| Rail Disaster - Death Toll Nears 100 In New Jersey Wreck | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 1556 |
| Catalog #: | 351075 | |
| Clip Number: | 351075-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 024-429-01 | |
| Timecode: | 00:22:17 - 00:25:00 | |
| Location: | Woodbridge, New Jersey | |
| Year Shot: | 1951 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | DISASTERS: Rescues DISASTERS: Survivors DISASTERS: Train Wrecks DISASTERS: Victims LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA, New Jersey TRANSPORTATION/RAIL: Passenger | |
| Description: | Rail Disaster - Death Toll Nears 100 In New Jersey Wreck With 82 known dead and the toll rising rapidly, one of the worst tragedies in America's railroad history goes on record. Five hundred are injured as a commuter train from New York plunges from a temporary trestle. OHS - night, rescuers cutting steel with a welding torch. MCU One on the rail road cars up-side-down. MCU Train engine laying on its side. CU Inside of the train where the roof was torn off. CU Human body parts, legs and torso of another soul crushed by the train. MCU Rescuers pulling bodies from the wrecked train. MLS Rescuers on top of the train pulling bodies from the train. CU State Police Emergency Unit - First Aid And Rescue Squad, Annville, N.J - Cedar Grove Rescue Squad - Milltown Rescue Squad - Verona Rescue Squad - Sayreville Emergency Squad. CU Two rescue volunteers, men carrying a survivor on a stretcher. MCU More rescue volunteers carrying a survivor on a stretcher. CU Three men putting a dead person in a station wagon covered up. CU Ambulances carrying the survivors to hospitals. MCU Survivors lined up on stretchers on the ground waiting to be taken to the hospital or morgue. MCU Blood transfusions taken place. MCU Dead people, covered, lined up on the ground. MCU Daytime shot, showing the tab disaster. Twisted rails and de-railed train cars. CU Twisted mass of steel that was one a passenger car. The train trestle that gave away. Derailed train cars and twister train tracks. CU The mass destruction of the railroad cars. CU A man's pair of shoes laying in the mud, hat laying in the mud. MCU Hats and a jacket laying on the broken trestle. CU A gentleman staring at the passenger train with broken windows and twisted steel. MCU Camera pans one passenger train upright and the other cars laying on their sides or up-side-down with rescue men walking about. | |
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