The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-03-29

five miles from tho wrecked, at ESQ a.
m. Ambulances were rushed to the
scene from Lorain, Amherst, and
Elyria.
Day Coach Aflame.
.. B. Gillette, of the Amherst flre de-
pertinent. told this story:
"a great mass of wreckage met our
eyes on that stretch of track Big
coaches were overturned like chlldren's
toy trains, / helped the rest OF our
boys pull twenty women and men from
car windows The day coach on the
first section of No. Sc was burning. We
put out the flames In a jlny."
This speedy work by firemen saved
many passengers from cremation.
tion OF No. SO, said:
There was such a fog that we could
not see sixty feet in front of us. l
don't know whether Hess 1.-THE engineer
OF the second section) saw his signals
or not. 1 don't see how he coyld. Sud-
denly we heard the whistle of the see
ond section Then there was a crash
and the whole train seemed to buckle
UP. found myself lying on the ground
beside the tracks. l could hear groan-
ing and screaming and there was much
confusion and shouting"
Herbert Hess, engineer of the second
section OF No. s6. was unhurt.
Frank Provost. New York salesman,
VINO was in sleeper on the first sec
ton. told this story:
Il was asleep when It happened. I
was hurled partly through the car
window. Before 1 could realize what
had happened the second crash come
when the Twentieth Century, running
q few feet from US, hit our wrecKage.
Men and women in night clothes
nr1al.I aA ah Al
cries, groans, and screams. One man
prayed aloud. I yelled wildly for every
body to get up But they were al
ready up; they had been tossed up
Mrs. Adams vilker and her daugh-
ter, Maud. leaped from their beds,
startled, when the crash came, in their
home, less than fifty feet from the
II rushed TO the windows" Mrs
Vilker said. Just as looked out /
saw the boilers of two engines explode
The noise was terrific.
with the explosion had vanished
could not see the wrecked train, so
dense was the fog.
II heard groans and shrieks, and saw
passengers running like mad persons.
10 and down the tracks, when went
outside my house"
w. C. Bradley, of Pittsburg said:
Bodies Strewn About.
"A more hideous wreck could scarce
ly be imagined. Up above the engine
Of the second division, mixed with the
wreckage, were strewn bodies OF the
dead and injured. for the most part
DR.. Handy, Pittsburgh, said:
Il was awake just before the wreck
occurred. Our section had been going
very slowly. I think 1t stopped COM
nl0tAlV hQfnrA nj IN
us. There could have been no time to
warn the Twentieth Century Limited.
for she came tearing into the wreckage,
less than two minutes later"
G. W. Kershaw, of Summervillc, N. j..
told this story:
1T was in the second coach from the
one that was smashed so badly. 1t was
the most CHASTITY sight I ever saw. AS
leg. Another man approached me carry
ing a bundle done up in a sheet.
What shall do with this bundle?'
he asked a trainman. What's in III? the
trainman asked. Arms and legs, was
the reply"
Passengers Story.
Henry B. Runkle. special research
agent Of the Red Cross. who was a
passenger on the Twentieth Century
Limited. tells the following story:
There was q crash. The car
was in seemed to stand up on end
the track. Completely of the rails.
"Aii the nassanSaSa wara throwp
from thar beTtha hut 40 NOT he
Hsvc that snv of The nassep1era In
the rear oars were Injured. excent for
n few cuts and briises4 dresseJ
and hurried outside
...r me log was Siaos SO ,hiGk e9 2uad
SWays
"Ail around me I could hear Rroans
OF injured and dying persons"
Runkle was on his way to Chicago
Official Exnlanation.
n n No. =. arr NJ, yor,, ,,on.
"ooh' Vi Ine Ne" n en-
tral' SAID this was now the wreck was
reported to him:
Train No. Sc was travelling in two
sections. The engineer of the first sec
ton was stopped at Amherst by a sig
nal-it Is not known just how. The
second section Of So should have stopped
because OF the automatic signal. or by {
signal of the fiagman on the first sec
ton.
The Twentieth Century was de
rallied" said Moon. but nobody on 1
was injured. have ordered an investi
CATION at once. We haven't got track o
the engineer of the second section.
The second section ran into the ent
ss FROM both Ts Sk over on