The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-09-03
TRAIN CREWS
ARE DETAINED
Searching investigations Started
Into Causes of New Hav-
On Wreck
PULLMAN COMPANY INVOlV we'd
Will Be Held to Account for Use
Of Wooden Instead of Steel
SIeepers
PULLMAN COMPANY INVOLVED
MANY PROMINENT VICTIMS

New Haven, Conn. Sept 3.-The
death list in the Wallingford wreck
still stood at twenty-one this morning.
with a hospital list of seventeen.
Railroad employees who played lead
ing parts in the New Haven lines lat O.
est tragedy We're under detention by
the coroner's order. Meanwhile the
machinery for the usual county. state
and federal Investigations was in mo-
tion.
Coroner Mix and. Chief Engineer Ell
well of the state public utilities com
mission resumed this morning the Sc
cret investigation they began yester-
day jointly with the railroad company.
Engineer Miller. of the White Noun
tain Express, his fireman. Robertson,
Conductor Adams and Flagman Mur-
ray We're all ordered To submit to q
long cross ss-examination. The hearing
was held in the office of the railroad S
manager. and no intimation of the
testimony was made public except
briefly through the railroads press
agent
As Yesterday, the railroad insisted
that the Testimony shows plainly that
the equipment and appliances of the
signals We're In firstc class condition"
The interstate commerce commits
sion's Investigators on arrival today,
found practically no vestige Of the
wreck along the right OF way. Not
wlthstanding telegraphic orders from
the commission that the wreckage lie
undisturged, the officials of the road
set gangs of men clearing up the road
bed after the crash. Two Pullmans,
where nearly all the loss of life oc-
CURED. Were reduced To splinters by
the crash. All this wreckage that
could be burned was piled up in "A
dozen bonfires. and kindled close to
the right of way The damaged loco
motive was hauled away with the re-
mains of the third pullman.
Orders Not Disobeyed.
Inspector Belknap of the interstate
commerce commission arrived today
and denied the New Haven road was
guilty OF disobeying the orders of the
commission when il burned the wreck
age last night. He explained an In
spector for the commission was on
the scene of the wreck early yester-
day. and after he had made an inves-
tigation released the wreckae to the
company. II is the opinion of the
surgeons this afternoon that five Of
the seventeen injured will die.
Pullman Company Involved.
The Pullman company will be made
a party to the Interstate Commerce
commissions investigation of the
Wallingford wreck The commission
will inquire why the Pullman company
continued to operate wooden sleeping
cars on through fast passenger trains.
I'VE wired the New Haven road not
to burn the wreckage and received a
reply that the telegram would receive
attention" said Commissioners Me
Chord. "But it seems they burned
the wreckage anyway. ! don't know
what we can do about it,"
No Secrecy In Probe.
McChord telegraphed Chief inspec-
tor w. II. Belknap: Have men at the
of the coroner or the rail-
roads regarding the wreck. to get
what is said and done. Reports indi-
cate secret Investigations are being
held"
There will he no secrecy about this
declared McChord.
Well Known People Victims.
DIR. Joseph B. Marvin of Louisville,
Ky, who, with his wife and daughter.
perished In the wreck. was well known
In American medical circles. and the
author of numerous lectures and pa
pers. The body of Miss Marvin, ON
which was found much jewelry. was
identified during the night
The hospital reports on the seven"
teen injured were encouraging this
except i'm one case. Mass
Jeane Annette Bayonnenj, who was
one the operating table this morning.
II is believed her spine is fractured.
George w. Elkins. Jr., who. with
Mrs. Elkins and little daughter. were
of the Fox party of which five were
killed ard two injured, today had a
special prepared to take to PhiIadel-
phia the bodies of Miss Emile Davis,
Miss Marie Bullet. Miss Marriet Bidle.
Daniel Neal McQuellan, Jr. and s.
Crozier. other members OF the party.
A. M. Biddle and w. o. Rowland,