The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1903-12-26
VICTIMS OF WRECK ON BALTi
MORE AND OHIO ROAD NOW
NUMBER SIxTY-FIVE.
BODIES OF KNOWN DEAD TAKEN AWAY
UNIDENTIFIED AND UNCLAIMED
REMAINS BURIED BY THE
BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Connellsville. Pa, Dee. 26.-Anothef
name has been added To the long death
list resulting from the Duquesne lin
tied wreck ON the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad at Dawson. Harry Devline
o.le OF the three remaining patients at
the Cottage State hospital. died at 10
a. m The total dead now numbers
sixty-five and this probably completes
the list rs the two still at the hospital
are doing well and will probably re.
cover. Devline's home was at Iona.
coming, Nd.
The bodies of about thirty of the
victims were gathered UP during the
day and Rken away on early trains.
The remaining identified will be
shipped within the next twenty-four
hours and the unknowns will be cared
for by the borough council.
President George c. Porter has
called special meeting to take meas.
ures toward the formation of relief
committee to look after bodies un-
identified or unclaimed
In case no friends appear the citi-
gems will see that the victims do not
field The railroad company will con
tribute literally to this fund. but
there will be no more than the money
necessary.
All who happen to be left TO charity
will be decently inferred and the Chris
tian burial service will be performed,
the funerals partaking of the form OF
the towns tribute TO the memory Of
those whose lives We're sacrificed in
the wreck. The official investigation
into the cause of the disaster is being
prosecuted vigorously by the officers
OF the railroad company but it is
doubtful if any individual will be
blamed for the accident.
1t was apparent that a number OF
switch ties which had fallen off a
westbound freight train and were
strewn upon the passenger track
caused the flying express to be de-
rallied.
Many Victims Robbed.
Many of the victims of the wreck
have been robbed. There were several
who are known to have had large
amounts of money and jewelry on
their persons Not single cent was
was plainly visible that rings had
been taken from the fingers.
The wreck is pretty well cleared
away. All traffic on the Pittsbnrg
division has been tied up since the
wreck. 1t was not until late at night
that the first train passed over the
scene OF the wreck.
Coroner Hagen of Fayette county. ar
rived in Connelsvile during the day
and Immediately swore in the coro-
ner's jury, which is now viewing the
ruins and taking evidence as to the
cause OF the disaster.
1t is learned that the car that
dropped the timbers which wrecked
the limited was a gondola # the
Nickle Plate road.
Superintendent J. f. Irwin of the
Baltimore and Ohio declares the blame
must he fastened on the parties who
loaded the lumber on the car. His
theory is that the stakes at the side
of the gondola were weak and gave
way under the tension when the car
rounded the curve.
Mr.. Irwin says there Is no truth in
the rumor that train wreckers derailed
the train.
Considerable money was found on
the persons of the unidentified and
tightly sewed in belt on one foreign
er was found more than $4O0. which
was placed in the First National
bank. Sums ranging from 500 TO
5000 were found, and this, like the
balance, has been put in the bank un-
oil a relative may be found.
Connellsville Is packed with curious
people attracted here by the wreck
and the three morgues have found II
necessary to put guards at all doors
to keep morbid spectators from jump
ing into the small rooms and walking
over the forms OF the dead