Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-23
WRECKS OF A DAY.
Officials Investigating Derailment Of
Chicago Limited.

PITTSBURG, March PA committee
representing the Pennsylvania railroad
which investigated the cause Of the wreck
yesterday Of the Chicago Limited, author
lied the following statement:
The wreck was caused by some person
or persons removing the bolts and tie
plates joining two rails and turning one
of them inward, so as to throw the train
OF the track. The work was evidently
that Of one with a knowledge Of tracks
and signals, as the bond wire which COM
pletes the electric signal circuit was care
fully kept intact. thereby causing the sig.
mails to show safe" instead of danger"
as they should have shown had this con-
tact been broken.
The tools found near the scene of the
accident were such as are used in laying
track, but were not the standard tools
used by the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany. nor were they the property of the
company. The place selected for the wreck
seems to have been chosen with a view Of
throwing the train of the track, and at
the same time guarding, as far as possible,
against the loss of life, as the point where
few on the Eittsburg division where there
Is no embankment over which the train
could plunge. The rails were disconnected
between 2:44 o'clock and 1852, giving but
an hour and eight minutes in which that
work was done
The estgation is still in progress, and
will prGtaLly be finished today.
Golden State Filler Wrecked.
INDIANAPOLIS. March 23.-'While run
ming sixty miles an hour the Golden State
Limited train on the Big Four, which left
here for St. Louis at IL :05 o'clock yesterday
morning. left the track at Avon. fourteen
miles west Of this city.
Every car but one went down thirty
foot embankment The accident was due
to defective frog in new piece of track
on fill where the EARN had settled.
The day coaches. engine. baggage car
and six Pullmans were piled in heap IL
the soft earth at the side of the steep
grade. They were badly broken and
There were sixty passengers on the !raln.
many of them In the buffet, when the acct
dent occurred. Thirteen passengers were
injured but none of them MORALLY. The
engineer was killed under his engine. Tho
ma Jorily of the injured were only slightly
brLisf u.
Mrs. William B. Strang of New YORK was
tErt WIN through Pullman car window.
When she was picked up a numoer of
diamonds that she wore were missing. She
Was not seriously hurt.
The Northwestern Wrecked.
SEATTLE, Wash, March 23.-The steam
ship Northwestern, according to word 1e-
ceived here. was wrecked on the south end
of La. Touche Island thu southwestern
coast of Alaska.
The ship lies in an exposed condition and
1t is expected that she will be total loss
The Northwestern was formerly the
Orizaba of the Ward Line. She sailed from
Seattle on March 10 for Valdez, afterwa I'd
going to Seward. The vessel left Seward
OIL Wednesday and was wrecked while en-
route from Valdez to Seattle.
Capt. Truebridge wired the local office
of the Northwestern Steamship Company
Acfn r1o 49, AS~
did not tell the extent of the damage.
No lives were lost. The passengers and
the crew reached shore safely and are now
being cared for by the company at Seward