Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-07-05
THIRTY KILLED AND
MANY MANGLED IN.
LACKANANIVA WRECK
Passenger Train No, g. Bound
from New York to Buffalo,
Struck by Express Thurs
day Morning
tBr Associated Press. J

CORNING. N. Y. July 4.-Nearly 30
passengers were killed and so injured to-
day when an express train crashed into
the westbound Lackawanna passenger
train. No. 9. two miles of this city.
The passenger train, which runs from
New York to Buffalo, had been stand
ing on the track for 20 minutes when
the express train, which carried no pas
sengers, struck it in the rear at fun
speed. The two day coaches attached to
the rear of No were hurled down an
embankment and the express plunged
halfway through the rear Pullman of the
standing train before it came to stop
OCCURRED AT 5:25 A. NJ
The collision occurred at 5:25 o'clock
this morning. Most of the killed were
passengers in the day coaches who were
going home to spend the Fourth of
July.
f. w. Drake, of Passaic. N. j., the
Pullman conductor, said that four pas
sengers were killed in the Pullman.
On account of the confusion and the
lack of wire communication news of the
disaster was slow in reaching this city,
but by $3.50 o'clock a score of physicians
were on the scene and the injured were
being 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 covered
with blankets from the Pullman.
PINNED UNDER WRECKAGE
A number of the injured were pinned
under the wreckage and their groans and
shrfeks could be clearly heard
Every undertaken in Corning was call
ed to help care for the dead, but their
wagons We're first pressed into service
to carry the injured. to the hospital.
Many of the injured also were taken
away in automobiles.
As yet the cause of the wreck has
not been determined. The place where II
occurred was straight stretch of track.
So far as can be ascertained the engineer
of the express train had no warning that
the passenger train was in his way. It
is believed that when he first saw 1t he
thought the train was standing on a par
allel track.
MEAGER DETAILS.
Only meager details have been re-
ceived at division headquarters of the
Lackawanna railroad here of the wreck
at Corning According to this informa-
ton 20 persons were killed and about 25
injured. Telegraph wires are down and
the company is making efforts to get fur
Their information
A special relief train from Elmira ar
rived at o'clock bringing physicians
and nurses. &c. s..s.sa ....s ...
Coroner Herbert Smith ordered ALI the
bodies removed to this city and he plan
ned TO hold an inquest today before the
passengers, who will be the main wit
nesses in the case, had 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 run
ming about half an hour late.
49,
The death list probably will run over
40 Thirty-four bodies had been taken
from the debris at O'clock this morn
ing. The work of Identification pro-
crossed slowly. Among the first identi-
fed were:
ANTONIO NOVA. Cataret, N. j.
MRS. LILLIAN REYNOLDS, Brooklyn,
N. Y.
WILLIAM A. ARMSTRONG, Hoboken,
n. ].
MRS. LUCY sETToDUCATI, aged 60.
New York city.
AS soon as news of the accident spread
hundreds of automobiles dashed to the
scene, blocking the roadways and inter-
fering with the removal of the dead and
injured. A detail of police was sent from
the wreckage.
Among the killed are several babies and
young children.
THEORY OF CAUSE.
The passenger train had been brought
to a standstill by freight traln which
had become stalled. One of the two en-
gines Of the passenger train was I'M
coupled and attached to the freight
train to put 1t on the siding |
Conductor Staples, Of the passenger,
says he caused the blocks to be set
against any west bound train.
The train had been standing about
twenty minutes when Snere came a
heavy crash which pitched me forward
against the front of the dressing
ROOM" said A. d. Ingram. of Chicago,
one of the Pullman passengers. "A
second later there seemed to come a
second jolt and then the engine of the
express train came to a full stop. There
was an awful grinding and crunching
and then another crash as the day
coaches were pitched into the ditch.
Then came the screams of passengers
who found themselves pinned in the
wreckage."