The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1911-08-31
LINDSAY BARLOW KILLED AMN BREAKS RECORD 81 CRUSHED TO DEATH
SCORES KILLED AND INJURED IN RAG
ROAD DISASTER
MORE THAN 60 BADLY INJURED
Coaches of Lehigh Valley TJqLin
Plunge Down Embankment, Bury
ing Victims Under Ruins.

Manchester, N Y. August. 25.--
At least thirty-seven persons are to
night believed TO have been killed
and more than sixty injured, as a
result of the wrecking to-day o.
Lehigh Valley passenger train No.
4. Speeding eastward behind time,
the train ran into spread rail on
a trestle near here, and two day
coaches plunged, crashing down
ward 40 feet striking the east en-
bankment like a pair of projectiles.
The wreck was one of the most
disastrous ever recorded on the
system. Crowded with passengers,
many of whom were war veterans
and eXcursionists from the G. A. r.
encampment, at Rochester, the train
was made up of fourteen ars.
drawn by two big engines, was 40
minutes late when il reached RO-
chester Junction, and from there
sped eastward to make up time be-
fore reaching Geneva.
The engines and two day coaches
had just passed the centre of a
4O0-foot trestle, over Canadaigua
Outlet, $50 yards east of the sta
! tion ut Manchester, at 1885 o'clock,
when the Pullman car AUSTIN
the third of "a long train, left the
rails. 1t dragged the dining car
with it and two day coaches and
two Pullmans, in this order, fol-
lowed. All bumped over the ties q.
short distance when the coupling
| between day coach No. 237 and the
rear end of the diner broke. The
! forward end of the train dragged
the Ierailed Pullman Austin" and
diner. safely over the trestle, after
which they plunged down the south
embankmcDt and rolled over.
The fore end of the i'll fated Le-
: high Valley Goy coach. in which
!, most of the victt inns were riding,
( with a Crank y Trunk day coach
stripped the rear guard or the
, southside of the tres, te ana plung-
; ed to the shallow rive bed more
! than 40 feet below.
, The end of the first day coach
! that went over struck the cast EN-
S bankment of solid masonry ana,
= with the other 60-foot car behl nd IL
= both shot against the wall with ter
= rifle force.
Both cars were filled with pas
sengers. In a few moments the
cars lay a chaotic mass of shattered
, wood, metal and glass, under which
hundred men and women and chill
dren many of whom were killed in
simultaneously, were buried. The
greatest destruction occurred in the
Wy NOSiShb hlCll, dIl6T lOllO"lnR
the first over the trestie, snapped
= its rear coupling and thus saved the
rest of the train from being drag
Sed along. This second day
coach struck on the bottom end up,
the rear end projecting a few feet
above the top of the trestle. All of
the passengers in this car were piled
in tangled mass of broken seats
at the bottom of the car.
lndescribable pandemonium fol-
lowed. The Pullman car Evelyn
which remained on the bridge, with
enc end projecting over the gulch.
and several cars behind il derailed
and in immediate danger of going
over the mass of wreckage below,
were soon emptied of all their
passengers, who, aided by gangs of
railroad employees from the big
freight yards at Manchester, rush
eG to aid the injured 1t was sew
eral minutes, however. before any
Dody reached the cars at the bot
tom to help the victims.
The cars did not catch fire. Axes
were secured and body after body
was removed and carried by the
rcscurers kneedeep in the river
bed to the bank on the west side
OF the trestle. There the dead and
injured were laid out on the ground
]
1t was more than an hour before
many of the injured could be re-
moved and special trains from
both Geneva and Rochester brought
physicians, nurses and medical sup
pies. Hundreds awaited treatment,
and the railroad station at Manches-
ter, cider mill and an ice house
were used to give temporary sncI
ter and treatment to the suffering
1t was necessary to chop throug1
the sides and bottom of the day
coach at the bottom and the work
or removing the victims moved with
painful slowness. Death had come
quickly to many, a large number cf
the dead having their skulls crush.
ed in when they we're throw,
against the car seats and projec-
tons. The mortality was high
among the older passengers, most
OF whom were veterans of the civil
war, and their wives
The dead removed from the
wreck and brought to a morgue al
Shortville, near here, at 8 o'clock
tonight number 23. Two other per
sons died in Rochester from their
injuries. Several other persons are
lying in hospitals at Rochester,
and Clifton Springs with probably
iatal injuries. The number of in
Jured will reach sixty.
owing to the fact that the derail-
ed dining car, in going into the
ditch east of the trestle, had
brought down several telegraph
poles, with scores of wires, teie-
graphic service was broken, and will
not be restored until tomorrow. Al
had to be summond by telephon,
Coroner d. A Eisline, of Shortsvill
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