The evening world., 1894-01-19
eleven NOW DEAD.
Charles E. Minoher Dies in st.
Mary's Hospital, Hoboken.
Engineer Hoffman Goes to His
Home in South Orange.
Did Vandals Rob the Bodies Of the
Victims?

iih N' ulC'l IA Dl. u =
Hospital, Hoboken. at ll.20 o'clock this
forenoon. He makes the eleventh victim
OF the Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western Railroad disaster on Hacken-
sack Meadows last Monday.
Minchcr's wife and other relatives
were grouped at his bedside when the
end came. He retained consciousness up
to u half hour before his death, and dur
Ing the forenoon listened to a communi-
cation which a friend sent him regard
Ing the writing-up OF his affairs.
Mincher lived in Summit. N. j.
David Hoffman, the engineer of the
South Orange local, which ran into the
Dover express. and the man who Is
blamed by President Sloan, OF the Della
ware. Lackawanna and Western Rail-
road. for Mondays awful accident. left
st; Mary's Hospital, Hoboken. at 1910
this forenoon and was driven In a car
Lackawanna road. He then boarded the
1912 train for his home in South Orange.
An attempt wa made by several re-
but he firmly declined to talk and re-
ferred all to the statement he made
exclusively, Yesterday to The Even
that statement.
when interrogated to-day as to Engineer
Honman's story and denial of blame.
refused to discuss the matter.
will you tell me-" asked the reporter,
If the rear brakeman, Dewitt Wheaton,
or the Dover express, testified at last
that he placed torpedoes on the track
or tagged the South Orange train, which
was Hoffman's?"
An the testimony given at hat hear
placed before the Coroner at the inquest
honda night. and l cannot give any
put torpedoes on the track under such
Yes the law says he must" replied
Now, did he testify that he did his
duty ?" inquired the reporter.
Wei, that would be telling his testi-
mony to you" was the aged official's re-
when will you summon Engineer Hoff-
man to testify at the railroad hearing?''
a. cannot say: Mr.. Hoffman has seen
NJ TO give his version already to The
Evening, World and l don't know that
well call for him."
Supt. Reasoner added that the hearing
would be resume either this afternoon
or tomorrow afternoon, when a number
or passengers on both trains who had
volunteered to testify, would be heard.
go a long way towards establishing as
a fact whether the Dover express was
under Roadway or was at a complete
1t win also aid materially in determining
Just about how fast Engineer Hoffman
vas running. his train. and as Presi-
dent Sloan blames Hoffman for running
too fast. and he denies it. 1t is an essen.
tial factor to be demonstrated
The Dover train under Roadway, no
IN mater ter how slight would not have been
been at n complete standstill.
Stll, with the heavy fog which pre-
vailed that Monday morning, the utmost
precaution should have been taken by
all hands, and the use of torpedoes By
the Dover train crew was imperative.
a very prominent railroad man said to
'If Wheaton testified that he put tor
pedoes on the track, l think he lied"
He added that. II he Dover express
had been under a twelve-mile Roadway,
Killed or possibly hurt.
Edward NJ. Clark, Of Basklng Ridge,
Vas Vas s ,hi. IN an extremely critical condl-
opinion of the hospital surgeons, was a
question only of hours.
The others injured in the crash, who
are IN st, Mary's Hospital, were report
guson, Harry Cornish (or Cowinsl. Ar
thu Gardiner. Christopher Arnold and
Ernest II. Schafer.
Chandler. Of Cedar street, New York,
for whom William J. Turner, who was
among the killed on Monday. worked as
Lackawannia and Western Re Railr 0staC Com.
pany that Turner had a package of very
valuable legal documents In his possess
sion besides 500 in cash. They asked
Tor information about the property.
When the body of Turner was stripped
at Volks's morgue, $. T. Bray, private
secretary for Supt. Reasoner, was pres
seymour. Djli HlN't ( Gh "a rfS; aq believe
that Turner had his yaluables and docu-
ments in a black satchel.
A passenger named William II. MAY,
who sat behind Turner. said he was
sure Turner carried a black satchel. 1t
has not been found and neither have
the or cash.
This gives rise to- the surmise that
vandals robbed the bodies of the dead
as they lay In the wreck,
In charge In the South Orange train
Monday, and who was only slightly in
1ured, is today back at his post as con-
ductor Of the same local train, 81, leav-
ing South Orange at 1855, and reaching
Hoboken, when on time and fogs don't
prevent, at S,29.
oner. Voll; for witnesses to appear at
the inquest next Monday night. They
are Conductor Jerry George, Baggage
Master Riasce s1 ABE ~ t Ayres; BraRemsn John
George sticher and Fireman Frank
Cooper, all the crew of the Dover ex-
press; Conductor William T. Rundio,
Baggage-Master George X. La Rue,
Brakemen Frank Maring and Andrew
w. Bilsby. Engineer David Hoffman
n Fireman Irwin Metz, crew of the
South Orange local.
Others summoned are Supt. Reasoner
Assistant Supt. +. j. Griffith, Master Me-
chanic William II. Lewis, John Nc
Kenna, detective for the Delaware.
Lackawanna and Western road, and Prl,
vate Secretary S. 4. Bray.
BY the deaths of Rafeilo Russo and
Lingo Cananello, the LIST Of victims Of
the trestle collapse on the New York
and Susquehanna road at Fairview, now
numbers three.
All the bodies were at Coroner Volks's
morgue. The Coroner denies that he
said he believed there were more Ital-
ians buried in the sand and wreckage
of cars at Fairview.
Contractors B~roadhead & Hickey de-
clared that all their employees are now