New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-05

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scHrLTz William. buffalo diaharged from
6SSPtial and 2, bone q fr len Baxter street
srANfEAN HrN Ff." 10. s24 Flatbush avenue.
STRAUSS. Bernard. Elmira; severe muscle in
jlries; will recover.
WTA iYbHx ~ Th G!'a 'S' Indebrook Long
WALTERS. Frank. No PES North Park street.
home
Running sixty-fve Miles an Hour
Schroeder had taken the express train
at Elmira fifteen minutes before the ac-
cident 1t was few minutes late. The
stretch of track from Elmira TO Corning
IS fitted for fas running. and he was
sending his train along at the rate Of
sixty-hve miles an hour. No. was
supposed to be half an hour ahead Of
him. He never had any warning until
he made out the outline of the rear car
of the passenger train through the fog
that was crawling up the mountain from
the river, far below.
AS the engineer saw the lights ahead
he threw on the reverse without shutting
off steam. The jerk threw the train off
the track, and the locomotive plunged
on few rods further, TO splinter the two
day cars filled with excursionists and
tear through the last of the Pullmans.
Schroeder said the impact was so great
that II threw him from the cab and
landed him on his shoulder on the road
he'd practically unhurt
The 100-ton locomotive continued it's
plunge through the middle Of the train.
grinding everything in it's path. 1t
seemed as if it would cut through every
car. Then when it was finally blocked
by q mountain of debris piled in front
az II it remained on the roadbed in the
midst of the desolation its plunge had
created. while thousands Of persons
rushed in every kind of vehicle to the
scene to lift and pry the dead and in
jured from he tangled mass of wreck
age.
Many Holiday Excursionsts.
Taking advantage this Fourth of July
morning of the excursion rates the
Lackawanna had offered from Hoboken
to Buffalo and Niagara Falls, good on all
trains, a great many excursionists had
boarded No. at all points from Ho-
boken. including Scranton, Binghamton
and Elmira. There were many passen-
gers for the West. as there was direct
connection through to Chicago at Buff
falo. There was such load Of travel
lers by the time the train reached Ell
at
there to take the train over the hill at
Groveland. sixty-five miles west.
Long before No. 9 left Elmira extra
freight train No. 81, bound for Buffalo
from Scranton. had pulled through
When the heavy grade at Gibson was
reached a drawhead pulled out and No
81 was crippled. Signals which she put
out stopped the passenger train as the
latter came up with her two engines.
The first engine was uncoupled and set
at work to push the dead end Of the
freight into a siding to allow No. and
No II, which were due in twenty-five or
thirty minutes to pass. The work was
slow. and considerable time elapsed
During the monotonoUs wait many pas
sengers from the day cars got out 20
investigate the cause of the delay.
Meanwhile the signals had been thrown
against the fast express. which was tear
ing along at sixty-fye miles an hour
toward the stalled trains. These failed
10 stop the express, and the crash fol-
lowed.
Rescaers Quickly at Hand.
Rescuers were quickly on the scene
There was plenty for them to do and
their work was difficult. In what
seemed an incredibly short time hun
dreds of automobiles crowded the high
way which led TO the wreck. and the
work of getting the injured to the hos
pitals and the dead 10 the morgues was
impeded by the blocking of the road.
A detail Of police from Corning did
their best TO keep the rescuers paths
clear. and by s o'clock physicians who
had been rushed to the scene in motor
cars had started all Of the injured on
their way TO the hospitals or We're giving
emergency attention 10 victims on the
scene. The only exceptions were few
persons who had been pinned beneath
wreckage so difficult to penetrate that it
was some time before they could be re-
leased
Thirteen Of the injured and ten Of the
dead were taken TO Elmira on a special
train. All the other dead were taken TO