The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-09-02
Three Sleeping Cars, Smashed by
Impact, Laden With Return.
ing Resorters
AN INVESTIGATION IS ORDERED

New Haven, Conn. Sept. 2.-Sixteen
persons lost their lives and forty were
injured when the White Mountain Elk
press, bound for New York. crashed
into the rear end of the second section
of the Bar Harbor limited. bearing So
'ourners from Maine summer resorts.
The wreck occurred on the New
Haven railroad just outside the city
limits shortly before o'clock this
morning.
Failure To see the block signal i'm
the thick fog in given as the cause
ni the accident by Engineer Miller,
who said that as soon as he realized
the danger he did all he could 10 stop
his train. The brakes would not hold
on the wet track and the train. run
ming down grade. ploughed through
t"u wooden Pullmans, splintered them
To kin1ling, and killed or wounded
most of the sleeping passengers in
'he berths. SiXty-iive boy campers
were in Pullman which overturned.
Two of these, William Altschul, Of
Norfolk. Va. and Albert Green. of
New York, were killed.
Members of "a sirl camp drawn from
many we'll known families IN Wash
ington. ID, g.. also were on board, but
none were injured according to off
Cials.
The bodies Of many of the victims
were terribly rangled.
All the dead and injured were in
Harbor train. No one was seriously
injured on the White Mountain EN-
press. which was scarcely scratched.
Laden with Exoursionists.
Both trains. heavily laden with eX-
cursionists, were returning from the
fashionable resorts Of Maine and the
White Mountains. Ticy were run
ming behind time through n 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. Signals had cleared and
the express had gotten under slight
Roadway when the White Mountain
Express came along. The engineer OF
the latter was unable to stop his loco
motive. and crashed completely
through two of the sleepers on the
Bar Uarbor train and knocked the
next sleeper over an embankment.
Shock Is Terrific.
The shock of the collision was so
terrific that linen ami bed clothing
from b,rths IN the sleepers were
swept out of the broken windows and
carried To telegraph poles and wires
nearby. where they still hung when
the wrccking trains arrived.
The White Mountain Express. after
q few hours delay. proceeded. arriv-
ing here at 9:4O, on TIE way to New
York.
The two rear sleeocrs demolished
were the Pullmans Chancellor from
Kineo. Maine. and "Kaseta" from
Portland. Maine. Nineteen passengers
were N the "Kaseta" and twenty in
the Chancellor
The overturned sleeper was the
'Chishom." n was almost entirely
occupied by camping party of boys
returning from Monmouth. Maine.
The boys homes wore in New YORK,
Philadelphia and various points In the
south Seven bodies were taken from
this car.
Identification Is Difficult.
The first body identified was r. A.
Hotchkiss. of New Haven. All pas
sengers were In their bcrths and night
clothes. and Identification of the dead
was difficult. The dead and injured
were brought TO this city.
The engineer of the White Noun
tain Express stuck 20 his post ana
was only slightly injured. The two
rear sleepers Of the Bar Harbor Ex-
press vese mass of splnters after
the wreck The locomotive ran on