The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-05
KILLED IN WOODEN CARS ! NUMBER Al, SIX DYING
 AND MANY BADLY HURT
Solid Steel Train Cuts Through Day Coach Like Knife Through
 Cheese--lackawanna Trains Collide

Corning. N. r., July 5-With P bodies remaining unidentified and with many of the injured in an extremely dangerous. condition, the horror of yesterdays rear-end collision on the Lackawana Railroad continues to grow. Many of the bodies whose identity has not been learned will probably never be recognized, so ter ribly mutilated are they.
 The death list, today, was fl. Tn addition, Nellie Schandler. of Newark. N J and James Griffith were de- ciared by doctors to be dying and six others were not expected to recover.
 The wreck was the worst in the history of the road, whose boast previously was that only two paSsen- gers had been killed on it since 1900. The road officials blame Engineer Schroeder. He was In the cab of Train II. which crashed through the standing Buffalo Limited. The com pany officials say that the semaphore was set at Danger" that the block also set against il and that a flagman from the Limited tried to stop Schroeder half a mile from the scene of the disaster.
 Schroeder says that the signal was clear and that he saw no flagman. He insists that the fog had welled in from the Chemung River was so dense that it was almost impossible to see the track a train length ahead.
 The police admitted, today, that the bodies of the dead and dying were robbed as they lay in the open fields beside the tracks. Coroner Smith has detailed 15 special officers to aid Deputy Sheriff Sullivan in protecting the property of the victims which was picked up from the wreckage and stored near the temporary morgue. Tne story of the wreck, like others which have recently preceded 1t, was one of steel cars as havens of refuge and wooden cars as death traps x cars. The great solid train cut through the wooden day coach and Pullman like a knife through cheese bat the steel Pullman and the steel day coaches held fast. They were hent out of shape with terrific force their occupants were injured, not kfll-
 Representatires of the state public service commission and the interMtat te commerce commission are on the scene. personally investigating the wreck.
 All of the survivors agree that. there was little warning. The great Limit ed was standing quietly on the rails while the crew of the freight that had rEEatle0 IL were trying tO get IL Oulu the sidetrack so that, the road to Buff faEo might be cleared Train Il, run ming more than 60 miles an hour, crashed into it so suddenly that some of the passengers who had been stand ing on the rear platform, did not have time to jump and were crushed to death even as they tried to.
 The wreck took place on a curve that ends stretch Of 10 miles of straight track which is a favorite point for engineers to make up lost time and No. Il was no exception to this rule.
 GOVERNMENT INVESTIGATING
 Washington,. July 5-Chief Inspec- tor H. ". Beiknap. of the interstate commerce commission, left here, to- day. to assist two other government wreck experts in fixing the blame for the disaster at Corning, N. T., yes- terday. on the Lackawanna railroad The inspectors are specifically direct ed by law to ascertain whether any violation of the safety appliance laws caused the wreck.
 { One more body was identified dur ing the night. that of Mrs. Louis Friedman. of New York City, who was found by her brother. Louis. Cohen