The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-08-26
No Increase IN Death List Since
the First Report Of the
Disaster.
A CARLOAD Of COFF|Ns
Rough Pine Boxes Delivered at Tenn.
porary Morgue Early This
Morning Sixty Per-
sons Injured.
Associated Press Special.

Associated Press Special.
Manchester, ~ Y, August ga
carload of rough pine boxes Were de-
iyered here at daylight mis- m )tn'aS
and were Immediately carted to the
morgue where lay TWEEN
ty-two dead bodies, victims of yes
.erday evenings frightful wreck
when the Lehigh Valley passenger |
rain No 4 ran into spread rail on
he trestle over Canadaigua outlet.
These twenty-five, with three other
dead at the morgue at Rochester,
completes the list of dead
unless other fatalities result amo y
the sixty injured.
Crowded with passengers, many OF
whom were veterans and excursion |
lists from the G. A r. encampment
at Rochester, the train, made up OF
IA cars. was 40 minutes late wheL
1T reached Rochester Junction and
from there sped eastward 20 make w
I time
\ The engines and two day coaches
had just passed the center OF 40
foot trestle over Canandaigua outlet
700 yards east or the station az
II2:35 o'clock, whom the Pullman car
Austin the third of the long train
left the rails II dragged the dining
ear with ii and two day coaches and
two Pullmans in this order follow
ed. All bumped over the ties short |
distance when the coupling between |
the day coach and the rear end of
the diner broke The forward end of
the train dragged the derailed Pull
man and diner over the trestle safe
ly after which both plunged down
the south embankment and rolled
over
The free end of day coach in
which most of the victims were rid
ing showed out over the gulf and, fol-
lowed by another day coach, strip
ped the rear guard of the south side
Of the trestle and plunged to the
shallow river bed more than forty
feet below
The end of the first day coach
that went over struck the east EN-
bankment of solid mosonry and, with
the other sixty foot car behind, shot
against the wall with terrific force.
Both cars were filled with passen-
gers and in a few moments the cars
lay mass of crumbled wood ana
glass, under which men, women and
many of whom were killed
were buried.
The greatest destruction occurred
in the first day coach and a dozen
persons later We're taken out dead
from the second day coach, which,
after following the first over the
trestle, snapped its rear coupling and
thus saved the remainder of the
train from being dragged down.
The second day coach struck on
the bottom and stood end up, the
rear end projecting a few feet above
the top of the trestle. All of the pas
sengers in this car were piled in a
tangled mass of broken seats.
lndescribable pandemonium fol-
lowed The Pullman car Emylin.
which remained on the bridge with
one end projecting over the Sulch
and several cars behind it, dcrailed
and in immediate danger of gcins
over on the mass of wrecEage below,
was soon emptied of all thei' pas
who, aided by gangs 81 rail
r0aA employees from the freight
yards at Manchester, rushed 10 the
scene
AS the bodies were taken out, they
were carried by the rescders, knee
deep in the river to the bank ON the
west side of the trestle. There the
dead and injured were laid until a
crued field hospital was established
1t was more than an hour before
many of the injured could be remoy
ed and special trains from both Ge-
neva and Rochester brought physi-
clans. nurses and smedical supplies
treatment and the
railroad station at Manchester, eli
der mill and an ice house were used
TO give temporary shelter and treat
ment to the sufferers
Railroad men say the cause ~aS~a
broken rail, or the spreading og~he
rails,