Evening star., 1912-07-05
NOT ALL ARE KNOWN
TWenty-Eight of Railway
Wreck Victims Identified.
RIGID INQUIRY INTO CAUSE
Officials of the Lackawanna Com
pany Promise Assistance.
STATE AUTHORITIES PROBING
Coroner Adjourns Inquest Until
Tuesday Next-Pathetic Incl
dent of the Horror.
STATE AUTHORITIES PROBING

CORNING. n. Y, July 5.-Twenty-
eight Of the dead of yesterdays wreck
on the Lackawanna railroad have beer
identified. and thirteen still await iden-
| tification. eight in Elmira and five
in Corning. Forty-one persons were
killed and ffty-one injured in the dis
aster. But two additional identificatio
were made in the early hours of tn.
| morning. Mrs. Louis Friedman Of New
York, whose body was taken to Elmira
| was recognized there by her brother
The body of Mrs. Bemer Cato o.
Morristown, N. j.. was also identified.
Two bodies identified later were those
of Mrs. William F. Armstrong. Hoboken
y. j., and John B. TAFT. Brooklyn. The
latter had a gold medal, apparently of a
basket ball team inscribed, champion
ship Of America. won by John B. TAFT
1911"
WILLIAM M. ARMSTRONG, Hoboken
n. j.
Mr.. and Mrs CHARLES BRANDIEs
!! New York city Gmarried yesterday and
on wedding trip.
HERMAN DYAk, Newark, n. J.
Mrs. C. E. ERWIN, Chicago.
Mrs. EDITH A HESS. Scranton. Pa.
DIR. E. V. IvEY OF Bellevue Hospital.
New York. home. Suffolk, Va.
Mrs. ANNA HILL JONES, Scranton,
Pa.
GEORGE LAIRD, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Mrs. WILLIAM r. LAIRD.
PHILIP LAIRD. 2 years old.
MABEL LAIRD. years old; all OF
Brooklyn.
EVELYN LowERY, colored, Newark,
n. j.
ANTONIO NovAK. Scranton. Pa.
ANTON NELSON. Jersey City, n. ].
r. c. PRATT. Buffalo: travelling sales
man.
NJ. PATOUSKI. immigrant, ticketed to
Buffalo.
REGINA P. PRAvELoWsKI, Russia.
Mrs. LILLIAN REYNOLDS. Brooklyn,
y. Y.
Mrs. LUCY sETTEDUcATI, New York
city.
JAMES SMITH. colored, Pullman por-
ter. Newark, n. j.
ERNEST SCHULTZ, Buffalo
Mr.. and Mrs. JOHN zIMMER, Scran-
ton. Pa.
William Schroeder. engineer of the ex-
press train that crashed into the pas
senger train. is at his home at Elmira
under the care Of physicians.
Four Seriously Hurt.
OF tie injured. but four. Miss Mary
Brennan, James Griffith. Nellie schan-
Gel. all of Newark. and Max Eismann of
Jersey City, are considered seriously
hurt, but the hospital aE<lr9rities said
today that their condition was encourag-
ing. The most pathetic case, perhaps.
was that Of William r. Laird Of Buff
falo. whose entire family, consisting OF
his father. his wife, fve-year-old daugh-
ter and twO-year-old son, was wiped
out by the catastrophe Mr.. Laird. who
is employed in a Buffalo printing es-
tablishment, left that city last night
knowing only that his father. George
Laird. had been killed. He had received
no Information of the fate of the other
members OF the family and visited the
local morgues searching for the missing
ones. At the first place visited he lsound
his little boy and girl, laid out side by
side on a single stretcher. At the sec
wife beside that Of his aged father. The
family had taken advantage of holiday
excursion rates for a reunion in Buff
falo. 1t was George LAaird's first rail-
road trip in sixty years.
Resumption of Inquiry Tuesday.
Coroner Smith announced today that
it was impossible to have the train crews
on hand for several days, and the in
quest opened last night will not be re-
sumed before Tuesday. The coroner prom
ises searching investigation. A state in
vestigation Of the accident was begun to-
day by representatives OF the public
service commission, second district, who
visited the scene of the wreck this morn
ing The formal state inquiry will prob
ably be held at Buffalo. The Lacka-
\ VIC
vestfgatfon at Scranton tomorrow.
a short inquest was held last night
| George Reynolds of Brooklyn waa
standing smoking upon the rear platform
| OF the back car when he saw the express
| train rushing upon him and jumped He
| swore that he had not seen a fiagman 20
back to warn oncoming trains He said
the f1asman might have been around the
curve 100 yards away. No blast OF warn
ing from whistle or from torpedoes
came from the onrushing train. He said
| there was some mist, but not so much
that he could not see distinctly.
| Michael Setteducati. New York city
who lost his mother in the wreck, got of
tn, the train when it stopped. After he left
| the train he did not see any flagman near
the curve, neither did any trainmen &c
! through the car while he was sitting in
side. he could not swear that there was
no hagman around the curve. The
| thickness of the mist did not prevent him
seeing far ahead. Charles Lorenzo OF
| Newark, the other witness, knew nothing
| of what preceded the crash, but described
the after scenes. after the crash.
Statement by Railway Official.
| a statement concerning the wreck was
given out by General Superintendent E
Nj. Rine of the I.ackawanna last night a.
| follows:
| Il believe the cause of the accident wa
undoubtedly due to the fact than En-
gineman Schroeder. in charge OF the ex
press train ran through the block ant
past fagman who had been sent Il
the rear of train No. g. which was stand
ing still. This f1agman claims to hav
gene behind the train the required dis
! tance according TO the book of rules o
the Lackawanna Railroad Company. Thi
is the only cause which / can ascertain a
| the present time. The officials Of TIL
company will aid in every way to have
complete investigation of the facts of TIL
case made. Superintendent of Motiv
| Power II. c. Manchester of Scranton ant
Superintendent g. A. Poore of Buffalo ar
IN Corning and are aiding me in makin
this investigation
1 Mr. Rine said he had statement from
the man and had evidence to sustain TIL
| iagman's story.
| Other officials declared later tina
| Patrick Lane. the fiagman. was half
| mile back of train No. q. They ais
assert that mile back Of the ill-fate
| train was an automatic danger sigma
thrown against Schroeder's train. Ian
declares that he waved the flag to sto
| right on.