New-York tribune., 1920-06-10
Wreck Toll of
Il Dead Due to
Ignored Signal
Flagman Says He Waved Red
Lantern and Threw Fuse
Into Cab of Speeding
Engine Before Collision
Pullmans Torn to Bits
Twenty-six Injured When
New York Train, Stopped
in Open Field, Is Struck

Fourteen persons were killed and
twenty-six injured at 1925 a. M yes
terday, when an eastbound Michigan
Central express train, known as No.
"a, crashed at full speed into the rear
of a New York Central passenger train
three miles west of Schenectady. Fai.-
ure Of the engineer of the second train
to heed danger signals was given as
the cause of the wreck. Two of the in
jured are said to be dying.
Two Pullman coaches at the rear of
by the impact. All but one of those
killed were asleep in the Pullmans.
Martin Doyle, of Albany, engineer of
the express, died at his post, one hand
still gripping the throttle when his
body was found in the wreckage.
Twenty passengers in the two Pull
mans escaped injury.
Express Runs Past Signals
The New York Central train, No. %,
was from Buffalo for New York 1t had
stopped in an open field between Glen
vile and Scotia, because of trouble
with the brakes. Clayton Robinson,
tlagman, testified at a coroners inquest
that he went back thirty car lengths
with a signal fuse to protect his train.
He waved red lantern in vain at the
oncoming train. he said, and finally
threw the burning fuse into the cab
of the locomotive as the express dashed
by at high speed
as long as dared" he said later. "She
kept coming and did not blow her
whistle. l didn't see the smash and
didn't hear it, because the wind was
blowing from me toward the wreck
The train was making speed when she
passed me. wasn't asleep"
Fireman Saves Life by Leap
Just before the crash the fireman
on No. "a jumped and escaped serious
injury. He said Doyle ordered him to
jump when collision was seen to be
inevitable.
According to officials, No. 34 which
was made up of ten express cars, was
late and should have been ahead of
tie passenger train.
The dead are:
BOVINE. Mrs. Watson H., 315 Gen
esec Street, Utica, N. Y. grandmother
OF Grouse children).
GROUSE Watson, same address, in
FAINT. twenty months old.
GROUSE, Daniel, same address, boy
about twelve years old (children Of Mr.
and Mrs. Mellis Grouse, 315 Gcnessee
DOYLE, Martin, of Albany, enginec,
ot train NJ. 81.
SWElNSBERG, George W, 2ss Ryer-
sen Street, Brooklyn.
JOAC, HOMER. Syracuse, N. Y.
MORTON, HUGH NJ. Dolgeville, N. Y.
NORTON, MRS. HUGH NJ, Dodge
lille n Y.
KENNY, JOHN j., Utica.
WATSON, FRANK E., forty-six, 1Gl
Ne,wood Avenue, Springfield, Mass.
The Unknown Dead
Tie unidentified dead are:
ltan about fifty years old, was at
tired only in night clothes, and no
means of Identification from clothing.
go pounds, and was five feet seven
inches tall
Man about 200 pounds, smooth face.
bald head, with slightly grayish hair.
Almost six feet in height.
81 ghtly bald head, with hair tinged
with gray. Wore an Imperial wrist
watch.
a Str. Zuiu, of Syracuse, is missing
and is thought to have been among
tnoso killed. His papers are in the
possession Of local undertaken.
OF the forty persons taken to the
pital at Schenectady fifteen re
NAMED tonight. Scores OF others re
ceivad attention at the wreck.
Eight Seriously Injured
Those injured seriously were:
RATTITUCCI, Robert, 297 West Main