Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-09-10
law IS DEMANDED
TO STOP SLAUGHTER
Rail Body Seeks information for
Use in CURLING Roads.
WILL REQUIRE STEEL CARS
La Toilette Lays New Haven Crash to
Stock Watering-Commerce Board
and Coroner Probe Wreck
on New Haven.

Washington, Sept. Sin order to
promote greater safety for the travel
ing public, the federal government is
expected to require by law the use of
steel instead of wooden cars by all the
Interstate railroads of the country.
The reform will be directly attribute
BE to the series of wrecks which has
taken place on the New York, New
Haven & Hartford railroad culminat,
ing in the horrible disaster in Con
nsCticut.
From the interstate commerce com
mission will come a demand for law
requiring that within a fixed period all
railroads. shall equip themselves with
steel passenger cars, that the Pullman
company replace all It's wooden cars
with those of steel construction, and
providing the interstate commerce
commission with special and drastic
authority to prohibit the running OF
wooden trains close together or at
high rates of speed pending the COM
Dlete re-equipment of all the railroads
On a steel-car basis.
New Haven, Conn, Sept. with
p dead and five dying as results of
The wreck of the Bar Harbor express
train the New York, New Haven &
Hartford railroad faces a searching
public inquiry into the causes of the
disaster by the interstate commerce
commission.
The first section OF the White Noun
ain express, bound for New York,
speeding along at probably forty miles
an hour. in a thick fog, rushed by
LANCER signal, it is said, and crashed
lto the rear Of the second section of
he Bar Harbor express, standing 100
'ast beyond the block signal.
The White Mountain engine cleaved
trough the two rear Pullman cars,
10Th of wood, splitting them in two
and tossing their wreckage and three
score of mangled human beings. some
4 dive, some dead, on either side OF the
rack.
Howard Elliott, the newly elected
head Of the road, who was returning
rom his summer home in New Hamp-
shire to assume his duties, passed
over the scene of the wreck on an
.aTlieT train. less than an hour before.
Chief Inspector Belknap OF the COM
nerce commission wired the road OH
'ias not to burn the debris. This or
der was violated, as the wreckage was
SCI on fire at night
The New Haven officials were frank
70 admit that the so-called banjo
lgnal system. which on this part OF
The line has not yet been replaced by
the semaphore system recommended
by the public utilities commission last
december. was in a measure respon-
aOe for the wreck
Some Of Those Killed.
William Altschul, Norfolk, Va
Harold Avery, New York.
Miss Margaret Armstrong. Washing
On, D. c.
Miss Marie L. Bullitt. philadelphia.
Albert Green, New York.
Royal w. Hotchkiss, New Haven.
Miss Merritt, Philadelphia.
Mss Harriet Biddle, Torresdale, Pa.
Mss Murphy, New York.
4. F. Martin. Bryn Mawr. Pa.
Mrs. H. F. Martin, Bryn Mawr, Pa.
D. n McQuillen, Jr., Philadelphia.
q Miss Stoddart, New York.
Il s. Crozier Fox, Elkins Park, Pa.
Frank B. Rutter, Scranton, Pa
Mss Agnes White, Boston
Mss E. X Davis, Philadelphia.
K N. Yahn, Philadelphia.
Died at hospital
milo Hotchkiss, New Haven.
George T. Korga, New York.
Nary Jane -, residence unknown.