The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-07-05
EXPRESS FLOWED
into A TRAIN
JUST AHEAD
Forty Persons Killed and Fifty
or More Injured
FOG HID THE SIGNAL S
Awful Accident on the LackaWama
Road Near Corning, N. u, Early
Yesterday Morning.

Corning, N. T.. July 4.-Westbound
Lackawanna passenger train NO. y
from New York due to arrive at
Corning at 4:47 a. m, composed OF
two engines, a baggage car, three
Pullmans and two day coaches, in the
order named, was demolished at Glib
son, three miles east of Corning at
SIS o'clock this morning by express
train No. II, due at Corning at $40
a. m. Forty-one persons were kill
ed and between fifty and sixty inJur-
ed. Many of the victims were hon
day excursionists bound for Niagara
Falls, who had boarded the train at
points along the Lackawanna from
Hoboken 10 Elmira.
The wreck was the worst in the
history of the road. Its cause. &C
cording to Engineer Schroeder of the
express. was his failure to see the
signals set against his train. The
morning was a foggy one and he said
he could not make them out.
The wrecked train stood on the
main track blocked by crippled ex-
ira freight train No. 61 There was
no flag out. according to Engineer
Schroeder The signals which En-
gineer Schroeder declared it was too
foggy to see were just around the
curve The flying express plunged
past them and crushed into the rear
of No. 8.
The number of deaths from the
wreck tonight had reached forty-one,
of whom "a had been identified. The
latter are:
Armstrong, William NJ, 1920 Park
avenue. Hoboken. N. ].
Brandles, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles,
1875 William street, New York City
ton wedding trip
Dyak, Herman, Newark, n. ]
Edwin, Mrs. C. E., Chicago.
Hess, Mrs. Edith A., Scranton.
Ivey, DR.. E. ", of Bellevue hospi-
tai, New York home Suffolk, Va.
Jones, Mrs. Anna Hill, Scranton.
Laird. George, 1873 Tenth street.
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Lowery. Evelyn, colored, 1O4 Oak
street, Newark, N. j.
Novak, Antonio, Scranton. Pa.
Nelson, Anton, Grove street, Jersey
City.
Pratt, f. c., 10 Hunt avenue. Buff
alo; travelling salesman.
Patouski, NJ. immigrant, ticket to
Buffalo.
Pravelowski. Regina p, Russia.
Reynolds. Mrs. Lillian, 211 Spencer
street, Brooklyn.
Setteducatti, Mrs. Lucy, 1913 Baxter
street, New York City.
Smith, James, colored, Pullman
porter, Newark, n. J.
Schultz. Ernest, Buffalo.
thinner. Mr. and Mrs. John, Sc-an-
ton.
Laird, Mrs William r.
Laird, Philip. two years old.
Laird, Mabel, years old, of Brook
lyn.
Schroeder had taken No. IL at Ell
mira fifteen minutes before. 1t was
a few minutes late The stretch of
track from Elmira to Corning Is fit
ted for fast running and he was send
ing his train along at the rate of six
ty-five miles an hour. No. 3 vas
supposed to be half an hour ahead
of him. He had no warning until he
saw The outline of the rear coach of
ANo . thiOubu Nnc lOb lldl was CTINl-
ing up the mountain from the river
far below He saw the lights ahead
and threw In the reverse without
shutting of steam
The jerk threw the train off the
track and the locomotive plunged on
a few rods further, splintering the
two day coaches filled with excursion
lists and tore through the last Of the
Pullmans. Schroeder said that the
impact was so great that 1t threw
him from the cab and landed him on
his shoulder on the road bed, practic-
ally unhurt.
The 100-ton monster continued its
plunge through the middle of the
train, crushing everything in its path.
II seemed as If it would cut through
every car. Then, when il was finally
blocked by mountain of debris, pill
ed in front of II, it remained on the
roadbed in the midst of the desola-
ton its plunge had created. Hun
dreds OF persons hurried TO the scene
TO recover the dead and rescue the
injured from the tangled mass of
wreckage.