Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1911-08-26

Mrs. Henry Hamilton. San Antonio.
Texas; Captain Salisbury. Phnadel-
phia; S. W Draper and Emiline ORA.
per. Lancaster, Pa.
MIR, and Mrs. s NJ. Walker. Lake
wood. Ohio.
Colonel Q. A. Keller, Washington.
At the hospital in Rochester are
the following;
Emil Kohler, Lancaster. Pa.
Rev. Mr.. Whitteney and Mrs. Whit
tellely. an aged couple Of Boydston.
Va.
Charles II. saddler, negro porter.
Sharonville. Pa.
| Mrs. Sweeney, Philadelphia.
w. ?. Rumble, postal clerk on Le-
high Valley
Mrs. Ida Douglas. Chicago.
Three other victims are also un-
conscious and unidentified.
At Canandiagua are the followlns
injured:
Mrs. Harry Smith of Sayre. Pa. who
is reported dying.
Miss Agnes Garden. Atlantic City.
n. j.
| Mr.. and Mrs. George Irving and
son, John, aged 12, Philadelphia. Pa.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Ruddach
| Baltimore, Md
crowded with passengers, many of
whom were war veterans and excurs-
ionists from the Grand Army of the
/ n ann biia apaa -,
the train made up of fourteen cars
| drawn by two mogul engines, was for
" minutes late when it reached
Rochester Junction and from there
speed on eastward to make up time
| before reaching Geneva. The engines
and two day coaches had just pass
| ed the center of a four hundred foot
trestle over Canandaigua outlet, $50
| yards east of the station at Manches-
ter at 1895 o'clock when the Pullman
car Austin, the third of the long
train. left the rails. 1t dragged with
1t the dining car. two day coaches and
two Pullmans.
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 Pullman
and the diner over safely, after which
both day coaches plunged down the
south embankment and rolled over.
The free end OF Lehigh Valley day
coach. in which most of the victims
were riding. showed out over the guleh
and followed by a Grand Trunk day
coach, stripped the rear guard of the
south side of the trestle and plunged
to the shallow river bed forty feet
below.
The two coaches that went to the
river struck the east embankment of
solid masonry with terrific force.
Both cars, filled with passengers,
lay mass of criimpled wood, metal
and glass under which were a hun
dred men, women and children. The
greatest loss OF life was In the first
day coach, and q dozen persons were
later taken cut dead from the sec
ond day coach which after following
the first over the trestle, snapped its
rear coupling and thus saved the rest
of the train from being dragged
along.
the bottom and stood end up, the rear
end projecting a few feet above the
top of the trestle. All the passengers
in this car We're piled in mass of
broken seats at the bottom of the
car.
The Pullman car Emelyn, which re.
malned on the bridge with one end
projecting over the gulch and several
cars behind 1t, derailed and in i'm
mediate danger of going over on tho
wreckage below were soon emptied
of their passengers. who aided by EN-
ployes in the freight yards at Man
chester, rushed to aid.
1t was several minutes, however,
before anyone reached the cars at the
bottom to help the victims.
Body after body was then removed
and carried by the rescuers, knee deep
in the river bed to the bank. There
the dead and injured were laid on the
requistioned and a field hospital was
esta ablished
1t was more than an hour before
many of the injured could be remoy-
ed and special trains from both
Genevea and Rochester brought ply
scians, nurses and medical supplies.
The railroad station at Manchester,
a cider mill and an ice house We're
used to give temporary shelter to the
sufferers.
The work OF getting out the victims
in the first day coach was difficult,
as it was necessary to chop through
the sides and bottom of the car Many
Of those found dead were G. A. r.
veterans.
The dead in the morgue at Shorts
Vile, near here tonight, numbered
twenty-three. Two other persons died
of their injuries in Rochester Several
others, seriously hurt; are in hospitals
at Rochester, Geneva and Clifton,
Springs. The number of seriously in
jured is estimated at sixty.
As the derailed dining car, in going
to the ditch east of the trestle, had
brought down several telegraph poles,
the telegraph service was broken and
assistance had to be summoned BY
telephone.
Coroner Armstrong of Canandaigua,
after a preliminary examination of,
the wreck said tonight:
"Tt looks to me as though the track
was bad and there was probably a
broken rail-
Late tonight. while the Wreclking