Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-07-04
THIRTY FIVE ARE
KILLED IN WRECK
West Bound Lackawanna
Passenger Telescoped by
Express This Morning
BRIDE OF one DAY DEAD
Many Passengers Were Un.
dressed and Identification
Is Difficult

by opeclaI Leased wire 90 New NJ xIcan)
Corning, n. Y, July AT least 50
passengers were killed and 80 injured
today when an express crashed into
the west bound Lackawanna Dassen-
ser train No. 8, two miles east OF this
city. The death list probably will run
over forty. Thirty-four bodies had
been taken from the debris three
hours after the wreck. Many of the
injured were mortallv hurt. Among
the sufferers were several babies and
children.
AS soon as the news of the accident
spread, hundreds of automobiles dash
ed to the scene blocking the rOadWays
and interfering with the removal of the
dead and injured. Police were sent
to keep the crowds back from the
Wreckage. A special relief train from
Elmira brought physicians and nurses.
Coroner Herbert B. Smith ordered
all the bodies brought here and plan.
ned to hold an inquest before the pass
engers have departed.
IlIfated Train Was Late.
The passenger train which left New
York at S:45 last night was heavily
loaded and was driven by two engines.
It was running half an hour late Most
If the dead and injured are New York
and New Jersey people.
The passenger train had been
standing on the track few minutes
when the Express train, which car
ried no passengers. struck it in the
rear at full speed. The two day
coaches attached to the rear of No.
iG were hurled down an embank-
ment and the express plunged half
way through the rear pullman of the
standing train before it came to a
stop.
Most of the killed We're passengers
in the day coaches, who were going
home to spend the fourth. F. w.
Drake Of Passaic. n. J. the Pullman
conductor, said four passengers were
! killed in the pullman.
A score of physicians soon were
on the scene and the injured were
brought to the Coring Hospital
A number of the injured are still
/ pinned under the wreckage and their
groans and shrieks can be clearly
| heard
Bodies Laid Beside Tracks.
The bodies of the dead We're laid
on the top of the embankment along
| the track and at the roadside and
We're covered with blankets from the
pullman.
Every undertaken in Corning was
called to help care for the dead but
! their wagons were first pressed into
service to carry the injured to the
hospital Many of the injured also
We're taken away in automobiles. As
yet the cause of the wreck has not
been determined. The place
where it occurred, was straight
stretch of track. So far as can be
ascertained, the engineer of the Elk.
press train had no warning that the
passenger train was in his way. 1t
i2 believed that when he first saw it
he thought the train was standing on
parallel tract
Many Passengers Unoressed.
The fact that many passengers
were undressed, generally delayed
the identification of the dead and in
Jured who were unconscious.
/ AT II O'Clock this morning. there
were 90 unidentified bodies at local
undertaking establishments. Others
! had been removed to EImira. A re-
vised list of the dead will show 35
! deaths at least. One of the uniden-
tined dead bodies was that of young
woman just married. She had upon
her finger a ring bearing the inscrip-
tion IF. c. NJ. and A. B., July 8, 1912"
! On the body of another woman un.
identified was found nothing but a
pendant set with an amethyst and
! three pearls. The body of little girl
! five or six years old was among the
unidentified dead.
No Time to Flag Express.
Scranton, Pa, July 4.-Informatior
received by the company says thai
train No. 8 had stopped at the Cornina
freight station to allow a freight train
ahead to take siding when the ex
press train smashed into it at almost
full speed. 1t is believed by officials
here that it was impossible to get out
a fagman in time to prevent the
crash, the express having entered the
block close behind the passenger
train. Nearly all the cars in bott
trains were wrecked, and thrown
across the tracks, breaking down tele
graph wires so that full details are i'm
possible at this time.
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