Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-03
Interstate Commerce
Commission Will
Start Inquiry atNew
Haven on Friday.
DEATH LIST OFFICIALLY
PLACED AT TWENTY-ONE
Jeanne Annette and Sister, of
Bayonne, Are Among Injured
in Hospital Who Are Not Ex-
pected to Survive.

NEN HAVEN, Conn.,, Sept. 3.-The
Interstate Commerce Commission VIII
begin a public inquiry here on Friday
into the cause of the wreck Of The
Bar Harbor express. teleseoped YES
terday by the White Mountain ex-
press, seven miles north of here, with
Joss of twenty-one lives. Probably
hVe Of those injured will die. The
hearing viii be conducted by Comnis-
sioner McChord, who has invited the
Fubllc Utilities Commission of the
State to sit with him.
II. w. Belnap, inspector for the COM
mission. arrived here today and served
notice on President Elliott of the
New Haven road, that he would ex-
pect the attendance at the hearing Of
all witnesses who could throw light on
the cause of the wreck.
Mr. Belnap denied that the New
Haven had been guilty of disobeyiDg
the orders of the commission when il
burned the wreckage last night He
explained that F. A. Howard, an in
spector for the commission. was on
the scene of the wreck early yester-
day and after having made an inves-
tigation released the wreckage to the
railroad company. Meantime Coroner
MIX will conduct a secret Inquest.
This will begin tomorrow behind
closed doors
The reports from the New Haven
hospitals this afternoon indicated the
surgeons skill would probably be Of
no avail TO save five of the seventeen
injured now being cared for here.
Those who are expected to die are:
Jeane and Edna Annette. of Bavonne.
n. j.; Rose Zimmerman, of New
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delphia, and L. E. Colony, Supposed
to be from Bucksport. Me.
The death list in the Vallingord
wreck still stood at twenty one today
and the hospital list at seventeen.
The railroad employees who PLAYED
the leading parts in the New Haven
lipe's latest--tragedy weres sEnder de-
fention ny the coroners order. Means
While the machinery for the ususf
county, State and federal investiga-
tions was in motion
Coroner Mix and Chief Engineer
Elwell. of the State Public Utilities
Commission, resumed this morning
the secret investigation which they
began yesterday Jointly with the rail-
road company
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion's investigators ON their arrival
today found praoucaly no vestige at
the wreck along the New Haven
right-of-way. Notwithstanding teie-
graph 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 Pullman's OF the
Bar Harbor express. where nearly all
the loss of life occurred. We're reduced
to splinters by the crash. All of this
wreckage that could be burned was
piled up in a dozen or more bonfires.
kindled close to the right-of- way, BY
the wrecking gangs last night. The
damaged locomotive was hauled away
with the remains of the third Pull
man.
The formal inquiry by the Inter
state Commerce Commission into the
Wallingford wreck will begin hens
Friday.
Twenty-one Were Killed.
The revised list OF dead, as compiled
by the coroner today, was as follows:
ALTSCHUL. William, Norfolk. Va.
ARMSTRONG, Margaret. Washington.
ID. c.
BIDDLE, Harriet. Torresdale, Pa.
BULLITT. Marie L.. Philadelphia
DAVIS, Emile kennedy, Philadelphia.
FOX. Samuel Crozier, PhiladeIphia.
GREEN, Albert. New York.
HoTCHkISs. Royal A., New Haven.
HoTCHIxISS, PhiIo. his brother.
IZANI. Harry k.. New York.
KOGA, George T., New York.
MARVIN. DIR. james a.. Louisville, ky.
MARVIN. Mrs. james h.. Louisville. Ky.
MARVIN, Martha H. tdaughterf.
Louisville. Ky.
MARTIN. Howard f.. Bryn Mawr. Pa.
MARTIN. Mrs. Howard f., Bryn Mawr.
Pa.
McQUILLAN, Daniel Neal jr.. oxer-
brook, Pa.
RUTTER. Frank p. Scranton. Pa.
RUTTER, Mrs. Frank p. Scranton, Pa.
YAHN, Robert NJ, Philadelphia.
-. Mary Jane. 80 years old. fam
lily name not yet ascertained.
Engineer Tells Story.
The second session of the coroner's 5
inquiry began shortly before 10 O'Clock
this morning. August B. Miller, en-
gineer of the White Mountain express.
was called to tell more of the circum-
stances under which his train crashed
into the standing Bar Harbor fier:
Elbert A. Robertson. his fireman; /;
Bruce B. Adams, conductor of the Bar
Harbor train, and Charles Henry
Murray, the flagman sent back to
prevent a rear-end collision, all were
ordered TO submit to long cross-ex-
animation.
Inspector Belnap, of the Intersfate
Commerce Commission, dropped off a
train shortly before 10 o'clock. in
time to attend the resumption of the
hearing before the railroad officials In
the yellow building as the railroad
headquarters is known.
President Howard Elliott, who was
early at his office, said that so far
as he was concerned, he was perfectly
willing that the coroner's inquest
should be a public one. He said, how
ever. that Coroner Mix felt that many
witnesses would be greatly worried if
they had TO testify in the presence OF
newspaper men and others, and he
thought more evidence could be OBJ
tanned if each witness knew he was
talking privately.
Under the State law a coroner has
the right to hold a private inquest. In
the recent wrecks at Westport and
Stamford, however, Coroner Phelan
held open sessions. If Coroner Mix
does not change his plan. details or
his inquiry will not be known until
his finding is filed with the Superior
Court
The hearing was held In camera
in the Office of the railroads general
manager, and no intimation as to
the testimony was made public ex-
cent briefly through the raiIro4 n 4