Omaha daily bee., 1911-08-27
WRECK FROM DEFECTIVE RAIL
Cause of Disaster at Manchester, N. Y,
is Definitely Asoertained.
TwENTY-sIx DEAD, FOUR MAY DIE
Latest Estimate Places the Number
of Injured at sixty-Nine--
Seventeen Bodies Not Yet
Identified.

MANCHESTER, N. Y, Aug 26,-Twen
ty-six persons are dead, half a dozen NOR
lie at deaths door and sixty y-nine Others
crowd the hospitals from Canandaigua t
Rochester today according to latest fig
ures, as the result of the wreck Of Lehigl
Valley train No. 4, eastbound behind tive
powerful locomotives on a trestle spanning
Canandaigua outlet yesterday.
A ninety-pound rail on the 4OO-foot bridg,
shattered into seventeen pieces and showing
defects in manufacture marked the veal
spot. investigators say. and explains tbs
cause of the disaster
Seventeen Bodies Unidentified.
So far seventeen Of the twenty-sx persons
who met death along the splintered mass
OF wrecl6age of the trestle have been identi
fled. Four of these are at Rochester. The
other twenty-five lie in the Shortsvlll,
morgue in rough pine boxes awaiting
Identification or transportation for burial
Approximate lists of the injured place tn,
total at sixty-nine.
Steps looking to the usual rigid investiga.
tion have already been taken. John Hickey
veteran OF San Antonio, Tex. who, with
his wife. was on a rear car, was among the
first to run out to find out the cause OF
the wreck. He said that he found an old
fracture in the broken rail
]. N. Haines, assistant superintendent
of the Lehigh Valley railway, Buffalo di-
vision, in a statement today said:
"The wreck was unQuestionably caused
by broken rail which we have found and
taken for examination, George Bowman
and Fred Callan of Buffalo, with Henry
Shulle of Buffalo, foreman of engines, and
J. Gilmore. assistant foreman OF engines
were driving the uble-header. They are
experienced men, and with Conductor
James Hillick of Buffalo. the train could
not have been In better hands"
List of Dead at ShOrtsvilIe.
The following revised list of Identified
tions were given this afternoon at Shorts
VILE:
The revised list of dead:
HENRY Becker, Waverly, N. Y, rail-
road brakeman.
D. NJ. BELT, Los Angeles, Cal, Grand
Army OF the Republic veteran
MRS HEADLEY Philadelphia, Pa.
JOSEPH HICKEY, Philadelphia, Pa.
CHARLES HICKS, Newark, Y. j.
A. M. HUNSICKER, VinelanG, CANADA.
MRS. c. F. JOHNSON, OF Lakewood, a
suburb of Cleveland, o.
DIR. c. p. JOHNSON, of Philadelphia.
MSRRF NbdGR 8 g eAjNsRtRN NFsstER N Of BROOKLYN
Grand Army of the Republic veteran, en-
ployed at Ellis Island, aged 62 years. Was
member of Burnside post, Washington, ID.
c.. body clsimed by ID. F. Everets of
Romulus, and held for DR.. j. o. Pansburn,
a brother, residing at Arlington, 8. ID,
HELEN E. POWNALL, Newton, Pa.
j. s. UNCLE Smthvlle, N. ].
VANDBRLrP, MRS. REBECCA. Niagara
WfNKLER, MRS. FRED. Identification
SEVDECK, MRS. Buffalo.
MRS. s. l. UNCLE, Smithville. N. j.
This couple evidently had been prepared
for a violent death On the woman's cor
set and on the mans necktie were sewn
hand-written tags, marked: I'm case OF
accident notify operator at Smithville,
N j."
Eight bodies here remain to be identified.
One is a man, one a 6-year-old boy, and
six women, Most OF these are believed to
be residents of Philadelphia
Two persons died during the night at
Rochester. bringing the total deaths to
twenty-slx:
WILLIS P. RUNKLB. a postal clerk of
Easton, Pa.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN