Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-01-13
INJURED FILL HOSPITAL;
THREE LIKELY TO DIE
Engine Struck Coaches Standing &C
Batavia Station. 80.
BLAME PLACED ON ENGINEER
Had Been in Roads Employ Forty
-. Years and Record Was
Clear-Dinegarded
Signals. -

BATAVIA, N. T., January 1S.-F0ur
passengers, probably asleep in their
berths aboard the New York Central
railroads Boston and Buffalo westbound
express, were ground to death a. that
train stood at the Batavia station early
today. Three others were fatally In
jured. and the condition of eight IL more
or less serious.
The engine Of train q. the New York
Centrars western express. struck the rear
Of. train -. the Boston and Buffalo ex-
press, with such force that the rear car
Of train 40. . sleeper. crumbaed before
tho impact. The engine was reduced to
wreclage. beneath which the four dead
were found. The mutilation OF their
bodies was 30 extensive and i've steam
played such havoc that early identinca-
ton was impossible.
The Dead and Injured.
The bodies are:
Man. nfty years old; probably Cassius
c.. Perrin, Brooklyn, n. r: Masonic
charm found beneath his body In his
crushed berth.
Man, thirty: smooth face: plain sold
band ring; the word "engagement'' en-
crossed inside
Man, thirty-fve: ring marked ''F. J. O"
. Man, forty; nude: no description pos
sibie.
|: The injured, al Of whom asv 1t . LOCAL
hospital arr;
/ r. a. van vaiksnburg. Fultonvirls. N.
z; conauctor train ~ badly crushsd;
fatal. 49,
Robert McFsrland. Detroit, Mich: prsS-
Ably fatally crushed.
/ n. H. Cade. Chicaso; both legs broken.
back deeply burned; fatal.
+ Monte C. Ffiscus. Indianapolis: left Lee
broken. head and body badly crushed:
serious.
H. &. C. Stiles. 80 Abbot street. Dor
chester, Mass; Pullman conductor train
40; face cut, bruised.
r. A.. Smith. Rochester: back injured.
severe shock.
James A. Moore, Buffalo: back injured.
probably broken ribs.
H. l.. HI. Jones, Utica, N. Y: conductor
Rock Island railroad: bruises and severe
shock.
John shaw, Toronto. Ont: leg broken.
Mrs. John Shaw. slight injuries ana
Xbram Cole. porter. Boston: scalp
slightly injured. who received attention
Of physicians. but did not 50 to hos
waiter GildersIeeve Gildersleeve. Conn.
C. D. vansier, Gold Ridge. New.
Plowed Through the Sleeper.
The plunge OF the engine continued
through the sleeping car into the rear Of
a day coach ahead. Nearly all the In
jured, however, were in the sleeper.
Nearly all the passengers were asleep
when the shock came. There were des-
perAte struggles with debris. and many
OF the passengers not reported among
the injured at the hospitals were COM
pletely exhausted with their efforts to
extricate themselves from the shattered
car and to help the injured. ScAlding Jets
Of escaping steam from the punctured
locomotive boiler added to the torture OF
those disabled and delayed the work Of
rescuers.
Onicials and uninjured passengers Of
both trains used every available means
Of removing wreckage from those pinion-
ed beneath. and by noon II was thought
AiO 1uV4 . 0S3O VI ShJ0AC0 WOoAN Oo SSsSAsSA~
Engineer Z Blamed.
supt. Everitt Of tho western division %
the New York Central railroad made the
following statement:
from such premilinay investigations
az have been able to make. J. B. Ly.
dell Of Buffalo, engineer on train a.
which ran into train 20 (Boston and Buff
falo express). was responsible for tho ac-
cident In that he had disregarded signals.
Mr.. Lydell has been in the employ OF the
railroad for forty years. and has been IN
engineman since 1855. with . perfect
record"
Engineer Lydell and his fireman were
uninjured. They jumped to safety just
before the crash. -
NEW YORK. January 13-The uniden-
tined body found in the Batavia wreck
beneath which was discovered Masonic
charm inscribed "Cassius C.. Perrin" 10
probably that OF C. C. Perrin, an assistant
general manager OF q local detective
agency. who left Schenectady last night
for Buffalo, n. T. The agency had no
news OF Mr. Perrin's death. but from the
finding of the locket and the fact that
Mr.. Perrin was due In Buffalo this morn
inE his associates were convinced that u
was he.