The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-09-02
DEATH IS IRA|NMASIER
ON THIS RAILROAD

when the crash came thsy wsre trap-
ped.
Both the White Mountain and Bar
Hsrbor express were west bound
trains. Both were In motion whom
the White Mountain bore down upon
the express ahead.
Estimates Of the dead varied Wide
". Terror stricken persons who were
on the train and escaped declared
frantically that the death list would
reach fifty. Others regarded the esti-
mate as Tar too high.
The railroad ofices here issued a
statement during the morning admit
ting that thirteen bodies had been
taken from the wreck. Twenty were
injured, II was stated. The statement
declared that the first Section Of
the White Mountain express ran into
the rear end Of the recond section OF
the Bar Harbor express. Two rear
lssleepers were telescoped, says the
statement.
The last two cars Of the Bar Har.
bor express were wooden and were
utterly demolished. some of the pieces
being hurled hundreds Of feet from
the scene OF the crash.
Some bodies Of the dead were pick
ed up ffty feet away from the tracks
A reporter for the New York EvenIng
SUN who was passenger on the
White Mountain express said tina,
when he reached the point at which
the trains met the groans ofthe dyins
| and injured filed the air. Person.
who were 30 crushed as to be appar
emily beyond surgical aid begged pite
ously for assistance
| In the meanwhile the White Noun
tain express hurried to the assistanc,
| OF those who were in the wrecked
! train ahead. AZ to the cause OF tn,
i wreck there Is no suAfcient explana
/ tion The Rar Harbcr express haf
almost como to : standsti
/ morning Was misty and the enginee,
of the White Mountain express sait
4 M xw Ese Il md ttiEt IL
/ fiagman came back to give him warn
ing.
Every one. OF the eleven Pullman
cars On the Bar Harbor train wa.
woodens Ali OF them were packed
with passengers
] laundering In the wake OF the Ba
1 Harbor express came the Whit,
/ Mountain train, itself a heavy one
and also jammed with persons whit
had been spending their holidays ii
the New England mountains.
i The White Mountain train was al
hour late and 1t Is believed for thi,
i reason was endeayoring to. make III
lost time.
According to the best estimates tn,
i White Mountain express was running
at rate of at least As miles an hour
i The big locomtive crashed through
the antiquated wooden pullmans il
the rear OF the Bar Harbor train lik,
snow plow sweeping through drift
Practically nothing of these two car
II Was lSlt oH Tile CibSh' vi NldSilHS VI
i still further the locomotive up-endet
the third car and when the train cam
! to stop this car was standing On ent
4 with the locomotive acting as prop
Albert Miller. engineer OF the Whit
Il Mountain train and Fireman Robertson
had seen the train ahead too late t,
layoid the crash but had time to sav,
| themselves by leaplng. The shock 0
tho impact threw from their beds al
those In the cars that were no
smashed in the collision. Scattere,
along the track and far out into, tn
4 field were the dead and dying.
Several physicians were among th
passengers and they led the rescuin,
parties. From the cars, sheets and mat
tresses we're brought, wounds wer
! tiled up and the injured were made a
\ comfortable as possible. The train
!. men in the meantime had been bus
rtcalling assistance from nearby towns
Alongside the track runs a trolle,
4 line from Wallingford to New Haven
= A car appeared soon after the wrecl
and it was loaded with injured wh'
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