Bisbee daily review., 1916-03-30
THIRTY ARE DEAD FROM WRECK IN HE NEW YORK
 CENTRAL
Twentieth Century Limited and Two Other Passenger Trains on Famous Line Run Together in Dense Fog.
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Hc'tsi, theatrical manager, New York; Walter Eastcn, East Philadelphia, Pa; , Raisin Obdiah, indianapolis, Ind; Mla- :inca Binnoe, Indianapolis, Ind. Rev. | Gustaf Walyi, Pastor First Evangical Church, oetrcit;. Fred. Weassr,. De- troit, Mich; ]. Risey, J. H. Hearn, GaIlipoIis, Ohio; D. Fruichtman, Tor onto; B. z. Ashe, Transfer Mail Man, New York Central, OImstead Falls, Ohio; R. Thomas, Philadelphia, ?s.; iyorei Ojh1ici, Indianapolis, Ind; Ed yard Leroy. East St. Louis, Ills; Jenrie Dreymmer, Cleveland, Ohio; Charles Nelson, Chicago; Bruce Brom- icy, HillsviIle, Pa; Unidentified man, negro Pullman. porter. probably H.. White.
 Six othsr unidentified men and three unidentified women.
 CLEVELAND, Ohio. March 29.- With a total of at least thirty persons dead and forty or more injured. feder- al and state officials and officials of the railroad company have begun an investigation into the cause which early today led to one of the most disastrous wrecks in the history of he New York Central system.
 Three trains, including the Twenti- eth Century Limited. westbound, the New York Central's palatial flyer and two sections Of No. S6. known as the Chicago-Pittsburs Limited. east bound came together in collision near Am herst, Ohio, 37 miles west of Cleve- land.
 Reports generally credited were that the first and second sections of No. }6 were proceeding al rapid rate and at some points were only mile 1r so apart When the second sec ion crashed into the first section, the Twentieth Century plowed into the wreck of the first two trains which bugled over from the parallel tracks and the three were thrown together
 into a mass of debris.
 The coaches and the engines of No. S6 were toppled over and wreckage vas piled thirty feet high. Two cars were smashed to junk. Fourteen coaches were overturned.
 The Twentieth Century emerged al- most unscathed and proceeded on it's westward journed, it's passengers un- injured except for a severe shaking up. heavy fog from Lake Erie had settled down over Northern Ohio. This with the alleged failure of a tower man to do his duty was ascribed as the reason of the disaster The tower man. it was said, had not slept most of the time since his wife had been ill
 When the half dozen investigations which arc under way are concluded, the blame will be fixed.
 w. F. Chaff, district superintendent of the New York Central lines, said today:
 '1'he towerman can have nothing to do with the cause of this wreck. The blame lies between the engineers and the block signal system.
 "We tested out the block signal system this morning after the wreck and found it was working perfectly. After the wreck, Engineer Hess and his brakeman, H. A. Bates, with Brakeman Wm. Blakeny. of the Twen- tieth Century. walked back to the signal which Hess drove by. They all said they found the signal was red, or blocked then"
 Scenes of confusion followed the collision. Many of the injured. pinned in the wreckaSe, called for held as uninjured passengers, half clad. emers ed from the sleepers and poined with the trainmen in the rescue work.
 Bremen from Amherst were among the first arrivals and succeeded in putting out a fire which started in the wreckage of one of the coaches.
 General Manager Moon in an official statement said this coach was mod ern solid steel coach" Passengers and others who were on the scene did not agree as to the correctness of this statement, many contending the coach was of wooden construction. Those who disputed the assertion that the coaches were all of solid steel, pointed to the fact that the car in which the fire started. was torn into small fras ments which burned like finder. The work occurred shortly after a. m. and il was near four o'clock when something like organized relief work was begun.
 Hospitals in Lorain and Elyria to- night were filled with injured from the wreck and was generally thought that the list will exceed the first fig ures received Hundreds of villagers and farmers from Amherst and vicini- ty did heroic work in carins for the dead. dying and injured.
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