New-York tribune., 1912-07-15


diamond sets and other jewelry are MISS
ing, and although most Of the dead ap-
peared TO have been persons in comfort
BILE circumstances dime was the larS-
est sum of money found on any of the
bodies.
Coroner Hoffman ordered all of the
bodies embalmed Immediately, and early
in the afternoon impanelled a jury 10
investigate the wreck.
In a little room above a business house
in Lagrange Mrs. Wilcox hid herseh
from visitors throughout the greater
part of the day. The shades were drawn
and she was trying TO collect neE
thoughts. Finally she said:
After thinking the whole affair over
have decided that l was not IN any
way to blame for the accident. know
that the blocks were set against the
train. II was not I that erred.
Three trains instead Of two passed
the signals in violation Of all rules al
though it may have been that the engl-
neers did not see the boards. First l
heard No. 4. q train in no way connect
ed with the wreck, pass. Then, IN lew
minutes, No. came by. l thought
something was wrong, and I began TO
try to think Of something to do to stop
the trains from running by the board.
But before I could get my wits together
No. s had sped by. The crash fol-
lowed"
Another Version of Wreck.
Another story of how the wreck oc-
CURED differed from that Of Mrs WI
cox. 1t was that No. =, having been
blocked by the signal had sent a brake
man to set torpedoes to warn No. s. No.
was coming down grade when the
crash came. Persons responsible for tne
story Of the torpedoes said that NO. )
had been given a signal that the track
was clear, and that the crew had either
failed to hear the torpedoes or had De-
lieved they had a clear track.
A relief train from Aurora gathered up
ali the available physicians between that
city and the scene Of the wreck. An
other relief :rain was sent from Chicago.
A statement issued by P. S. Eust!s,
passenger traffic manager Of the Chi
cago, Burlington e. Quincy Railroad, TO-
night substantiated Mrs WilcoX's asser-
ton that she was not to blame, and alsl
corroborates the story that torpedoes
were set by the brakemen Of No 2. The
statement does not fix the blame for the
collision.
H. o. Grain, Of Galesburg, Ill, fireman
of No s, who escaped with slight in
juries, is at a local hospital, and was
able to tell story Of the wreck and OF
how Brownson, the engineer, went to his
death trying vainly to save the pas
sengers.
Running Seventy Miles an Hour.
I'VE were travelling about seventy
miles an hour, when Brownson and
heard some torpedoes explode he said
Then I saw a fagman on the track
about one hundred and fifty feet from
his train ahead.
Grain, said Brownson, there's &
train ahead. 1 am afraid l can't stoI
in time to save US. but I am going tc
try
He put his hand on the throttle and
looked straight ahead. When I decided
to jump turned and looked at him, and
like the good engineer and brave man
that he was. he was sitting at the throt-
tie. fghting for the lives Of his pas
sengers but going to certain death.
II went clear of the engine and LANDED
in a field Nv breath left me for a few
7 he
were burning
But for the torpedoes. we thought we
!. had a clear track ahead. They came toe
"a late to do any good"
~ All Of the dead were taken to Lagrange
and laid on slabs in a barn. Through
out the day hundreds of persons called IL
an effort to identify the bodies.
Officials Of the railroad will interro
gate witnesses regarding the wreck a
Aurora tomorrow.
Miss Lillian Kelly, of Boise, Idaho
one Of those killed, was said to hav
been engaged to be married to B.
Klinger, of South Bend, Ind, who iden
! titled the body
: Miss Kelly formerly lived in soutl
ocHd, anu recently InONeu 10 IQdnO VIII
her parents.
Boston, July 14.-Warren p. Dudley
who. with his wife. was injured in tn,
wreck near Chicago to-day, is secretary o.
the Massachusetts, Civil Service Commits
sion. lie was returning from the Paciht
Coast, where he had been in attendance a
+ q convention Of civil service secretaries.
San Francisco, July l4-Mrs E G. Pohl
mann, who was killed in the wreck nea
: Chicago. was Miss Ethel Sherman, a eir
prominent in society Of this city until hel
marriage 70 Edwin G. Pohlmann, Of Santa
7 Rosa, eight months ago. She was tht
daughter OF Frank P. Sherman, president
of a silk company.
Mrs. Pohlmarn and her husband were OF
their way to New York TO take charge oi
the body of Pohlmann's father, who diet
there two weeks ago while on the way
: from Porto Rico, where he owned eXtenslv,
coffee interests.
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