Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1911-08-26
Crowded Coaches on Lehigh
Valley Express Topple Over
Hiqh TreStle Short Distance
From Rochester,
MANY OF VICTIMS
GRAND ARMY VISITORS
Sixty Injured in CraShu Many
MortaIIy; at Least Thirteen
Bodies Await Identification
Near Scene of Disaster.
(By Morning journal Special Lensed wirrl


Manchester, y. Y, Aug. 25.-Witl
a list Of dead and injured far from
complete at midnight, twenty-five
persons are known to have lost their
lives, and between fifty and sixty to
have been injured, many of them SER
iously in the wreck of Lehigh Valley
train Number A. on trestle near
here today.
Two crowded cars plunged off the
structure. were hurled against the
stone embankment and dropped to the
bed Of the Canadian outlet, forty-five
feet below, when the fast running
eastbound train was derailed and
broken in twain on the viaduct. An
other car rolled down the embank.
ment beyond the river. The remain.
ing eleven cars of the train kept the
roadbed.
The first car, which went over, q
day coach plunged to the creek bed
and was crushed upon the rocks. II
landed upon its side and few OF the oc.
eupants escaped death or serious in
jury The following car plunged head
first into the chasm and with the
forward end resting in the creek stood
balanced almost perpendicularly.
The wreck aside from its frightfully
calamitious character is remarkabl in
that two cars from practically the
center of the train were singled out
for the disastrous plunge.
The train carried many veterans
returning from the Grand Army en-
campment at Rochester and at least
two of the old soldiers are known to
have gone to their death in the wreck.
large proportion of those killed and
injured We're women.
Identification of the dead and com
pilation Of a list of the injured has
proved a slow and difficult task. ow-
ing to the location of the wreck, the
severing of telegrapaic communica-
ton incident to the crash and the
scattering Of the injured in hospitals
and sanitarums of the nearby cities
and towns. It is feared that other
hodles may Yet be found in the
Wreekage and many more Of the ser
louElr injured will die.
10y Morning journal special Lef SEQ Wire,
Manchester, n. y, Aug. 25.-Speed
ing eastward behind time, Lehigh Val
ieF Passenger train No. 4, ran into a
spread rail on trestle near here to-
oay and two day coaches from the
thlu-seetion Of the train plunged
downward forty feet, striking the
east embankment like a pair OF
proleetiles At least thirty
persons are believed to have been kill
ca and more than sixty injured. The
injuries of several are so serious that
they probably will die.
The Dead
At the Shortsville morgue:
I c. WADDEN. Trenton, n. ].
y. PANGBuRN, veteran. BROOKLYN.
A. NJ. HUNSTCKER, Vineland, ont
CHARLES HICKS. Newark. n. j.
t. ). UNCLE, Southfield, n. j.
M rs. r. S. UNCLE, Southfield, N. j.
MRS. A. e. SEUDICK, Buffalo, n.
HELEN POWELL, address UNI
known.
MRS. c. J. JOHNSON, of Cleveland
ohio' Husband in hospital at Roches-
Ter. Friend claimed body and sent
it home.
JOSEPH HICKEY, address un-
known.
WOMAN, about forty, m. L. H." on
breast pin.
button.
WOMAN, about thirty-five, gray
ana black, finely checked dress.
GIRL, blonde blue eyes. aged 1S
piue serge skirt, green and white
s'rlped silk shirt waist, M. c. H." in
itials.
GIRL, aged twenty-five, black hair
and dark eyes.
WOMAN, white shirt waist with
black stripe, gray skirt. aged forty
two
WOMAN, aged thirty five, with "E
H. T.. on watch.
:. "oMAN, wearing gold band we'd
e,ns ring, with inscription Name,
November 20, 1888" aged fifty.
WOMAN aged thirty-five, dark
"'ue Jacket, black shirt.
WOMAN, seventy years, "a. NJ. X"
on sisnet ring.
MAN, about fifty-five years, body
4shed beyond recognition.
oNloENTlF1ED BOY. about six
Years old.
AT Rochester:
d. NJ. BELL, veteran. Los ANGELES
HENRY BECKER. brakeman.
Partial List Of Injured.