New-York tribune., 1903-01-29
WAS MAKING UP FOR LOST TIME
ENGINEER BLAMES RAILROAD COMPANY FOR NOT
SIDETRACKING LOCAL TRAIN
Official Investigation Of WestfeH Wreck Promptly Begun-Pafed
lfournng-T1ceny Persons Killed.

the morgue IN conference with County Ply
sician Westcott, apparently directing proceed
ings; that he met most of the visitors to the
morgue and the hospital. and that he and other
railroad men were admitted to the hospital and
permitted TO see patients whose relatives were
not allowed to talk to the sufferers. Large
himself said that he was trying to facilitate
proceedings.
In connection with the reports circulated that
her husband was new man on that particular
run, Mrs. Davis grew indignant She denied
emphaticalIy that he green" or careless
He had been in the employ Of the Baltimore and
Ohio road ever since he was twelve years old.
she said. Beginning engine wiper. he
soon became "hos.ier.'' afterward a fireman.
and for seventeen years had been an engineer
For ten years he had been running express
trains ard was she said. considered careful
man.
When 1 went into the hospital" she con-
tfnued his first words to were. .HOw's little
Frances? our baby. Then he said that he knew
it was all I'D with him, that the doctors had told
him. Then he talked about the children and
little more about the wreck, saying that he had
made a statement to the officials about it,
Mrs Davis and her husbands brothers went
back to Philadelphia yesterday. although they
knew he was dying. They said the hospital
nbvsfcians had said it use for them TO
ranain that they only disturbed the dying man.
Mourning its twenty dead and scores OF IN
iured in the big wreck. P1ainfeld was gloomy
Mace Yesterday. Crowds surrounded the little
undertaking shop, Coles Morgue. where the
dead were taken after being brought from the
wreck at WestieId; anxious relatives ana rrlenos
thronged the corridors OF Muhlenbers HOSPITAL
where Law twelve of the injured. among them
9 Da,,is engineer Of the Philadelphia ex-
rrass which crashed into the rear Of the Easton
local Though not expected to live through
Tuesday night Davis still alive yesterday
although the doctors said his case was hopeless.
Interest centred in PIairfeld because all the
, dead and injured, save a few, lived IN thar cl'y
or it's suburbs Knots of people gathered at the
street corners in the stores and before bulletin
boards talking Of their narrow escapes teinng
i,cidar+s of the wreck or discussing the cond1-
tion of the injured
The funerals of the wreck victims VIII be
ia q, Friday. The entire town will attend.
an business will be suspended, and the SER
,o will take a semi-oficial form. Plain
fold where each person knows every one else.
is etirred TO it's depths by the disaster Many
smoke Yesterday Of big meeting which should
o,,,ross their sentiments with regard to the
rai1road the wreck and also their respect for
the victims.
The revised list of dead fixed the number
at twenty All but one have been identined
All day yesterday q StiSdIIl VI P~SP-0 R'N~
through coles NIorgue. where lay many bodies.
MANY of these were so burned and mutiated
that Identification was impossible from physical
features. in many cases it was accomplished
~, javvairv. cardcases containing private papers
or parts Of the clothing AS soon as identity
was established the body covered with
sheet one by one the number of white COW
cred bodies increased until at night only one
remained unidentified
COMPLETE LIST OF THE DEAD.
C.tIANDoR Rowland seventeen years NO w E'S'
Ninth-st-
GINNING Thomas A. twenty eight years. clerk Put
e.t-EE1p John OF purelleu thr;y-esh' YEAR. 'eiss-
rapher
FLYNN Edward twenty-five. CLERK. No. as West
Fourth
c.rrs Elias twenty-ore years. No. az East sixth ST.
F,IIE=r James Jr-. Newmarket
ftAPPERsEr j. W. forty-esht years No 90 Putnam
,1,rn Horace G.. twenty-five years. No. III East
s.xth-st
u,RprxGHAM. Frederick. tweaty-aye years. No. LO27
Duaeilen ave.
I1NEARGER Lena. Miss. twenty four years OF No.
5I5 Park ave. a stenosrapher In New-4orS-
N,HAN Henry L. No 2i East Fifth-st
PATTERSON Harvey II. twenty-five years oookNeeper
Of DuneIlen.
ROGERS Harry twenty years. No i3 West Fifthss.
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