Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-07-05
Twenty-Three Killed in Head
On Collision in Ohio.
PASSENGER CARS SMASHED
Big Four Flyer Was Making Detour
on c., II. & D. Tracks.
FREIGHT WAS TAKING SIDING
Crash Near NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Locked and Cars
Telescoped.

MIDDLETOwN, Ohio. July 5.-Three
victims of the wreck Of the Big Four
New York flyer here yesterday died from
their injuries during the night, bringing
the total number Of dead up to q.
Reports from the hospitals in Dayton
and Hamilton where many of the 81 IN
jured were taken. indicate that number
of these will die Some OF them are
frightfully injured and no hope Is held
out for their recovery.
The names of those who uied during
the night were:
Edward Dunley. Dayton.
Edward Cain. Dayton.
William Amrine. residence unknown.
Dunley was a cousin Of William Duney.
whose name was in the list of dead given
out last night.
All bodies from the wreck have been
identified but one. that of a woman ABOUT
forty-five years old
No More Bodies in Wreck.
The wrecking crews worked all night
The track was cleared early today. NO
more bodies were found in the debris
officials are now engaged in trying to
place the responsibility for the wreck
1t is known that a misunderstanding OF
orders caused the catastrophe Which
train crew was at fault has as Yet not
been learned.
to the c6roner's inquest an investigation
of the disaster will be made by the rail-
way commission.
Collision at Siding.
The freight train. which was second
section was attempting to make a SID
ing to give the Cleveland. Cincinnati and
ST. Louis railways passenger train
clear track. when the Big Four's limited,
travelling at a speed OF fifty miles an
hour. flashed around curve and crashed
into 1t.
The Big Four train. which is the one
which connects at Cleveland with the
Lake Shore Twentieth Century Limited.
had been ordered detoured to avoid
blocked track on that road at Genoa,
few miles south of here. caused by
freight wreck earlier in the day. In
addition to it's regular crew II carried
pilot engineer of the Cincinnati, Hamilton
and Dayton road. who was practically IN
charge of the train.
A misunderstanding Of orders caused
the disaster. Pilot Engineer George Wald
had received orders to wait at Post Town.
n siding station three miles north of this
city, according to railroad officials. The
freight train was to have passed him
there. but was late in pulling out of Mid
dletown. Instead OF the seven minutes
reach Middletown. the time was less
than FIVE minutes.
Engine Crew Jumps.
The first section of the freight had
taken the siding here, and Conductor
John Weaver. in charge of the second
section. tried to reach the north end Of
the same siding. Before his train had
cleared the switch points the passenger
train rounded a curve screened by the
thickly wooded lots on each side Of the
track The engine crews had time to
Jump. but not all escaped serious injury.
The crash when the trains met was ter
fifc
The freight was made up of gondola
cars, fiat cars and box cars loaded with
lumber. Directly behind the passenger To-
connective and the tender was a combine
ton baggage and smoking car. followed
by a day coach and a chair car. All the
dead and injured were i'm the first two
cars. there being six passengers in the
smoker and twenty-one in the day coach.
The engines locked into mass of
smashed steel and iron. the heavy pas
senger locomotive telescoping its smaller
fellow as far as the cab. First in the
freight train were a steel coal car and a
box car loaded with six-inch timbers.
The heavy gondola car ripped the floor
out OF the combination car and tossed 1t
and the locomotive tender down ten
foot embankment into cornheld. The
tfmbers in the car following were driven
with terrific force into the day coach.
which mounted the gondola car, and split
il in twain
Coaches Badly Wrecked.
Every seat in this coach was torn from
It's fastenings. the roof was thrown to
one side and the heavy weight of massive
tnlbers, hurled with awful force. struck
among the men and women in the coach.
Even before the crash came rescuers
were running to the wreck from the Mid
dletown station of the Cincinnati. Hamil-
ton and Dayton railroad, 900 yards south
of the accident.
Every surgeon in town was summoned
80 the place. which is mile or more
from the city proper. and calls for as
sistance were sent to Dayton and Haml-
ton.
Relief trains were made up at each of
these places and the injured were placed
upon them and sent to hospitals In those
cities there being no such institution in
Middletown.
Coroner ]. A. Burnett was summoned
from Hamilton and Immediately began
an inquiry into the cause Of the wreck.
MHlM Dill NAIL GAVE