Arizona republican., 1911-08-26
Wreck on the Lehigh Valley Railroad KNOWN DEAD, TH|R1Y-sEvEN
List Will Probably Be Longer. Spreading Rails Let Two Coaches of Train Down a Forty Foot Elm bankment.

Manchester, x. Y, Aug. 25.-Speed- ing eastward behind time. Lehigt Valley passenger train No. ran into spreading rails on a trestle near here today and two day coaches from mid section of the train plunged down ward forty feet striking the embank- ment like a pair of projectiles.
 At least thirty-seven persons arc believed to have been killed and fullN sixty injured Several of the injured may die.
 The dead:
 DAVID NJ BELT. Los Angeles.
 HENRY BEEKER. brakeman.
 T. C. MADDEN. Trenton.
 F.. PANGBURN, Brooklyn.
 A. NJ HUNSICKER, Vineland, Ont
 CHARLES HICKS, Newark.
 R <. UNCLE. Southfield. x. J.
 MRS R <. UNCLE.
 MRS A. E. SOUDICK. Buffalo.
 HELEN POWELL. address un- known
 DR. C. P. JOHNSON, Philadelphia.
 MRS. C. P. JOHNSON.
 JOSEPH HICKEY. address un- known
 A woman aged about 4o, M. F. H., on breastpin.
 A man with "P" on cuff button.
 A woman about 3S.
 A girl about 2S
 A girl of 22, dark hair and eyes.
 A woman If 42.
 A woman of 35. "E T. P" on watch.
 A woman of 50, Name Nov. 23," on wedding ring.
 A woman of 8. dark clothing.
 A woman of 70. "A. NJ. K. on signet ring.
 A man of 55, body crushed beyond recognition.
 A boy of 6. unidentified.
 Crowded with passengers, many of whom were veterans of the G. A. R. and excursiOnists from the C. \. R. encampment at Rochester, the train was made up of fourteen cars drawn by two mogul engines was forty min utcs late when it reached Rochester I time before reaching Geneva.
 The engines and two day coaches had just passed the center of the 400 foot trestle over the Canandaigua out let, 15O yards east of the station of Manchester at 12:35 r. m, when the third car, a Pullman left the rails.
 It dragged with it the dining car. two day coaches and two other Pull mans All bumped over the ties a short distance when the couplings of the rear coach and diner broke. Both day coaches plunged over the side of the railless bridge down the embank- ment The front end of the first car struck the solid wall of masonry like a projectile Both cars, filled with lay a mass of crumbled wreckage under which were a hun dred men, women and children. The greatest loss of life was in the first day coach although dozen dead were taken from the second car which struck the bottom and stood end up. All the passengers in this car were piled in the front end of the car in one mass of confusion.
 It was several minutes before any one reached the bottom of the em- bankment to aid the injured They were then carried to the top of the bank where physicians from Man chester gave what aid they could. Other physicians and nurses were hurried from nearby towns.
 The railway station at Geneva. a cider mill, and an ice house were used later to give temporary shelter to the injured and suffering. The work of rescuing the victims of the first day coach was difficult as it was neces- sary to chop through the top of the coach and take them out through the holes. Many of the dead are G. A. E. veterans.
 In going over the embankment the cars took down the telegraph lines and aiG had to be summoned by telephone which added to the delay. The work of identification of the dead is very difficult. Rescuers are now remOv- ing the effects of those caught in the wreck but the work is hampered by the first car which stood on end, and falling buried many bodies of victims underneath. Some of the bodies are SO badly disfigured that is impossible.
 At Manchester tonight the hats of the c. A R. men and Sons of Vet erans are piled up with baggage bloody garments. umbrellas and other personal effects,