New-York tribune., 1903-01-30

for the disaster When this work is completed
and the jury makes its report the county prose
cutor N c. J. English, will take charge Oh the
proceedings He has said many times that ne
would use the utmost endeaVor TO hx the re-
sponsibility.
The death of the engineer Davis. yesterday
made the total number Of fatalities twenty-one
He had been sinking fast all night He was
conscious to the last. however. and with the
words. Tell her (msaning his wife) my last
thoughts were of her and kiss all the children
for me-" he passed away at O'clock
The patients at Muhlenberg Hospital are DO
ing well and it is expected that all VIII re-
cover Everett Reighton is in the most serious
condition. When he learned that he would nave
to lose a leg he declared that he no longer cared
to live For time II was feared that he would
not rally after he was told
Samuel McCarty, the fireman on the Fniiauei-
phia express, is in serious conoluon' Inc
PHYSICIANS declare, however. that he VIII re-
cover and not lose his sight, as was reared at
first
Daniel Lorenzo Miller well known Mason
of this CITY. and Frank Townsend, a member
of the New-York Athletic Club hockey team,
have been reported TO the Plainfeld authorities
as missing and friends have come mere 10 uy
to identify their bodies.
The hody which remains in the morgue is not
that of Miller according to a Plainheld man
who was in the third of the i'll fated tralh.
he said that three or four hours after the crash
he talked with Miller, whom ne knew shsh.is. t:
Miller said he had been bound Tor Eastoh, pul
that il was useless for him to go on as ms
trunk of samples had been burned. he sala ne
was going to Newark or New-York to get new
clothing /. ,.
All Piainfield will unite this afternoon to honor
the memory OF those who met death in the dls-
aster The Mayors of Plalnfeld ana Norll
Flainfield have issued proclamations suggestlns
that the afternoon be observed as a time oi pup-
lie rooIrnine and that the schools and business
bouses be closed between and 4 o'clock Inc
gloom which fell over the city when the news Oh
the disaster first reached here stu preVais-
There is business done, of course, but the lie
and brightness seem to have gone out or the
community. The victims were people with
many acolaintances. Even now, three days
after - ."c c 1t is the only topic OF con-
Ters-. il-.l. .nu tie morgue, hospital and news
Taner offices where bulletins are issued, are
visited. -
There was talk of holding union memorial ser
vices but it was Impossible for the unoerta tt
10 hold all the funerals at the same time, so tne
first was held last night. 1t was that OF AiTeu
= smith held at the home of his sister, MRS
W. A Wheeler, of No. 3l6 East Seventh-st.'
Plainfield. . 1,
John X. Large, general claims agent began
the task of settling with the injured YESTERDAY.
He effected several settlements WIN tlose s
slightly hurt. and many with persons not s hes
who lost clothing in the wreck The more olH-
orIt task os settling with those permanently
injured will come later. 1t is understood thaI
Mr. large communicated with all the locat
doctors and informed them they were 10 senu
oil hills against patients resulting through the
wreck 10 him. This prompt work on the part
of the railroad company was begun, lls ciilo5 3
saw on Wednesday morning, When Large anu
his assistants obtained admittance 10 the nos
nifaI approaching the injured as to settle
rneht of their claims. So, also, they Went al o"iu
the 1norgue meeting relatives of the dead.