Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-07-05
Crude Hospitals Set up After
Cars Iammed 10 1eIe.
scope Fashion
Rescuers Rushed 10 The
Scene TO Care For The
Many 1isfOrtulates
Most Of the Dead Bod S
Have Been lndeltitied
at the nOrgues

CORNING, N. Y. July 5.--FOrty-one
persons were killed and more than
fifty injured yesterday when the west
bound Lackawanna passenger train
No. 8 from New York, due to srrive
at Corning at 4:47 a. M. composed OF
tro engines, baggage car, three Pull
mans, two day coaches, was dem0lish-
ed at Gibson three miles east OF Cor
nlEg at 5:25 o'clock this morning by
Express No. IL, due at Corning at
$40 q. m.
Holiday Excursionists.
Many Of the victims were holiday
excursionists bound for Niagara Falls
who had boarded the train at points
along the line. The wreck was the
worst in the history Of the road. Its
cause according to Engineer Schroeder
Of the express was his failure to see
the signal set against his train. The
morning was f0ggy and he said he
could not make them out. The wreck
ed train stood on the main track
blocked by crippled freight train.
There was no nag out.
Signals obseured by Fog.
The signals, Engineer Schroeder de-
clared, were too foggy to see, were
just around the curve. The flying ex-
press plunged past them and crashing
into the rear of No. 8 crushed to death
over two score Of its passengers.
The last two cars on train No. II re-
mained on the track and later were
used as temporary hospitals.
Lay Injured on Floor.
At the Corning hospital, which has
accommodations for only 40 patients.
some Of the injured had to lay upon
the floors until physicians could give
them attention. Two clergymen es-
tablished bureau of information at
the hospital and took the names of all
injured who were able to talk or who
could be identified.
Rescuers Arrive.
The rescuers were quickly on the
scene, The police from Corning did
their best to keep the rescuers' patlE
clear and by 5 O'Clock physicians who
had been rushed to the scene in motor
cars, had started all of the wounded'
on their way to the hospitals or were
giving emergency attention to the VIC
tins on the scene. The only excep-
tions were a few persons who had
been pinned beneath the wreckage SO
difficult to penetrate that it was some
time afterwards that they were re-
leased.
Taken to EImira.
Thirteen of the injured and ten OF
the dead were taken to Elmira on a
special train. All other dead were
conveyed to Corning and other injured
were taken to the Corning county hos
pital
Most Of the bodies found were bad.
ly mangled. The wrecked cars were
one heaped up mass of wreckage.
jammed into each other in telescope
fashion.
The Dead.
The number Of deaths from the
wreck tonight had reached forty-one,
OF who mbut twenty-four have been
Identified. The latter are:
William M. Armstrong, Hoboken.
N. j.; Mr.. and Mrs Charles Bran.
dies, New York City, married yester.
day, on wedding trip; Herman Dyak,
Newark, N. j.; Mrs. C. E. Erwin, Of
Chicago; Mrs. Edith A. Hess, Scran.
ton. Pa; DR.. G. v. Ivey, Bellevue hos.
pital, New York, home at Suffolk.
Va; Mrs. Annabell Jones, Scranton,
"a; George Laird; Mrs. VIM. r.
Laird; Phillip Laird, years old; Ma
bel Laird, 5 years old and all OF
Brooklyn; Evelyn Loweyy, (colored)
Newark, N. u; Antonio N0vak, Scran.
ton, Pa; Anton Nelson, Jersey City,
N. u; F. G. Pratt, Buffalo, travelling
salesman; N. Patouaki, Immigrant,
ticketed to Buffalo; Regina F. Prave-
lowski, Russia; Mrs Lillian Reynolds
Of Brooklyn; Mrs. Lucy Setteducatti,
OF New York City; James Smith, (ne
gro), Pullman porter, Newark, N. J.:
Ernest Schultz, Buffalo; John thinner,
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