great disaster disaster dis dis- aster an and extending ing his sympathy to the relatives of the th unfortunate vic vic- tims Re lil t list of Dead lul The revised rc list of dead dea whose bodies bod bod- bodies ies les have been blon Identified follow Benckert Clarence Philadelphia Benckert HaI Harry Philadelphia ert Mrs 1 Mary mother of Han Harry and Clarence DrowN Bower Robert Hobert Philadelphia Brown Miss l Cora B B. l Eastport Me Brodish Mrs 1 Waller n. n Hast Eastport port Maine Burch II II C C. body l ody not yet cL crt ered d. d I Cart Carter r William Willlam Philadelphia Carter Cartor Mrs VIII William Villiam lam Philadelphia Cervadoro Constantino Philadel el- el phia Thomas Philadelphia Dempsey John P. P Camden Camdon N N. J. J Dempsey Demps y Mrs Irs hrs Jda Ida his wife I co Frank Philadelphia Philadelphia Edwards William Woodbury N N. J J. J Egan James Atlantic CIl City N J. J Felsburg Dr Paul Pall Philadelphia Felsburg Mrs lr Francis his wife Freed Emunuel known on vaudeville vaudeville vaude vaude- ville stage c as Emanuel Bernard New ew York German Albert L L. Lt Philadelphia Harris Clifford negro Philadelphia Philadel Philadel- el- el phia Harris St. St Clair negro ro Philadel Philadel- phia Hersch Mrs Martha lartha Philadelphia Hazel Gertrude Camden Hell fell Samuel Hamuel Germantown Pa Samuel Philadelphia Kober John Philadelphia Albert Camden Ile Charles Chatles E R. Camden Kline William Stewart Wenonah N. N J. J Terence Mrs 1 Laura ura Philadelphia McElroy Mrs Evaline Emline Philadel Philadelphia el- el I phia McElroy McElroy- Olivia her daughter McElroy Joseph her son Melward Joseph Philadelphia Frank brother Philadel Philadel- phia Miller Mrs Anna Philadelphia Miller 1 III er Lester Iester her son SOli leM Edw Edward Edwd d Philadelphia Rudders Dr 1 Alvin C. C Philadelphia Rudders Mrs Ir Alvin ln C. C hi his wife wire Rittenhouse Mrs l Ella Philadelphia Philadelphia Philadel phia Mrs Ella Mary Phil Phil- ad adelphia Scott Waller aH 0 11 motorman Atlantic CIt City Stewart Mrs hS h'S W W. I H. H Wenonah N N. J. J Turner George Atlantic City co Armand Arman Alexis New cw York George H. H Camden Mrs l Selma his wife Zimmerman John Philadelphia Clara Rittenhouse Philadelphia Mrs Irs Samuel Itch Helt Germantown The bodies of or two men and a woman woman woman wo wo- man still remain unidentified The Tho following ng persons were wro known to lo have been passengers on the train Iraln but lout their oodles bodies have havo not been recognized recognized reeo rec ree- o as yet Armand Arman Alexis Ea esco New York Mother of or Mrs Annie Miller Philadelphia Philadelphia Phil Phil- adelphia name namu unknown Mrs Irs Julius Felsberg A. A R. R l Camden Mrs Mrs- A. A R It Endicott Camden John E E. I Kelley lIer Schenectady N. N Y W. W A A. A Atlantic CIt City W. W H. H Stewart alt Wenonah N N. J Frank N N. Y Barr Harry N N. Burch Durch Camden |
