Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-09-05
FAST TRAINS CRASH;
Is KILLED; 50 HURT
LOCOMOTIVE PLUNGES THROUGH
PULLMANS, CRUSHING SLEEP
ING PASSENGERS.
FAILED TOSEE BLOCK SIGNAL
Only About One-half of the Dead Have
Been ldentified-Shock
Of Collision
Terrific.

| ty-six persons lost their lives and so
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 out
side the city limits, shortly before
q. m, Tuesday.
The number of dead up to late
hour, according to Coroner Mix, in
Guiding those who died in hospitals,
was twenty-six.
The injured number about so. All
the dead and injured were in the three
rear sleeping cars of the Bar Harbor
train. No one was seriously injured
on the White Mountain express.
Identification Difficult.
Only about one-half of the dead
have been identified. All the passen-
gers were in their night clothes when
the collision came, making identifica-
ton difficult.
Coroner Mix directed that the bodies
be collected at local streetcar barn
as temporary morgue and began at
once an inquiry to determine the iden-
tity of the dead
Several of the bodies are those Of
boys who were members Of a camping
party returning from Monouth, Me.
Failed to See Block Signal.
Failed to see a block signal yelled
in a thick fog is given as cause of the
accident by Engineer A. B. Miller,
who says that as soon as he realized
the danger he did all he could to stop
the train. The brakes would not hold
on the wet track and the train, rum
ing down grade, plowed it's way
through two wooden Pullman cars,
splintered them and killed or wound
ed most Of the sleeping passengers in
their berths. The accident recalled
the recent wreck on the New Haven
at Stamford, Conn, when a second
section train failed to take it's brakes
and overran block, dealing death to
passengers of the first section.
The bodies of most of the victims
were mangled.
The shock of the collision was so
terrific that linen and bed clothing
from the berths in the sleepers was
swept out of the broken windows and
carried to the telegraph wires and
poles near by, where it still hung
when the wrecking trains arrived.
The White Mountain express was
scarcely scratched by the collision. 1t
proceeded on it's way after a few
hours delay, arriving at the station
here at $40 a. m. and proceeding at
once to New York.
The dead were all taken to New
Haven. The injured received first aid
from physicians on the two trains, la
ter being removed to hospitals.
Engineer Sticks to Post.
The engineer of the White Mountain
slightly hurt. The two sleepers, which
we're crushed by the impact of engine
No. 1887, were reduced to splinters
The locomotive ran on top of the
wreckage and remained almost upright
for a long time.
Is Third Wreck of Year.
1t was the third serious wreck
which the New Haven has suffered
within year and inaugurated the
first day of the regime of Howard
Elliott, the newly elected head of the
road Mr. Elliott, returning from his
summer home in New Hampshire to
assume his duties, passed over the
scene of the wreck on an earlier
train, less than an hour before
Four Persons Killed in iowa Wreck.
Oelwein, Iowa, Sept. 3-Four per-
sons were killed and fifteen injured,
most of them severely, when a Rock
Island passenger train on the DEBORAH
branch left the rails and plunged fif-
teen feet down a steep embankment
near Maynard, Iowa. The train,
south-bound, was late and trying to
make up time. Two miles south of
Maynard the engine left the rails, pull