The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1911-09-02
FAST TRAIN LEAVES RAILS
ON TRESTLE AND TAKES PLUNGE
OF FORTY FEET.
More Than Thirty People Killed and
Over Half a Hundred Are
Injured.

Manchester, N. Y.-Speeding east
ward behind time, Lehigh Valley pas
senger train No. ran into spreat
rail on a trestle near Manchester Sat
urday and two days coaches from the
midsection of the train plunged down
ward forty feet, striking the east EN-
bankment like pair of projectiles.
In the awful plunge and crash al
least thirty-seven persons are be
lieved to have been killed and more
than sixty injured. The injuries CT
several are so serious that it is feared
they will die.
Mrs. Harry Hamilton of San An.
tonic is among the injured.
Crowded with passengers, many of
whom were veterans and excursionists
from the Grand Army of the Republic
encampment at Rochester, the train,
made up of fourteen cars, was forty
minutes late when it reached Roches-
ter Junction and from there sped east
ward to make up time.
The engine and two coaches had
just passed the center of a 400-foot
trestle over Canadiagua outlet, $50
yards east of the station, when the
Pullman car, Austin, the third of the
long train, left the rails. 1t dragged
the dining car with it and two days
coaches and two Pullmans in this
order followed. All bumped over the
ties a short distance when the coup
ling between the day coach and the
rear end of the diner broke.
The forward end of the train drag
ged the derailed Pullman and diner
over the trestle safely, after which
both plunged down the south embank-
ment and rolled over.
The free end of a day coach in
which most of the victims were riding
showed out over the gulf and, followed
oy another day coach. stripped the
rear guard Of the south side of the
trestle and plunged to the shallow
river bed, more than forty feet be-
low.
The end of the first day coach that
went over struck the east embankment
of solid masonry and, with the other
sixty-foot car behind. shot against the |
wall with terrific force. Both cars |
were filled with passengers and in a |
few moments the cars lay mass of |
wood and glass, under which |
men, women and children, many of |
whom were killed instantly, were
buried.
The greatest destruction occurred in
the first day coach and a dozen per-
sons later were taken out dead from
the second day coach which, after fol-
lowing the first over the trestle, snap
ped its rear coupling and thus saved
the remainder Of the train from being
dragged down.
Following is a list of the dead at
he Shortville morgue: T. C. Madden,
Trenton, N. j.; E. Pangburn, veteran,
Brooklyn, N. Y; A. M. Hunsinker,
Newark, N J-:-Mrs. Rs Uncle, South-
ield, N. j.; r. S. Uncle, Southfield,
Y. j.; Mrs. A. E. Zudick, Buffalo, N.
T.; Helen Powell, Newton, Pa; Mrs.
). F. Johnson, Cleveland, Ohio; hus-
oand in hospital at Rochester,; friend
claimed her body and sent it home;
Joseph Hickey, Philadelphia. The
lead at Rochester: D. M. Bell, vet
.ran, Los Angeles; Henry Becker, I
brakeman. The other dead at the {
Manchester morgue are seven women, :
wo girls, four men and a boy. On I
ome are trinketS with initials, but in
many instances there is little to work |
lpon.
Among the injured are: Two nuns, t
1ortense and Zida, Geneva; Right | t
Rev. Monsignor Hendrick of Ovid; i
Charles Richards, Philadelphia; Mrs. s
larry Hamilton, San Antonio, Texas;
Captain Robert Salisbury, Philadel- +
'hia; S. P. Draper and Emeline ;
Draper, Lancaster, Pa; Mr.. and Mrs. :
J. w. Walker, Lakewood, Ohio, and :
1olonel E. A. Keller, Washington,
}. c..
At the hospital in Rochester are y
he following: Emil Kohler Lancas- 7
er, Pa; Rev. and Mrs. Whitley, aged :
ouple of Boynton, Va; Charles H.
'addler, negro porter, sharonville,
a., Mrs. Sweeney, Philadelphia, criti-
al; w. P. Rumble, postal clerk on the
.ehigh Valley, seriously; Mrs. Ida
Douglass, Chicago, and c. F. Johnson,
Cleveland, Ohio.
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