The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1913-09-06
TWENTY-ONE
Die IN AWFUL
TRAIN WRECK
e.ar End Collision Of Flyers on New
Haven Line erings Harvest to
Grim Reaper

New YCTk, New Raven q hertofu
railroad. six miles north Of here. The
e-s+ section of the White Mountain
Express. bound for New York, speed
ing along at probably forty miles an
hour in a thick fog, rushed by
danger signal, 1t is said, and crash
cd into the rear Of the second sec.
ton OF the Bar Harbor Express,
standing 100 feet beyond the block
senal. The White Mountain engine
c,eaved through the two rear Pull
man cars, both Of wood, splitting them !
in two. and tossing their wreckage
and three score Of mangled human
beings. some alive, some dead, on ell
Their side of the track.
The third car, also Of wood. and
occupied by 40 boys on their way
from a summer camp at Monmouth,
Me-. was lifted into the air and al
most completely of the track. The
car fell on its side crumpled up,
crushed two of the boys to death and
injured several others.
Hurled Fifty Feet
Some of the ctims of the two
rear Pullmans we're hurled from their
berths over Il fence para elling the
track so feet distant; mattresses,
bedding and clothing found Judgement
in the telegraph wires.
II was the third serious wreck that
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 TN 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
S. Croser Fox of Elkins Park, Pa,
returning from Maine were wiped
\ out. Fox was among those killed.
u No one was hurt I'm the White Noun
tain tran.
Revised Death List
The death list, revised from the
coroner's report and from the list of
the railroad company is:
Killed in the wreck
Altchult, William, Norfolk, Va.
Armstrong, Miss Margaret, Wash
ington, D. G.
Bullitt, Miss Marie L., Philadel.
phia.
Green, Albert, New York.
Hotchk.ss, Royal W., New Haven.
Biddle, Miss Harriet, Torredale,
Pa.
Martin, II. F., Bryn Mawr, Ps.
Martin, Mrs. H. F. Bryn Mawr,
Pa.
McQuillen, Dsniel Neal Jr., Phila.
delphia.
Fox, s. Grocer, Elkins Park, Pa.
Rutter. Frank B., Scranton, Pa.
Davis, Miss Emile Kennedy, Phila-
delphia.
Yahn, Robert NJ, Philadelphia.
Died At Hospital
Hotchkiss, Phiio, New Haven.
Korgart, George L.. New York.
Mary Jane. residence unknown
Died at Meridian:
lmar, Harry X, New York.
Unidentified dead:
Elderly man, aged 60: 145 pounds
gray Van Dyke beard; otherwise
smoothly shaven; clothed only ir
union suit.
For Life and For Death"
Elderly woman, weighing about 2Ot
pounds, evidently of German birth
had gold band ring inscribed "Fol
life and for death-4.20-7O."
Woman aged about IS, had damon,
cluster ring engraved d. B. L. o
G. B. l.. on left hand; locket Will
F. B. Rand
Man, gray haired, brown eyes
smooth face Enquiries made for Hal
iohSaS'er RI.
The New Haven officials wer
frank to admit tonight that the SC
> called banjo signal system whic
on this part of the line has not We
been replaced by the semaphore syi
TEN, recommended by the public uti
Ties commission last December. in
measure was responsible for tn
wreck, although the question as t
whether the engineer OF the Whit
Mountain train, Augustus B. Miller
was making too much speed undo
the weather conditions, is under il
yestigatIon.
Under the Banjo" system as 500
as g train passes signal It sets re
ana automatically opens the signs