The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-03
Third Serious Fatality
in Year Inaugurates
Elliott's First Day,
LIST OF INJURED
NUMBERS FIFTYf
Wooden Cars Are Smashed Into
Splinters-Four Investigations !
Are Under Way, and Engineer !
Is Under Arrest-Fog
Obscures Banjo"
Signals.

I'VE" maven. Conn, September -
Twenty-one persons were killed ana
nearly hfty Injured. some of whom
may die. in rear end collision short
~ before o'clock this morning on
the New York, New Haven and Hart
lord Railroad. six miles north OF here.
Inc frst section of the White Noun
tain EXPRESS bound for New York.
speeding along at probably forty miles
an hour. In thick fog rushed by n
uahser signal, IL is said and era she'd
INTO the rear of the second section OF
the Bar Horbor Express. standing, 100
teet beyond the block signal
Ihe White Mountain engine cl.ovea
| ,"Ioueh the two rear Pullman cars.
potn or wood. splitting them in two
ana tossing their wreckago and three
score OF maneled human beings. some
awe. some dead. on either side Of the
| track. 'i''
The third car. also of wood and o.
| cupied by forty boys on their way from
summer camp at Monmouth Me was
| nItcd INTO the air and fell on its side
crumpled UP and crushing two of the
ooys to death and injuring others.
so'ne OF tho victims OF the two rear Pull
mans were hurled from herths over
renee parsllelinG the track ofty feet
dlstant; mattresses bedding and cloth
ing found lodgment in the telegram /.
wires.
Third Wreck within n Year.
~ was the third serious wreck which
the New Haven has suffered within n
| year, and inaugurated the first d,v or
tho regime of Howard Elliott the new
| ~ elected head OF the road Mr. Ell
! iiott 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 -...s.-.'
fsfI9 pra ctIcalIyl tbo ...-.- 60
Doth trains were returning home from
! summer vacations. and all but two or
camping party Of nine, guests of s.
Crozer Fox. OF Ellsins Park Pa. re-
turning from Maine were wiped out.
FOX was araong those killed No one
was hurt In the White Mountain train
List OF the Dend
The death list from the coroner,s
report and from the list issued by the
| railroad company. is:
Killed In the Wreck.
william Altshul Norfolk Vn
MISS Margaret Armstrong, Wn,hInr
ton. d. c.
Mis-" Marie l.. BuIIitt, Philadelphia.
Albert Green, New York
ho!ni HotchleisS, New Haven.
MISS Harriet Middle. Torrcsdnle. Pm.
III. IF. Martin, Bryn Mnwr, Pa
Mrs. II. +. Martin. Bryn NInwr, Pa.
Daniel McQuIllen, Jr., PhiInde,pb,o
y. Grocer Fox, Elkins Pnrk Pa
Frank B. Rutter, Scranton, Pa
| MisS Emile Dnvis, PhlladeIphin
| Noberf VI. fnhn, Philndelphia
Died at Hospital
| PhflO Hotchkiss, New Haven
George II. korga, New York
known.
Died Mt Meriden
Harry X. Inmar, New York
The Unidentified
Elderly man, nSed sixty, I45 pounds,
Gray Vandyko beard, otherwise
smoothly shaven, clothed only I'm union
suit
Elderly woman, weighing about ooo
pounds, evidently of German birth, had
Eoid band ring, inscribed oFor life
and for denth-4-3O-7O."
woman, aged thirty-nvc; had din
mond cluster ring engraved I'D. Ii. H.,
Cor G. Ii. i.) on left hand; Iocket with
az. Il. Rand,
Man. Er"y hair. brown eyes. smooth
face Enquiries made for Hale stein
man, Lancaster. PAD
'Danjo" System RcsponsibIc
me New Haven officials We're frank
TO admit tonight that the so-caned
FahJo block signal system. which, on
the short line, has not yet been re-
placed by the semaphore system rec
commended by the public Utilities Com
mission last December, was, in a mea-
sure responsible for the wreck. al
though the question as to whether the
engineer of tho White Mountain train.
Augustus b. Miller. was making too
much speed under the weather condi-
tions is under investigation.
G. w. Elkns. Jr and his wife OF
f'hiiadelphia. were at tho office of
General Manager Bardo this after
noon. seeking information about mem.
bers of their family. When no inrorm-
alton was obtainablc. they went TO
the wreck in an automobile
Anxiety regarding the safety of DR..
Thomas Nelson Page. ambassador TO
italy, who was known to have LEFT
York Hnrbor, Me. yesterday. was set
at rest this afternoon when 1t was
found that DR. Page was registered at
hotel In New York
-Four Investigations.
FoHr Investigations under way
tonight of the wreck
These investigations are baing con-
Quoted rs follows:
/. BY the Federal government
through Hiram X. Belnap. chief or
the Bureau Of Safety Appliances OF the
Interstate Commerce Commission.
2. BY the Connecticut state Railroad i
Commi ssion 81
3. BY Coroner Mix. OF New Haven
County.
1. BY the New Haven Railroad.
New Presidents Eirst Day.
The disaster which was the worst &
In tho series OF disasters that haa a
marked the history OF the New Haven
Road. occurred at Taiford's Crossing
mt 6;46 this morning. This point S. i
only nine miles from New Haven.