Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-02
New Haven's Finest Train
Is TelescOped by Noun
tain Express.
MAJORITY RESORTERS
Two of SIeepeTS, Filled With
Passengers, Are Crushed
Into SpIinterS.

New Haven, Conn, Sept. Six
teen persons lost their lives and 40
were injured when the White Noun
tain express. bound for New York,
crashed into the rear end of the sec
ond section OF the Bar Harbor limit
ed, bearing sojourners from Maine
summer resorts.
The wreck occurred on the New
Haven railroad just outside the city
limits shortly before o'clock this
morning. Failure to see a block
signal yelled in a thick fog is given
as the cause of the accident by Engi-
neer Miller, who said as soon as he
realized the danger he did all he
could TO stop his train. The brakes
would not hold on wet tracks, and
the train. running down grade, plowed
through two wooden Pullmans, splint-
cred them into kindling and killed or
wounded most of the sleeping passen-
gers in berths.
Sixty-fve boy campers were in
Pullman which overturned. Two OF
these, William Althschul Of Norfolk,
Va, and Albert Green of New York,
were killed.
Members OF the girls camp. drawn
from many well known families in
Washington, D. c., were also on
board. but none was injured. accord
ing to officials. The bodies Of many
Of the victims we're terribly mangled.
COULD NOT STOP ENGINE.
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 express had gotten
under slight headway when the White
Mountain express came along The
engineer of the latter was unable 10
stop the locomotive and crashed COM
plctely through two Of the sleepers on
the Bar Harbor train and knocked
the next sleeper over an embankment.
The shock of the collision was so ter
rifle tha. linen and bed clothing from
berths in the sleepers were swept out
Of broken windows and carried TO
telegraph wires and poles nearby
where they still hung when the
wrecking trains arrived.
The White Mountain express, after
few hours delay. proceeded. arriv-
ing here at 9:45 on the way to New
York. The two rear sleepers demol-
ished we're the Pullmaus Chancellor.
from Kineo. Me. and the. Kasota,
from Portland. Me. There we're 10
passengers in the Kasota and 20 in
the Charsellor. The overturned sleep
er was the Chisholm.
ONE OCCUPIED ny BOYS.
Il was almost entirely occupied by
camping party of boys returning
from Monmouth. Me. The boys homes
are in Ne. York, Philadelphia and
various pc ats in the south. Several
bodies were taken from this car.
The first identified was R. A.
Hotchkiss OF New Haven. All the
passengers in berths were in night
clothes and Identification of the dead
was difficult. The dead and injured
were brought to this city. The engi.
neer OF the White Mountain stuck 10
his post and was only slightly injured.
The two sleepers crushed by the
impact we're a mass OF splinters a few
minutes after the wreck The loco
motive ran on top of the wreckage
and remained almost upright for q
considerable time. The engine was
one OF the new superhea5ers of the
type that figured in the reanrt wreck
a, Stamford.
SOME OF IDENTIFIED DEAD.
Among the dead identified in the
wreck are r. w. Hotchkiss. son o
Leonard Hotchkiss. OF the c. W
Scranton company, brokers, New
Haven: Frank B. Butter. vice presi
dent OF the Scranton Bolt and M
company. Scranton, Pa; a woman fiv,
feet six, 125 pounds, who wore
gold ring engraved. For life or death
April 80. 1874" young man si
feet, 200 pounds, 25 years old, in
tials IS. c. F." on green stone gol
ring; Harold Avery. New York; Rot
ert Yahn, Philadelphia; II. F. Maj
tin, Bryn Mawr. Pa.
A woman, Miss Agnes White, Bo:
ton. an unidentified woman, 25; an III
identified woman. 80; an unidentife
woman. l35 pounds; Charles Plac,
broker. New York; a woman, famil
unknown. given the name OF Mar
Jane Hartford.
Harry X. lam, a japanese. died a
hospital.
CORONER INVESTIGATES.
Coroner Mix began an investigatio
Of the wreck at 10 O'Clock. He ol
oil IL.