Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-07-07
WRECK INQUIRY ON REBELS SENT WEST !
i.ackawanna Officials and Ex-
perts Are Witnesses.
BLAME PLACED ON TWO
Believed Now Engineer and Flag
man Are Responsible for
Fatal Crash.

SCRANTON, Pa, July 6.-The Lacka.
wanna Railroad Company today began an
official investigation into the railroad dis
aster near Corning, N. z, July 4, when
two score pesons were killed and a half
hundred injured. All the members OF the
train crews summoned to Scranton in
connection with the inquiry were examin-
ed today and the investigation will be
continued next week. At its conclusion
General Superintendent Rine. In whose
Offices the investigation Is being held, will
give out a statement. The witnesses are
being examined behind closed doors.
General Superintendent Rine said today
that the testimony today corrobprated
In every detail the findings the company
officials made in their investigation at the
scene Of the accident. It was shown, it
is stated. that F1agman Lane went back
half mile with flag and lit q green
fuse and that Engineer Schroeder ran
past at least two semaphore signals that
were set against him.
Flagman Lane, however, 1t Is stated,
admits that he did not set q torpedo.
1T 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 fuse
which Is supposed to be discernible in
a fog.
Engineer Schroeder has not yet given
any statement other than that he failed
to see the signals because OF fog. His
whereabouts on the evening OF July 3
and the possibility that he did not go
to bed, or If he went to bed that he did
not sleep because Of the noise on the
night Of July 3. are being investigated
by the company officials.
At present the view of the wreck as
given by the officials and others who
went to Corning to make Investigations
was that the responsibility lay upon En-
claimed. ran past two block signals. and
Flagman Lane, who was sent back to
warn the approaching train Of the danger
ahead. Lanes alleged responsibility is
said to be largely that Of neglect in not
placing torpedoes. as called for in the
book Of rules, as well as setting fuses
and his flag signals.
Child Still Missing.
CORNING. N. Y. July 6-Careful
checking Of the list has developed in
Thursdays disastrous wreck on the Lack
awanna railroad the number of dead was
thirty-nine, with one missing. The lat
ter is the five-year-old daughter Of Mr..
and Mrs. William M. Armstrong of Ho-
boken, both of whom were killed. Coro-
ner Smith believes the child was so badly
mangled that the body was removed by
bits and not identified.
NO deaths occurred during the night
among the five seriously injured persons
In the hospitals. Three Of these are ex-
pected to recover.
Boy Is Identified.
The twelve-year-old boy who was
among the unknown injured at the
Corning Hospital was identified late
last night as Leonard Brooks Of New
York city. The boy is still unconscious,
and his chances for recovery are slight.
There remain twelve injured in the Corn
ing Hospital and eight at ST Josephs
Hospital. Elmira. Steps are being taken
to arrange for the burial of the uniden-
titled within q day or two.
The body of D. Gryozewrh. an immi
grant, was added to the list Of identified
this afternoon.