Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-08-26

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Boyle, Philadelphia, slightly; Miss A.
g. Kratzewski, Buffalo, slightly; Mr..
and Mrs. s. W. Walker, Lakewood.
o., slightly; Geraldine Tuman, Phia.
delphia, seriously; Captain Robert
Amesbury and wife, Philadelphia, seri.
ously.
There have been thirty-one dead
bodies removed from the wreckage and
1t Is estimated that between sixty and
seventy persons have been seriously in
tured, twenty-five of whom are be
lieved to be fatally so. 1t is believed
by the searchers that there are still
a considerable number of dead buried
In the wreckage. OF the bodies re-
covered and identified the majority Of
the people are from Washington and
Philadelphia and various other points
In Pennsylvania.
There still remain twelve women and
six men unidentified. The train was
considerably behind its schedule and
was running at a high rate Of speed
when it passed the station.
Among the passengers on the train
were a large number Of G. A. r.
veterans and their relatives who were
returning from the national encamp-
ment at Rochester to their homes in
various points in the east, but as far
as could be learned there are but three
veterans dead, none Of whom have
been identified. A number Of friends
and relatives of the veterans are
among the dead and injured.
An examination of the wreck indi
Gates that it was caused by the srread.
ing Of the rails at a point between the
Manchester station and the bridge over
the Canandaigua outlet. 1t is ap-
parent that part of the train passed
over the defective rails. The first car
to leave the track was a diner which
was the fourth car in the train from
the engine. In leaving the tracks the
diner took with 1t a Pullman which
was just behind it. While the diner
remained on the road bed the Pullman
was hurled down a sixty foot embank-
ment into the outlet. 1t was in this
car that the greatest loss of life oc-
CURED. While other cars in the train
did not go down the embankment their
momentum carried them into the rear
end Of the diner causing a considerable
loss of life and serious injuries in this
car. Several Roman Catholic priests
were on the train, among whom wert
Mgr. Hendricks Of Ovid, the Rev.
Williams Harrington of Ithaca, the
Rev. James Griffith of Waverly, to-
gether with two Sister of Charity.
None Of the ecclesiastics were injured
seriously, although the above named
sustained bruises and had their bodies
wrenched.
AS soon as the wreck occurred the
work of rescue began. Relief trains
were rushed to the scene of the acct
dent from Rochester, Canandiagua,
Clifton Springs and Geneva, with ply
and nurses to aid IN caring
for the injured. As soon as the injur-
ed people could be gotten from the
wrecked cars they were loaded on to
cots in a special train and hurried to
Rochester hospitals.
A hurried count of the injured taken
Rochester places the number of in
1ured at sfxty-one men, women and
children 1t is still believed that there
are a considerable number of bodies
have not been removed from the
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The scene of the disaster was n OF
ind~escribable horror. The
passengers of the train ran about in a
Of panic, looking for missing
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to have lost their lives IN the wreck.
Shrieks of the injured for a time filed
the air with a large number Of sur
geons and physicians from the sur
rounding towns were busy dressing
Injuries. Priests who were on the
Immediately went among the in
and dead and administered the
last rites of the church to those who
were still sufficiently alive to take
them. Many are the scenes that struck
deep in the yitals of even the men
with the sight of death.
AS one Of the priests hurried through
the injured people near the wreckage, +
endeavoring to learn who were and
were not Catholics in order that he
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was stopped by a woman Going over
her he asked whether or not she
was a Catholic, but she replied that
she was not, and then In a voice filed
with tears and racked by ~agnonizing
pains she said, isn't the Lord the
same Lord for all, whether W. are
Catholics or Protestants. Won't you
say a prayer to the good Lord Jesus
for me?" And the priest knelt beside
the woman and offered up a prayer to
the Most High. Such scene were
common. When the priests reached
the side Of an Injured man or woman,
1t rettered but little what their re-
ligion might be, the black CARRIED men
knelt in prayer with them.
A revised list of the dead places the
total at thirty-eight. OF this number
but comparatively few have been
identified. The coroners from this
section are all at the scene Of the
catastrophe, and 1t is probable that
an inquest into the cause Of the wreck
will be started just as soon as the
officials can do 80. The work of clear
ing up the demolished cars is now go
Ing on. Traffic over the road Is at
present at d standstill, but a number
of workmen have been rushed to Man
and traffic was resumed this
morning. All of the injured were
taken to the Rochester hospitals, while