The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1911-05-04
BONES FOUND IN RUINS
ELEVEN TOTAL DEAD IN WRECK OF
TEACHERS SPECIAL
OTHERS EXPECTED TO DIE
Scores Out, Burned and Bruised in
Saturdays Disaster on Pennsyl-
vania Road.


persons were burned to death, three
fatally injured, two others so seri-
ously injured that their lives are
despaired of, and scores of persons
were cut and burned and bruised,
some dangerously, in the wreck of
the teachers special from Utica, n.
Y, to Washington, ID. c., on the
Belvidere-Deleware division of the
Pennsylvania Railroad. at Martins
Creek, N. j., yesterday afternoon.
The line was reopened for traffic
to-day. Bones of eight persons
have been taken from the debris
and the working crew have quit
work.
Miss Eleanor Rutherford, a teach
er of Utica, died in the Easton
Hospital last night, as did also
Walter Vance, of Trenton, N. j., en-,
gineer of the ill-fated train, and
Stroudsburg, Pa.
These Expected to Die.
Miss Augusta Lyte, of Utica, is in
critical condition in the hospital,
suffering from general burns and
shock, and George w. Parsons, of
Lamberville, n. j., is so severely
burned that he is not expected to
live. This morning DR.. J. J. Quin-
cy, local health officer, took X-Ray
Federico Schwab and Miss Mary
Congron, both Utica teachers, and
found that each had sustained
fractured arm. Most of the injur-
ed are now resting comfortably
Local officials of the railroad
company are communicative as to
the cause of the accident. General
Manager F. l.. Sheppard, of the
Pennsylvania Railroad, was at the
tn la,y h,,% -
statement. He hurried back to
Jersey City. Other high officials
have been at the scene. 1t is the
general belief that the rails spread
and caused the train to leave the
track and plunge over the embank-
ment.
flushed Into Death Trap.
Trackmen here have been at work
at the point of the disaster and it
is alleged that the tracks were
lacked up" that no sign was out,
and that the engineer believing he
had clear track, rushed into what
proved to be a death trap at the
rate Of SO miles an hour.
One hundred and fifty excursion
lists were registered at the Martins
Creek Hotel last night. Many of
them went home on the special that
was run down by the Delaware,
.Lackawanna and Western Railroad
last night, and others, including
those who had been taken to farm
houses and hotels at Belvidere, N.
~. and Stroudsburg, Pa, left for
Utica to-day. A number of Uticans
came down to Easton to look after
the dead and injured.
Miss DR.. Hennessey, Of Utica, was
among those who remained at the
Martins Creek Hotel last night. She
assisted the injured and while do
ing 80 she was suffering intense
pain from severe injury to the
spine.
The explosion that occurred at
the wreck last night was due to the
ignition of gas in tank under the
dining car, the only car which did
not go into the ditch. A flying
fragment of the tank struck Harry
Francis, Of Titusville, Pa, stud
ent at Lafayette College, on the
head aH'd inflicted an ugly cut.
WhMe Charles Person, the con-
ductor, lay pinned in the wreckage,
he suffered excruicating pain and
had a premonition of death. He
said to W. S. Cummings, district
passenger agent of the Delaware,
Ilackawanna and Western, who lay
pinned over his PROSTATE body, that
he knew he was going to die. He
took Cummings by the hand, saying
he could not see. 1t was later
learned that Persons eyes were
burned out. Cummings managed to
free himself and later assisted in
rescuing the mangled body of the
conductor.
Distressing Scenes at Utica.
Utica, April 80. - Three thou
sand Uticans stood in a pouring
rain tonight waiting for the
special train bringing victims of
yesterdays accident at Easton, Pa.
The police could scarcely cope with
the excited and grief-stricken crowd.
Ambulances and carriages had been
provided by the railroad company
to take the injured to their homes
or to hospitals.
city were unaware just who had
perished or been injured, the scene
as the distressed relations of the
excursion party crowded forward to
obtain some word can better be i'm
agined than described. Fives cars
of the special train had been con-
verted into temporary hospitals and
as nearly as thirty persons, injur-
ed more or less seriously, were help
ed from the cars and into the am
balances and carriages scenes of
great excitement prevailed. Men
and women were clasped in each
others arms as tears of relief or
sorrow coursed down their cheeks
The injured withstood the ride from
Baston' with fortitude and all seem
to be In condition for recovery.
In nearly all of the churches to-
day reference was made from the
pulpits 20 the accident, special pray
ers we're said for the dead and in
jured FLAGS on tho cftv hufldin oa