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EiMit Great Services Associated Press Science Service AP Wirephoto Women's News Service Chicago Daily News Foreign Service United Press International Dow Jones UPI Photo Gcrda Morning Small craft warnings displayed for easterly winds 20 to 30 mph briefly up to 45 mph in squalls early today Otherwise partly cloudy with scattered showers High 86 to 90 Tuesday September 16 1958 No 288 Florida's Most Complete Neuspaper 48th Year 48 Pages 5 Cents A Lfttla Americas Edition Publithed Daily Death Toll of at Least 40 eared Many Survivors Swim Out Coach Windoivs At UF I i I -jLvnt Orlando Vet In Law School dangling from it I tied it around my wrist and the helicopter tow ed me to a boat "I thought you live underwater for more than four minutes but I think I was under longer than that I saw my w'allet floating by down there and made a grab for it I know why "You think that your life would flow past before your eyes But that the way it w-as I just thought: This is Robert Klein 54 of New York said that he had been looking out of a window as the train approached the trestle "I saw a steamer approaching the trestle at the same time as the train was nearing it at a high rate of he said "I thought to myself going to be trouble The engineer have seen the signal or something Anyway he applied the brakes and the train skidded off the rails and along the ties "A few seconds later I found myself underwater I tried to is already lost If I go down there to try to get her it will just mean that I will die Another survivor Lloyd Nelson 33 Little Silver was a passenger aboard one of the sunken coaches "I was reading a newspaper and Nelson said "The first thing I heard was screeching brakes Fortunately I was sitting by an open window When the train hit the water I crawled out the window and almost as soon as I fame to the surface I was picked up by a Paul Land 48 of Rumson partner in a Wall Street brokerage firm said: "The first thing I noticed was that the w'heels came off the track We went bumping along the ties for about 1200 feet Suddenly there was a severe jolt I was pitched forward The next thing we were in the water I broke the window I swam out of the window and crawled up the side of the car I stayed there for a while and then I saw a helicopter come along with a rope I Turn to Page 2A Col 7 1 Presi Wirephoto Commuter Car Hangs Perilously From Open Bridge as Rescue Tugs Arrive survivors bobbed to surface but the dead had to be extricated from wreckage Police Put on Alert NEW JERSEY Little Rock Calm Schools Closed By BERT COLLIER Herald Staff Writer GAINESVILLE With a total lack of fanfare George Henry Starke Jr 27-year-oid Air Force veteran from Or-landp Monday became the first Negro student to enroll in a previously segrated state school He was accepted as a 'graduate student in the University of Florida law school and will prepare himself for a career at the bar specializing in corporate law Starke went almost unnoticed as he entered the auditorium at the law building and sat quietly in the front row during registration preliminaries Numerous plain clothes and campus police mingled with the students but had nothing to do Later University officials said the historic integration under a federal court order went on in completely normal manner and Starke added that his first day at the university was wonderful "Naturally I was under some pressure and was a little said Starke Ha described his first relationships with fellow students as Starke will live in a private home off the campus and will atend classes for the next three years The young Negro whose father Dr George Henry Starke is a general practitioner in Sanford said he made the decision personally to register at the University of Florida "I was a student member of the he said "but they have nothing to do with my being here Neither has any other Starke said he decided on a law career after leaving the Air Force in 1957 and filed applications with schools outside the South Several favorable replies were received "But w'hen I heard the University of Florida would admit qualified Negro students I decided to apply in my home state Although the deadline was passed they gave me Starke took his entrance examinations at the University of South Carolina and i grade was "comfortably the minimum required by the State Board of Control "My big reason for wanting to attend the University of Florida was said Starke who is getting assistance under the GI bill "But another important point Turn to Page 2A Col 3 NEWARK Newark Airport Bay 'I)' BAYONNE ELIZABETH Flolbush BROOKLYN By Herald Wire Servieei LITTLE ROCK The four high schools here closed without incident Monday but Gov Orval Faubus put state police on a "tentative and ortered them to help quell any disorder and even assist 150 deputy US marshals in protecting else or But Faubus insisted the lower BAYONNE NJ (UPI) A Jersey Central Railroad commuter train sped past a stop signal Monday and hurtled off am open drawbridge into the waters of New'ark Bay Two passenger coaches and two locomotives plunged beneath the oily 35-feet-deep water Hours afterward the toll of dead and injured could not be definitely established but it appeared at least 40 persons had died At least 33 were injured The five-car train carried an estimated 100 passengers when it went off the bridge at midmorning Among passengers were weekend vacationers returning from the Jersey Shore and commuters bound for New York five miles away across the Hudson River An armada of rescue craft official and private swarmed into the narrow almost landlocked bay to pull in survivors who escaped through broken doors and windows or were hurled into the bay from the catapulting coaches Divers went dowm into the wreckage-strewn waters with acetylene torches to biing up bodies of those trapped A barge with a detrick was moved into position to haul up the sunken cars By midafternoon four bodies had been recovered and a survivor died at Bayonne Hospital But it was reported other bodies had been taken aboard a Coast Guard boat which set up a floating morgue in the bay The railroad said the first of the two passenger coaches was almost empty and that 30 to 40 persons were aboard the second The third coach which teetered on the brink of the trestle had been emptied when it too plunged into the bay As it sank blood turned bay waters a reddish brown The New York Fire Department estimated that 20 dead still were trapped below water five hours after the crash There were two diesel locomotives and five passenger coaches on the train The two rear coaches remained on the track The wreck occurred at 9:13 am (Miami time) after the drawbridge had been raised to permit passage of an oil tanker The railroad said signals far down the track from the bridge showed it was open The road also said there was an automatic stop device to halt the train if it went through the signals But there was no immediate explanation of why the train failed to stop Some of the survivors told of hearing the trains' brakes screeching seconds before the wreck A cloud of steam billowed into the air after the diesel engines and the first two passenger cars plummeted beneath the surface of the bay The third passenger cab fell about two hours later during rescue operations but no one w-as injured Survivors told of swimming about inside the sunken coaches looking for escape routes Some made it out of doors and broken windows Others drowned before they could get out A dramatic story was told by Rafael A Leon 55 of Holmdel NJ and Caracas Venezuela a survivor who said he saw his wife drown in the watery trap "Suddenly we were under the Leon said "I was drowning and praying that I w'ould drown quickly "My wife was beneath me in the ater I saw a light and realized I was not completely lost I tried to get hold of my wife I had one hand on something above me in the water a seat or something I had the other hand on my wife there was a man on top of her and he was already drowned I tried to get hold of her but could not get her Leon said he lost touch with his wife and finally escaped through a window "I thought There Is no use In trying to find my wife She New York spL Bay Prio Men Linked to Haiti Plot Atlantic Ocean MIIES Where Train Plunged Into Bay White Art Saves Chiefs Life state police will not help with integration He said the four closed high schools including Central last integration battle ground may not be reopened until an Oct 7 special election Meanwhile President Eisenr hower arranged Monday for a conference which may produce a decision on future federal action both at Little Rock and in Virginia where the governor also has closed public schools to keep Negroes from being admitted Attorney General William Rogers will fly from Washington for a 2:30 pn conference today at the vacation office at the Newport RI naval base Little Rock people are watching closely the parallel situation in Richmond Va where an anti-Negro sign was the only evidence of disorder at closed Warren County High School Police cruisers were out in numbers Monday in both Richmond and Little Rock In Richmond police removed the sign from the school and reported Turn to Page 2A Col 5 Associated Press Wirephoto Last of Doomed Cars Plunges Into Day coach was empty when it fell Similar Wreck in 1951 Second Disaster For One Survivor 9 By STEPHEN TRUMBULL Herald Staff Writer White medicine has brought back from the dead 70-year-old William McKinley Osceola patriarch of the Florida Seminole tribe The aged Indian was still alive but in critical condition at Doctors Hospital Monday some 24 hours after a surgeon massaged his stilled heart into beating again The Seminole probably known to more white men in this area than any other elder in the tribe was on the operating table in the hospital Sunday when he suffered a heart attack His heart stopped beating as a surgeon was preparing to start an operation for glaucoma an eye ailment By GEORGE SOUTHWORT1I Herald Latin America Editor Followers of former Cuban President Carlos Prio Socarras Monday were said to be involved in the recent abortive Haitian revolt Charles Mathews former FBI agent conducting Dade probe in the matter said followers of Prio seeking the overthrow of President Fulgencio Batista are connected with Haitian revolutionary elements in Miami Prio who was overthrown by Batista in a bloodless coup March 10 1952 was not at his Miami Beach penthouse in exile Monday and could not be reached for comment Mathews has just returned from a trip to Port-au-Prince Haiti where President Francois Duvalier permitted him to see evidence taken from rebels slain in the July 29th revolution Two Metro deputies were killed and several others took part in the Haitian revolt Mathews said Monday several other Miamians were involved "On my recent trip to Haiti learned for the first time the names of these Mathews said give you these names but if our information checks out it will be turned over to the proper In a memorandum to County Manager Campbell Mathews said it looks as if there is a connection between Haitian revolutionary elements in Miami and in other cities seeking the of the Haitian government Mathew's said he would have a preliminary report for the county manager later this week concerning the part played by Miamians in the Haitian revolt BAYONNE NJ iff! A survivor of the Newark Bay train wreck was Planitz of Fair Haven NJ who also lived through the 1951 Woodbridge NJ crash in which 85 died Planitz brought to a a i 1-road station here suffered no serious injuries when the Jersey Central train plunged off a drawbridge Monday He said he was one of the passengers in the third coach which Vv CAR A is driving on right side of road CAR parked at curb pulls from curb into moving traffic and strikes CAR A at fault? Where To Find It Gerda Cut To 45 MPH Tropical storm Gerda staggered by the mountains of western Haiti flattened into a strong easterly wave Monday but will be watched closely for signs of redevelopment The Miami weather bureau said the wave is very active and is attended by heavy rain squalls Gerda crossed the western mountains of Haiti and headed for Cuba during the morning Its winds diminished from 65 miles an hour to 45 miles an hour in squalls and the weather bureau said at 5 pm that the storm no longer was a threat Its squalls are being felt in Jamaica Cuba and the extreme south central Bahamas The area of bad weather is expected to move westward across the northwestern Caribbean and Cuba during the next 24 hours Formation of an easterly wave means Gerda's circulation no longer is the closed system characteristic of a tropical sierm landed at a steep angle and half-filled with water In the Woodbridge crash Feb 9 1951 a train plunged off a temporary trestle "There was a jamming screaming sound of brakes and I was thrown forward head over Planitz said of Monday's crash "I know how I got out Speaking of the Woodbridge crash Planitz said "It as-taken me all this time to get over it And now this Lensman Dies At Wreck Scene BAYONNE A free-lance photographer collapsed and died Monday as he was taking pictures of victims of the Newark Bay train crash Camille Francois of Jersey City was working at the VV 8th St railroad station in Bayonne where victims vvere being brought by train when he collapsed He died a half hour later Frances worked fir several New Jersey papers Staff Photo William Osceola cheats death ball team and threw the javelin The elder Osceola made another departure from tribal aloofness some years ago by taking his family into the South Dade farming area to work in the potato harvest White employers found them efficient workers and scrupulously honest in their tally of w'ork accomplished The surgeon cut into his chest and massaged his heart until the muscles picked up the rhythm For the next 13 hours it was "touch and Then early Monday Osceola appeared to improve Monday he recognized friends and family members who were admitted to the sickroom It was by no means first contact with white medicines and w'ays More than a decade ago he was regarded as something of an ultra-modern of his tribe Ife was the first Seminole father to' break with tribal tradition and send his children to white schools His son Mike Osceola became the first of hie tribe to attend Miami Senior Hlgty School He played on the foot- Amuse 14-16A Goren 7D Beech 6A Jumble Bell IB Kofoed 7A Bishop 7A Movies ISA Bourke 14A Pegler 7A Burns ID 6A Class 5-15C Quick Quiz 7A Comics 67B Roosevelt 4C Crane 16C Sports 1-6D Crossword 6B Thompson 6B Drummond 6A TV-Radio 7D Dunaway 4D Weather 2A Editorial 6A Wmchell 15A Financial 2-4B Womens 1-4C Chuckle Want to stop smoking? 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