The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-05-01
WRECK IS CAUSED
/ BY CARELESSNESS
No Signal Out, and Excursion
Train Runs Into Death
Trap.
DEAD NOW NUMBER ELEVEN e:
ottl sg 81: SO Badly mi, bred
5s4Iha't Lives Are De
+ SPARED OF. "a
DEAD NOW NUMBER ELEVEN

Easton, Pa, April $3.50 far az 1t
is possible to. ascertain here and at
! the scene of the' accident. eight phr-
sons We're burned to death, three ia
tally injured. two others so seriously
| injured that their lives are despaired
| Of and scores OF persons were cut
burned and bruised. some OF them dan
gerously, in the wreck of the teachers
special from Utica, n. Y, to Washing
ton. d: C.. on the Belviderc Delaware
Division OF the Pennsylvania Railroad
Int 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 wreck
crew has quit work. The missing.
given up as dead. are:
Misses Bessie Walker, Sophia knott.
Louise Lindeman, Sarah Jones and Mrs
Mary Allen. all teachers OF Utica, and
MISC Susan Sessions. OF Utica; Harry
Wfllter, Trenton. n. j. lbaggagemas ter
OF TIE train; James Bickncll. PhilndeI-
phia& tourist agent for the Pennsyl-
vani2 Railroad.
Mss Eleanor rutherford, a teacher
In the Utica schools. died IN the Eas-
ton Hospital last night. as did also
Walter Vanoy. of Trenton. ~. Julien
gineer OF the Ill fated train. and
Charles Person. conductor. of Strouds-
burg, Pa.
In Critical Condition.
Miss Augusta Lyle. of Utica. is in a
critical condition in the hospital suf-
fering from general burns and shock.
and George W. Parsons, of Lambert
vile. n. j., fireman, is so severely
burned that neither Is expected to
survive.
This morning. Dr., j. j. Quincy, local
health officer, took N-rny pictures OF
| the injuries OF Miss Fredericka
Schwabe and Miss Mary Condron. both
Utica teachers, and found that each
had sustained fractured arm. Both
the young women and all the other
New Workers., excert ting Miss Lyle are
iresting comfortably. and the hospital
authorities see no cause for alarm In
| their, condition.
Local officials of the railroad com.
pany are uncommuncative as to the
cause OF the accident. General Man
aSer F. L Sheppard, of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad, was at the wreck to.
day. but refused to make n statement,
He hurried back to Persey City Other
ofhcials have been at the scene
1t Is the general belief that the rails
spread and caused the train to leave
tho track. and plunge over the en-
bankment to destruction carrying its
load Of humanity Track men had been
at work Mt the point OF the disaster.
and It is. alleged that the tracks were
lacked up, that no signal was out ana
that the engineer. believing he had a
clear track. rushed into what proved
to be a death trap at the rate of NIFTY
miles an hour.
One hundred and nve excurslonists
were registered at the Martins Creek
Hotel last night Many of them went
home on the special TINT was run down
BY tho Delaware. Lackawanna and
western Railroad last night, and
others, including those who had been
taken to farm houses and hotels at
iselvidere. ~ j.. and Stroudsburg. Pa.
left for Utica to-day, y number or
utfcans came down II Enston to look
after the dead and injured
Miss Henncssy. of Utica, was among
those who remained at the Martins
Creek Hotel last night. She assisted
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