The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1912-07-12
MANY PEOPLE KILLED IN WRECK
FAST EXPRESS CRASHES INTO
ANOTHER.
Engineer Claims Fog Prevented Him
Seeing Train Ahead-Over so
People Injured.

Corning, \. Y-Westbound Iacka-
wanna train No. 8, composed OF two
| engines, a baggage car, three Pull
mans and two day coaches, in the Or
der named. was demolished at Gibson,
three miles east of Corning, early Fri
day morning by express train No. II.
| FOrty-tWO persons We're killed and be-
tween fifty and sixty injured. Many
of the victims were holiday excursion
lists bound 10 Niagara Falls.
| The atmosphere was heavy with fog
and to this Engineer Schroeder of the
express attributes the wreck He
| said he failed to see signals set
against his train, whipped around a
curve at siXty-five miles an hour and
crashed into The stationary No. 9.
held up by a crippled freight engine
The train had not been stopped long
enough for flagman to get back to
protect the rear The wreck was the
worst in the history Of the Lacka.
! wanna.
OF the forty-two bodies recovered,
but twenty have been identified. They
are: William NJ Armstrong, Hobok.
en-, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Brandeis,
New York City (married Thursday
and on wedding trip; Herman Dyiak,
Newark; Mrs. c. +. Erwin, Chicago;
! Mrs. Edith A. Hess, Scranton, Pa;
DR.. f. V. Iyey, Bellevue hospital, New
York, home III Suffolk; Mrs. Anna
Hill James, Scranton, Pa; George O..
Laird, Brooklyn; Evelyn Lowery me
gress), Newark, n. j.. Antonio NOyak,
Scranton, Pa: Anton Nelson, Jersey
City, n. J.; F. c. Pratt, Buffalo, travel
ing salesman; NJ. Patouski, immi
grant; Regina Pravelowski, Russia,
Mrs. Lillian Reynolds, New York;
Mrs. Lucy SetteduCati, New York;
James Smith, negro Pullman porter,
Newark, n. j.; Ernest Schultz, But
falo; John thinner, Scranton. Pa.
Of the forty-two bodies recovered.
twenty-four have been Identified
They are: Mr.. and Mrs John Zim
mer, Scranton, Pa; Mrs. William r.
Laird, Brooklyn; Philip Laird, 2 years
old, Brooklyn; Mabel Laird, years
old, Brooklyn.
Among the unidentified dead are
four children, one baby. The others
are two girls, both apparently under
years, and a boy of about 10 years
There are also nine women, one a
negress, whose bodies remained to be
claimed. The other unidentified vic.
Tins are men.
OF the injured, four unidentified
victims died at the Corning Hospital.
Several of the injured who are un.
conscious had nothing about their per.
sons which could identify them.
Schroeder had taken charge Of the
engine of No. II at Elmira, fifteen
minutes before. 1t was a few min.
utes late. The stretch of track from
Elmira to Corning is filled for fast
running and he was sending hts train
along at terrific rate. 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. g through the fog. Then he
threw on the emergency brakes with.
out shutting off steam.
The jerk threw the train off the
track and the locomotive smashed
into the rear of the train and splinter.
ed the two day coaches, filled with ex-
cursionists, and tore through the last
of the sleeping cars. Schroeder said
the impact threw him from the cab
and landed him clear Of the train,
practically unhurt.