The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-02-17
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the rear car 10 get out. He said that he
was thrown against a seat post on the
ouDosIte side of the car, and while he
Law pinned beneath the wreckage the
BODY of another man, whose head was
crushed. was hurled on top of him.
Schumwav lay helpless under the other
mans body until the rescue workers
pulled away the wreckage
Nearly all the passengers lost all their
valuables, which were scattered Ike cnaff
along the seven long blocks of bloody
track. Wilfred T. Sninen, who said he
had been connected with Tinanys for
twenty years. lost his suit case contain
ing 81 500 in cash and lot Of jewelry.
Cropped I'm Darkness.
Ira A. Mccormick, general superintend-
ent of the railroad said that an eXamina-
ton of the motor car showed that a
small wheel on the left side had come of.
The wheel was found alongside the track
near 2O4th street The motor car went
along without any jar, in spite of that
II was found afterward that the third
rail and the two others had twisted up
under the wrecked cars.
The first sound that came from the dark
gully where the train was whipping itself
To pieces was succession Of crashes that
sounded sharp and quick like the rapid
swapping of a whip.
| Pedestrians crossing the viaduct over
/ the tracks at 2G7th street, and the peo-
pie In the house 10 the right Of the
embankment Clambered down the steep
sides of the cut in the dark in the di-
rection of the noise. There was abso-
mtely no light save the reddening flicker
that grew stronger, where FIRE was burn
/ ing under the smoking car. Twisted rails
and broken car ends almost blocked the
path Of the rescuers TO the scene Of the
| wreck For distance Of 200 yards from
! the point where the train first jumped
the track to tRf rear end of the last
overturned car the track side was strewn
/ with twisted figures and scraps Of tim
/ Der and steel
Mothers Body Protects Baby.
/ The police found lanterns and pushed
their way through the fast gathering
crowd about the wreck toward the twisted
/ mass on the tracks Almost at the same
/ time that they arrived hremen came down
the side Of the cliff with axes and hand
/ extinguishcrs and went 10 work on the
/ blaze IN the smoking ear
In many instances the police and the
volunteer workers who were first on the
scene had to pry the wounded from under
car seats and heavy tracks with such
rough implements as they could gather
from the junk heap of the wreck. In
one instance two policemen and citizen
. worked almost an hour "a extriCate> a
woman and her infant child from under
meath a seat in the last car. She was
Mrs. Charles Gilchrist The baby whom
she had protected with her body was I'M
harmed.
Says Broken Axle Caused Wreck.
Many of the bodies were so mangled
that nothing but mere shreds of flesh
and bone could be gathered together in
one spot and ticketed for identification,
Under the direction Of the coroner an
atter7pt was made 20 segregate value
ables and papers which might lead To
naturalization. Duplicate checks were
hastily made out on scraps Of reporters
paper. and these were placed one on the
body and one on the pocketbook, feather
boa, or bIoodstaiBed letter which hap
pened 10 bee found.
General Manager Smith. who was at the
Grand Central Station. said last night
that IL had been officially determined that
the wreck was caused by a broken axle
AT midnight Mr. Smith said that his In
formation was that there were twenty
TWO dead, four OF whom had been iden-
titled
A livery stable on the bank just above
the scene of the wreck. was converted
into temporary morgue The dead were
placed in rows down the long lane be
tween the stalls OF the horses But th'
presence OF the dead made the horses
50 FESTIVE that they threatened to bTeal
from their stalls ana tfample the malmeC
bodies on the moor. Ihen the dead were
removed TO the Bronx Park police station
Caused by OversPeediBE.
Several Of the survivors who gave tbeir
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ers' asserted tlaI l'le wreck was que Il
speeding Legare walker, OF Mount hiseo
who Is secretary OF the McNickar-GiilarC
Realty Company. paused in his vail
search among the dead for his sister. T,
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) hurled off the rails by their own momen
tum. This was pure case OF erimina
speeding. Why yesterday "hich Wa
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night again we commented on the sam,
; rbipg
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