Republican farmer., 1919-07-04
TRAMP STEALING RIDE
 CAUSE OF FAILURE OF
 AIR BRAKES TO W0RK
WAS SITTING ON MECHANISM WHICH
 CONTROLLED AIR FLOW-4O ARE g. INJURED-ENGINE EXPLODES &i KILLING CAB CREW

Dunkirk, N. r., July i-Nine persons are known to be dead and more than 40 injured as the result of a rear-end col lision between the second sec ton of train No. fl and train No. ', known as "1'he Vest erner," on the New York Cen tral Railroad at 2:20 o'clock this morning at the Third street station here.
 Nlne bodies were taken from the g5erkaxe and rescuers clearing the oebris this morning were working toward what they believed to be two additional bodies. Twenty persons, seriously Injured were taken to the Brooks Memorial hospital, As many moro passengers were treated by local and out of town doctors brought here on relief trains.
 Tho dend nre:
 T. I. Clifford. engineer of the
 wcsterncr, of Dufalo.
 Frederick I. Stotz, his fire
 D1an. Lsscknwunrtn-
 Mrs Frederick H. Cirrton, 30
 ypars old Toronto Ont
 Mrs Edmund A. Qulnonu of
 Niagara Falls and her two
 dauxflrcrs, ten and three years
 old
 Unanenna-d man nbout s5
 ycnrs old.
 John Anniz, of Toronto, will prob ably die. Tho other injured, while seriously hurt, are expected to re- cover, Gertrude Carton, the ninth victim. died in the hospital this morn Ing. The authorities believe the dead mon dressed in the soldiers uniform, ls Charles Schiller. Cards bearing this narne were found in his cloth Ing.
 An unidentified tramp, killed in tho wreck. wps probably the cause of the tragedy. The mechanism controlling the flow of air from the locomotive to the brakes on the train was found shut of at the place where the tramp wns riding. on the head end" the narrow space between the tender and the first car of the train. The angie cock controlling the flow of air through the brake pipes was closed. It probably will never be developed whether the man unwit- tinEiy closed 1t with his foot, as he used the cock as a step to lift him self up onto the car. or whether 1t was done Intentionally.
 Whom the locomotive of train No. ' exploded after telescoping the steel Puilmans 1t drove the wreck into such a tangled mass that P. c. Crow ley, general manages of the New York Central. who was in Dunkirk. had to order noetylene flames torches to separate the wreckage.
 Train No. 41 left Buffalo at 12:01 o'clock. The westerner left short time later. Railroads officials say that No. 41 developed an over heated journal and was delayed here. "A fagman was sent back to protect the rear of No. q. it Is claimed. but the westernor approaching at a speed of 4b to 50 miles an hour, did not check It's speed percsptible as it rushed into the Duullirk yards. eye witnesses sny.
 The coaches of Number Al were all steel The car of the last coach was badly battered as number 7's engine plouRhed into 1t, but the body re- mained intact although fl was over turned and twisted at right angles with tho rail on one side of the road Thfee other coaches of number Al wefe also battered and pushed off thSs ruils but remained upright.
 Tho tender of the engine of the westsrner buckled back through a wooden cypress car. Lifted slightly by the wreckage of this car, the en- zine and tender then crashed down into a steel day coach, the first pas senger car of the train. It was here that all the fatalities occurred. The boiler of tho weeterner's engine ex- pioded, fatally sca1ding engineer Cliff ford and fireman Stolz. Both died soon after they were extricated from The wreckage-
 Tho steel day coach of the Vest erner was reduced to wreckase by the double force of the explosion and the impact of the collision. The front end of the car was pushed to one sida and the pressure of wreckase was then directed against one side, crush ing the sides together for almost tl,e entire length of the car.
 The noxt car on the westerner was a sleeper. It too was partly wrecked and turned over. Many of the in- Iurcd were taken from this car.
 Calls were sent to Buffalo. Erie. Aehtahula ant other places for sur reons and nurses. Special trains were Fls1s dp Ut ana fSrle and hu-- lied to the wreck. In the meantime @ Dunkiric physicians and surgeons were giving firs- aid to the injured
 Traffic west of Rufralo on the New Sork Central lines Is completely tied up. Trains west are being operated ever the Nickel Plato railroad.
 Railroad officials are unable to ac- rount for Engineer Clifford's failure to observe the ffagnan's signals.