The Washington herald., 1919-01-13
II DEAD, 9 HURT
IN n. Y. CENTRAL
REAR-END CRASH
Wolverine Express Hit by
Southwestern Limited
Halted at Station.
VICTIMS BADLY MASHED
Wooden Coach Crushed as
HEggshell Many Bodies
Muhlated.

Batavia, y. Y. Jan. I2.-Twenty-o
! persons were killed, three seriously in
jured, one perhaps fatally and seven
others slightly hurt on the New York
, Central at South Byron at 3:36 O'Clock
this morning when the Southwestern
. limited crashed into the rear end OF
the Wolverine express, standing at
the South Byron station.
! More than an hour late. tho South
western hit the rear car Of the VOL
VERNE. and crumpled the second coach
/ from the rear. an old type wooden
coach, TO flinders. Everybody killed
was in this car.
/ Only three so far have been definite
/ ly Identified.
1 All the others are so ba dly crushed
that identification is difficult. n not
impossible Those identified are.
Franklin +. Leonard. believed TO live
IN Bear Lake. Mich. identified hy tag
with inscription. a. L T.. 1917, and
f. and A. NJ. Lodge. No. H5"
:. L. Harvey. address not learned.
Identified by service ring showing
service on tho Mexican border which
beaIs the Inscription = j.. Harvey.
sergeant. Company F. Thirty-second
/ Michigan Infantry"
| Ballard Jones. New York City. COL
I ored porter on demolished sleeper.
List of Injured.
Seriously injured. at Batavia Hos
pital.
Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Ltckcrman.
/ Chicago
Mrs. Frances Dougbcrty Flint,
] Mich.
/ Injured but able to continue their
/ journey.
/ Frank Peterson. Herkimer y. Y.
mail clerk
+ ,. q. huuIau. lineage
3 q. %. Eitz. Syracuse.
, W. F. Bigden. Ashtabula. Unto. mail
| clerk
! : l. Simonds. Kansas City. No
I Mrs. o. Taylor Chicago.
+. II. Thornton. MUskeCon. MIch.
/ Il was a clear cold morning. the
( mercury lowering near zero, and as
the train wss a heavy one II was
difficult 10 raise steam for the
, byron lTsde. The Wolverine stood st
. the station waiting to take On an
extra locomotive
SahiN htur tars
Wh"n the crash came thr South
western jammed the rear steel pull
man sleeper through the wooden
coach as # through tissue and demor-
Ished H. The crash was So S,ysr
I that all the bodies were showed into
a pile and mutilatcd
4 A hurry call to Batavia got
/ physicians and undertakers TO the
scene and tho more seriously injured
were brought here TO q hospital.
7 Mrs. DouEherty. it was said to-
night probably will die. Mrs. Lick
erman Is in serious condition.
She and her husband were return
ing To Chicago from their honey
moon trip.
Among the unidentified dead are
Z four women. In nearly every Case the
I upper part Of the body was SO badly
crushed that recognition OF the facial
flutes is impossible. The Genesee
County coroner tonight said there was
mo UcanS of identification unless rel
atlv"s Of the dead would examine the
clothing and tattoo marks on several
OF the bodies.
similar Wreck in 1911.
. Nobody on the Southwestern vas IN
jured and no damage was done 10
that train other than that the front
of the locomotive was stove in II
Was Just eight years ago tomorrow
S'"'ilar wreck occurred at Bs-
tsvia station, when six persons were
q hl.ed and twenty injured
{ The engineer. il was said tonight.
! declared he had clear signal from
I Rochester and tnat the first signal
that he had was what is known as
. -
I from tho other train. He said he did
not see the flaEman- On the Other
hand, there are railroad men who
| say that tn" southwestern passed
! three signals before the collision.
y The limited brought four Of the
dead and three injured here about 9
/ O'Clock this morning. The unintured
were transferred 10 a special train
! and sent to Buffalo. where they took
( trains for their destinations
Bodies Arc Photographic.
/ Coroner whitcomb went 10 south
/ Byron with special train that
| brought eight other bodies here
/ shortly before noon. The other bodies
! arrived this afternoon. PhotograpbS
I of The dead were taken by order OF
| Coroner Snow here, to assist in idcn-
tifying them.
Only two cars were derailed but all
/ tracks were blocked until noon
| Owing to the zero weather the work
! OF eNtriCating the bodies was diff
cult. Added to this was the terrible
d condition in which they were from
being crushed and jammed togethes
/ in the wreckage
Coroner Snow said unless relatives
/ Of the unidentified were heard frov
/ il would be many daVs bafora {5.r,tt.
! tication, and that likely some OF the1
never would be Identified
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