Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-05-01
TRAIN WRECK
COST II LIVES
Three Others May Die of
Injuries Near Easton.

Easton, Pa, May 1.-Eleyen dead
and three fatally injured is the revised
casualty list in the wreck of the Della
ware, Lackawanna and Western rail
road excursion train, carrying school
teachers from Utica and Syracuse, N.
Y, to Washington and Atlantic City,
which was ditched while rounding 8
Pennsylvania railroad at Martins
Creek, N. j., at a speed of more than
fifty miles al hour. Three victims
have died in the hospital, and -four
bodies, charred beyond recognition,
were recovered from the wreckage
Two other bodies can be seen under
the debris, which is still smoldering
and 1t Is believed that two more bodies
will be discovered when the work OF
clearing away the ruins is completed.
OF the dead there were three In the
Easton hospital-Eleanor Rutherford,
a teacher of Utica; Charles NJ. Person,
the train conductor, of Stroudsburg,
and NJ. V. Vanoy, the engineer, of
Trenton. There seems no reason to
doubt that eight died in the fire. From
the mass Of ashes and twisted iron
the wrecktng crew removed were frag-
ments Of four bodies. More could be
seen, but until the embers cooled it
was impossible to reach them. Pro
lessor A. G. Burton, principal Of school
No. 20 and president of the Utica
Teachers association, said that he had
sent word home that these six teach
ers, all of Utica, persisted In the
flames: Sophie Kuoult, Mary Allen,
Sara Jones, Susan Sessions, Bessie
Walker and Louise Lindsman. Stew
art +. Day, secretary to Mayor Fred
erick Gilmore Of Utica, sent word to
the mayor that after a talk with the
Pennsylvania railroad officials he was
convinced that no further hope should
be held out to the relatives and friends
Of the six.
Besides the eve teachers, four en-
ployees of the Pennsylvania are dead
Person, the conductor; Vanoy, the en-
gineer; Harry Wilmer, the baggage
man, and Joseph Bicknell, the tourist
agent, whose home was In Philadel-
phia. The fire made such thorough
work hat 1t was impossible for the
surgeons to tell whether the frag-
ments found are the remains OF men
or DR.. II. G. Jones of Utica,
who cnme here with MI. Day, thought
that the fragments taken from the
wreck were the remains of women.
Chief Surgeon Michler of the Easton
hospital has ten patients under his
care. Three OF these are In a danger
GUS condition. They are Carrie Ruth
erford, a sister of Eleanor; Augusta
Letght of New Hartford, N. Y, and
George Parsons, the locomotive fire
man. He said there was a chance
that all Of those might o
Miss Rutherford was burned about
the head and breast in trying to es~
cape from q real coach. Miss Leight's
injuries are similar to Miss Ruther-
ford's. Parsons was hurt internally
and scalded by steam from the broken
boiler.
The others will be able to leave the
hospital in a few days. They are
Frances hall Of Watervtlle, N. Y;
Bertha Hall, Frances sister; Minnie
and Frederick Schwabe, sisters, Of
Utica; Mary Condor Of Utica and
Cecile Lindsman, a sister Of Louise, OF
Deerfeld, a suburb Of Utica.
All of the survivors except the In
| jured In the hospitals and a dozen
| teachers who stayed here to be near
their friends have been sent home by
the Pennsylvania railroad. Many OF
those who went back to Utica carried
injuries, some of them serious, but
| they were able to travel. The mvesti'
| CATION made by Professor Burton and
Professor Vincent Brown and Miss
Marian Haskins, n of the heroines
of the wreck, determined definitely
that at least fifty Of the teachers wert
burned or cut or bruised.
1t was possible to obtain from the
teachers and the railroad officials q
fairly clear idea of what caused the
wreck, Of what took place immediatel
afterward and what was done to care
for the injured and remove them to
shelter. With the burning cars eight
miles away from Easton In a difficult
country and separated from the high
ways to Esston by the Delaware river,
d situation vas presented that caused
confusion and contradictory reports
The Pennsylvania officials were un'
wiling or unable to furnish informa.
ton to relatives or friends Of tbs
teachers. Six hours after the wreck
Utica believed that at least a hundred
of her teachers were dead In the
wreck. People IA Utica were frantic
for news and couldn't get H. Tele'
grams were sent to Easton and Phil
.!psbars that never reached the people
they we're seat to. 30 the mayor Of
Utica sent bis secretary to get the
facts, Among other thugs, Utica
wanted to know who was to blans.
Dr, Day began bis investigation. In
eleven heafs' work As got a connected
story Of the wreck, Re will report
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