Evening star., 1911-08-26
COL. E. A. keller MAY
LOSE BOTH HIS ARMS
Former Capital Resident Among
Those Who Gave Up Lives.
BROKEN RAIL IS BLAMED
Shattered Into Seventeen Pieces, It
Derailed Train and Threw Cars
Over High Trestle-Search-
ing Inquiry On.

MANCHESTER, N. Y. August %
dozen more lie at deaths door and about
seventy others crowd the hospitals from
Canandaigua to Rochester today, accord
ing to latest figures, as the result of the
wreck of Lehigh Valley train No. 4. east
bound, behind two powerful locomotives,
on a restle spanning Canandaigua out
let yesterday.
So far as known the only Washington
person injured in the wreck is Col. E. A.
Keeler. whose arms are crushed and may
have to be amputated. Edgar D. Pang-
burn. a former Washngtonian and mem
ber of G. A. r. post in the capital,
but now residing in Brooklyn, is among
the dead
bridge. shattered into seventeen pieces
and showing defects in manufacture,
marked the weak spot. investigators say.
and explains the cause Of the disaster.
Dead Not All Identified.
A number of the persons who met death
among the twisted and splintered mass
of wreckage fifty feet below the trestle
have been identified. Four Of these are
at Rochester. The other twenty-five lie
In the Shortsville morgue in rows of
rough pine boxes, awaiting identification
or transportation for burial
Approximate lists of the injured place
the number at sixty-nine, at the following
hospitals:
Rochester Hahnemann Hospital. 1S;
Homeopathic Hospital. Z: total. 25.
Clifton Springs SaHstoTium. Il.
Canandaigua Memorial Hospital, II.
Shortsville. reported as injured and
mot found at preceding hospitals. Is.
Steps looking to the usual rigid inves-
ugation have already been taken by the
public service commission. coroners and
other officials who have workers on the
scene.
List Of Known Dead.
:. The folloYing-revised list Of identifca-
tons was given out this afternoon by
Coroner Eiseline. at Shortsville:
Henry Becker, Waverly, -. Y, rail-
road brakeman, thirty-three years: died
en- route from train to hospital in Roch-
ester.
ID. NJ. Bell, Los Angeles, Cal, G. A. r.
veteran. seventy years; died in Rochester.
Mrs. Headiey, GIG Delaney street,
Philadelphia.
Joseph Hickey. 1859 South 18th street.
Charles Hichs, Newark. n. j.
A. NJ. Hunsker. vineland. Ont. Can
ada
Mrs. c. F. johnson of Lakewood, a
suburb of Cleveland, home Detroit and
Maryland avenue. Husband first identified
body and then went to hospital at
Rochester. Body claimed by j. A. Tows-
ley, 34l6 Mapledale avenue. Cleveland.
DIR. G. p. Johnson, Philadelphia.
TIC. Madden, 62s North Olden avenue.
Trenton. N. j.; identified by. hyleaf in
scription In notebook.
Washingtonian Among Dead.
Edgar d. Pangburn, of Brooklyn, G. A.
X. veteran, employed at Ellis Island, age,
sixty-two. Was member of Burnside
Post. Washington, ID. c. Body claimed
by y. F. Everts. or Romulus, and held
for DIR. ]. o. Oangburn. d brother, resid-
ing at Arlington. S. ID.
Helen T.. Pownall, Newton, Pa, note on
person said in case of accident notify
Wesley A. Pownall of Newton. Pa. Sig
net ring also aided in identification.
l. s. Uncle of Snithville, n. j.
Mrs. l. S. Uncle of Smithville y. j. This
a violent death. On the womans corset
and on the mans necktie were sewn
handwritten tags. marked: In case of
accident notify operator at Smithville, n.
j. The bodies were claimed by Charles
II. Holzhaver of Smithville.
Mrs. Rebecca Vanderlip, 1877 Ontario
avenue. Niagara Falls, n. Y. identified
by son, Howard Vanderlp, and body
taken home.
Mrs Frederica winkler, Philadelphia
Pa: identification made from description
telephoned from Clifton Springs.
Mrs. A. Zudeck. 80 Bennett street
Buffalo: identified by daughter and body
sent home.
Three Died During Night.
Eight bodies remain to be identified
One 10 a man. one a six-year-old boy anc
sir women. Most of these are believed
to be residents of Philadelphia.
These persons disd during the night a
Rochester. bringing the total deaths Il
twenty-six:~
Willis P. Runkle. a postal clerk. of
Easton, Pa.
Unidentified woman.
A woman who has been in critical
condition at Clifton Springs Sanatorium
recovered consciousness this morning to
give her name. which the nurse made
MRS NJ. e. Hassitt of West Lehigh
avenue, Philadelphia. The fact that she
recovered consciousness for few min
utes leads the surgeons to hope for her
recovery.
Rail Ohicially Blamed.
J. N. Haines. assistant superintendent
of the Lehigh Valley railroad. Buffalo
division, made the following statemen,
today:
"The best information I have show.
that there were twenty-five killed and a.
least fifty injured. The wreck was un
uuestionably caused by a broken rail
which we have found and taken posses
sfons Of for examination. The train wa
composed OF fourteen cars and two en-
gines. George Bowman and Fred Callal
or Buffalo. with Henry Shuttle of Buffalo
foreman Of engines. and j. Gilmore. as
sistant foreman of engines. were drivin
the double-headers. They are experienced
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