The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-07-02
DRASTIC STEPS TAKEN To CHECK
SPREAD OF |NFANT|LE PARALY 5|S
nine KNOWN DEAD
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to hospital to recover from
exhaustion. when was run.
ming down the railroad tracks |
saw what seemed to me to be two
arms raised above the surface.
Ten feet away from them | am
sure | saw the bright color of a
woman's dress near the surface
and still farther down a man was
swimming In an effort to get out
Of the rapids. He disappeared"
Conductor Heron was In the
forward part Of the car collecting
the last of the fares. He was
thrown from the running board
and crushed to death az the car
toppled over.
Tho statement by the National
Guardsmen that he had seen per-
sons struggling In the water was
the most definite obtainabie as to
the number Of persons carried
away from the river side OF tho
wrecked car.
The list Of dead and known
missing and the Injured makes a
total Of only 81. Virtually no one.
escaped injury, and this leaves
more than IS persons to be &C
counted for il the estimate Of SO
as the total number Of passengers
on tho car is correct.
NIAGARA FALLS. July IA
trolley car on the gorge route
carrying fifty persons. jumped the
track and ran into the Niagara
river about $3.50 o'clock this after
noon. The bodies of nine victims
were recovered. TWO persons were
missing and twenty were hurt:
The car left the, track just be-
low the cantilever bridge on the
American side OF the river and
turned bottom side UP in the rush
ing current.
Four hours after the accident
occurred. officials OF the Gorge
Route and the International Rail-
way. with which it connects. were
unable to determine the number
of dead. II was definitely known
however. that the car, with q ca
pacity OF about sixty persons. was
we'll filled and that only few OF
those on board escaped. +
The cause Of the accident lB
said 10 have been a Washout. The
roadbed under the cantilever
bridge at the point where 1t oc-
Cured is a clay fill, and recent
heavy rains coming down the SIDE
of the chasm washed 1t out below
the surface OF me roadbed.
When the heavily loaded car
struck the weak spot this after
noon the rail on the river side.
about Ten feet from the water
gave way. The car turned on ifs
side, slid down into the water
and, as II struck the rocky bottom
Of the river. turned completely
over, the top Of the car resting
on the bottom Of the river.
Not more than half minute
ELAPSED between the time the car
left the rails and the time it came
TO a standstill in the river.
Nine Bodies Recovered.
\/1e bodies we're recovered fro'
he Car when it was taken from tn
liver by a derrick shortly after
o'clock tonight.
Officials of the Gorge Route sal
hat the fare register indicated thu
he car was carrying about fifty pc
cons. Some of these had been a
counted for and the list OF mtssln
lad narrowed down TO about invent
I was SAID. Following is a list
ne dead, missing and injured:
The Dead.
MARION LLOYD ScHUMAkEl
Akron, Ohio.
j. r. MUCK, Princeton. Ind.
MRS. BERTHA SEASTRoM, {
N. Y.
ALEXANDER HERON. OF NIasar
MAS. 3. M. RAsTERY, Chicago, II
JAMES S. KENT. Scranton, Pa.
AARVERY c. PHELPS, Scheme
ady, N. Y.
One unidentified woman.
The Missing.
VIOLET SEASTRom, jamestown
S. X. Brown, Warren, Ohio.
The Injured.
MRS. G. j. MCCOY, 1914 South Bel
on Boulevard, Kansas City.
ALEC SEASTRoM, Of jamestown
View York.
ALMA and FLORENCE SEA-
from. daughters Of Alec Seastrom
MRS. ETA J. POOLE, Cincinnati
ohio.
MRS. JAMES KENT, Scranton. P;
MRS. H. o. SMITH. Akron, Ohio.
FRANK SToMlNSkL ,113 Currie
street, Chicago.
NORMAN MILLER, Erie. Pa.
S. SkMONl. and S. HARAOO(
Japanese students.
RACHAEL B. SIMPSON, Of 1oz
Pearl street. Martins Ferry, Ohio.
MRS. S. w. BAIL. Washington, P;
MISS JOSEPHINE VoGSTEAD-
erie, Pa.
CLARENCE M'GiLL, member 74t
'eqimo0t, Buffalo.
GEORGE RISING. Erie. Pa.
CHAUNCEY HEM, New York.
DANIEL J. MANNING. New YorI
MRS. S. K. BROWN, Warren. Obi
GEO. w. SWEENEY. Remove, p;
MR. and MRS. J. HoScHER, {
Rochester.
MRS. .. ]. sLEE, 517 Hudson roa,
Toledo.
BERTHA LUCAS. Remove, Pa.
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Market street near Fifth. during tn
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