The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1911-08-31

CARS SHOT LIKE
ClTlPU[TS INTO
MASONRY; g DEAD
Lei1igh Valley Train
Derailed Over a
Gulch
VETERANS VICTIMS.
Hole in Steel of Tracks on
Bridge Blamed for
Accident
VETERANS VICTIMS

Accident
Manchester, n. Y.--The Lehigl
Valley railroad management toda,
places the number of dead in yester
days wreck at 81. However, the to
tai may reach 40, as the work in thu
wreckage is still going on. Over 81
suffered injuries. A hole in the stee
of n of the rails on the trestle is
blamed for the wreck.
Manchester, N. Y.-Speeding east.
ward behind time, Lehigh Valley
train No.. ran into a spread rail on
a trestle near here yesterday. and
two day coaches from the mid-sec-
ton of the train plunged downward,
striking the east embankment like a
pair Of proiectiles. Only a brief re-
port was obtained in time for yester-
days papers.
The wreck was the worst in the
history OF the Lehigh Valley COM
pany in this state and one of the
most disastrous eve recorded on
the system.
Crowded with passengers, many of
whom We're war veterans coming
from the encampment at Rochester,
the train made up of fourteen cars,
drawn by two mongul engines, was
forty minutes late, when it reached
Rochester Junction, anL, from there
sped eastward to make up time be-
fore reaching Geneva. The engines
and two day coaches had just passed
the center of a 40O-foot %trestle, over
C~anadaigua outlet, $50 yards cast CT
the station at Manchester, ,at 12:35
O'Clock when the Pullman car Austin,
tn third of the long train, left the
rails. It dragged the dining ear with
It, and two day coaches and two
Pnllmans in this order followed.
Cars Leave Tracks.
All bumped over the ties for a
short distance, when the coupling be-
tween the day coach and the rear
end of the Pullman broke. The for
ward end of the train dragged the
derailed Pullman over safely, after
which both day coaches plunged
down the south embankment, and
rolled over The free end of the
Inflated coach, in which most of the
victims We're riding, showed over the
gnlch. and followed by another day
coach, stripped the real guard of the
south side Of the ~trestle, and plunged
to the shallow river bed, more than
forty feet below.
The end of the first day coach that
Went over struck the east end en-
bankInent of solid masonry, and with
the other 60-foot car behind it. both
shot against the fall with Bashrd
shot against the wall with terrific
force. both are We're filled with pas
sengers and ma few minutes the
car became a mass of crumpled wood
metal, and glass, under which 100
men, women and children, many of
whom yer killed, instantly were
Dozens Taken Out Dead.
The greatest destruction occurred
In the day coach, No. 237, and a
dozen persons were later taken out
dead, from the second day coach,
which after following the first over
the t~restle. snapped its rear coupling
and thus saved the rest of the train
from being dragged along.
This second day coach struck on
the bottom and stood, end up, the
Tear end projecting a few feet above
the topsof the trestle.
The Pullman, Emelyn. which re-
MINED on the bridge with one end
projecting over the gulch, and sew
eral cars behind it derailed, and in
immediate danger of going over on
h mass of wreckage below, was
Q Q emptied of all its passengers.
" was several minutes, however,
before any one reached the cars at
the bottom to help the victims. The
cars didsnot catch fire.
Axes Brought Into Use.
Axes We're secured and body after
body was removed. and carried by
the rescuers knee deep in the river
bed, to the bank on the west side
OF the trestle. There, the dead and
injured We're laid out on the ground
while planks and timber were req
%uisitioned and a field hospital was
established.
1T was more than an hour before
any OF the injured could be removed
and special trains from both Geneva
and Rochester brought physicians
end medical supplies. Hundreds
awaited treatment, and the railroad
station at Manchester, the cider mills
and an ice house, We're used to give
Ice house, were used to give tenn
paaary shelter and treatment to the
sufferers.
Y was necessary to chop through
tho sides and bottom of the day coach
and the work of removing the vic
Tins moved with painful slowness, Il
large number of the dead having had
their skulls crushed when they were
against the car seats and pro-
jections. The morality was high
among the older passengers, most OF
whom We're veterans OF the civil war
and their wives.
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