Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-09-04
White Mountain Express
Crashes Into Rear Of
Bar Harbor Limited
FINEST TRAINS ON
NEW HAVEN LINES
Three Sleepers Telescoped ;
Fifty Injured Removed
to Hospitals

limited, the New maven TAAITO80S III
est train out of the Maine summer re
sort district, was telescoped by the
first section of the White Mountain ex
press while the former, was standing
In block just outside this city at $50
o'clock this morning.
The number of dead according to
railroad officials is thirteen. The in
jured number about fifty. All the dead
and injured were in the three sleeping
cars, on the rear of the Bar Harbol
train. No one was seriously injured
on the White Mountain express.
Both trains were heavily laden with
returning excursionists from fashion.
able resorts in Maine and the White
mountains. They were running behind
time through heavy fog.
Crashes Into Sieepers.
The Bar Harbor limited had stopped
in the block but the last car of the
long train was just on the edge of the
block limits The signals had cleared
and the express had gotten under
slight Roadway when the White Noun.
tain express came along. The engineer
of the latter was unable to stop his
locomotive and crashed completely
through two Of the sleepers on the Bar
Harbor train and knocked the next
sleeper over the embankment.
The shock of the collision was 80
terrific that linen and bedclothing
from the berths in the sleepers was
swept out OF the broken windows and
carried to the telegraph wires and
poles nearby, where it still hung when
the wrecking trains arrived.
Express Only Scratched.
The White Mountain express was
scarcely scratched by the collision. 1t
proceeded on it's way after few hours
delay, arriving at the station here at
$40 and proceeding at once to New
York. Ks
The first section OF the White
Mountain express consisted Of seven
cars drawn by engine No. 1887, En-.
gineer A. B. Miller, Conductor Fowler.
The two rear sleepers demolished
we're the. Pullmans Chancellor from
Kineo, Maine, and the "Kasota'' from
Portland. Nineteen passengers were
iii the Kasota and twenty-five in the
Chancellor
The overturned sleeper was the
Chisholm" 1t was almost entirely
occupied by a camping party of boys
returning from Monmouth, Maine. The
boys homes were in New York, Phila-
delphia and various parts Of the south.
Seven bodies were taken from this car.
The first body identified was that OF
r. A. ,Hotchkiss Of New Haven.
All the passengers we're in their
births and in their night clothes, max
ing Identification Of the dead difficult.
The dead and injured were brought
Engineer Escapes Injury.
The engineer of the White Mountain
express stuck to his post and was only
slightly hurt. The two sleepers which
we're crushed by the impact Of engine
No 1887 were mass Of splinters az
ter the accident. The locomotive ran
on top Of the wreckage and remained
almost upright for considerable time.
The engine WAS one OF the new super.
heaters of the type that figured In the
recent wreck at Stamford. The engine
In the latter instance was No. 1888.
Wreck Hurts Road.
New York, Sept. 2.-Heavy selling
of the stock of New York, New Haven
and Hartford railroad as soon as the
stocks opened on the exchange this
morning resulted In decline Of 2 70
points, bring the price down to 90A,
q new low record. The news Of the
wreck at Wallingford was known
throughout the financial district for an
hour or more before the exchange
opened. {
rhs Dead
Among the dead identified at the
scene of the wreck are:
R. A. HOTCHKISS, son of Leonard
Hotchkiss, of G. w. Scranton & Co.,
brokers Of New Haven.
z ALBERT GREEN, New York.
WILLIAM ALTsCHUL, Norfolk,
Va.
FRANK B. RUTTER, vice president
and sales manager OF the Scranton
Bolt & Nut Co., Scranton, Pa. T.
Woman, five feet six inches tall, 125
pounds; wore gold ring engraved,
"For life or death, April 80, 1874"
Young man, six feet tall, 200 pounds,
Is years old; initials IS. G. F." on
green stone gold ring.
CHARLES w. PLACE, broker, 81
Wall street, New York.
+ Woman, family name unknown;
given name Mary Jane, Hartford,
Conn.
HAROLD AVERY, 694 Broadway,
New York, died while being taken to
hospital.
H. F.. MARTIN, Bryn Mawr, Pa.
ROBERT YAHN, 40 Lyceum street,
Philadelphia, died at New Haven hos
pital.
woman with handbag marked IN.
II. M" or IN. H. H. died on way to
hospital. v,
HARRY K. Joni, died at Meriden
hospital.
The Injured.
The injured at the Grace hospital
here include:
Robert Myhan, Philadelphia; inter-
nal injuries.
L. E. Column, Memories, France;