The Sentinel=record., 1911-08-26

0hi'aren, many of Who were KInea lns;aa;.y. were euried.
 The grea.est desrucrion occurred in the flrss fay coach and a oozen persons later were taken out dead tom the second day coaca, wnicn, after following the first over the trestle, snapped its rear coupling and thus saved the remainder of the train from being dragged down.
 The second day coach struck on the bottom and stood end up, the rear end projecting few feet above the top or the trestle. All of the passen- gers in this car were piled in a tan. gled mass of broken seats. Indescri. oable pandemonlum followed. 1ne Pullman car Emelyn, which remained on the bridge with one end project Ing over the gulch and several cars behind 1t derailed and in immediate danger of going over on the mass Of wreckage below, were soon emptled of all their passengers. who, aided by gangs of railroad employees from the freight yards at Manchester. rush. ed to the scene.
 As the bodies were taken out, they were carried by the rescuers, knee deep in the river, to the bank on the yes. side of the trestle. There uhe deal and injured were lald until crude field hospital was established.
 It was more than an hour before many of the injured could be removed and special trains from both Geneva and Rochester brought pnyslclans, nurses and medical supplies. Hun dreds awaited treatment and the rall- road station at Manchester, cider mill and an ice house were used to give temporary shelter and treatment to the suffering.
 It was necessary to chop through the bottom and sides of the day coach at the bottom and work of removing the victims moved with painful slow ness.
 Death had come quickly to those who had been thrown against the seats. Mortality was high among the older passengers, most Of whom were veterans of the Civil war and tnelr wives.
 The dead taken to a morgue at Shortsyille near here at o'clock to night numbered 25. Two other per- sons died in Kocnester Of rleir ln- iuries.
 Other persons with possible mortal injuries are lying in the hospitals at Geneva and Clifton springs. The number of seriously injured is estimated at sixty.
 Because the derailed dining car, in going into the ditcn east of the tres ile, had brought down several tele- graph poles with scores of wires, tele- graphic service was broken and will not be restored until tomorrow.
 Aid had to be summoned by teie phone.
 Late tonight while the wrecklng crews were trying to remove part or the wreckage, the day coach taat hung on end, fell ito the gully, adding to the debris at the bottom under which 1t is possible a few more bodies may be concealed
 A narrowing aftermath of the wreck Is the scantiness of means of identl- flcation of victims. Rescuers, in their haste to remove clothing and effects rom the victims, neglected to keep the various articles near the bodies and many of the dead, upon whom at first sufficient means of identifica- ton were to be found, were soon laid ,as at the morgue where careless wis tors mixed garments and Identification tags.
 The breaking down of telegraph ser vice added to the confusion. u proo- ably will be days before the full list O. dead is maIa up. ldens ficaticI  in any case win be difficult.
 A pathetic sight was that in the Manchester station tonight, where the mats of the men in blue with their gold braid and the more pretentious headgear of the Sons of Veterans were piled up with baggage bloody gar ments, umbrellas and other personal effects, most of which were the property of the dead.
 Railroad men say the cause was a broken rail. or the spreading of the rails.
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