The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-07-01
ENGINEMEN CAUGHT,
SCALDED TO DEATH
Steel Coaches Could Not Re-
sist the Terrific Impact as
Following Train, Travel
ing As Miles an Hour,
Crashed into the Standing
Train One More Death
Is Expected.

Dunkirk, N. Y, July mime persons
are known to be dead and more than 40
injured as the result of a rearend col
lision on the New York Central railroad
between the second section of train No.
d and train No. 4, known as the West
erner," at 2;20 o'clock this morning at
the Third street station here.
Eight bodies were taken from the
wreckage and rescuers clearing the debris
this morning were working toward what
they believed to be two more bodies.
Many persons, some seriously injured,
were taken to the Brooks Memorial hos
pital. Many more were treated by out
of-town doctors brought here on relief
trains.
The dead are:
f.. L. Clifford, engineer of the Western
er, of Buffalo.
Frederick L. Stotz, his fireman, Lack
Rwanna.
Mrs. Frederick H. Carton, 80 years old,
Toronto, Ont.
Gertrude Carton, Toronto. Ont.
Unidentified man about 20 years old;
wore soldiers uniform.
Unidentified man about 80 years old,
Mrs Edmund A. Quinonn, 25 years
old, Niagara Falls, n. y
Mrs Quiuonns daughters, aged 10 and
g.
John Annis of Toronto, will probably
die. The other injured, while seriously
hurt, are expected to recover.
Gertrude Carton, the ninth victim, died
in the hospital this morning.
The authorities believe the dead man
dressed in the soldiers uniform is Charles
Schiller Cards bearing this name were
found in his clothing.
Train No. Al left Buffalo at 1901
o'clock. The Westerner left short time
later Railroad officials say that No. Al
developed an overheated journal and was
DELAYED here. A flagman was sent back
TO protect the rear of No Al it is
claimed, but the Westerner, approaching
at a speed of As to so miles an hour, did
not check its speed perceptibly as it
rushed into the Dunkirk yards, eye wit
Hesses say.
Coaches Were Of Steel
The coaches of No. Al were all of steel.
The rear end of the last coach was badly
battered as No. rs engine ploughed into
it, but the body remained upright. Three
other coaches of No. Al were also bat
tered and pushed off the rails but re-
manned upright.
The tender of the engine Of the West.
crner buckled through wooden express
car. Lifted slightly by the wreckage of
this car, the engine and tender then
crashed down into a steel day coach, the
first passenger ear of the train. 1t was
here that all the fatalities occurred. The
boiler of the Westerner's engine explod-
ed, fatally scalding Engineer Clifford and
Fireman Stoltz Both died soon after
they were extricated from the wreckage
The steel day coach of the Westerner
was reduced to wreckage by the double
force of the explosion and the impact of
the collision. The front end of the car
was pushed to one side and the pressure
of wreekage was then directed against
one side, crushing the sides together for
almost the entire length of the car
The next car on the Westerner was a
sleeper. 1t too was partly wrecked and
turned over. Many of the injured We're
taken from this ear,
Calls were sent to Buffalo, Erie, Ash
tabula and other places Tor surgeons and
nurses. Special trains were made up al
Buffalo and Erie and hurried to the
wreck. In the meantime Dunkirk physi.
clans and surgeons were giving first aid
to the injured.
Twenty persons were removed to the
Brooks Memorial hospital Several arc
said to be fatally injured. Traffic west
of Buffalo on the New York Central lines
is completed tied up. Trains west are
being operated over the Nickel Plate
railroad.
Railroad officials are unable to account
for Engineer Clifford's failure to observe
the fagman's signal