The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1916-04-08
27 Kl[LED1N wreck
6HRgg FAST NEW YORK CEN.
TRIAL TRAINS IN cRAsH At
AMHERsT. OHIO.
@oRTY PERSONS ARE INJURED
Two Sections Of Eastbound Chicago
Buffaio Flyer Jump Track Near.
Amherst. o.-Wrsek 10 sIds-ewiped
BY Wsstbound Train.

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Amherst. o.-Wrsok Il sIde-swlped
BY Wsstbound Train.
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 hore.
Railroad officers declare the blame
for the crash which piled up the
Twentieth Century flyer and two other
crack Lake Shore passenger trains In
70 q 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. So.
after stopping at the interlocking
tower at Amherst. had started ahead
at five or ten miles an hour. The SEQ
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 TWEEN
tieth Century collided with part of tho
wreckage ON the west-bound tracks.
The Twentieth Century was derailed
except for the three rear cars. All OF
the passengers killed or seriously hurt
were in the rear car OF the frst sec
ton OF train No. SO.
While relief parties were still dig
ging dead bodies from the debris and
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-fire in
vestigation. luckIess 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 a towerman, 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 un-
der the handicap of sleepless hours
caring for his wife. who Sunday had
given birth to baby. The other Ii
Herman Hess, engineer Of the second
section OF the east-bound flyer. who
escaped from the cab of his engine
after 1t 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
These are the men who became the
center or an investigation by New
York Central officers, led by General
Superintendent A. 8. Ingalls,. A coin
cidental inquiry was begun by Core
ner Carver Of Lorain county, while
State Railroad Inspectors Packard and
Heffernan rushed to the scene to con-
duct the state public utilities inquiry.
and Safety Experts Belknap. Ellis and
McAdams started for Amherst to begin
a federal investigation for the inter-
state commerce commission.
Out OF the chaos at the spot mile
out of Amherst rescue parties spent a
struggling day taking bodies out Of
the debris. !Twenty-six were recov-
cred, but others were believed to have
remained hidden under the tons or
wreckage strewn over four tracks and
reared thirty feet in the air.
Scattered over many miles are men.
women and children suffering with
serious injuries or minor hurts. They
are In hospitals in Elyria and Lorain.
q 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 revised list OF the
dead:
Dora Roseberg. Toronto: Arpad
tteltdI, NcW IoIhs WhitcT hdbtoup
East Philadelphia; Raisin Obdah, In
dianapolis; Malcincs Binnoe. Indiana
Harbor. Ind: Rev. Gustav Walyi. min.
lister OF the First Evangelical church.
SO Thaddeus street, Detroit; Fred
Weaver. Detroit; four unidentified: J.
ii. Hearn. Gallipolis, o.: d. Fruicht-
man. Toronto: b. q. Ash. OImsted
Falls. o.; r. Thomas. Philadelphia:
Gyorgi Ojinci, indianapolis; unknown
man; unknown man, colored. Pullman
porter. evidently H. White; two I'M
known women and an unknown man:
Edward Leroy. st. Louis. ILL.,: Bruce
Bromley. Hillsville. Pa: Jennie
Dreymmer. Cleveland: Charles Nelton.
Chicago. .4f,
Carnegie Kin Leaves sioooo,ooo.