Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-04-07
27 KILLED IN WRECK
THREE FAST NEW YORK CEN
TRIAL TRAINS IN CRASH AT
AMHERST, OHIO.
FORTY PERSONS ARE INJURED
Two Sections of Eastbound Chicago
Buffalo Flyer Jump Track Near
Amherst, O.-Wreck Is Side-Swiped
by Westbound Train.

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Cleveland, O., March 31.-State, fed.
eral and railroad investigation of the
double wreck on Wednesday on the
Lake Shore railroad at Amherst, o..
near here, which cost the lives of fully
twenty-seven persons and injured
forty, was begun here.
Railroad officers declare the blame
for the crash which piled up the
Twentieth Century flyer and two other
crack Lake Shore passenger trains in
to a tangled heap of junk probably
will be shared by two railroad en-
ployees.
The railroad company, in an official
statement explaining the wreck, de-
clared the first section of train No. Sc.
after stopping at the interlocking
tower at Amherst. had started ahead
at five or ten miles an hour. The sec
ond section ran into the first. Two
rear cars of the first section fell over
on the west-bOund track just as the
Twentieth Century Limited, bound for
Chicago, was approaching The Twen-
tieth Century collided with part Of the
wreckage on the west-bound tracks.
The Twentieth Century was deralled
except for the three rear cars. All of
the passengers killed or seriously hurt
were in the rear car of the first sec
tion of train No. Sc.
While relief parties were still dig
10 dnHr
doctors and nurses were rescuing
trapped human beings and caring for
manned victims, the Investigations
were begun. Two men stood out as
shaken, tragic figures that had swift
| ly become the objects of cross-tire in
vestigation, luckless enough to have
been actors in the melodramatic spec
tacle, which sprang out of the fog of
early morning hours
Survivors of the disaster streamed
into Cleveland as port of refuge all
day, bringing with them tales of hor-
ror and of magic escapes. Grim scenes
they had witnessed shocked and stupe-
fed women among them and stunned
men,
One is toVerman. Ernst, doing
in his lonely cupola as speeding trains
slid by him-a man trying to perform
his duties of watching over thousands
of lives in the railroads care and IN
der the handicap of sleepless hours
caring for his wife, who Sunday had
given birth to a baby. The other is
Herman Hess, engineer of the second
section OF the east-bound flyer, who
escaped from the cab of his engine
after it had plowed into the first sec
tion-a man who saw no red warning
signal through the fog and relied
upon the mysteriously halted first
train.
These are the men who became the
center of an investigation by New
York Central officers, led by General
Superintendent A S. Ingalls,. A coin
cidental inquiry was begun by Coro
ner Carver of Lorain county, whfie
State Railroad Inspectors Packard anC
Heffernan rushed to the scene to con
duct the state public utilities inquiry
and Safety Experts Belknap, Ellis anC
McAdams started for Amherst to begir
federal investigation for the inter
state commerce commission.
Out of the chaos at the spot a mile
out of Amherst rescue parties spent {
struggling day taking bodies out o
the debris. Twentysix were recov
cred, but others we're believed to have
remained hidden under the tons O
alrc
! reared thirty feet in the air.
Scattered over many miles are men
women and children suffering will
serious injuries or minor hurts. The,
, are in hospitals in Elyria and Lorain
a few miles away, in houses thrown
open for succor by people in the vii
lage of Amherst and farmers near by
in Cleveland hotels and in relatives
homes.
Following is a revised list OF tn,
dead:
Dora Roseberg, / Toronto; Arpac
Heltai, New York; Walter Easton
East Philadelphia; Raisin Obdah, In
. dianapolis; Malcincs Binnoe. Indian
C Harbor, Ind; Rev. Gustav Walyi, min
/ lister of the First Evangelical church
q 53 Thaddeus street, Detroit; Fre
f Weazer, Detroit; four unidentified; .
q H. Hearn, Gallipolis, O.; D. Fruicht
man, Toronto; B. E. Aish, Olmste
Falls, o.; R. Thomas, Philadelphia
D Gyorgi Ojinci, Indianapolis; unknow
L man; unknown man, colored. Pullma
g porter, evidently H. White; two III
l. known women and an unknown man
r Edward Leroy. st. Louis, ILL.,; Bruc
d Bromley, Hillsville, Pa; Jenni
g Dreymmer, Cleveland; Charles Nelson
Chicago.