The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1913-09-10
WRECK COST
LIVES OF 21
More Than Two Score Persons
Hurt in New Haven Disaster
CRASH OCCURS IN HEAVY FOG
Vacationists Returning From New
England Resorts Meet UntimeIy End
When Express Hits Standing Train.

Twenty-one persons were killed and
more than two score injured as the re-
suit of the disaster on the New York,
New Haven and Hartford railroad
near New Haven, Conn, when the first
section of the White Mountain eI.
press laden with returning vacation.
lists ran into the standing second sec
tion OF the Bar Harbor express filled
with homegoers from the Maine coast
resorts.
The Dead
VIM. Altschul, thirteen, Norfolk, Va.
Margaret Armstrong, Washington.
Harriet Biddle, Torresdale, Pa.
Marie Bullitt, Philadelphia.
Miss Emily X Davis, Philadelphia.
Crozier S. Fox, Elkins Park, Pa.
Albert Green, Columbia student, New
York.
r. A. Hotchkiss, New Haven.
Philo Hotchkiss, brother of preceding.
Harry Imar, Japanese, New York.
George T. Koga, New York.
H. f. Martin, Bryn Mawr, Pa.
Mrs. H. F. Martin, Bryn Mawr, Pa.
DR.. Joseph B. Marvin, Louisville, Ky.
Mrs. Joseph b. Marvin, Louisville, Ky.
Martha A. Marvin, Louisville, Ky.
ID. n. McQuillan, Jr., Overbrook, Pa.
Frank p Rutter, Scranton, Pa.
Mrs. Frank p. Rutter, Scranton, Pa.
Robert NJ. Yahn, Philadelphia.
Mary Jane --, Hartford.
With so many thousands of persons
returning from northern resorts all
the trains coming from that direction
over the road we're crowded. Many
of the trains were split into two sec.
tions. This multiplication of the
number of trains further increased the
difficulties of handling the traffic. A
North Haven man said that he count
ed four trains passing the station on
their way to New Haven on the same
track within seven minutes. This was
just before the two trains piled up
some three miles to the north.
Trainmen told of the same crowded
condition of the traffic. AS they ex.
pressed it there were seven or eight
trains feeling their way southwark to.
ward the main line at New Haven al
most within sight of each other.
The second section of the Bar Har-
Dor express passed Wallingford ap-
proximately three minutes after the
first section, according to the state.
ment of the general manager of the
road.
A local train running ahead of the
first section of the Bar Harbor train
caused the automatic banjo" signal
at Talcotts crossing, where the wreck
occurred, to be set against the second
section of the Bar Harbor train.
According to the officials the en-.
gineer of the Bar Harbor train was
within his rights when he halted some
fifty or sixty yards beyond the signal.
The old banjo system of signals has
been in use on this branch of the
road for many years.
When the Bar Harbor train passed
the danger signal at the crossing it
dulOlldllNdlll Optlltu lllt Cibhnl pN-
hind 1856 feet to the north.
Engineer August B. Miller OF the
White Mountain express said after the
accident that the fog prevented his
seeing that the signal at Talcotts
was set at danger. When he
finally did see it it was TOO late.
There were some thirty men, wo-
men and children in the last car OF
the White Montain train, named the
and twenty-five persons In
the Kasota, the car just ahead of II.
The blow which the oncoming loco.
motive dealt the last two cars shot
the persons inside them through the
air to both sides. There was a barbed
fence to the west Twenty or more
persons, many of whom had been
sleeping moment before and were
still in their night clothes, lay hud.
died in grotesque heaps about the
field. Other persons were tossed to
the field at the other side of the track.
A few were pinned under heaps OF
splintered wreckage, but seemingly
the greater part of the killed and in.
jured were thrown clear of the debris
and lay there with skulls fractured
Or backs broken. A canvass of the
survivors indicated few if any Of those
IN the two cars had escaped.
In the Chisholm, the third car from
he rear, only two passengers, both
boys, were killed.
President Elliott did not go to the
wreck, but took charge of the work.
keeping his headquarters in his new
office in the railroad building in New
Haven. When the new president was
sought out by newspaper men he at
,nce said that the railroad courted the
ullest publicity of everything and
hat no effort would be made to con
zeal any information regarding the
wreck.
He said that he did not know what
he policy in these matters in the east
iad been. After comforting with the
wo vice presidents President Elliott
gave his approval to full publicity OF