On Oct. 28, 1906, a newly inaugurated electric railroad express train derailed on the drawbridge entering Atlantic City, toppling into the bay and killing over 50 people. A coroner’s inquiry was launched to affix the blame even as bodies were still being recovered
The New York Times reported on Nov. 1, “While divers in the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company were at work to-day going over the muddy bottom of the Thoroughfare in the vicinity of last Sunday’s wreck they brought up the body…
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