Jersey Trainmen Killed in Wreck
Trenton Evening Times, December 19, 1926

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Passengers Shaken As Reading Local Hits Open Switch At Shore
Associated Press
CAPE MAY, N. J., Dec. 1[?].—Two Reading Railroad trainmen were killed today when the locomotive of a Cape May local train from Camden struck an open switch and overturned at Bennett, four miles from here.
Jules Blake, 27, Orston, N. J., fireman, and William Saumenig, 44, Camden engineman, who lost their lives, were riding in the left side of the cab.
David Smith, 60, West Collingswood, regular engineer of the train, who was occupying the right side of the cab, saw the open switch too late. The locomotive smashed a tiny station and plowed on its side into a ditch. Blake and Saumenig died instantly according to physicians.
But six passengers were on the train. All escaped without injury other than a severe shaking.