Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-01
N|NEPERSONSD DIE
IN CRASH OF TRAINS
More Than Forty Also Re-
ported Injured as Result of
Rear-End Collision.
WRECK AT DUNK|RK, N. Y.

persons are known to be dead and
more than forty were injured in
rear-end collision between the sec
ond section of train No. Al and train
No :, known as the 'Westerner,' at
2:20 o'clock thsi morning at the Sd
street station here. All the fatalities
occurred in the first passenger car OF
the rear train. the Westerner, when
its engine buckled back through
wooden express car.
Eight bodies were taken from the
wreckage and reScuers clearing the
debris were working toward what
they believed to be two additional
bodies.
Twenty persons, some seriously in
jured, were taken to the Brooks Me-
mortal Hospital. AS many more pas
sengers were treated by local and
out-of town doctors and brought here
on relief trains.
List Of the Dead.
The dead are:
F. L. Clifford, engineer of the West
erner. who lived in Buffalo.
Frederick L. Stotz, his fireman, of
Lackawanna.
Mrs. Frederick H. Carton, thirty
years old. Toronto, Ontario.
Unidentified man about twenty-five
years old: wore soldiers uniform; be-
heved to be Charles Schiller.
Unidentified man about thirty-five
years old.
Gertrude Carton, died in hospital.
Mrs Edmunda Quinonu of Niagara
Falls, n. Y, and her two daughters,
aged ten and three years.
Persons Reported Injured.
The injured are:
Charles r. Peck, Buffalo.
Charles Entein. Buffalo.
w. r. Hurst, Williamson, w. Va.
Mrs. Hurst. Williamson, w. Va.
Mrs. ]. w. Peters, Williamson, w. Va.
Thomas B. Haney, Williamsville,
n. Y.
Charles NJ. Lydesley, Dayton. Ohio.
Oscar Cuinones, Niagara Falls N. Y.
Mrs. Oscar Cuinones, Niagara Falls.
n. Y.
DIR. John Sweitzer, New Straitsville,
Ohio; his wife, Mrs. Mary Sweitzer,
and son, Webb Sweitzer.
S. j. Webb, Columbus. Ohio.
John Annis. Fairview boulevard, To-
ronto. and his wife,
DIR. Sweitzer is in a critical condi-
tion. Annis probably will die. The
other injured, while seriously hurt,
are expected to recover.
Statement by Eye-Witnesses.
Train No. II left Bufralo at 1901
o'clock. The Westerner left q short
time later. Railroad officials say that
No. II developed an overheated jour-
nal and was delayed here. A flag
man was sent back to protect the
rear Of No Al, 1t is claimed, but the
Westerner. approaching at speed Of
forty-five or fifty miles an hour. did
not check the speed perceptibly as 1t
rushed into the Dunkirk yards, eye
witnesses say.
All the coaches of No. Al were o.
steel construction. The rear of the
last coach was badly battered. as
No. rs engine knocked it from the
track, but the body remained intact.
Three other coaches of No. Al were
also pushed from the rails. but re-
manned upright.
Engine Men Fatally Scalded.
When the tender and engine of the
Westerner buckled back through the
wooden express car and crashed into
a steel day coach, the first passenger
car Of the train. the boiler exploded.
fatally scalding Engineer Clifford
and Fireman Stotz. The steel day
coach of the Westerner was reduced
to wreckage.
The next car, q sleeper, was partly
wrecked and many Of the injured
were taken from it.
Traffic west of Buffalo on the New
York Central lines was completely
tied up, trains being operated over
the Nickel Plate railroad.