The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-05

among the eight unidentified dead
 who were removed to the Elmfra mor- que. The bodies of Mrs. William Arm
 strong, of Hoboken, and John B. Tait,
 of Brooklyn, were identified, today
 Of the seriously injured James Grif-
 filth, of Newark, has perhaps the least
 hope of recovery :. He is suffering
 from internal injuries of grave na-
 ture Miss Nellie Schanden Of New York, who was reported, last night, as
 have a fighting chance for life. Miss
 Mary Brennan, of Newark, who is a,
 St. Joseph'a hospital, Elmira, now has fair chance for recovery. Morris
 Eissman, of Jersey City. is still in a
 critical condition.
 Twenty of the slightly injured are
 at the Corning hospital and 10 at the
 Eamira hospital. These figures ex- clude those thought to be fatally
 hurt A few are being cared for at whilesethers have recovered sufficient ly to. go to their homes.
 The Lackawanna company has made arrangenents with the local under takers for the burial of all the bodies
 and to supply caskets to all the dead
 D. M. Rine, of Scranton, Pa, general superintendent of the Lackawanna states that his company will welcome the fullest possible Investigation into the cause of the wreck bur this state ment is in marked contrast with the attitude of the officials. After giving
 out statement as to the cause of
 the wreck, he renewed the names o1 individuals who could have substan- tiated the theory advanced. Rine in-
 sisted that a flagman was protecting
 Train No. g. but he refused to give
 his name.
 day. organized jury of "A to take
 up the inquest. The inquest was ad- journed until next Tuesday to enable the coroner to have all the members of the train crews Subpoenaed before
 continuing the examinations New York, July 5The >Lackawanna
 Railway gave out today, a supple
 mentary statement on yesterdays fa- tai wreck at Corning, in which if
 again declared that neglect q on the part of the engineer who disregarded danger signals was the sole cause.
 The. statement say s:.,,s :s < <. NssEngineef William aschroeder; of Elmira, who was the engineer of the express train which ran. into passen- ger train No. 3 near Corning, N. T., was 54 years old and had been on the run ever since it was established 2s years ago and had most excel lent record.
 At the time of the accident, he had been on duty only about one hour. The road is fully equipped with the latest and most complete automat- ic block signals which provide fo1 two warning signals, the first being
 about a mile to the rear. The distant signal notifies any approaching en- gineer to reduce his speed and hold his train under control while the sec
 ond signal, immediately in the rear of the forward train. notifies the eng1- neer to bring his train to complete [ stop.
 t'An official investigation on the ground disclosed that Engineer Schroeder, of the express train which ran into Train No. g, passed signal 2,773, which indicated clearly that No 1 g was in the block ahead and requir- | ing him to reduce his trains speed and get it in control. Train was stand l ing 450 feet beyond the danger sigma, which was disregarded
 "In addition, Engineer Schroeder
 ran by the flagman of Train g who
 was standing midway between the Cautchonary and danger signals and who had. as an extra precaution ow- l ing to the fog, lighted a fuse which
 was burning in full view as the engi- neer passed
 "A thorough inspection of the block signals develops that they were 1T perfect condition"