The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-09-10
one KILLED
EARLY SIXTY MORE ARE INJUR.
ED In WRECK ON
EN ENGLAND RAILRTAD


epeeding at Forty Mile Rate in Thick
= Fog, sWhite Mountain Express
"a Crashes into Second Section of Bar
Harbor Express Engine Goes
Through Two Pullman Cars.
Twenty-one persons were killed
8and nearly fifty injured, some Of
whom may die, in rear-end colli-
Esion shortly before seven o'clock
Tuesday morning on the New York,
New Haven and Hartford railroad six
Emiles north OF New Haven, Conn.
IS The first section OF the White
Mountain Express, bound for New
York, speeding along at probably for
II miles an hour, in thick fog, rush
ed by a danger signal, it is said, and
serashed into the rear OF the second
section sof the Bar Harbor Express
standing 100 feet beyond the block
signal.
The White Mountain engine cleav-
Sed through the two rear Pullman
Gears, both of wood, splitting them IN
two and losing their wreckage and
three-score Of mangled human be-
ings, some alive, SOME dead, on eth
Ger side Of the track.
The third car, also of wood and
occupied by forty boys on their way
from a summer camp at Monmouth,
i Maine, was lifted into the air and fell
Eon, It's side, crumpled up and crush
ing two Of the boys to death and in
iuring others.
Some of the victims Of tAe two
rear Pullmans were hurled from
berths over a fence paralleling the
Z track fifty feet distant; mattresses,
bedding and clothing found lodgment
In the telegraph wires.
# was the third serious wreck the
New Haven has suffered within a
year and inaugurated the first day Of
the regime Of Howard Elliott, the
newly elected head OF the road. Mr..
q Elliott, returning from his summer
s home In New Hampshire to assume
= his duties, passed over the scene OF
the wreck on an earlier train less
than an hour before.
Practically all the passengers on
both trains were returning home
from summer yacations and all but
two Of a camping party Of nine,
guests Of S. Grocer Fox. of Elkine
Park. returning from Maine, were
wiped out. Fox was among those
: killed. No one was hurt in the White
$ Mountain train.
The New Haven officials were
frank to admit that the so-called
banjo block signal system, which
on this part Of the line has not yet
been replaced by the semaphore sys-
! tenn recommended by the public util-
tiles commission last December, was
in measure responsible for the
wreck, although the question as to
whether the engineer of the White
Mountain train, Augustus B. Miller,
was making too much speed under
the weather conditions is under in
yestigation.
According to Vice-President Whal-
ey, OF the New Haven, it would not
have been possible at the speed the
train was making for Engineer Miller
) to have stopped within 1900 feet
after he saw the signal. The engi-
neer did not see it, he said, until he
was almost upon It, or scarcely more
than one hundred feet from the rear
OF the Bar Harbor Express, and at
the same moment he heard the tor
pedoes.
3-.I do not wish to place any blame
on the engineer" said Mr.. Whaley,
ssbut in view of the foggy conditions
question to be determined is wheth-
ar he was running too fast under the
: circumstances. There is no rule OF
s the road which would require him tc
mako up time. and take risk while
running in a fog, and as far as
know, he received no instructions to
make up time"
Chief Engineer Elwell said Tues
day night that the New, Haven had
been twice advised by the public util-
lilies commission to abolish the "ban-
jo's system, once last December and
asain in March, following minor
wrecks, in both Of which the blame
was. laid at the door of the banjo
system.
There are eighteen in the hospitals
and some are in serious condition
Some Of the less seriously hurt went
ION to New York.
The death list grew from thirteen
to exactly twice that number during
the afternoon and evening. Several
OF those badly injured died on>-their
way to hospitals or after reaching
there.
First steps to determine who was
to blame were taken in secret. Nor
will the inquest be public if Coroner
Mix adheres to his announced plan.
At the preliminary hearing Tuesday
afternoon trainmen Of the two trains
were examined.
The schools will soon be opening
again. Parents, see to it that your
boys and girls report for duty on the