Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1913-09-12
q DEAD, 10 HURT
IN r. r. wreck.
Express Crashes Into Wooden
PuIImanS on Train
BRAKES FAILED TO WORK
Accident Occurred During Fog Near
New Haven, Conn.-Several Victims
From Philadelphia.

Twenty-one persons lost their lives
and forty were injured when the
White Mountain express, bound to1
New York, crashed into the rear end
Of the second section Of the Bar Har
Dor limited, bearing sojourners from
Maine summer resorts. The wreck oc'
Cured on the New Haven railroad
just outside New Haven, Conn.
Failure to see a block signal yelled
In a thick fog is given as the cause
of the accident by Engineer A. B.
Miller, who says that as soon as he
realized the danger he did all re could
to stop the train. The brakes would
not hold Oil the wet track and the
train, running down grade, ploughed
it's way through two wooden Pullman
cars. agi:ntered them to kindling and
killed or wounded most of the sleeping
passengers in their berths. The bodies
OF most of the victims were mangled
A party of boy campers, sixty-fve in
number, returning from Camp Cob
Dossee," at Monmouth, Me-, were in a
Pullman car which was overturned.
Two OF these boys, William Altschul,
of Norfolk, Va, and Albert Green, OF
New York, were killed.
The list of dead is as follows:
Miss Maria Stockton Bullitt, Miss
Harriet Bidala, s. Grocer Fox, Robert
NJ. Yahn, Daniel N. McQuillen, Miss
Emily X. Davis. all of Philadelphia.
William Aitschul, Norfolk, Va.
Harold Avery, New York.
Frank Butler, Scranton, Pa.
Albert Green, New York.
R. A. Hotchkiss, New Haven, Conn.
Philo Hotchtiss, brother of r. A.
Hotchkiss.
Harry Imar, Japanese, New York.
H. F. Martin, Bryn Mawr, Pa.
Miss Agnes While, Boston.
Mary Jane (no last nance,
Hartford, Conn.
Margaret Armstrong. Washington.
Albert Freed, New York.
George Koga, New York.
The bodies of some of the dead were
found fifty feet away in the fields.
Some of the dead and injured were
| hurried to New Haven, Walilngford
and Meriden. Many of them were tax,
en- in trolley cars.
Both trains were heavily laden with
! returning excursionists. They were
running behind time through the
heavy fog.
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 a
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 bed clothing
from the berths in the sleepers was
swept out Of the broken windows and
carried to the telegraph wires and
poles nearby, where 1t still hung when
the wrecking trains arrived
The White Mountain express was
scarcely scratched by the collision. 1t
proceeded on it's way after few
hours delay.
All the passengers were In their
berths and in their night clothes, max
ing Identification Of the dead difficult.
The engineer of the White Mountain
express stuck to his post until the last
moment and was only slightly hurt.
The two sleepers which were crushed
were a mass of splinters few min
utes after the accident. The locomotive
ran on top Of the wreckage and re-
NAMED almost upright for a consider
able time.
The collision occurred on a straight
stretch of track, but the fog was very
dense at the time.