Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-09-04
LIST OF WRECK
VICTIMS GROWS
'Twenty-one Persons Now
Known to Have Been
Killed in Collision
NEW HAVEN HURRIES
TO COVER UP TRACES
Despite Orders Road Clears
Up the Wreckage and
as. Burns Debris

Up the Wreckage ana
a.. Burns Debris
New Haven, Conn. Sept. 3.-The
death list In the Wallingford wreck
still stood at twenty-one this morning
and the hospital list at seventeen. me
railroad employees who played the lead
ing parts In the New Haven lines lat
est tragedy, we're under detention py
the coroner's order.
Meanwhile the machinery for the
usual county, state and federal inVestl-
cation was in motion. Coroner MIX
and Chief Engineer Elwel OF the
state public utilities commission, re-
sumed this morning the secret investt
cation which they began yesterday
Jointly with the railroad company. The
interstate commerce commissions In
gestivators on their arrival To-Day
found practically no vesttge OF the
wreck along the New Haven right OF
way. Notwithstanding telegraphic or
ders from the commission that the
wreckage lie undisturbed, officials OF
the road set gangs of men to clearing
nm. the roadbed after the crash.
Puiimans spllntered.
The two rear Pullmans Of the Bar
Harbor express where nearly all the
loss OF life occurred, were reduced to
splinters by the crash All Of this
wreckage that could be burned was
piled up in dozen or more bonfres
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 Pullman. ma .
@ The psad. u
The revised list OF dead as compiied
BY tho coroner today was as follows:
ALscHUL, VIM, Norfolk, Va.
ARMSTRONG, MARGARET, WASH
ington, D. G.
BIDDLE, HARRIET, Torresdale, Pa.
BULLITT, MARIE L., Philadelphia.
DAVIS, EMILE KENNEDY, Phila-
delphia.
FOX, SAMUEL cRoz1ER, Philadel.
phia.
4 GREEN. ALBERT, New York.
HOTCHKIss, ROYAL A., New
Haven.
HOTCHKIss, PHILO, his brother.
IZANI, HARRY K, New York.
KOGA, GEO. T.. New York.
MARVIN, DIR. JAS. n, Louisville,
MARVIN, MRS, JAMES B., Louis
vile, Ky.
Louisville, KY.
MARTIN, HOWARD F., Bryn Mawr,
Pa.
MARTIN, MRS. HOWARD F., Bryn
MaWr, Pa.
M'QUILLAN, DANIEL NEAL, JR,
Overlook, Pa.
RUTTER, FRANK p, Scranton, Pa.
.RUTTER, MRS. FRANK p, Scran-
ton Pa.
YAHN, ROBERT M, Philadelphia.
- - ----- MARY JANE, SIS years
old, family name not yet ascertained.
coroner's Inquiry On.
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 un.
der which his train crashed into the
standing Bar Harbor fiier, Ebert A.
Robertson, his fireman; Bruce B..
Adams, conductor of the Bar Harbor
train, and Charles Henry Murray, the
flagman sent back to prevent y rear
end collision, all were ordered to sub
NIT to long cross examination.
The hearing was held privately in
the office Of the railroads general man.
ager and no intimation as to the testi-
mony was made public except briefly
through the railroads press agent. AS
yesterday, the railroad insisted that
the testimony shows plainly. the
equipment, appliances and signals Of
the railroad were in first class condi-
tion.'"
Murray, the flagman, according to-
his statement, was sent back to flag
the following train when the Bar Har-
bor came to a stop In front Of the Red
Bulls eye In "banjo" signal No. 23.
Murray was recalled by blast from
the locomotive and Conductor Adams,
stopped the train to wait for, him after
It had cleared the danger signal by
perhaps fifty feet.
Running back through the heavy fog,
Murray 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 Miller
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 10 miles an hour. He whipped
on the emergency brake. but the train
OF this heavy character at 40 miles an
hour requires at least $500 feet to
STOP