The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-07-05
Wrecked Cars Are Filled
With Holiday Excur-
SioniSts.
DISASTER WORST
IN ROADS HISTORY
Running at Speed OF Sixty-Five
Miles an Hour, Express Dashes
Into Crowded Passenger
Train, Which Had Been
Blocked by Freight.
Cars Are Demolished.

Corning, y. v. July 4-westbound
Lackawannn passenger trnin No. %,
from New York, due to arrive at Corn
Ing at 4;i1 a. NJ, compoAed of two en-
Eines, "a baggage car, three Pulimnns
and two day couches. In the order
named, WINS demolished ut Gibson,
three miles east OF Corning, ut 5.2s
O'Clock this morning by express train
No. Ii. due ut Corning Mt o:1o A. VI.
Forty-onc persons were killed and be-
tween fifty and sixty injured. Many
of the victims were holiday excursion
lists bound 10 Ninsarn from New, York.
nnd others hud boarded the ruin ar
points nlonE the line.
The identified lend.
The number OF identined dead to-
tails twenty-four. as follows:
Armstrong. William ~, Hoboken, N.
Brnndies, Mr.. and Irs. charlcx,
New York City tmnrried yeAterdny.
and on wedding trip.
pSnk, Hernan, Newark. y. J..
Erwin. Mrs. c. L., Chicago.
Hess. Mrs. Edith A.. Scranton, Pm.
hey, DR.. Il. ", OF Bellevue IIoSpi-
tai, New York; home SUFFOLK Va.
Jones, Mrn. Anna Hill. scranton, Pa.
Lnird. George brooklyn. n. y.
Lowry Evelyn. colored Ne"ark, N.
j.
NoNaie, Antonio, Scranton, i.a.
Nelson. Anton, Jersey City. y. j.
Pratt, +. c., Buffalo, travelling saies-
man.
Patouski, NJ, Immigrant, ticketed TO
Buffalo.
Prnvelowsl>i. Reginn p. Russia.
Reynolds. Mrs. Lillian, Brooklyn. n.
setteducnti, Mrs. Lucy. New York
City.
smith. Jnmes. coIored, Pullman por-
ter. Newark, y. j.
schultz. Ernest, Buffalo.
thinner. MIR. ana Mrs. John. scrnn-
ton. Pm.
Lnird. Mrs. William Il.
Laird, Philip. two Years old
Laird. Mabel. five years OIL. all of
Brooklyn.
The wreck was the worst in the
history of the road. Its cause, ac-
cording to Engineer Schroeder. OF the
express. was his failure To see signals
against his train. The morning was
fogsy, and he said he could not make
them out The wrecked train stood on
the main TT k blocked by a crippled
freight train There was no flag out.
signals Engineer Schroeder declared
il was too foSgy TO see were Just
around curve.
The flying express plunged past
them and crashed into the rear of No
O. bringing death TO more than two
score OF its passengers.
Schroeder had taken No. II at Ell
mira fifteen minutes before. 1t was
a few minutes late. The stretch OF
track from Elmira 10 Corning is fitted
Tor fast running. and he was sending
his train along at siXty-five miles an
hour No was supposed to be half
an hour ahead of him. He had no
warning until he made out the outline
OF the rear coach of No. through the
fog. Then he threw on the reverse
without shutting OF steam
Crashes Into Coaches.
The shock threw the train Off the
track. and the locomotive reduced 10
srlinters the two dav coaches filled
with oXcursionists. and lore through
the last OF the Pullmans. Schroeder
saws the impact threw him from tho
CAP and landed him on his shoulder on
the roadbed. practically uphurt The
loo-ton monster continued it's plunge
through the middle OF the train, grind
ing everything in its path When
finally blocked by The debris it re-
manned on the roadhed in the midst
OF the desolation it had caused while
hundreds OF persons rushed III every
kind OF vehicle to the scene to lift
and pry the dead and injured from
the tangled mass Of wreckage.
Taking advantase of the holiday cx-
cursion rates to Buffalo and Niagara
Falls. many excursionists had board
ei No. at all points from Hoboken.
Including scranton Binghamton and
Elmira The.e We're also many pas
sengers for the west BY the tina