The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-02
CRASH IN A FOG.
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and the grade such that it was difficult
to hold a heavy train.
Coroner Mix began this forenoon an
investigation of the wreck The rail-
road company directed that the bodies
recovered should be placed in the troll
ley car barns in James street.
Had Banjo Signals.
The track on which the wreck &C.
CURED is protested by the so-called
banjo ssignals,"- type which the; pu o-
lie utilities commission had pndered
changed. The New Haven rosd had
begun the reconstruction and the line
from Hartford to Springfield has been
already changed.
Forty members from a girls camp
also returning from the Maine woods
were on board the Bar Harbor train.
The railroad officials said this morn
ing that SO far as they knew none OF
these young people had been injured.
All of them are pupils of the Sidwell
Friends school in Washington, D. c.
Engineer Miller, of the White Noun
tain express, said on reaching this
city:
The fog was SO thick 1 did not see
the signal set against me until 1 was
almost abreast of it. Then I did all
I could to stop the train. I set all
the brakes and then jumped
Laden to Capacity.
officially shortly after o'clock that
they would be expected to care for a
large number of injured. A special
train brought 1 5 patients to the New
Haven hospital at 9:15. The entire
hospital staff was on hand, aided by
professors and students from the
Yale medical school. A special guard
of police was placed on duty at the
on duty at the New Haven and Grace
hospitals. Most of the passengers on
the two trains belonged in New York
and beyond and were en- routes from
New England summer resorts in YER
mont and Maine to their homes.
The two trains are regarded as
among the finest in the New Haven
service and at this season of the year
they are laden to their capacity with
Pullman passengers.
The Bar Harbor express left Mount
Desert ferry. the railway station for
Bar Harbor, at $40 p. m. yesterday.
land, Worcester, Springfield and New
Haven. 1t was scheduled to leave
New Haven at 5:3s a. m. and arrive
in New York at 1886. At the offices
hours after the wreck, no details had
been received and no estimate of the
number of casualties I'm the alb
sence of reliable information" it was
stated, the New Haven officials
withhold any statement regarding
the wreck.
The White Mountain express left
Breton Woods. y. H, at p. m. yes
terday and travelled to New York over
the Boston and Maine and New Haven
lines via Springfield and New Haven.
1t was due in New York at 1852 a. M
On account of the holiday rush and
the fog both trains this morning were
running behind time.
Official Statement.
New York, Sept. 2.-Thirteen dead
have been taken out of the wreck of
the Bar Rarbor express near Walling-
ford. according to an official statement
issued by the New Haven railroad at
9:45 o'clock. The railroads statement
said:
THE White Mountain express first
section, due in New York at 1852 a. m,
section of the Bar Harbor express. due
in New York at 1856 a. M, one mile
north of New Haven at 6:55 O'Clock this
morning.
THE two rear sleepers of the Bar
Harbor express were DANA ged. Thir-
teen dead have been taken out of the
wreck. The second section of the Bar
Harbor express had stopped for sig
nal. The weather was extremely
foggy-
L. C. c. Orders Investigation.
Washington, Sept. Upon receipt
of news of the New Haven disaster the
Interstate commerce commission order
ed inspectors to proceed Immediately
to the scene to investigate. Chief In
spector Belnap probably will go to