The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-03
DEAD NUMBER q
Coroner Continues Investiga-
ton of WallingfOrd Wreck.
Railroad Officials Insist That
They Are BlameleSs.

New Haven, Sept 3.-The death list
in the Wallingford wreck stood at 21
this morning and the hospital list at
II. The railroad employees who played
the leading parts in the New Haven
lines latest tragedy. We're under de-
tention by the coroner's order. Mean
while the machinery for the usual
county, state and federal investigation
was in motion. Coroner Mix and
Chief Engineer ElwelI of the state
public utilities commission resumed
this morning the secret investigation
which they began yesterday Jointly
with the railroad company.
The interstate commerce commits
sion'S investigators on their arrival
today found practically no vestige of
the wreck along the New Haven right
orders from the commission that the
wreckage lie undisturbed officials of
the road set gangs of men clearing up
the roadbed after the crash.
The two rear Pullmans of the Bar
Harbor express, in which nearly all
the loss of life occurred, were re-
duced to splinters by the crash. All
Of this wreckage that could be burned,
was piled up in a dozen or more bon
fires kindled close to the right-of-way
by the wrecking gang last night. The
damaged locomotive was hauled away
with the remains of the third Pull
man. The revised list of dead as COM
piled by the coroner was as follows:
The Revised List of Dead.
ALTSCHUL. VIM, Norfolk.
ARMSTRONG, MARGARET, Wash
ington.
BIDDLE, HARRIET, Torresdale,
BULLITT MARIE. L., Philadelphia.
DAVIS, EMILE KENNEDY. Phil
adelphia.
FOX. SAMUEL CROzIER. Phila-
delphia.
GREEN, ALBERT. New York
HOTCHKISS, PHILO, New Haven.
HOTCHkISS, ROYAL A, his broth
IZANI, HARRY X, New York.
KOGA, GEORGE L., New York.
MARVIN, DIR. JAMES B., Louis
vile, Ky.
MARVIN. MRS. JAMES B.. Louis
ville, Ky.
MARVIN. MARTHA H. (daughter),
Ky.
MARTIN, HOWARD F., Bryn
Mawr, Pa.
MARTIN. MRS. HOWARD F., Bryn
Mawr, Pa.
McQULLAN, DANIEL NEAL, JR-,
Overlook, Pa.
RUTTER, FRANK P, Scranton. Pa.
YAHN, ROBERT NJ. Philadelphia
-, MARY JANE, As years old,
family name not yet ascertained.
The Inquest.
The second session of the coroner's
inquiry began shortly before 10 O'Clock
this morning.
August B. Miller, engineer of the
White Mountain express was called to
tell more of the circumstances under
which his train crashed into the
Bar Harbor flier; Elbert A.
his firemen; Bruce b.
conductor of the Bar Harbor
train, and Charles Henry Murray, the
flagman sent back to prevent d rear
nit ITO long cross examination.
The hearing was held in camera in
the offices of the railroads general
manager, and no intimation as to the
testimony was made public except
briefly through the railroads press
timony showed plainly that the equip
ment, appliances and signals of the
road were in first class condition.
Murray, the flagman, according to
his statement was sent back to flag
the train when the Bar Harbor came
to stop in front of the red bullseye
in banjo signal %. Murray was re-
and Conductor Adams stopped the
train to wait for him after it had
cleared the danger signal by running
so feet back through the heavy fog.
heard the oncoming White
Mountain express and placed two tor
pedoes on the rail. The red light of
the banjo signal and the rear end of |
The standing train took form in the |
mist before the eyes of Engineer Mil |
Ter of the White Mountain express at |
the same moment he ran over the tor |
pedoes Miller was then $50 feet from |
the standing train and was running |
nearly 40 miles an hour