Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-29
More Than Score Dead and
Others Badly Injured in
Railroad Wreck.
STRUCK DURING FOG
Atmospheric Conditions are
Blamed for Disaster
Rescuers at Work.

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slip on the part of a doing
tower man was to blame for
the wreck according to A. S.
Ingalls,, general superintend-
ent of the New York Central.
Ingalls,, with l.. A. Robinson,
general passenger agent of
the New York Central, and
Daniel McBane, superintend-
emit of motive power of the
road, conducted an inquiry
into the tragedy on the part
Of the road officials. The
towerman's wife had been i'll,
it was learned, and he had
been without sleep and on
duty practically since Sun
day night.
Cleveland March cat least
thirty persons were killed-the
exact total may not be known un-
Ill nightfall-and more than forty
Injured in the wreck early today
of three of the New York Central's
crack passenger trains 3 mile
west Of Amherst.
Twenty-Five bodies had been
taken out at noon and five more
we're known to be in the debris.
When the total of dead and in
iured is finally ascertained. the
wreck will surpass, in its cost of
life and limb, even the wreck of
the Twentieth Century Limited at
Mentor in 1914. when the famous
train piled into a freight on its
second trip on the New York
Chicago 20 hour run.
Cleveland, March 29.-With 80 man
gled bodies in morgues at Amherst,
81 miles west of Cleveland, and 40
persons seriously injured, some dying,
IN hospital at Elyria, rescue parties
today were working frantically to re-
cover more dead and injured from the
wreCkage of three of the New York
Cenrals fastest and finest trains,
which were damaged in a double
wreck at Amherst at 4 o'clock this
morning Relief trains have been sent
TO the scene from Cleveland, Elyria
and other nearby places.
The three trains in the wreck were
two sections Of train No. Sc, east
bound Chicago TO Buffalo, flier, and
the Twentieth Century Limited, pride
OF the New York Central.
The first body taken from the wreck
age 10 be identified was that of Rev.
Gustav Walyi, pastor Of the First Hun
garian Evangelical Lutheran church,
Detroit. Rev. WaIyi lived at No. SO
Thaddeus street, Detroit.
The second section Of the Chicago
Buffalo flier crashed into the first Sec
ton in a heavy fog when the first sec
ton stopped to take water.
Most of Dead Foreigners.
Most Of the dead are said to be for
eigners, who were travelling In the
rear coach Of the first section of the
Chicago Buffalo fiier.
There are no dead among the pas
sengers on the Twentieth Century
Limited, though a number OF passen-
gers were badly hurt on this train.
Two coaches Of the Twentieth Cen
fury were overturned The low cas-
ualties on the Twentieth Century are
attributed TO the fact that the palace
Train was proceeding slowly because
OF the heavy fog.
The second section Of the fiier was
going at high rate of speed when it
struck the first section.
Many Of the dead probably will go
10 their graves unidentified.
Most Of those killed were asleep in
the rear day coach of first train No.
30 at the time of the crash and they
had removed wraps and coats and
other articles of identifying clothing
The bodies Of many Of these scant-
lily clad victims are so horribly man
gted that Identification, without the
guidance Of the clothing they wore,
Will be impossible
Bodies Badly Mutilated.
some Of the victims were decapi-
laled. Arms. legs and portions Of hui