The Washington herald., 1913-09-04
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cess refused to them. will. in all proba-
| bility, let in much additional light. This
story is to the effect that for some rea-
son not yet explained the Bar Harbor
express. instead of being stopped within
| the banjo block signal was stopped or
| moved after a previous stop just outside
| the block. thereby placing it in, the great
est peril
The time sheet OF trains passing Wal
! lingford Station Tuesday morning shows
! that first division train No. 50 was run
ming only eight miutes behind second di-
vision train No. 81, which was telescoped.
FIngmap Makes statement.
According to Flagman Murray's own
statement he went back less than $50
feet to flag the onrUshing White Noun
tain express when he was recalled by
the whistle to his own train. Experts say
the train would not have been stopped in
less than 1900 or loo feet. Murray also
disregarded the rule which requires that
when a fiagman is recalled under such
conditions he must leave a lighted fuse
en- the track which will attract the at
tention any engineer passing that poin.
within a certain time.
Engineer Miller has told that he saw
the rear end lights of the Bar Harbor
train just as the torpedo exploded under
his engine. There were no other signals
in sight and il there had been he could
not have stopped.
Granting that the brakes ana other
equipment Of engine, No. 1881, which
headed the White Mountain was in per-
feet working order. Miller had but 80
feet within which to stop. or less than
Cne-fourth the distance required
steady stream OF undertakers'
wagons rolled up TO Union Station here
today. and, with bowed heads. the
crowds around the station watched the
oak collins containing the bodies OF
eleven Of the victims OF Tuesdays trag-
edy placed aboard trains to be sent
home.
The death special" was the term ap-
piled to the special train that was en-
gagged to carry away the bodies of the
five Philadelphians who were members
of the camping party Of S. Crozier Fox.
Il was accompanied by G. w. Elkins,
jr.. and his wife and a number of rela-
tives OF the young people whose lives
were sEuffed out in the crash.
Immediately preceding the death
speciar' went train carrying the
bodies of Frank B. Rutter and his wife
to Scranton. In the evening another
train carried away Mr.. and Mrs. How
ard +. Martin, of Bryn Mawr. Pa, an
other couple who were killed. The
pOuN OF W Imam AltSCnul also went on
this train to his home in Norfolk. Va.
The complete list Of those now in the
hospital is:
At New Haven Hospital: Harry Avner
thirty, Of $40 Broadway, New York: Rich
ard Decker. thirty-four. of Summit. n. J.:
Jean Annette, twenty, OF Bayonne. n. j.:
her sister Edna, twenty-seven: Alexander
Biddle. who was first reported dead nine
teen. Of Philadelphia; William l. Row
land. tewnty-two. of Philadelphia: Mr.
and Mrs. Pemberton Price, of Boston;
Rose Zimmerman, OF New York, and
Catherine McLOughlin. of Brooklyn.
Those at st. Raphael Hospital are Ralph
Downs OF New Haven; Frank P. Stanley,
of New Haven: Fred W. Armstrong, of
Bridgeport.
Louis E. Colony. of Boxport Me. is at
Gray's Hospital
Eittle hope is expressed by the physi-
clans for Mrs. Zimmerman. She has a
broken neck. The two Annette sisters
are in a serious condition. In the desper-
ate hope of saving the life of Jean, the