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nurses arrived. The trains were met at
Manchester and Shortsville by vehicles
If every description, and the dead, in
,luding those who had died en- route,
were taken to the morgue.
Then, with the victims who were still
alive, the trains dashed on to Rochester,
Geneva, and Clifton Springs, where their
yroaning freight was hurried to hos
pitfalls.
Washington Veteran Hurt.
The horror of the disaster was forci-
bly, impressed. upon the throng gathered
at the Manchester station when a G. A.
r. veteran named Keeler, from Wash
lngton, D. c.. stepped off holding out the
bleeding stump of an arm.
Elizabeth White, of Philadelphia, a
passenger on the coach that stood on
end in the water, in telling of her ex-
perience said tonight:
Il heard terrible noise. Then all the
passengers We're thrown in heap at the
lower end of the car. Our car plunged
over the trestle so quickly that there was
scarcely a cry before We found ourselves
in the water. The suffering then was
awfal. Three people near me were killed.
cTawled out of the window"
MIS- y. A. Green, Oh "elldIlO, Cnl.p
was one of the badly injured. Her
mother. who sat beside her in the car,
was killed.
We felt the first jar of the car leav-
,ng the tracks," Mrs. Green said, "and
rs We started to arise from our seats
to ascertain the cause Of the trouble we
were all thrown together. The next
moment We were lying in the water. in
shrieking, groaning mass. Near by me,
hPnaafh
see mother dead"
Coroner. D. A. Eisline, of Shortsville,
:ook charge of the wreck, and directed
the work of caring for the victims. He
was assisted by Coroners A. W. Arm
strong, of Canandaigua, and George
flint of Geneva.
Coroner Begins Probe.
Coroner Armstrong was delegated,
after the relief trains had departed, to
investigate the disaster and its causes.
He said tonight that there were two
possible causes-a broken rail or a
spreading rail. Railway officials said to-
hight that the trestle was inspected this
morning and the trackage was foun1
in the best condition.
Coroner Eishne said tonight that no
inquest would be held until all the
bodies are identified.
1t is possible that still more bodies
will be found at the bottom of the
stream, pinned beneath the wreckage.
Three were removed at 10 o'clock to-
night While the wrecking crew was
trying to remove the debris late tonight
he coach that had stood on end toppled
over into the gully. Several members of
the wrecking crew were standing on
the car at the time, but jumped and
saved their lives.
Coroner Eisline stated late tonight that
the number of dead may reach sixty by
tomorrow, including those already dead
and those who are not expected to sur
vive the night. There are two bodies in
Rochester and twenty-five in the Stod-
dard morgue at Shortsville. Three bodies
were taken from the wreckage tonight,
and there are at least twelve victims In
the hospitals at Geneva, Rochester, and
Canandaigua who, it is thought, cannot
survive.
Partial List of Injured.
A partial list of the injured obtained
from hospitals at Rochester, Geneva, and
Manchester. follows:
Capt Robert S. Aansbury and wife
Philadelphia, Pa.
E. ]. Spindler, Olean. N. Y.
Howard Hadley, Philadelphia, Pa.
S. P. Draper and sister. Emeline. Lam
caster, Pa.
Mrs. H. O. Douglass, Newton, Pa.
Miss W. Walker, Lakewood, Ohio.
Miss Geraldine Inman, Philadelphia, Pa
Mrs. T. B. WATERBURY, Toronto, On
saria.
Miss P. E. Kelly Washington, D. C.
Fannie Gruber, Eddystone, Pa.
Margaret Jacobson. Philadelphia. Pa.
Miss Helen G. Pierson, Philadelphia,
Pa
Col. G. A. Keeler, Washington, D. c.
Agnes Gartner, Atlantic City. n. ].
Mr.. and Mrs. F. w. Walker, Lakewood,
" Y.
Nellie WATERFORD, Perth Amboy, N. J.
Nellie Pitts, Phillipsburg, n. ].
Laura NJ. Richardson, Germantown,
Pa.
Mrs. Harry w. Hamilton, San Antonio,
Tex.
Mrs Theodore w Merrihew, Philadel-
phia, Pa.
Miss Louise E. Reyes. Phillipsburg, Pa
Mgr. Joseph Hendrick, Ovid, n. Y.
James Richardson. Philadelphia, Pa.
Mrs. Mary Smith, Sayre, Pa.
Rev. William Harrington, address un-
known.
A. NJ. Hunsecken, Canada
Mrs. z. Powers, address unknown
Two nuns, Sisters Hortense and Vida,
II Geneva.
Rev. T. ]. Whitley and wife.
Mrs. Chatham
Mrs. Ann Gardy, Atlantic City
Charles H. Sadler, Sharon Hill, Pa.
]. d. Hyde and wife, New York
Mrs Julia Phillips, Philadelphia.