The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-07-11
LACKAEANNA TRAIN
WRECKED; Al DEAD
Sad Scene of Husband Who Lost
Father, Wife and Children Adds
to Pathetic Incidents in
L C k a w n n
Wreck July 4th.

] N-IANShIihIu' tue duJuOTllleS WOIhSu
all night trying to establish the names
OF the unknown dead.
| CT the torty-one dead, twenty-six
/ have been identified.
! Of the identified dead there are
eight in Corning and seven in Elmira.
| The Identified dead are:
| William NJ. Armstrong, 1920 Park
| Avenue. Hoboken, y. J.
Charles Brandies. 1875 William
| Street. New York
Mrs Beaman Cato, GO Spring
| street, MorristOwn, y. j.
| Herman Dyuak, Newark, y. j.
Mrs G. Erwin, New York, y. Y.
n. Y.
Mrs. Edith a. Hess. Scranton, Pa.
DR.. +. Y. Ivey, Bellevue Hospital.
| New York.
Mrs. Anna Hill Jones. Scranton. Pa.
George Laird, aged seventy-five.
Brooklyn, y. Y.
Mrs. William r. Laird. Brooklyn.
y. Y.
Mabel Laird. five years old. Brook
! Philip Laird. two years old. Brook
Mrs. Evelyn Lowery. 1S4 Oak Street.
Newark. \. J.
Antonio Novak. Carteret. n. J.
Anton Nelson, Grove Street, Jersey
+: c. Pratt, 1G Hunt Avenue.
Buffalo, y. Y.
Metllan Patuoski. Russian immi-
grant.
Regina Patuosl1i. Russian immi-
grant.
Mrs. Lillian Reynolds, 211 Spencer
street, Brooklyn, y. y.
! Mrs. Lucy Setteducati, 123 Baxter
Street, New York city.
Ernest Shuts, Buffalo, y. Y.
James Smith, colored. porter, New
J ark, y. J.
John Zir1mer. Scranton. Pa.
Mrs. John thinner. Scranton, Pa.
John y. Taf2, SIS Fifty-fourth Street,
Brooklyn, \. Y, winner of Athletic AS
Soclation baseball championship, 1911
Mrs. Armstrong. 1SSO Park Avenue.
y. Buchanan, Jr. of hl5lny. acct
dent inspector public service Commas
sioner, declared today that the wreck
was the worst rear-end collision in the
history of railroading in this country
or abroad.
Coroner Investigates.
Coroner Herbert G. Smith is MAX
ing rigid investigation and is pre- |
pairing long list of witnesses for
the inquest, which is TO be reopened |
Tuesday.
Three witnesses were heard last
night.
The death list will probably go |
above forty-one, as some of the in |
eNA = III pltNdt AcuS tOnOlllOn. L
BSsides the dead fifty-two persons
were injured. |
After twenty four hours of strenu- |
Gus work wreCking crews of the Lack
awanna had cleared away the bulk of |
the debris today on the curve three
miles east of here, where the acct
dent occurred.
So terrific was the impact when |
the locomotive Of passenger train No. |
IL plunged into the rear of No. on
a I'm the n eel
yards of track were torn up.
one OF the most miraculous es-
capes was that of Engineer Schroe- |
der, of No. IL. who was not hurt, al |
though his locomotive plowed through |
a heavy Pullman car of steel con-
struction.
Schroeder is held responsible for |
the accident in an official statement
issued by General Superintendent f.
VI. Rhine. of the Delaware, Lacka- 4
wanna and Western, because, it is
charged. he ran by signals set 10
warn him of the train in front.
Schroeder denies that his train was
| tagged or signaled otherwise. Among
| those whom Coroner Smith had not
succeeded in Identifying last night
were eight women, six men, n boy,
aged ten, and a girl. aged three.
| one of the women is a negreSS.
| Pitiful scenes were witnessed at the
| improvised mOrgue.
The bodies. wrapped in sheets, were
placed upon cots.
FamiiyI Wiped Out.
! Through the hickering glow Of lam
terms deputies from the corOner's Of
hce, police and detectives moved
| through the night. assisting the under
takers or attempting to identify the re-
Most of the dead bodies were badly
mangIed. making identification eX-
ceedingly difficult.
In addition to the investigation of
the authorities the Lackawanna is max
ing strict inquiry into the cause. De-
spite the allegation OF Lackawanna Of
| icials that Engineer Schroeder either
overlooked or disregarded signals. the
| first three witnesses who have testified
at the inquest swOre that they did not
one of these witnesses, George
Reynolds, Of Brooklyn. declared that
| he was on the rear platform of train
| No. and that he did not see any flaS
man go back to warn oncominS trains.
The four most seriously injured pas
| sengers We're reported to have passed
| 4 good night.
The body of Mrs. Louise Friedman.
! of New York city. who was among the
! last to be identified, was shipped to
| New York today by her brother, Louis
| Cohen, who identified the corpse in the
OF the seriously injured James Crit
! nth, of Newark, \. j.. has the least
| internal injuries of a grave character.
! Miss Nellie Schandel, of Newark, n.
| J., who was reported last night to have
| been fatally hurt, Is now believed to
, have q lighting chance for her life.
/ Norris EiSeman, Of Jersey city, is in
! a serious condition. Miss Mary 3.
Dennan, of Newark. who is in st.
Joseph's Hospital. Elmira, now has
! chance of recovery.
| The injured are widely scattered,
eight being taken to Buffalo.
Early today William Il. Laird, of
| Buffalo. identified the horribly mutt
/ lated body OF his father: George Laird,
| of Brooklyn, Seventy-hve years old.
| The elder Laird has not been away
from home for forty years. He was
goinS to Buffalo TO see his son. At the
side Of the aged man lay the shattered
body of William Laird'S Wife. and
/ nearby was the corpse of her hve-year-
/ Old daughter, Mabel, and two-year-old
/ son. Philip.
Thus Laird's whole family was wiped
out.
/ General superintendent Rhine said:
/ The railroad welcomes the fullest in
vcstiga ton possible. We want to place
| the responsibility where it belongs so
that another disaster viii never happen
gain"
The coroner's jury today visited the
scene OF the wreck.
Report To the State.