South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-09-03
ENGINE PL0WS WAY
THROUGH PULLMANS
Wooden Cars Are Crushed to
SplinterS and Passengers
Thrown in All Directions
Missed Signals.

NEW HAVEN. Conn. Sept g.
Twenty-one persons were killed and
nearly 90 injured, some Of whom may
die. in a rear-end collision shortly be-
fore o'clock Tuesday morning on the
:. New York. New Haven ~ Hartford
railroad. six miles north of here.
The first section Of the White Noun
In express. bound for New York.
eeding along at probably 40 miles
hour In a thick fog. rushed by
danger signal, it is said. and crashed
into the rear Of the second section OF
the Bar Harbor express. standing 100
feet beyond the block signal
The White Mountain engine cleayed
through the two rear Pullman cars,
both of wood, splitting them in two
and tossing their wreckage and three
score of mangled human beings, some
alive, some dead, on either side of the
track.
The third car, also of wood and oc-
cupied by 40 boys on their way from
summer camp at Monmouth, Me-,
was lifted into the air and almost
completely off the track. The car fell
on its side crumpled up, crushed two
OF the boys 10 death and injured sew
eral others.
Against Telephone Wires.
Some OF the victims of the two
rear Pullmans were hurled from their
berths over a fence paralleling the
track 90 feet distant; mattresses, bed
ding and clothing found lOdgment in
the telegraph wires.
II was the third serious wreck
which the New Haven has suffered
within a year and inaugurated the
first day of the regime Of Howard
ElliCtt. the newly elected head OF the
road. Mr.. Elliott, returning from his
SIMMER home in New Hampshire TO
assume MS duties. passed over the
scene Of the wreck on an 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
a camping party of nine, guests of s.
Grocer Fox of Elkins park, Pa, re-
turning from Maine were wiped out
Fox was among those killed No one
was hurt in the White Mountain train
The death list, revised from the
coroner's report and from the list is
sued By the railroad company. IS:
KILLED IN THE WRECK.
Altechul, William. Norfolk. Va.
Armstrong, Miss Margaret, Wash
ingtOn, d. G.
Bullitt. Miss Mary L. Philadelphia.
Green. Albert, New York.
Hotchkiss. Royal w, New Haven.
Biddle, Miss Harriet, Torresdale.
Pa.
Martin. II. F. Bryn Mawr. Pa.
\ Martin. Mrs. +. r., Byrn Mawr, Pa
McQuillen. Daniel Neal. jr., Phila-
delphia.
Fox. s. Grocer, Elkins Park, Pa.
Rutter, Frank B., Scranton, Pa.
Davis. Miss Emile Kennedy. Phila-
blphia.
Yahn. Robert NJ. Philadelphia.
DIED AT HOSPITAL.
Hotchkiss. Philo. New Haven.
Korga. George T. New York.
Mary Jane. residence unknown.
DIED AT MERIDEN.
Imar. Harry X. New York.
UNIDENTIFIED DEAD.
Elderly man, aged so. 145 pounds,
gray van Dyke beard. otherwise
smoothly shaven; clothed only in un-
ion suit.
Elderly woman. weighing about
200 pounds. evidently of German
birth had gold banc ring inscribed
'For life and for death. 4-30-7O."
Woman aged about 80. had diamond
cluster; ring engraved d. b. i. Cor NJ.
=. L. on left hand; locket with "F.
y. Rend."
Man. gray hair. brown eyes, smooth
face enquiries made for Hale Stein
mau. Lancaster. Pa
The New Haven officials were frank
10 admit Tuesday night that the So
called Banjo block" signal system.
which on this part OF the line has not
been replaced By the semaphore sys-
TEN. recommended by the public utili-
ties commission last December. was in
a measure responsible for the wreck.
although the question as 10 whether
the engineer OF the White Mountain
train. Augustus b. Miller. was max
Ing too much speed under the weather
conditions is under Investigation.
Under the banjo" system as soon
as a train passes a signal IL sets red
and automatically opens the signal in
the previous block, allowing a train
following 20 enter.
Trains Hour Late.
Both more than an hour late, the
two trains passed Wallingford, three
miles north OF the scene OF the acci-
dent eight minutes apart, shortly be-
fore O'Clock. Eight minutes ahead
Of them was the first section OF the
Mar Harbor express and a local train
due 10 stop at North Haven. three
miles south OF the wreck. led them
pll.