New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-08-26

End and Passengers Piled IN
Tangled Mass at the
Bottom.
Manchester y. Y. Aug 2j.-With .
list Of killed and injured far from COM
plete at midnight. twenty-five persons
are known 10 have lost their lives and
between fifty and sixty 10 have been in
jured many Of them seriously in the
wreck OF Lehigh Valley train No. I on
trestle near here to-day. Two cars ot
the train plunged of the structure. were
hurled against the stone embankment
and dropped 70 the bed OF Canandaigua
outlet. forty-hve feet below. when the
fast running eastbound train was de-
rallied and broken in twain on the VIA
duct. Another car rolled down the en-
bankment beyond the rive. The re-
naming eleven cars Of the train kept
the roadbed.
The first car which went over a day
coach. plunged 10 the creek bed and was
crushed like fruit basket on the rocky
bed Il landed on its side. and few of
the occupants escaped either death or
serious injury. The next car toward the
rear plunged head first into the chasm.
and. with the forward end resting in the
creek. stood balanced in almost a per-
pendicular position.
The wreck is remarkable in that two
cars from practically the centre Of the
train We're singled ont for the disastrous
plunge 70 the river bed.
The train carried many veterans re-
turning from the Grand Army encamp-
ment at Rochester and at least two u
the old soldiers are known % have gone
to their death in the wreck. A large
proportion Of those killed and injured
were women.
Identification OF the dead and COM
pilation OF list Of the injured have
proved slow and difficult. owing 10 the
location OF the wreck. the severing OF
telegraphic communication incident 10
the crash and the scattering Of the in
iured among hospitals and sanatoriums
in several nearby cities and towns IL
is feared that other bodies may yet be
found in the wreckage and that several
Of the more seriously injured will die.
The List Of Dead.
The list Of dead so far recovered fol-
lows. The bodies OF all. except the two
first named. which are at Rochester. are
al the Shortevile morgue.
BECKER. Henry brakeman.
BELT. .. NJ. veteran. Los Angeles
HICKS. Charles. Newark. y. J.
HICKEY. Joseph. Philadelphia
HCNSICKER. A. N. Vineland. ont.
JOHNSON. Mrs c. p. Cleveland.
MADDEN. T. C.. Trenton. y J.
PANGBUN. z. veteran. Brooklyn.
POWELL Helen. Newton. Penn.
UNCLE. r. S. southhed. y. J.
UNCLE. Mrs. R. 5. southheid. y. J.
zUDICK Mrs A. E.. No. 30 Bennett street.
Buffalo
Woman. about forty. N. F. H" on breastpin.
black skirt, white waist
Man seventy with "P" on cuY button.
truss made BY Sentz Sons. of Philadelphia
Woman. about thirty-hye, gray and black nnsiy
checked dress. short black hair.
skirt. green and white striped silk shirt
waist. M. G. II" initials.
Woman. about twenty-five. black hair and DARK
eyes; head crushed.
Woman. about forty-two. white skirt With black
stripe. gray skirt.
Woman about thirty-nve with e. T P" on
watch. shoes bought IN Philadelphia
pns a92f' %,b nsGrpn Eas ES q
So brown hair. slightly gray
Woman. about hfy-nye dark blue Jacket black
skirt
Woman. seventy. gray hair. "A " K" on
signet ring
Man. about nfty-hve. body crushed beyond
recognition.
Boy. about six years Old.
The wreck was the worst in the his
tory of the Lehigh Valley line in this
state and one Of the most disastrous
ever recorded on the system. Crowded
with passengers, many OF whom were
war veterans and their relatives and
friends from the Grand Army OF the Re-
public Encampment at Rochester. train
No 1. made up OF fourteen cars. drawn
by two big mogul engines, was forty
minutes late when IL reached Rochester
Junction. and from there. il is said, sped
eastward 10 make up time before reach
ing Geneva.
The engines and two day coaches had
Just passed the centre Of a iO-foot
trestle over Csnandaigua outlet. .O
yards east Of the station az Manchester.
at 12:35 o'clock. when the Pullman car
Austin, the third OF a long train left the
rails. II dragged the dining car with II.
and two day coaches and two Pullmans
followed.
Coupling Between Cars Breaks.
All bumped over the ties short dis
lance. when the coupling between day
coach No. 23T and the rear end OF the
diner broke The forward end OF the
train dragged the deraAed Pullman
Austin and the diner over .Ately. after
which both plunged down the south en-
bankment and rolled over. The tree end
Of the Lehigh Valley day coach. In which
T. ost OF the fatalities occurred wa
showed out over the gulf, and. followed
by Grand Trunk day coach. stripped
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 which
went over struck the east embankment