Omaha daily bee., 1912-07-05
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FIT PERSONS ARE INJURED
Most of Victims Bound for Home to
Spend Fourth.
MANY OF INJURED, WILL DIE
Two Cars Tumble Down Embank-
ment and Others Are Thrown
Across the Tracks, Block
ing Them.

| CORNING, N. Y. July AT least thir-
ty-four passengers were killed and fifty
injured today when an express train
crashed into the westbound Lackawanna
passenger train No. 9 two miles east of
| this city.
| The passenger train which runs from
! New York to Buffalo had been standing
| on the track few minutes when the ex-
press train, which carried no passengers,
struck 1t in the rear at full speed. The
| two day coaches attached to the rear of
No. were hurled down an embankment
and the express plunged half way
through the rear Pullman of the stand
ing train before it came to stop.
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 were killed in the
Pullman.
A score of physicians soon were on the
scene and the injured were brought to
the Corning hospital.
The bodies of the dead were laid on
the top Of the embankment along the
tracks and at the roadside and were cov-
cred with blankets from the Pullman.
Every undertaken in Corning was called
to help care for the Dead but their
wagons were first pressed into service to
carry the injured to the hospital. Many
of the injured also We're taken away in
automobiles.
Cause Not Ascertained.
AS yet the cause Of the wreck has not
been discovered. The place where it .oc-
Cured was a straight stretch of track
So far as can be ascertained the en-
gineer of the express train had no warn
ing that the passenger train was in his
way. 1t is believed that when he first
saw it he thought the train was stand
ing on a parallel track.
The death list probably will run over
forty. Thirty-four bodies had been taken
from the debris three hours after the
wreck. Many Of the injured were NOR
tally hurt. Among the sufferers were sew
eral babies and children.
AS soon as news of the accident spread
hundreds of automobiles dashed to the
Sccue,s piOchlH6 the IodaHdyS ouu lilci
fering 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 Elmira
brought physicians and nurses.
Coroner Herbert B. Smith ordered all
the bodies removed to this city and
planned to hold an inquest before the
have left the city.
The passenger train which left New
York at S:45 last night was heavily loaded
and was drawn by two engines. 1t was
about half an hour late. Most
Of the dead and injured. it is believed |
were New York City and New jersey
people.
Both Trains Wrecked.
SCRANTON, Pa, July 4.-Information |
received by the company says that train
No. had stopped at Corning freight sta
ton to allow freight train ahead to take
4 siding when the express train smashed
into it at almost full speed 1t is believed
by officials here that 1t was impossible |
to get out flagman in time to prevent
the crash, the express having entered !
The block close behind the passenger
rain.
Nearly all the cars in both trains were
wrecked, thrown across the tracks,
breaking down telegraph wires so that
'ull details are impossible at this time.