The Washington herald., 1906-11-14
WRECK DEATH LIST GROWING
Coroner Believes from So to 100
Were Killed.
Authorities Declare Railroad Delib-
eratcly UBderestimates Number
of the Victims.

Chicago, Nov. I3--Coincident with to-
days declaration BY Coroner Carson that
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad officials lar
understated the number Of victims in
Yesterdays wreck near Woodville, Ind.
COMES the announcement that many ar
rests may be expected within forty-eight
hours.
The coroner thinks he wil be able 10
show that railroad officials were respOnsi-
bic for the loss of s. 10 le0 lives IN the ac-
cident. If he succeeds, the Indiana au-
thorities propose 10 do all IN their power
20 send the responsible persons to pizsoG
for manslaughter
The States investigators os The tragedy
are angry over Division Superintendent F.
/ c. Batchelder's order for the burial Of the
charreJ corDses in two large boxes on tha
very. scene OF the wreck under such cir
cumstances rs made Identification impos-
siDle. and with such haste that no re
Lgtous ceremony could ever be attempted
The authorities agree with relatives OF
the killed in the opinion that the railroad
deliberately understated the number of
killed The immigrants who lost their
lives in the accident had many children
with them. As the death list was esti-
mated by subtracting from the number Of
tickets the list of known survivors. It is
pointed out that no account was taken OF
these little ones.
Il IS believed that many children, per
haps scores. died in the wreck and were
hastily tumbied into trenches in the hope
thst actual knowledge Of their number
might be concealed forever.
The railroad ofhcisls still insist that not
more than fifty were killed. Coroner
Carson thinks she actual number was not
far short Of doub,,e the railroad estimate
To prove his contention, he has delayed
his verdict pending q fuller inquiry at
ChesteTtOwn. ard examination of the
survivors here.
Twelve bodies were takes from the
wreck TO-DAY. SO badly were they
charred and mutilsted that only TWO OF
them could DC identified
The Polish Alliance, the Polish Roman
Catholic Union, the Russian Revolution
airy BUnd, and the Orthodox Jewish AS
scciatiou have already taken steps for
the disiuterment Of the bodies buried by
Superintendent Batchelder's order, an IN
vestigation of the number of victims. and
religious buTials for the dead.
At Mercy Hospital scenes are still be-
yond description. Parents and children
are seeking one another, and through the
entire building cries OF the stricken re-
sound hour after hour. Three OF tha in
jured are at the point OF death tonight.
Representatives of the Polish Alliance
have been passing from cot TO cot all dav.
warning the patients TO see no agents
OF the railroad company, and under no
circumstances 10 settle their claims with
out consultation with the Alliances law
yrrs.
i have already found a towerman
named Swanson. at Indiana Harbor. east
Of Woodville.' - says Coroner Carson. WIN
says that when first train No 81 PASSED
the lights were lit. and then found q
man at McCOol-just west of WoodvilIe-
who says they were not liz when the
train passed McCool. after leaving Wood
Vile
1t may be possible to SHOW that the
lights were out going through Woodvi!le,
but were lighted afterward. after the
train had passed McCeol.
I have summoned Superintendent
Batchelder and Train Dispa tcher Barrett,
OF Garrett, Ind. as witnesses at the in
quest They will be asked what they
know about the running Of trains and
the precautions usually taken"
Passenger Train Is Wrecked.
Newcastle, Pa, Nov. IA disastrous
wreck occurred this evening at Edenburg
Mills, on the Pittsburg and Lake Erie
railroad. when a passenger train struck
q wagon heavily laden with logs that was
stalled upon the tracks. Fireman p. 3.
Kearns, of Pittsburg. was instantly killed
The locomotive jumped the rails. ran
along the ties for a hundred feet. then
swerved 70 the right and crashed into
the Edenburg Grist Mil. part of which
was crushed in. Engineer L. NJ. Hoilo-
vay was rescued unconscious from under
the engine, but viii live. BaEg 1gemaster
". G. Neal. Of Pittsburg, vas the worst
injured. his skull being fractured. He will
likely die. Express Messenger McMiuen.
of Pittsburg, was badly cut and bruised.
Several passengers were slightly hurt