The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-23
NINETEEN IS
 NUMBER DEAD List of Fatalities in the
 Wreck of Flyer. ALL VICTIMS PROMINENT Detectives Have Begun to
 Work on Case. Railroad omcials Believe that the Switch Was Opened Either by
 Some Crank or scoundreI
 Bent on Revenge.
ALL VICTIMS PROMINENT

Lake Shore and Mentor, Ohio, Is one Of
 the largest in the history of that road. numbering nineteen persons. All of the victims were prosinent in the business
 and professional world in New York, Chicago, Cleveland and other cities The official list of the dead and injured ss compiled by the officials of the Lake Shore Company is as follows:
 The Dead--Passengers John R. Ben~
 nett attorney, 31 Nassau Street, New York Cisy; John A. Bradley, Warons O.; T. R. Morgan. Second yice-President
 pany. Cleveland, O.: c. H. Wellman of
 the Wellnan-scavers-M Morgan Company Cleveland; A. l.. Rogers of New York City, died in hospital: s. c. Beckwiths 115 One Hundred and Seventy-fourth Street. New York: A. H. Head. London,
 Eng, representative of the Otis Steel Company of Cleveland, died in hospitalt
 H. H. Wright. travelling man. Chicago. died in hospital; D. Arthur. travelling man, Milwaukee, died in hospi.al; J. H- Gibson, Chicago, travelling man. dIed
 in hospital. Cleveland: H. .. Mechiing.
 New York; L. M. Eirick, munager'
 Keith's Theatre. Cleveland. killed in
 wreck; E. E. Naugle. Chicago. proprie-i
 tor of railway supply house. killed in
 wreck; two unidentified de Id. supposed
 GO be L. A. Johnson of the millinery firm of Comey & Johnson, Cleveland.
 and Henry Triuz, the barDer cn the train.
 Employees: Allan Tyler. engineer.
 Collinwood. O.. died in hospitai: F. '. | Grant, head brakeman. Erie, Pa. died in hospital: N. B. Walters, bnggage-
 man. Hamburg N. r., died in hospitaIs W. D. Mickey, porter on Pullinan car. Chicago, died at scene If wreck The Injured.
 | Injured--Passengers; J. IT. Langlon. Chicago; R. c. Cordeaugh. Highlands. | N. J.; M. ]. Kennedy. San Franciscps Kate Trait, Chicago; Mrs. H. D. Turner. nervous shock; Theodore Keuhl, Chl- | oago. nervous shock: w. II. coivIn. Cht- I cago not serious: George Murray, St. ] Louis, not segApus; A. F. I,lstsson, htr | caRo knee wrenched; Nathan Allan. Kenosha. Wis. back slightly irjursds
 s. T. Katy. Chicago. slignsiy injured. | Employees: A. P. German, 1remans
 side injured, Collinwood. O.
 | As to who was responsible for the l open switch, which was the cause or | the wreck, the railroad officials aie still
 uncertain. They believe that tho wreck l is the result of either maniac who | wanted to see the wreck os sucn a fast l train, or some person bent on revenge. A careful examination of the switch to-
 day showed that 1t was ir perfect con l dition.
 Detectives are working on the case.. Trainmen are of the opinion that the crew of the Twentith Century was de- cefved by a second white light 100 fcat beyond the switch which was open. but
 while travelling at such fast speed were unable to gauge the distance and miss
 took the second light for the first one w. H. Marshall. general manager or
 the Lake Shore. believes the speed o1 the train was not a contributory cause to the wreck. He said that other Lake
 Shore trains travelled through MA1-or at
 a speed equal to that attained by the
 Twentieth Century last night. which
 was not, Mir. Marshall said, above the
 rate of sixty miles an hour. Tho acred-s ule for the train called for speed ok
 ffty-seven miles an hour at that points It is possible that Investigation will develop tomorrow that boy IA years old meddled with the switch at the
 Mentor station last night and caused
 the wreck of the Twentieth Century
 Flyer.
 William Usher, ticket agent of thg Nickel Plate and James Barnes on
 WiIloughby were on the scene or thal
 wreck twenty minutes after the WrecAS happened. On the way they met a l hoy carrying a lantern. They Ques- | tioned him and he said that he naQ
 been down to shut a switch. TheT | questioned him further thinking 1t pos-. | sible that the boy had tempered with | the switch, but the boy insisted that | he had shut the switch. The men went to the scene of the wreck ana l found the switch open. but locked. The men are of the opinion that the ooy | thought that there was freight ahead | of inc Twentieth Century and opened the switch to let 1t through to take a | siding.
 H, s. Storrs, general superintendent
 of the Lake Shore. said that the matter | will be investigated tomorrow, although
 he Is inclined to doubt the story that
 a boy had possession of a key and could turn the switch.