New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-07
.LACKAWANNA WRECK
VICTIMS NUMBER 50
Two False IdentifiCations Led t,
Statement That al Persons
Were Killed.
NO TRACE OF MISSING GIRL
All Except Two of the Seriously
Injured Remaining in Hos.
pital Are Expected
to Recover.

Corning y. Y, July 6.-Careful checking
OF the list has developed that in Thurs
days disastrous wreck on the Lackawanna
railroad the number of dead was not forty
| one, but thirty-nine, with one missing TIL.
mistake resulted from the fact that two
false identifications were recorded on the
official list and were not expunged when
the correct names were found.
One OF the problems which confronted
the authorities to-day was the case Of the
| missing five-year-old daughter Of Mr. and
Mrs. William NJ Armstrong, of Hoboken,
both Of whom were killed. The body OF the
little girl has not been found in the
morgues and Coroner Smith has not been
able to learn that any one here or else
where is caring for little girl. The cor
oner believes the child was so badly man.
gied that the body was removed in pieces
and not identified.
Three Of the five seriously injured persons
in hospitals are expected TO recover. James
Griffin, of Newark, n. j., who physicians
| thought could not recover because Of seri-
GUS hemorrhages, was able to sit up to-day.
The twelve-year-old boy who was among
the unknown injured in the Corning Hos
pital, was identified late last night by his
father Thomas Brooks as Leonard Brooks,
of Kearny, n. J. The boy is still uncon-
scious, and his chances for recovery are
! slight.
Mr.. Brooks also identified the body Of q
young woman as that of his daughter
Emma, twenty-five years old. This body
had already been identified b. Henry
Henne, OF New York. as that OF his cousin,
Emma Brandes Mr.. Brooks was so posi-
tive in his Identification that the coroner
is holding the body for further develop
ments.
Bodies OF the dead identified to-day in
clude those Of John Kennedy, OF Harrison,
y. j.: Julius Sampson, Of No. 32 Central
|, avenue, Jersey City; Samuel Weiss, Of No.
"a Third Place. Brooklyn and d. Gryc-
zewrk an immigrant.
In the morgue in Elmira is the body Of
a woman about twenty-five years old. She
is I've feet four inches tall with dark
brown hall and hlpe eyes. She wore
plain wedding rims. C.th NJ 'ps9r'pccn
and a large amount Of valuaDle Jew-iry.
including a cluster ring with sixteen small
stones.
Scranton, Penn. July 6.-The Lacka-
wanna Railroad Company began to-day an
| official investigation into the railroad dis
aster near Corning on July 4. All the
members of the train crews summoned 70
Scranton in connection with the inquiry
were examined to-day, and the investiga-
ton will be continued next week. Al its
conclusion General Superintendent Rine,
in whose Offices the investigation is being
held. will give out statement. The wit
nesses were examined behind closed doors
Mr.. Rine said tonight that the testi-
mony to-day corroborated in every detail
the findings of the companys officials
| made in their investigation at the scene
of the accident 1t was shown. it is stat
ed. that Lane, flagman Of the passenger
train. went back half a mile with flag
and lighted a green fuse, and that Will
lam Schroeder. engineer of the express
train, ran past at least two semaphore
signals that were set against him. Lane.
| however, IT is stated, admits that ne did
not set torpedo.
II was brought out that the mist on the
morning OF the accident was not so heavy
as to obscure an engineers view of the
semaphores or the green fusee, which is
supposed TO be discernible in fog
Schroeder has not yet given out any
statement other than that he failed to see
the signals because Of fog. His where
abouts on the evening OF July and the
possibility that he did not go to bed or
that he did not sleep because of the noise
on the night OF July 8 are being investi-
gated by the company officials.
Jamestown. n. Y, July 6-Frank W.
Stevens. chairman OF the Public Service
Commission who is in this city, said to-
day concerning the wreck on the Lacka-
wanna railroad that If the engineer ran by
the signals, as reported. he was liable TO
prosecution for manslaughter.
The railroad rules are very strict in
that respect" said Mr. Stevens. The en-
gineers are required to know the location
OF every signal. That is a part OF their
business. 1t is their duty to observe
every signal, and II for any reason they
cannot or do not see II as the trains pass
II is their duty 10 regard IT as a danger
signal and stop their trains