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| the scene the police, under the direc-
| ton of Coroner Schwannecke, began
the task of removing the dead. From
a livery stable near by a policeman
had brought a plank runway. This
was used to bridge the ten foot jump
between the walled gully and the
| track below. One policeman stood at
the top of this bridge with a lantern.
For hours a procession Of policemen
carrying stretchers passed over this
| footway and up the bank to the place
| where wagons were awaiting to carry
| the dead down to the Bronx Park po-
| lice station. The crowd which packed
| the entrance to the gully had to be
pushed back with clubs:
A child's red wooden mitten was
| tagged "No. II" and placed on the
| same stretcher with a bundle which
| had nothing human about it except
long yellow curls.
McCreary's livery stable. which
| stands on the bank just above the
| scene of the wreck, was converted
| into a temporary morgue during the
| first hours of the work Of removing
| the dead. Here the dead were
| placed in rows down the long lane be-
| tween the stalls of the horses. The
| horses soon became so FESTIVE that
| they threatened to break from their
| stalls and trample the MANNED bodies
| on the floor. Then it was that after
| the first hour of confusion had passed
| the dead were removed to the Bronx
Park police station.
Assistant District Attorney Smyth
| declared that the broken wheel had
| nothing whatever to dc with causing
| the disaster. He said that the new
! electric motors are too heavy for the
roadbed equipment. He said he found
a section of rail ripped out Of place
and the spikes which had held it In
place on the ties cut as If with a
knife. Mr.. Smyth said the electric
motor which hauled the train was as
heavy as a great locomotive a ten
der combined, but, being shorter and
more compact than a locomotive q
great weight is concentrated.
The bolts holding the rails were
unable to Withstand the tremendous
pressure of the ponderous motor as
it whirled along the track, according
to Mr.. Smyth. The great weight and
the terrific speed formed a combina-
ton which the roadbed was unablet TO
resist.
If his conclusions prove correct,
Mr.. Smyth said that it would amount
to criminal negligence on the part or
the responsible officers OF the New
York Central road. and their arrest
would follow.
The identified dead are:
Mrs. Florence Brady, Golden's
Bridge; died in Lincoln Hospital;
identified by her husband, Edward
Brady.
Miss Bessie .Beals, nineteen years
old, Bedford Station; identified in po-
lice station by brother, Howard Beals.
Miss LIME Elwell, Hawthorne, N.
Y, eighteen years old; identihed IN
police station by William F. Bach.
Myron e. Evans, thirty-dve years
old, No. II Fisher avenue, White
Plains, civil engineer; Identified by
wife in police station.
Mrs. Catherine K. Farrand, thirty
years old, Pleasantyille; Identified IN
police station by husband, Hiram A.
Farrand. $500
Miss Clara L. Hudson, No. ITS
Colfax avenu West. Minneapolis
Mimi, eighteen years old.
Miss Jessie M. Joubin. superln-
tendent of music in White Plains
High School; died in Fordham Hos
pital.
Cornelius Kelly, North Salem,
twenty-siX years old.
Miss Annie Leovoni, White Plains,
servant.
Mrs. Annie H. McLane, employed
in Bloomingdale Asylum; widow.
Mrs. Mary Kinch, Chappaqua. n.
Y; identified in police station by E.
J.. Meehar, of Chappaqua.
Miss Annie Morehead, sixteen
years old, student in Briar Gin
School; residence in Pittsburg, Pa;
died in Lebanon Hospital.
Mrs. Dorothy w. Perrin, thirty
years old, Bedford Station; Identified
by her husband, Henry o. Perrin.
Charles F. Page, No. 40 Barker
avenue, White Plains.
Robert J. Rosborough, thirty-nine
years old, salesman, married, No.
1899 Longwood avenue, Bronx.
Miss Bessie See, thirty-fve years
old, stenographer, PleasantVille.
Miss Julia W. Storm, eighteen
years old, Bedford Station.
Miss Elsie D. Warren, No. 24O
West End avenue, Manhattan.
Mrs. Isaac L. Webster, t~hirty-eight
years old, White Plains.
One woman, badly mangled, still
| awaits Identification in the Bedford
| Park police station. She was dressed
in a black suit, blue macintosh coat
| and wore a double strand watch chain
about her neck. She had a ladies'
hunting case gold watch bearing the
number 1919. The body was No.
| Is taken to the police station.