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Show FIVE PERSONS ARE INSTANTLY KILLED CAPE MAY, N. J.. Aug. 9. Five persons were crushed to death tonight when a train on the Pennsylvania dashed into an automobile at Mill Lan crossing on th West Jersey and Seashore Railroad.. The dead are : FREDERICK W. FELDNER MRS. FREDERICK W. FELDNER FITZ MERGENTHALER MRS. FRITZ MERGENTHALER M. C. JONES, chauffeur, all of Baltimore. Mr. Mergenthalcr was a son of Ott- rnar Mergenthaler, Inventor of the Linotype. The express train was hidden from view by a corn field and It was Impossible Im-possible for the chauffeur to see the train until he was within a few feet of the tracks.. As the automob.te bore down toward the train Mrs. Thomas McNeill, who lives near the crossing, saw the approaching express and waved her hand frantically for the automobile driver to stop his cat, but the man either dio not see the danger signal or thought he could cross the tracks before the train reached him.. The express struck the automobile squarely Detween the wheels and threw It and all of the occupants clear of the tracks. |