Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-07-05

New York State to Investigate Killing of II and Injury to 81
Others in Train Crash at cornng-Thrill-
3ssssssss, ing Stories Told by Survivors. 49,
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OF his family. and visited the local morgues searching for the missing
ones. At the first place visited he found his little boy and girl laid out
sie Nv side on a angle stretcbers At thu second morgue he found the
body of his wife beside that of his aged father The family had taken q
vantage If holiday excursion rates for a unio in Buhal0 II vas Deofe
Fletchers undertaking room here present a sorry sight F1fteen I'M
batned bodies wrapped in sheets are lying o stretchers, most Of them
awaiting Identification. Side by side lie the bodies of Mr. and Mrs
Charles Brandes of New York. They we're married Yesterday and Were
on their honeymoon The bride o a day was killed outright. Her young
husband died from injuries after he had told his story n cried fran
The cases of Doctors George Lotterhoss, If Crystal Springs. Miss, and
Ellis Van Der snse Ivey of Norfolk. Va. two internes of Bellevue Hos.
school of the University If Pennsylvania. Doctors livery and Lotterhoss
were IN their way to Niagara Falls yer the Fourth d.: 1Veys frontal
cussed his "a with DR.. Frank S Swain, # Corning, a tn hosprai
DR.. Swain told him it wa very serious.
I'll get BY he declared. He watched his WI cas to M it. f1naly
1t was decided that a operation a the only chance he had. When Dr.
trouble Of operating, doctor. I feel myself going" DR.. Ivey died within
an hour His friend, Dr. Lotterhoss, is only slightly injured, n VIII g
one man with blood steaming from a deep wound in his face worked
like a mailman in the vreckage, hunting for his missing wife. A mother
too injured to mov herself lay upon the grass embankment covered
with a sheet and pleaded that her baby might be brought to her. When
the child was found it was dead.
n dwe he took u If the cab, crawed across the wreck to a fence be-
bleeding rom the bruises he received, and there he sat dumby gazing
on III scene of destruction. 1t was not until 9 o'clock hat h could be
induced to leave the seem
IA statement concerning the W eek a given tut by General Super1n-
tendent E. M Rme, of the Lackawanna, IS follows:
81 believe that the cause of the accident was undoubtedly Tue &c tn
fact that Engineerman Schroeder. in charge OF the express train, a
through the block and past a hagnan. who had been sent in the "a of
behind the train the required distance, according to the book of rules of
the Lackawanna Railroad Company. This is the only aus which | "a
take car of the passengers who were either seriously injured n more
rommodationsf for am Of the passe, gers who were IN the wrecked train.
The officials IF the company will aid in every way to have a complete in
vestigstion of the facts of the ae made.
superintendent of Motive Power H. Manchester OF scranton, and
superintendent c. A Poore of Buffalo, are here in Corning and arr aid
ing me in making this investigation"
Mr. Rne said he had the statement from the and that he had
evidence o sustain the haeman's story. %fE-8
Other officials declared later that Patrick Lane, the hagman, a
half a mile back of train No O. They also assert that a mile back of the
Inflated train was an automatic danger sigma brow against schroeders
train Lane declares that he waved the flag to stop Schroeder but that
the engineer of train Il went right n