Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1913-09-03
Limited Passenger Trains Fig
ure in Rear-End Collision in
Connecticut Which ExactS
Fearful Death Toll,
THICK FOG 0BSCURES
BLOCK DANGER SIGNAL
Engine of White Mountain Ex-
press, at Full Speed, PIoughs
Way Through PuIImanS of
Bar Harbor Express,

New Haven, Conn Sept 9. TWcn.
N-onc persons were Hlt"d and nearly
fifty injured, some of wn,m may die
in % rear-end collision shortly bcfor,
& o'clock this morning on the Now
York, New Haven and Hartford rail.
road, six miles north Of here
The first section of the White
Mountain express. hound for Now
York. speeding along at prohahlp forty
miles an hour u thick fog. rushed
by danger signal it Is said, and
crashed into the rear of the second
section Of the Bar HMlor express.
standing 100 feet beyond the block
signal.
The White Mountain engine cleayed
through the two rear Pullman cars.
both of wood. splitting them in two,
nd tossing their Wreckagc apd three
score of mungled human beings. some
alive. some dead on either side of
the track.
The third car. also Of wood, and
occupied by forty hoys on their way
from "a summer camp at Monmouth.
Maine, was lifted into the air and
almost completely off the track. The
ear fell on its side crumplcd up,
crushing two of the boys 10 death aGd
inmring several others.
Some Of the victims of tho two rear
pullmans were hurled from their
herths over a fence parauclng the
track fifty feet distant mattresses,
bedding ana clothing found Judgement
in the telegraph wires
10 was the third serious wreck
which the New Maven has suffered
within a year ana inaugurated the
first day Of the regime of Howard
Elliott. the newly elected head of the
road. MIR. Elliott. returning from his
summer homo in New Hampshire 20
assume his duties. passed over the
scene of the wreck on am earlier
train. less than m hour before.
Practically all the passengers on
both trains were returning home from
summer vacations, and all but two
of camping party Of nine guests Of
$. crosser Fox, of Elkins Park Pa,
returning from Maine were wiped out
Fox was among those killed. No one
was hurt in the White Mountain train.
The death list, revised from the
coroner's report ana from the list is-
sued by the railroad company, is:
WILLIAM ALTSCHUL, Norfolk.
Va
MISS MARGARET ARMSTRONG
Washington. -. G..
MISS MARIE l.. BULL1TT, Phila-
delphia.
ALBERT GREEN. New York
ROYAL w. IIOTCHKISS. New Ila-
ven.
MISS HARRIET BIDDLE. Torres
dale, Pa.
II. Z. MARTIN BWn Mawr Pa.
MRS. II. f. MARTIN, Bryn Mawr
Pa.
DANIEL. NEAL McQUILLEN. JR,
Philadelphia
$. CR0SER FOX, Elkins Park. Pa.
FRANK H. RUTTER, Scranton. Pa.
MISS EMILE KENNEDY DAVIS,
Philadelphia.
RoBERr NJ. YAIIN. Philadelphia.
Died at hospital
PillLO HOTCHKTSS. New Haven.
GEORGE 4. KOREA. New York,
MARY JANE , residence un-
known.
Died at Meriden.
IiAliRY X. MAR, New york.
Unidentified dead
Elderly man, aged 60, 145 pounds.
gray vandyke beard, otherwise
smoothly Shaven clothed only in
union suit.
Elderly woman, weighing about 200
pounds, evidently of German birth;
mad gold band ring inscribed For life
ana for death-V.-3 800"
Woman aged about 25; had dia-
nond cluster; ring engraved I'D. y.
J." Tor B. G. - on left hand
Man grey hair. brown eyes. smooth
laced Enquiries made for Hal Stein
man. Lancaster, Pa1.
Ihe New Haven officials were frank
20 admit tonight that the so-called
"ahJo' signal system, which on this
part of the line had not yet been re-
placed by the semaphore system rec
commended by the public utilities com
mission last December, in a measure
was responsible for the wreck al
'hough the question as to whether the
ensineer of the White Mountain train,
AuEuStus y y. Miller, was making too
inuch speed under the weather condi-
u"ns' is under investigation.
nder the banjo" system, as soon
aS a train passes signal it shows
'u and automatically opens the sig
"'l INTO the previous block, allowing
train TO enter