The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-09-03
q ARE KILLED
IN TRAIN WRECK
ON NEW HAVEN
White Mountain Express
Crashes Into Bar Harbor
Limited With Fatal Re-
suits; Many Injured.
THICK FOG GIVEN AS
CAUSE OF DISASTER
Many of the Dead Have
Not Been Identified; Of
ficial Investigation to Be
Made at Once.

NEW HAVEN, Conn, Sept. 3
Twenty-one persons were killed and
nearly fifty injured, some Of whom may
die, in a rear-end collision shortly be-
fore o'clock this morning on the New
York, New Haven & Hartford railroad,
six miles north of here.
The first section of the White Noun
tain express, bound for New York,
speeding along at probably forty miles
an hour in thick fog, rushed by a
danger signal, it is said, and crashed
into the -ear Of the second section Of
the Bar Harbor express, standing 100
feet beyond the block signal.
Pullman Cars Wrecked.
The White Mountain engine cleaved
through two rear Pullman cars, both of
wood, splitting them In two, and toss
ing their wreckage and three score of
mangled human beings, some alive,
some dead, on either side of the track.
The third car, also of wood, and oc~
cupied by forty boys on their way from
a summer camp at Monmouth, Me,
was lifted into the air and almost
completely off the track. The car fell
on its side, crumpled up, crushed two
of the boys to death and injured sew
eral others.
1f tha {rno
Pullmans were hurled from their berths
over q fence paralleling the track fifty
feet distant. Mattresses, bedding and
clothing found lodgment in the tele-
graph wires.
Third in One Year.
1t was the third serious wreck which
the New Haven has suffered within
year, and inaugurated the first day
of the regime Of Howard Elliott, the
newly elected head Of the road, Mr,
| Elliott, returning from his summer
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 vacations, and all but two Of
| camping party of nine, guests of 3.
| Grocer Fox Of Elkins Park, Pa, re-
turning from Maine, were wiped out.
Fox was among those killed. No one
was hurt in the White Mountain train.
The Dead.
The death list revised from the
coroner IS report and from the list is
sued by the railroad company, isi
ALTSOHUL WILLIAM, Norfolk,
| Va
ARMSTRONG, MISS MARGARET,
| Washington, D. C.
BULLITT, MISS MARIE L., Phila-
delphia.
GREEN, ALBERT, New York,
HoTCHKIsS, ROYAL W., New
Haven.
BIDDLE, MISS HARRIET, Torres
dale, Pa.
MARTIN, II. F., Bryn Mawr, Pa.
M'QUILLEN, DANIEL NEAL, JR.,
Philadelphia.
FOX, g. GROCER, Elkins Park, Pa.
RUTTER, FRANK B., Scranton, Pa.
DAVIS, MISS EMILE KENNEDY,
Philadelphia,
YAHN, ROBERT M, Philadelphia.
Died at hospital;
HOTCHKIsS, PHILo., New Haven.
KoRGA, GEORGE T, New York.
MARY JANE, residence
unknown.
Died at Meriden;
IMAR, HARRY K, New York.
The Injured.
The injured at the hospital here in
clude:
Robert Myhan, Philadelphia, internal
injuries,
l.. E. Collum, Nemours, France: con
cussion and internal injuries.
Mr., and Mrs. PeInberton w. Price,
Philadelphia.
Catherine Mclaughlin, Brooklyn.
Jeanne Annette, Bayonne, \. j.
Philo Hotchkiss. New Haven.
w. o. Rowland, Frnnkford, Pa.
Richard F. Decker, Summit, n. j.
Il A. M. Bidd1e, Torresdale, Pa.
Richard Frank, New York.
Rose Zimmerman, New York
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