Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-03-30
Forty Others Injured in Double Wreck on Penn
 sylvania System.
INVESTIGATION TO
 PLACE BLAME BEGUN
Railroad Officials of Pennsylvania Sys- tpm Declare TOWerman and Engi.
 neer Responsible for .k-f the Wreck.

Cleveland, ono, Mafcn 29.-State, federal and railroad investigations of the double wreck on the Lake Shore at Amherst, Ohio, near here, early this morning, which cost the lives of fully 30 persons and injured 40, were begun today.
 Railroad officials declare the blame for the crash, which piled up the Twentieth Century flyer and two oth- CT Lake Shore passenger trains, will probably be shared by two railroad employees, a towerman named Ernst, and Herman Hess, engineer of the second section eastbound flyer.
 When the total of dead and injured is finally ascertained the wreck will s,1rpass, in it's cost of life and limb, even the wreck of the Twentieth Gen. tury Limited at Mentor in 1904, when the famous train pulled into a freight on it's second trip on the New York Chicago 20-hour run.
 Dense fog obscured the signal set by the first section of the eastbound Pittsburgh Baltimore Buffalo limited, causing another section of that train to crash into it. A short time later, before signal men could flag it, the fast Twentieth Century Limited, vest bound crashed into the wreckage which had piled up on the westbound tracks.
 Twenty.six Bodies Recovered.
 Survivors of the disaster streamed into Cleveland as a port of refuge all day today, bringing with them tales of horror and magic escape. Twenty-six bodies were recovered today, and it is believed others remain hidden un- der the wreckage. Twenty-two bodies are packed in a morgue at Amherst, two are dead at hospital and two are dead at Lol< raine Eighteen have been identified. Of the other eight in the Amherst morgue, six are men and two are Wo- men. '...{-
 Indescribable confusion existed for hours after the wreck, as hundreds plunged into the rescue work. 1denti- fication of bodies remained a puzzle that more than once resulted in the names of survivors being coupled with victims.
 The death toll was heaviest in what once was day coach, the rear of the first section of the Chicago-Buf- falO flyer. That was the death coach of the three trains. It was an all steel coach, yet from it's fragmentary remains were taken the bodies of "A victims.
 It was one of the rarest of railroad calamaties-two separate collisions that involved three trans On two diff ferent tracks.
 List of Dead.
 The identified dead tonight are:
 At Amherst:
 Fred Weaver, Detroit, Michigan.
 Walter Easton, Philadelphia.
 E. Fvuchtman, Toronto, Can.
 Burt E. Aish, mail clerk, Olmsteaf Falls, O. 8. J. H. Hearn. Gallipolis, Ohio.
 Giorgy Opera, Indianapolis.
 Rev. Rustav WalyL pastor Frs Hungarian Evangelical Lutheran church, Detroit, Mich.
 Arped Helpai, manager of the Hun sarian Theatrical association, Cleve land, o.
 Halcinea Bennal,, Indiana Harbor Ind.
 Rosim Obdah, Indianapolis. Y
 R. Thomas, Philadelphia. eE
 Hary White, negro Pullman porter Qh'cago. .zg ,. Risey, address unknown. as'
 At Lorraine:
 Edward Leroy, St. Louis. MO.
 Bruce Brownlee. Milllsville, Pa..
 At Elyria: a as. -
 Mrs Jennie Haddis, Cleveland, o.
 Charles Nelson, Chicago.