The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-07-05
CROWDED TRAIN
HIT IN REAR
BY AN EXPRESS
Victims Pinned Under Wreckage
ia Accident Near Corn.
ing, N. Y.
FOUR DIE IN PULLMAN
Babies Among Sufferers on Train
Taking Holiday Crowd
for Outing
FOUR DIE IN PULLMAN

Corning, N. Y. July 4.--Thirty-
nine passengers were killed and SO
| injured at 5:25 a, m. today when an
! express train crashed into the west
| bound Lackawana passenger train.
No. 8, two miles east of this city.
The passenger train, which runs
from New York to Buffalo, had been
T, standing on the track few minutes
when the express train, which ear
vried no passengers struck it in the
rear at full speed The two day
coaches attached to the rear OF No
10 were hurled down an embankment
land the express plunged half war
through the rear Pullman OF the
standing train before 1t stopped.
Most OF the killed were passengers
in the day coaches who were going
home to spend the Fourth. F. w.
Drake of Passaic. n j., the Pullman
conductor, said four passengers We're
killed in the Pullman.
A score of physicians soon were
lon the scene and the injured Were
brought to the Corning hospital
The death list probably will run
lover 90. Thirty-four bodies had
lbeen taken from the debris three
ihours after the wreck. Many OF the
injured were hurt fatally. Amons
Il the sufferers were several babies and
children.
| AS soon as news OF the accident
spread hundreds of automobiles
dashed to the scene, blocking the
, roadways and interfering with the
removal of the dead and injured. A
detail of police was sent from this
city to keep the roads open and to
keep the crowds back from the
wreckage.
A special relief train from Elmlra
, brought physicians and nurses.
, Coroner Herbert b. Smith ordered
all the bodies removed to this city
land planned to hold an inquest be-
, fore the passengers left the city.
The passenger train, which left
New York at 8:45 last night, was
heavily loaded and was drawn BY
two engines. It was running about
half an hour late. Most of the dead
, and injured, it is believed, were
New York City and New Jersey peo-
pie.
+ Pinned Under Wreckage.
number of the injured wert
lpinned under the wreckage and theli
cries could be heard clearly.
The bodies ofa the dead were laid
on the top of the embankment alon,.
the tracks and at the roadside and
were covered with blankets from tht
Pullman.
Every undertaken in Corning wa;
called to help care for the dead, bui
their wagons first were pressed into
service to carry the injured to thC
hospital. Many of the injured alsC
were taken away in automobiles.
!. The place where the wreck oc
Cured was straight stretch o.
track. So far as can be ascertsined
William Shaver, the engineer of th,
= express train, which is said to hav'
| DCCu tlufCllhS az q Vu-Hiltt aA hOh
rate, had no warmly that the pas
u seDger train was IN his way, On
J, istory Is that there was fog. 1t Il
G believed that when he first saw !
d he thought the train was stap Sin,
a ION parallel track.
al The crowded passenger train wa
: held up by break In freight trai'
o on the track ahead.
sI Most of the dead and injured wer
!. Istrangers to this section and thi
?. made Identification difficult
oil Scranton, Pa, July 4-Onl.
n meager details had been received a
q division headquarters of the Lacka
: wanna Railroad here at IL a. m. o
the wreck at Corning. According t
this information, 20 persons wer
!. killed and about 25 injured. Tele
: graph wires are down.
II Information received by the com
~ 1 L.