Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-02-22

later, making twcnty-thrce dead.
NEW YORK, Feb. 1S-Twenty- two
deaths were recorded up to noon today
as tie result Of wreck above Bedford
Park station, in the Bronx. Saturday
night when New York Central suburb
an train was piled INTO ditch -Four OF
the deaths occurred in hospitals \ dozen
Of the 100 who were injured remained IN
the hospitals at noon, all i'll serious con
ditiom.
The train jumped the track while tax
ing q curve near WoodlaWn road III the
Bronx at Il great rate. The last car of
The train. filled with women and chill
dTcn, was whipped from the rails and
pulled the other cars with 1t.
Exact Cause Is Mystery.
The cause Of the wreck is stIl mat
ter of speculation.
All night Inspector Flood Of the police
department, Coroner Schwannecke and
Assistant District Attorney Smythe, to-
gcthCr with other members of the dis
Tict attorneys office, looked over the
scene and sought to determine the cause
Of the deraiIment Of the train. y coro-
ncrS inquest was begun today.
1t was officially stated at the Grand
Central station that the passenger cars
winch were wrecked were not the new
style frame passenger cars, but were the
Old style wooden affairs, though the
train was one of the fastest i'll the sub
urban service. One report says that the
breaking Of an axle caused the spill.
Perhaps the most significant state
m"nt was one made Y Coroner Schwan-
ncckc. He had secured Il statement from
Motnrman Rogers of the wrecked train
In this, according to the coroner, the mo-
torman had stated that he was running
VI, noi''aule l5niG miieti ne ccl'lehC 1 oc DC
lis train was seventy miles an hour.
Roll OF the Dead
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:, BRADY. MRS. FLORENtE, Golden's
EWEIT MISS TITIE ''' st"nprrnnbor
Hawthorne, n u
EVANS. MYRON F.. White plains, n Y.
FAIfAAD, MRS. KATHERINE IL,
IIG4S3nLEiLe.
II D,91-N, AL - 100 OoliaA avenue
VIII if,s SIH NJ +oo WHIT
Plains. \. \.
KELLY, CORNELIUS, North Salem, n.
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n IGn ~ hn Tf hs1y-n on
m"rly been a resident Of PittsbDr@ Pa
MILAN. MRS ANNIE H., widow, aged
81 years. sister -in-law of Supt. Lyons of the
bI2oqImqin9;gdaIlG insane asylum 90
Pike Wyoming county, n Y: identified by
= cousin, Charles Bond of White Plains, y.
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PFpRIN - NIIiS noP6TI ilI2' " y Nod %
years. New York city; Identified b5y the
husband Henry O. Perrin
ROSB0ROUGH, ROBERT I. White
IlalhS. \ l.; employe OF w * }. Sloane,
SIrV9ET EI1rrss AWE so.,.,r+ Whit,
Plains. T.
STORM. JULIA W, Bedford Station. n.
y.
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WERSTFR NRS ISAAC White
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All Homeqoers ON Train
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roiiroad varis and diin't got nnTGr Good ,InI
hnad,y,av mill ,ftar. Tho v3rds bHd Toon
nossed
Crash Comes on Curve
Then the engineer opened up ana sent
the train along at terrific speed The
train had stopped at One Hundred and
Twenty-6fth street and wasn't to make
another stop until White Plains was
reached
At Woodlawn road, near Two Hun
dred and First street the four tracks
of the New York Central run through
rocky cut on sharp curve. The
train sped around the curve apparently
without Slackening speed and with such
swerve that cards on the tables III
the smoking car We're swept op to the
floor
Last Car Is Whipped UT.
| The train. with the exception of the
rear car, had cleared the curve wher
His coach was snapped off like feather
The ear turned on its side and went
bicI, : baI foIIon for BOO Tords rbo
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