The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-26
Sixty More Injured as Two Loaded Coaches Plunge
 Through Trestle
SPREADING RAILS
 CAUSE ACCIDENT
Loaded With Excursionists and G. A. K. Veterans Ill-Fated Coaches
 Plunge Into Shallow River
 Forty Feet Below

plete at midnight D persons are known !
 to have lost their lives and between 30
 and 60 to have been injured. many of | them seriously, in the wreck of Lehigh Valley train No. 4. on a trestle near here
 today. Two cars of the train plunged off i the structure. were hurled against the
 stone embankment and dropped to the
 bed of Canadagua outlet. 45 feet below
 when the fast running eastbound train
 was deraed and broken in twain on
 the viaduet. Another ear rolled down the embankment beyond the river. The
 remaining II cars of the train kept the
 roadhed.
 The first car which went over day tcoach, plunged to the creek bed and
 was crushed upon the rocky bed. It Handed upon it's side and few of the oc- cupants escaped death or serious in jury. The following ear plunged head
 first into the chasm and with the for ward end resting in the creek, stood
 balanced almost perpendieufarly.
 The wreck. aside from it's frightfully ealamitous character. is remarkable in | that two cars from practically the cen- ter of the train were singled out for tho
 disastrous plunge into the river bed. l The train carried many veterans re 1 turning from the Grand Army encamp-
 ment at Rochester and at least two of | the old soldiers are known to have gone | to their death in the wreck. X large
 proportion of those killed and Injured | were women.
 1 Identification of the dead and compia- 1 tion of list of the injured has proven a.
 slow and difficult task owing to the To- cation of the wreck the severing Of telegraphic communication incident to 1 tba or Sh and the scattering of the h. iured among hospitals and santariums in
 several nearby cities and towns | It is feared that other bodies may yet | be found in the wreekage and that sev-
 eral of the more seriously injured will 5ie.
 The Dead Following is a list of the dead at tho Shortsvile morgue:
 T. C. Madden, Trenton N. J. E Pangburn. veteran. Brooklyn, N. Yr | A. M. HunsiclSer. vineland, Ontario. | Charles Hicks, Newark, N. I. ! T. E 1Tncle seuihdcld V, ]. ! Mrs K. S t'ncae. SouthhelJ. x. J
 Mrs. A. F.. zudiclS, Buffaio, NY. | Helen Pownell. Newton, Pa
 Mrs. C. r. Johnson, Cleveland, .. Hu-- Ihand in hospital at Rochester. Friend Iclatmed' body and sent itNome.
 Joseph Hickey, Philadelphia.
 The remainder of the de@d at shorts vile were unidentified.
 l The dead at Rochester:
 l D. NJ. Belt. veteran. Los Angeles, Cal. l Henry Becker. brakeman. t
 The other dead are seven women, two girls, four men and boy.
 Speeding eastward behind time the train | ran into spread rail on a trestle and two | day coaches from it's rear section plunged downward 40 feet. striking the embanlS- ment like pair of projectiles- Crowded with passengers, many or whom were war veterans and excursion- | ists from the Grand Army of the Republic | encampment at Rochester, the train was
 made up of IA cars drawn by two big l mogul engines It was 40 minutes late
 when it reached Rochester Junction and | from there sped to make up time before | reaching Geneva
 | The engines and two day coaches had | just passed the center of a 4oo-foot trestle l over Canandaisua outlet. 15o yards east of the station of Manchester, whom the | Pullman car Austin the third of long 1 train. left the rails.
 | The free end of an il-fated Lehigli l Valley day coach. in which most of the | victims riding, showed out over tho
 gulf and followed by a Grand Trunk day coach stripped the rear guard Of the | south side of the treslte and plunged to | the shallow river bed, more than 40 feet l below.
 | The end of the first day coach that went over struck the east embankmenri | of solid masonry and with the other so-foot car behind 1t both shot against
 the wall with terrific force.
 Filled With Passengers l Both coaches were filled with passen- gers In a few moments the cars lay | mass of crumbled wood, metal and glass under which were buried women and children. many of whom were
 killed instantly. The greatest destruc- | ton occurred in the day coach No. 2S1. and dozen persons were taken later dead from the second coach, which after following over the trestle snapped its rear coupling and thus saved the rest of the train from being dragged along.
 This second day coach struck on the bottom of the ravine and stood end up. the rear end projecting few feet above the top of the trestle. All Of the passengers in the car were piled i'm a tangled mass of broken seats at the bottom of the car. | Indescribable pandemonium followed. | The Pullman car which remained on | the bridge with one end projecting | over the gulch and several cars behind
 1t derailed and in immediate danger
 of going over the mass of wreckage | below were soon emptied of all their | passengers who rushed to aid the vic- | tims It was several minutes, how | ever before anybody reached the cars
 at the bottom to help the victims. l The cars did not catch fire. Axes were secured and body after body was removed and carried by the rescuerS. 1 knee deep in the river bed. onto the | bank on the west side of the trestle.
 It was more than an hour before many 1! of the injured could be removed. Special trains from both Geneva and Rochester brought physicians. nurses and medical supplies. Hundreds await- ed treatment.
 Rescue Work Slow
 It was necessary to chop through the sides and bottom Of the day coach lat the bottom and the wprK of renov- | ing the victims moved with painful
 slowness. | Death had come swiftly to many The l mortality was high among the older messengers most of whom were vet-s erans of the Civil war and their wives The dead removed from the wreck and brought to a morgue at Shortsville
 near here tonight numbered a. Two
 other persons died in Rochester from
 their injuries. Several other persona are lying in hospitals or at homes in
 Rochester, Geneva and Clifton Springs with probably fatal fnjurtes
 owing to the fact that the deraffG<& si tCONTINI IfR0D ON PANaTc n sf <