The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-04
Lack of Management and Crirni-
nal Inefficiency Are Indicated.
Death Special Carrying
Bodies of Victims Leaves.
Three Wounded
May Die.
FlFTY-SIX STEEL
CARS IN SERVICE

Twcnfy-siN of these cnrs are in
service on the electric trains he
tween Stamford md New York, Mr..
Elliott snid.
"Thc rest nrc In usc on our oth.r
trains, but In addition to these
there nre sixty-nine steel UNDER
frame Pullman cars In service, he
added.
"How many steel cars have been
ordered during the last yenrtn he
was nsIscd.
"Onc hundred and nifty, of which
thfrty-four hnvc been dcIIvcrcd.n
replied Mr.. Elliott. "DurinE the
past yenr we hnvc ordered no ad-
ditionnl wooden coaches,
New Haven, Conn. September
The revised list of casualties in yes
ter1ay mornings wreck ut North
Haven, places the number OF dead at
twenty-one, all of whom have been
identified. and the injured at thirty.
or the latter it is feared that three
may bic
The most important OF the six in
Quiries VIII be that of the Interstate
Commarce Commission, which will be-
gin Friday morning. G. c. McChord.
head. OF the railroad department of
the commission, will arrive Tomorrow.
His investigators have already un-
carthed damning evidence against the
railroad company III. w Bclknap.
chief engineer of the commission, is
In charge OF the investigators. I'VE
are going to get at the fundamental
causes behind this series of wrecks on
the New Haven Road" said Mir. Bel
Inap to o.day, "and the conditions or
executive management and alton
which may lay behind the wrecks.
This investigation will be the most
thorough ever conducted in the coun-
try"
The Brotherhood OF Locomotive En-
ginecrs propose to institute m inquiry
TO determine whether or not the en-
Sineer or the second train was in any
way blameable for the wreck, and to
devise some means OF preventing the
railroads from making scapegoats Of
engineers in such cases
Coroner's Inquest Secret
Coroner Mix Will begin a secret in
quest Tomorrow morning. lie declines
to reveal the hour, the place or the
names OF the witnesses TO be called.
and no copy of the evidence is to be
given out for publication. This policy
or secrecy is indorsed by States At
torney AllinE and also apparently by
the officials af the New Haven Road,
although President Elliott to-day ex-
pressed his Willingness to have repre-
sentatives Of the press present at thx
railroad inquiry
The other inquiries are to be con-
Quoted by the State and the county
authorities.
LncS of Management.
tacts brought out to-day establish
more clearly than ever the RESPONSE
bility OF the New Haven lack of man.
agement and criminal inetficiency for
Tuesday mornings wreck
Not only were the banjo signals
antiquated, but they were in use long
after semaphores had been ordered
substituted FOR them
Statements are being made to day
that the brakes on the Bar Harbor
train, which was run down, were
faulty, and to this may be due in
directly the wreck that followed.
There is a tacit admission, more
over, now that the facts are slowly
coming out, that Engines Miller, in
charge OF the White Mountain EN-
press, had been overworkcd.
There was also Il shortage OF train
hands, which may have contributed
to the disaster
Forty Miles IN Hour.
The White Mountain Express it was
learned to-day from the most respon-
sible source. was going At rate ex-
ceedinS forty miles an hour when 1t
passed Wall!nS ford, three miles from
the wreck on the morning OF the crash.
1t will be shown at the Investigation
of the Interstate Commerce Comm!s-
sion moreover that the trains were
running dangerously close to each
other on the morning of the wreck,
and that absolutely no provisions were
taken. in the circumstances for extra
safeguards.
Getting Some Light.
There comes TO the hands OF the
Interstate Commerce Commission off,
cials. who mean to make a real In
vestigatlon, story, which, when 1t is
run down and corroboratcd by the
train hands who are under the control
OF Coroner Mix just at present. with
public access refused to them. will. in
all probability let in much additional
light. This story is to the effect that
for some reason not yet explained, the
Bar Harbor Express. instead OF being
stopped within the banjo block signal.
was stopped or moved after a previous
stop just outside the block, thereby
placing 1t in the greatest peril. ~
The time sheet OF trains passing
WallinSford Station Tuesday morning
shows that first division train No. 35
was running only eight minutes be-
hind second division train No. 81, which
was telescoped
FlaEman's Statement.
According to Flagman Murray's own
statement. he went back less than 4s0
feet to nag the on-rushing WhIte