Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-09-02
SEVENTEEN ARE
LOST IN A
WRECK
TWO new YORK, new HAVEN &
HARTFORD PASSENGER TRAINS
COLLIDE At new HAVEN AND
SLAUGHTER IS TERRIBLE. .==FIFTY
ARE INJURED.
DOWN GRADE AND Wet
RAILS CAUSE ACCIDENT

teen persons lost their lives and Al
injured when the White Mountain ex
press, bound for New York, crashed
into the rear end OF the second sec
ton of the Bar Harbor limited, bear
ing sojourners from Maine summer
resorts.
A revised death roll this Afternoon
was as follows:
Altschul, William, 13 years old, Nor
folk, Va.
Avery, Harold, New York.
Butler, Frank B., vice-presiden1
Scranton Bolt company, Scranton, Pa
Fox, S. Crozier, broker Elkins Park
Pa.
Green, Albert, student in Columbis
University, New York.
Hotchkis, R. A., son of Leonard
Hotchkiss, broker New Haven.
Hotchkiss, Philo, Is years old, New
Haven.
lmar Harry. Japanese, New York.
Mawr, Pa.
White, Miss Agnes, Boston.
Jayn, Robert NJ, cigar maker. phla-
delphia.
Mary Jane, no last name,
Hartford.
One unidentified man
Four unidentified women, one OF
them 25 years old, bracelet, tan shoes,
made by Snyder and Kidd, Washing
ton, d. c.. size 6. Another weighing
135 pounds, diamond cluster ring,
emerald ring inscribed, IF. B. Rand,
1905"
On the body of a young woman who
had a handbag with the initials, M.
NJ. H. or m. II. NJ" was jewelry
worth at least 100000 She had evi-
gently been dressing when the crash
came. in a chamois bag was a string
Of 100 pearls with three diamonds in
the clasp She had also an opal aad
diamond ;ar pin and an opal brooch.
The wreck occurred on the New Ha-
ven railroad just outside the city linn
its shortly before o'clock this morn
ing.
Failure to see block signal, yelled
in thick fog is given as the cause of
the accident by Engineer IA. B. Miller,
who says that as soon as he realized
the danger he tried to stop the train.
The brakes would not hold on the wet
track and the train, running down
grade ploughed it's way through two
wooden Pullman cars, splintered them
to kindling and killed or wounded
most of the sleeping passengers in
their berths. The accident recalled
the recent wreck on the New Haven
at Stamford, Conn. when second sec
tion train failed to take it's brakes and
overran a block, dealing death to
passengers of the first section.
Only part of the dead have been
identified. The bodies of most of the
victims were mangled.
A party of boy campers, sixty-five
in number, returning from Monmouth,
Maine were in Pullman car which
was overturned. Two of these boys,
VIM. Altschul, of Norfolk, Va, and AL !
bert Green of New York, were killed |
A party of young girl campers, pu- !
pills of the Sidwell Friends school, |
Washington, d. c., returning from
Bellegrade lakes, Maine, were in 9TH /
er cars of the Bar Harbor express. !
These girls were not reported as in
jured.
The dead were all taken to New
Haven. The injured received first aid
from physicians on the two trains,
later being removed to hospitals.
The number of dead, according to
Cornor Mix is seventeen. The injured
number about fifty. All the dead and
injured were in the three rear sleeping
cars of the Bar Harbor train. No one
was seriously injured on the White
Mountain express.
Both trains were heavily laden with
returning excursionists from fashion
able resorts in Maine and the White
mountains. They were running be-
hind time through heavy fog.
The Bar Harbor limited had stopped
in the block, but the last car of the
long train was just on the edge of the
block limits. The signals had cleared
and the limited had gotten under
slight headway when the White Noun
tain express came along. The engin-
eer of the latter was unable to stop [
his locomotive and went completely [
through three sleepers on the Bar
Harbor train and knocke'' /,
sleeper over the embankment. {
The shock of the collision was so
terrific that the linen and bed cloth t
ing from the berths in the sleepers t
was swept out of the broken windows j
and carried to the telegraph wires and
poles nearby, where it still hung when
the wrecking trains arrived. I
The White Mountain express was I
scarcely scratched by the collision 1t
on its way after few I
hours delay, arriving at the station | |
here at $40 and proceeding at once to i
New York. +
The overturned sleeper was almost a
entirely occupied by camping party ! II