Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-03-04
THE DEAD IN THE WRECK
 NOW NUMBERS SEVEN.
Number of the Soldiers Still Under the Wreck age-The Wreck Was Strewn Along the Tacxs for Nearly Half hile-The Cars Took Fire Quickly and the Greatest Excitement Prevails


 searching investigation it is now practically certain that the list of dead caused by the collision last night be- tween the two special trains from Cleveland on the Pennsylvania rail road at Clifton station will not exceed seven. Some of the soldiers say q number of their comrades are still un- der the wreckage, but all seem to have been accounted for.
 The following is revised list of the dead:
 Lieutenant Donaldson c. Schofield, d Cleveland architect.
 Captain William k. Hendry, bat taliOn surgeon and a prominent Cleve- land physician.
 Corporal James KehOe. Cleveland.
 Private H. R. Held, Cleveland.
 Frand Pinney, aged 10, son of Lieu tenant o. C. Pinney, Cleveland.
 Dodge, Pullman conductor, Chi cago.
 Early reports had one woman among the dead This has proved to be q mistake.
 The list of the injured will reach 40, six or seven of whom are likely to die. All are being cared for at the several hospitals. Among the more seriously injured are:
 Major J. R. McQuigg, commanding the engineers battalion, Cleveland, serious.
 Lieutenant R. D. Smith, Fairfield, Ohio, will die.
 Frank Johnston, Cleveland, leg broken and injured internally. George Riley, Cleveland, member of Tippecanoe club. guest of Major Me Quigg. will probably die.
 Hubbard Lowe, negro cook, Cleve- lanG. serious
 Charles H. Sturgis, Cleveland, seri- ous.
 James Gray, negro cook, Cleveland, will die.
 e .. Pimay, quartcrmaster, Collin wood, may die. Floyd Palmer. Cleveland. optician, serious.
 The trains. which left Cleveland about noon yesterday. were making a good run through to Washington. The national guard. engineers had the first train. which consisted of d baggage car | and six Pullmans. Just after the | train had passed through the Conway yards it had to be stopped on account of hot box. The. box was cooled off but three other stops were necessary " t',c lime Sewicklev hal been reach. ed. These delays allowed the second section to catch up and after passing Sewickley the trains were running but one block apart. At Clifton the first train was again stopped by the hot box The trainmen say Flagman John Murray was sent back as an ex. tra precaution to stop the train follow ing in case it had passed the last set of signals
 Murray haa hardly left the train | when the second "rtion. rurning 5l miles an hour. turned a slight bend nt this point. Engineer Nicholas Long of the second train said the block he passed showed green. but when he saw Flagman Murray he applied the brakes. It was too late.
 The heavy train sped on over the slippery rails and crashed fairly into the rear coach of the first train. So great was the speed that the engine | ploughed clear through the heavy ob- servation car. splitting it in two and jamming the trucks against the second | coach.
 So great was the impact that the baggage car and first coach on the sec ond train were thrown from the tracks In q moment all was confusion. Above tie hiss of escaping steam could be heard the cries of the injured. Out oi the coaches of both trains poured the uniniured soldiers and members of the political club. The wreck was scattered along a distance of half a mile. The six cars which had been partly destroyed were . Turning fiercely almost before the Oc cupants of the other cars which re maiEed on the tracks were able to ! leave them. The flames lit up the scene for miles around and the heat became so intense that the occupants or the cars which escaped injury were almost socrched in their eorts to assist | the imprisoned passengers. When wrecking apparatus arrived and the fires had been extinguished | the debris was hurled into the river with derricks. The dead were all { found under the pile of smoldering e h.N