The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-07-05
one WHOLE
FAMILY WAS
BLOTTED OUT
Man Lost His Wife, Two Chill
dren and Father
One Express Rammed Rear
End Of Another
Engineer Could Not See Sig
nails in Fog

- WILL PROSE WRECK.

= WILL PROBE WRECK.
y Washington, D. c., July 5.--The .
= interstate commerce commission
y today ordered a corps of inspec- Q
= tors to Corning, N. Y, to make .
= an investigation Of the Lacka- .
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Corning. N. Y, July 5.-Twenty-
seven of the dead victims of the
wreck yesterday on the Lackawanna
railroad have been identified and six
teen still awaited Identification today,
six in Elmira and eight in Corning.
Forty-one persons were killed and
forty one injured in the disaster.
The wreck was the worst in the
history Of the road. Its cause, ac-
cording to Engineer Schroeder of the
express was his failure to see the sig
nal set against his train. The morn
ing was foggy and he said he could
not make them out The wrecked
train stood on the main track block
ed by a crippled freight train. There
was no flag out.
The signals, Engineer Schroeder de-
clared, were too foggy 10 see, were
just around the curve. The flying ex-
press plunged past them and crashing
into the rear of No. 8 crushed to death
over two score OF it's passengers.
The last two cars on train No. II res
manned on the track and later were
used as temporary hospitals.
Three more identifications were made
today. Mrs. Louis Friedman Of New
York whose body was taken to El-
mira, was recognized by her broth
er The other two were: Mrs. VIII
liam NJ. Armstrong of Hoboken, M.
j., and John b. TAFT Of Brooklyn. The
later had q gold medal apparently OF
basketball team inscribed Cham
pions Of America, won by John B.
TAFT, 1911"
OF the injured, but four, Miss
Mary Brennan, James Griffith, Nellie
Schandel all Of Newark, and Max
Eismann of Jersey City. are consider
ed seriously hurt.
A pathetic case is that of William
r. Laird Of Buffalo, whose entire fam
lily, consisting Of his wife, 5-year-old
daughter, 2-year-old son, were wiped
out by the catastrophe, His father
was also killed.
Laird, who is employed in a Buffalo.
printing establishment, LETT that city
last night knowing only that his
father, George Laird, has been killed.
He had received no information Of the
fate of the others and visited the To-
cal morgues searching for his missing
ones. At the first place he visited he
found his little boy and girl, laid out
side by side on a single stretcher. AT
the second morgue he found the body
of his wife, beside that Of his aged
father.
The family had taken advantage of
the holiday excursion rates for a re-
union in Buffalo. 1t was George
Laird's first railroad trip In sixty
years.
Following is the list Of identified
MRS. LOUISE FREEDMAN. FL
mira, N. Y
MRS. WIN, M. ARMSTRONG. Ho-
JOHN B. TAFT, Brooklyn.
William M, Armstrong, Hoboken,
N. j.
WILLIAM NJ. ARMSTRONG. Hobo
ken, N. J.
Mr.. AND MRS. CHARLES BRAN
DEIS, New York City, married yester-
day. on wedding trip.
HERMAN DYAK, Newark, N. ].
MRS. c. e. ERWIN, Chicago.
MRS. EDITH A. HESS. Scranton,
Pa.
DR.. c. ". IvEY, Bellvue hospital,
New York, home at Suffolk, va.
MRS. ANNABELL JONES. scran-
ton. Pa.
GEORGE LAIRD.
MRS. WIN. r. LAIRD.
PHILLIP LAIRD, 2 years old.
MABEL LAIRD, years old
All the Lairds were from Brooklyn.
EVELYN LoWERY (coIored), New
ark. N. J.
ANTONIO NOVAK, Scranton, Pa.
ANTON NELSON, Jersey City.
F. G.. PRATT, Buffalo, travelling
salesman.
M. PAToUAKI, immigrant, ticketed
to Buffalo,
REGINA p. PRAvELowsKI, RUS
Eia
MRS. LILLIAN REYNOLDS, Brook
iyn
MRS. LUCY sETTEDUcATTL New
York City.
JAMES SMITH (negro). Pullman
porter, Newark, N. y.
ERNEST SCHULZ, Buffalo.
JOHN zIMMER, Scranton, Pa.
MRS. ZIMMER, Scranton, Pa.