Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-09-03
DEATH LIST IS
NOW SET
AT q
The new HAVEN WRECK KILLS
MORE THAN WAS At FIRST RE.
Ported seventeen ARE ALSO
IN THE HOSPITAL
TON HAS STARTED.
OCCURRED ON THE FIRST
DAY OF new PRESIDENT

New maven, COHI., Sept. o. he III
terstate commerce commission will be
gin public inquiry here Friday int,
the cause of the wreck of the Bar Har
boz express, telescoped yesterday b.
the White Mountain express sever
miles north of here with loss o
twenty-one lives. Probably tive o
those injured will die. The hearing
will be conducted by COMMISSIONS
McChord, who has invited the public
utilities commission of the state to 81
with him.
Fl. w. Belknap inspector for the
commission, arrived here and served
notice on President Elliott of the New
Haven road that he would expect the
attendance at the hearing OF all wit
nesses who could throw light on the
causes of the wreck.
Mr.. Belnap denied that the New
Haven had been guilty of disobeying
the orders of the commission when it
burned the wreckage last night. He
explained that F. A. Howard, an in
spector for the commission, was on
the scene of the wreck early yesterday
and after having made an investiga-
ton. released the wreckage to the
railroad company.
Coroner Mix will hold a secret in
quest.
Five of the injured are now being
cared for in the New Haven hospital,
are expected to die. They are Jean
and Edna Annette of Bayonne, N. j.,
Rose Zimmerman, New York, William
O. Rowland of Philadelphia, and l.. E.
Colony, supposed to be from Buck.
spcrt Maine.
New Haven Conn, Sept. 3.-The
formal inquiry by the interstate com
merce commission into the Walling--
ford wreck will begin here Friday.
The death list in the wreck still
stood at q this morning and the hos
pital list ut seventeen. The railroad
employees Who played the leading parts
in the New Haven lines latest tragedy
were under detention by the coroner's
order.
Meanwhile the machinery for the
usual county, state and federal inves.
tigation was in motion. Coroner Mix
and Chief Engineer Elwell of the state
public utilities commission resumed
this morning the secret investigation
which they began yesterday, jointly
with the railroad company.
The revised list of dead as compiled
by the coroner today was as follows:
Altschul, VIM, Norfolk, Va.
Armstrong, Margaret, Washington,
ID. C.
Biddle Harriet Torresdale, Pa.
Bullitt, Marie L., Philadelphia.
Davis, Emile Kennedy, Philadelphia
Fox, Samuel Crozier, Philadelphia.
Green, Albert, New York.
Hotchkiss, Royal A. New Haven.
Hotchkiss, Philo, his brother.
Izani, Harry K, New York.
Koga, Geo. r., New York
Marvin, DR.. Joseph B., Louisville,
KY.
Marvin, Mrs. Joseph B.. Louisville,
KY.
Marlin, Howard F.. Bryn Mawr, Pa.
McQuillan, Daniel Neal, Jr., Over |
brook, N. Y.
Rutter, Frank p, Scranton, Pa.
Yahn, Robert NJ, Philadelphia
Mary Jane, IS years old, family
name not yet ascertained.
1t was the third serious wreck
which the New Haven has suffered
within year. and inaugurated the
Elliott, the newly elected head of the
'oad. Mr.. Elliott, returning from his
summer home in New Hampshire to
assume his duties, passed over the
scene of the wreck in an earlier
rain, less than an hour before.
The New Haven officials were frank |
o admit that the so-called banjo"
signal, which on this part of the line
lad not yet been replaced by the !
system, recommended by
he public utilities commission last
December, in a measure was respon-
ible for the wreck, although the ques-
ion as to whether the engineer of the ,
White Mountain train, Augustus B.
Iiller. was making too much speed,
Inder the weather conditions, is un-
Ter investigation.
Under the "banjo" system, as soon ,
s train passes signal it shows
ed and automatically opens the sig :
al into the previous block allowing :.
train to er.er.
Both trains were more than an hour :
ate. The two trains passed Walling-
ord, three miles north of the scene j.
t the accident. eight minutes apart =.
hortly before o'clock. Right ahead
them was the first section of the
lar Harbor express, and local train, '
ue to stop at New Haven three
lilies south of the wreck, led them
II.
According to the officials, an engi- s
eer may pass banjo signal set at n
ed after he has brought his train to ]
stop. This, according to the rail- Il
BAD officials. the engineer of the e
ar Harbor express did. and then II
lme to another stop about 100 feet on il
le other side of the signal, mile e