The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-02
White Mountain Express Tele-
scOped by Bar HarbOr Train.
Both Heavily Laden With Re-
turning ExcursiOnists.
SIXTEEN PERSONS ARE DEAD
New Haven Hospitals Are
Filled With Injured.
All Telephone and Telegraph
Lines Torn Down.

New Haven. Conn, Sept q
Sixteen persons lost their lives
and forty were injured when, in
a heavy fog, the White Noun
tain express. bound for New York,
crashed into the rear end of the sec
ond section of the Bar Harbor limited
bearing sojourners from Maine sum-
mer resorts The wreck occurred on
the New Haven railway joust outside
the city limits shortly before O'CLOCK
this morning. All of the dead nav
not been identified. The BODIES OIL the
victims were taken to New haven
A party of 65 boy campers return
ing from Monmouth, Me, were IN
Pullman car which overturned IVY
of these boys, William Altschul OIL
Norfolk, Va. and Albert Green ol Ne"
York, were killed.
A party of young girl campers
pupils of the SidwelI Friends school
Washington, d. c., returning from
Belgrade Lakes. Me, were in other
cars but We're not injured.
Failure to see block signal pc
cause of the fog, is given as the cause
of the accident by Engineer A b.
Miller( who says that as soon as ne
realized the danger he did all he couiu
to stop the train. The brakes would
not hold on the wet track and the
train. running down grade, ploWeo
through two wooden Pullman cars,
splinfered them to kindling' and Killed
or wounded most of the sleeping pas
sengers, in their berths-
The accident recalled the recenl
wreck on the New Haven at stamford
Conn. when a second section lrdlh
failed to take its brakes and oNefrah
a block, dealing death to passengers
of the first section
The Dead.
Among the dead are:
r.. A Hotchkiss, son of Leonard
Hotchkiss of c. w. Scranton & Co, |
brokers of New Haven.
Albert Green. New York |
William Aitschul, Norfolk, Va
Frank r. Rutter. vice president ana
salesmanager Scranton, Bolt and Nut /
company, Scranton.
Woman, five feet six inches tall, 10 |
pounds; wore gold ring engraved FOR
life or death, April 80, 1873,
Young man. six feet tall, 200 pounds
- years old. initials S Z. f. on
greensboro gold ring.
Harold Avery, New York
Robert Yahn Philadelphia.
H f. Martin, Bryn MaWr, Pa |
Woman with handbag marked M !
H. NJ or M H. /
Harry X. Iami.
Charles w. Place. broker New York |
Woman. family name unknown, Civ i
en- name Mary Jane, Hartford, Conn
The Injured.
The injured include;
Robert Myhan. Philadelphia; Internal
eussion and internal injuries
Mr. and Mrs. Pemberton w Price, /
Catherine McLoushIlh' broohlSh'
n. Y.
Jeanne Annette, Bayonne. n. j.
Phflo Hotchkiss New Haven.
w. q. Rowland. Frankfort. Pa.
Richard F.. Decker. Summit, N j.
A NJ Biddle. Torresdale, Pa
Richard Frank, New York. !
Rose zimmerman, New York.
Frank Condor and young son, Tren-
ton.
Miss Margaret Murphy, Philadelphia;
scalp wound; sent to her home
Miss Jean Stoddart, New York; back
A. NJ. Maris, Philadelphia; bruised
body; taken home
Clement J. Browning. jr-. Philadel-
chia: bruised; taken home.
John W. Dixon. Yalecroft N Y
All i'm the SIeepers.
All the dead ard injured were in the
-hree sleeping cars of the Bar Aar-
Dor train. No one was seriously in
ured on the White Mountain express.
Roth trains were heavily laden with
.eftIrnine excursionists from fashion
bIe resorts in Maine and the White
Mountains. They were running be-
1ind time through a heavy fog.
The Bar Harbor limited had stop.
,ed in the block, but the last car of
he long train was just on the edge
If the block limits. The signals had
.leared and the express had gotten
lnder slight headway when the
White Mountain express came along
rhe engineer of the latter was unable
o stop his locomotive and crashed
through two of the Sleep
.rs on the Bar Harbor train and
Knocked the next sleeper over the
IN ba nknent.
The shock of the collision was so
errific that linen and bed clothing
rom the berths in the sleepers was
wept out of the broken windows and
.arried to the telegraph wires ana
POLES nearby, where it still hung
when the wrecking trains arrived
The White Mountain express was
carcely scratched by the COLLISION
t proceeded after few hours delay,
-rriving here at 9:40 and leaving at
,nce for New York.
The first section of the White
dountain express consisted of seven
ars drawn by engine No 1887, En-
.ineer \. B. Miller, Conductor Fow-
The two rear sleepers demolished
we're the Chancellor from 3lineo,
Iaine. and the kasota from Port
and, Maine
<asota and - in the Chancellor.
The overturned sleeper was the
Chisholm 1t was almost entirely
coupled by a camping party Of boys
eturning from Monmouth Maine
ne BOYS homes were in New York,
philadelphia and various parts of the
out1. Seven bodies were taken from
his car
The first body identified was that