Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-03-30
Three PaIatiaI Passenger
Trains Are Piled Up in Co..
Iision; Farmers and People
Near Assist.
0VERWORKED EMPlOYE
FAILED TO GIVE SIGNAL
One of Worst CataSttopheS in
History of Railroad Traffic
Occurs From Company
CareleSSneSS.

boRs,so JousNtL SPECIAL IELsfD ~tSu
Cleveland, Ohio, March 29.--With
toll of at least thirty persons dead
and forty or more injured, federal
and state officials and officials of the
railroad company have begun an in
vestgation into the cause which early
today led to one of the most disas-
trous wrecks in the history of the
New York Central system.
Three trains, including the Twen-
tieth Century Limited. west bound.
the New York Centrals palatial fler,
and two sections of No. SO, known as
the Chicago Pittsburgh limited, east
bound, came together in collision
near Amherst, Ohio, thirty-seven
miles west of Cleveland.
Caused by Doing Towerman.
a slip on the part of doing tow
erman was TO blame for the wreck,
according to A. S. ingalls,, general su-
.perintendent of the New York Gem
trail Ingalls, with l.. A. Robinson,
general passenger agent of the New
York Central and Daniel McBane,
superintendent of motive power of the
road, conducted an inquiry into the
tragedy on the part of the road Of
ficials. The towerman's wife had
been i'll, it was learned. and he had
been without sleep on. or off duty
practically since Sunday night.
Costly in Life and Limb.
When the total of dead and injur-
ed is finally ascertained the wreck
will surpass. in its cost of life and
limb, even the wreck of the Twen-
tieth Century limited at Mentor in
1904, when the famous train piled
into a freight on its second trip on
the New York Chicago twenty-four
hour run.
The wreck was one of the worst
that has occurred on the New York
Central system. Dense fog obscured
the signal set by the first section of
the east bound Pittsburgh Baltimore
Buffalo limited, causing another sec
ton Of that train to crash into it, A
short time later, before signal men
could flag it, the fast Twentieth Cen
tury limited, west bound, crashed in
to the wreckage which had piled up
on the west bound track.
Farmers Assist.
Daylight had not yet appeared
when the three trains piled up to-
gether Farmers and villagers rush
ed to the assistance of the stricken
passengers The work of rescuing
those pinioned under the wreckage
was hampered by darkness and fog.
Ambulanees, automobiles and all
kinds of vehicles were rushed from
Elyria and other points. The httle
morgue at Amherst was soon filled.
Most of the injured were conveyed to
hospitals at Elyria.
The Twentieth Century proceeded
on its way to Chicago
None of the passengers on tins tram
were injured.
The Identified dead are
Identified Dead.
ARPAD HELTAI, theatrical mana
ger, New York.
WALTER EAsTON, East Philadel-
phia, Pa,
RAISIN OBDAH, Indianapolis, Ind.
MALC1NCA BINNOE, Indian Har-
hor Ind
First Evangelical church. Detroit.
FRED WEAVER, Detroit, Mich.
j. RISEY, ------
J. II. HEARN, Gallipols, Ohio.
D. Fruichtman, Toronto.
b. L. ASH, transfer mail man, New
York Central, Olmstead Falls, Ohio.
Il. THOMAS, Philadelphia, Pa.
GYORGI OJINCI, indianapolis, Ind.
EDWARD LEROY, East st. Louis,
Illinois
JENNIE DREYMMER, Cleveland,
Ohio.
CHARLES NELSON, Chicago.
BRUCE BROMLEY. Hillsvlle, Pa.
Unidentified man, colored Pullman
porter, probably II. White.
Six other unidentified men and three
unidentified women.
PIOws Into Wreck.
Reports generally credited were
that the first and second sections OF
No. Sc were proceeding at a rapid
rate and at some points were only a
mile or so apart. When the second
section crashed into the first section,
the Twentieth Century plowed into
the wreck of the first two trains
which bulged over from the parallel
tracks and the three were thrown to-
gether into mass of debris.