The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-08-02

NO ONE TO PUNISH
ENGINEER FAIR PROBABLY CAUSED
THE GREAT WRECK.


And He was One of the Victims of What
WAS His OWE A ct. IL the Theory of His
to Have Been Properly Set and to Re
main in Such Position to Bear Their
Own Testimony Conciusivsiy - Total
Death List Numbers Forty-Foar-The
Unidentified.
Atlantic City. n. j.. Aug. 1.-Confu-
sion exists here regardless the exact
number Of presons killed IN the accident
Of Thursday night. Forty bodies have
been identified and four unidentified,
but relatives and friends OF about four
others who were known TO have been on
the excursion train have been unable 10
find those persons or to recognize them
among the still unidentified. AS the
wreck has been cleared away and no
additional bodies found, the probability
IS that they are among those unidenti-
fed and that the relatives or friends
have been unable 10 recognize them
because of their nutilated condition.
This would place the total killed at
forty-four.
The body of Thomas Kelley of Elmer.
n. j., was identified today. Several
of the injured are still lying in a criti-
cal condition at the Sanitariuu- Mrs.
Faunce F'ralinger OF Philadelphia, who
had her right leg amputated yester-
day afternoon, is still very low and
there is no hope of her recovery. A
young woman abut 70 years of age who
has been lying in the hospital uncon-
sciOuS since the accident occurred, re-
covered consciousness for a few min
utes this morning, but was to i'll to ad-
nit questioning as to her identity. There
is strong probability that she is Miss
Lizzis Branin of Miliville, N j., who
was known to have been in the excur-
sion party but has not since been heard
from
There IS much perplexity here over
the dispatch from Millville to the effect
that S. p. Murphy who has been num-
bered among the dead from the time
OF the accident, Is alive and well at
his home. The body supposed to have
been his was identified By fully fifteen
people
An impression prevafls that the re-
eponsibility for the accident rests upon
II
is no dispute that the signal to come
ahead was given 10 the West Jersey
train and if so the danger signal must
necessarily have been given to the Read
ing train by an automatic arrangement
The signals then become locked and
cannot be released until both trains
have cleared the point. Before the sig
nails are manipulated the red signal is
constantly displayed to both tracks, IN,
dicating to all engineers that they must
slow up before approaching the cross
ing. The theory Is that Farr did not
slow up and could not 90 so in time
when he saw the West Jersey train ap-
preaching II Is said that he had been
LAID off for two weeks not long before
for not making good time and It n sup
posed that he was trying to make up
for this by running at Q high rate OF
speed.
The coroners inquest win begin at
1880 O'Clock Monday morning and Fire
man O'Houlihan, of the Reading train,
who saved his life by jumping. viii
probably be the principal witness.
Atlantic City, n. j., Aug. lit IL now
practically certain that forty-four per-
sons Were killed in the wreck. The arm
which was supposed 10 belong to a
forty-ffth body has been found to be
part OF the remains of Mrs. Trenchard
of Bridgeton. The corpse supposed 10
be that OF Samuel P Murphy of Mill
vile was today shown to be the remains
OF Patrick Weigan, a retired liquor
dealer of this city. Frederick Cheyenne,
one of the injured, died last evening and |
the body was sent home without proper |
to the coroner.