Evening journal., 1911-08-26
TWENTY-SEVEN
DEAD in WRECK
Thirty-EiGht Others Severely
Hurt and Eight VIII
Probably Die
DEFECTIVE RAIL
CRUMBLED UNDER TRAIN
By The United Press.

MANCHESTER, N. Y, Aug. 26.-Fol-
lowing a complete search of the ruins
OF the wrecked day express on the
Lehigh Valley Railway, the county
and railway officials agree that the
death list was twenty-seven and that
OF the thirty-eight seriously hurt in
the hospital at Canandaigua and Ro-
chester, not less than eight are GER
tain to die.
1t has also been determined that the
wreck was due directly to a defective
rail which crumbled under the strain.
A staff Of sixteen undertakers work
ed all night embalming bodies in the
hastily improvised morgue in the base
ment of a country furniture store Cor
oner Eisiline said today that he will
hold the inquest on Monday. Mean
while he is granting permits for the
removal of the bodies as fast as they
are identified. The list of known dead
revised today follows:
Becker, Henry, Waverly, N. Y,
brakeman, aged SO.
Belt, D. NJ, Los Angeles, a veteran,
aged about 20, died in Rochester OH
way to hospital
Headley. Mrs. 6126 Delaney street.
Philadelphia.
Hickey, Joseph, Philadelphia, skull
crushed.
Hicks, Charles, Newark, N J.. ribs
crushed.
Hunsicker A. NJ, vineland, Ont.
johnson, DR.. c. p, Philadelphia.
johnson, Mrs. c. H., Cleveland; hus-
band in Rochester, injured
Madden, T. c., 62S North Olden ave-
nue.. Trenton, n j., neck broken.
Pangborn, DR. Edward Brooklyn, 20,
Civil War veteran, skull crushed.
Pownall, Helen, on whose person a
note was found asking that in case OF
accident Wesley A. Pownall, Of New
ton, Pa, be notified, neck broken.
Uncle. /. s.. Smithville, n. j., base OF
skull fractured and scalp torn off.
Uncle, Mrs. l. s., Smithville, N. J.
Zudeck, Mrs Barbara, Buffalo, whose
daughter was with her.
W. p Rumble, Easton, Pa, died in a
hospital at 40 this morning.
Miss Emily Hill, Philadelphia, died
in a hospital at 2 o'clock this morning
Worst Wreck in Roads History.
A mass of shattered wood, glass and
metal at the bottom of an embankment
some of il covered with mud and silt
from the bed Of the Canandaigua out
let. today marked the scene of the
most disastrous wreck In the history
of the Lehigh Valley Railway.
AS usual the great number of deaths
took place in the fiimsy day coaches
The big steel diner and Pullman, al
though subjected to fully as great q
strain as the cars that crumpled like
paper. held fast and their occupants
were only bruised and cut. The woodcr
coaches, how aver, split apart and Wen
all to pieces in the crash and their in
mates were cut to death by splinteri
OF wood, iron and glass.
Ii is practically certain that th'
cause Of the disaster was blow hoi'
in the big steel rail which carried The
trains on to the great steel trestl'
that spans the outlet This rail haC
been in place for twenty months anC
held true, but the pressure from the
heavy double headed New York anC
PHILADELPHIA day express caused 1t L
split and the middle of the trair
caresned over the embankment int
the water below.
Archibald Buchanan, supervisor o
equipment of the Public Service Com
mission and two of his assistants tool
charge of the situation today. The,
are making a searching investigation
into the causes.
Bodies Terribly Mangled.
The inquiry is proceeding very slow
~ Many of the bodies were terribl.
mangled, but on most of them are jew
slry and other personal belonging
which will aid in establishing who the.
are.
Veterans Quick Action.
The spot where the disaster occur
red was the worst on the entire road
Had it occurred one hundred feet il
either direction, the precipitous plung
from the trestle would not have take
place and the cars would not have beal
so badly crushed. That all Of the car
behind the diner, nine in number, dl
not go over was due to the cool-head
iedness of a G. A. R. veteran who pulle
the emergency brake as he heard TN
crash. This held five of the cars on IN
rails. The train was running only be
tween twenty-five and thirty miles a
hour when the crash took place, hay
ing slowed up to go through the MAJ
chester yards. The locomotives were 9
the heaviest mogul type and were be
ing let out to get high speed in tn
hope of picking up some time" an
the officials are inclined to believe tc
day it was their pounding that spl
the rail