Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-03-29
Limited PIouahed i Throuah.

Llnlteo FFou9nep lFFough.
y AThe limited ploughed through M.
s. wreckage, which had been hurled
to the westbound track, before flag
man could be sent out 70 stop it. Most
or the dead were in the rear coaches Yf
the first section of the flier Some Of
the dead were found inIthe rear coaches
Of the second section, which was buck
led over on the Limited's right Of way,
and splintered by that train. Most of
the dead are said to be foreigners A
number of the Limited's passengers
were badly hurt. Two OF the Lifnited's
coaches were overturned. The Limited
was moving slowly because OF a heavy
fog.
Identification of the dead is difficult
because the victims were seanti1y clad.
Some of the victims were decapitated.
The remains Of three bodies, one wo-
man and two men, were piled in one
box.
ID. c. Moon, general manager OF the
New York Central here. said;
The engineer of the first section Of
train No. so stopped at Amherst by sig
nal I don't know just how. The sec
Aond section should have stopped be-
sause of an automatic signal or by the
ignal of the flagman df the first sec
Iion. The second section ran into the
rear end coach of the first section. The
vreekage from both sections went over
pn the west bound high sreed track"
Signals obseured by Fog.
Dense fog obseured the signal set by
he first section of the eas.bound f1ier.
ausing another section of that train
b crash into it. A short time later,
before the signal man could flag it,
e Limited crashed into the wreckago
hich piled up on the west bound track
he body of one fireman. badly crushed,
as found on top of the boiler of one
the engines. Some members of the
ews OF the three trains escaped
ratehes or bruises. G. c. Robinson,
gineer OF the Limited, crawled unin-
red from under his engine, after It
I'd plunged for 400 feet along the ties
arch is being made for the bodies of
10 express messengers and it is ex-
ected they viii be found among the
Yexpress car wreckage, which IS piled 20
feet high.
y The Twentieth Century Limited con-
tinued on its way TO Chicago after the
debris on the west bound track WIS
cleared away.
Survivors Tell Of Wreck.
Alfred Fritzele, of CleHeland, in the
Toledo sleeper of the first section, es-
capped injury. He helped in the rescue
work. Aaron Deray. of Pittsburg, said
he was catapulted from his berth into
one occupied by a woman across the
aisle when the crash came. Deray was
not injured A. Comenaky. of Pitts |
burg, said he saw a woman die in the
wreckage before he could extricate her. |
N He also saw man whose arms were
Storn from their sockets. When the last
named three left only II Of 40 occn-
pants Of the day coach were accounted |
flor. They placed the number Of dead |
as between 25 and 80 According -
Frltzele and Deray the first section /
stopped I'VE minutes after 1t left Ann
aharst and was just picking up speed /
a9ain when the first crash came. Two
Ahninutes later. they said, the second oc-
rurred.
gThe frst body taken from the wreck
ze was identified as that of Rev. Gus
Asav Walyi pastor OF the First Hun \
Iearian Evangelical Lutheran church Of
Detroit
Daylight had not vet appeared when
Athe three trains piled llp together. I
Tarmers and villagers rushed to the as
& Instance OF LnS SCr1cheuI paSSeiAseIs.
rhe work Of reseuing those pinioned /
hinder the wreekage vas hampered 10y /
saarkness and fog.
Y Ambnlances. automobiles and I'll
Inds Of vehicles were rushed from
syria ana other points. The little
noreue at Amherst was soon filled.
sast ii the injured were conveyed to T
4spiIaia IN Eitfia.
Responsibility IL Pseed.
N 4 slip On the part Of a dbzing tower