The New York herald., 1921-03-01
330F 81 KILLED in
WRECK IDENTIFIED;
5 ON MISSING LIST
Check Up of Bodies Made by
Coroner in Rail Crash
at Porter, Ind.
COUNT SOME AS TWO
Mutilated Condition Re-
sponsible for Reports OF
Higher Death Toll.
TOWER MAN is CLEARED
Telegrapher Tells of Events
Preceding Collision - One
Train Going so Miles Hour.
TOWER MAN is CLEARED
By the Associated Press.

PORTER. Ind. Feb. 2S.-A complete
| check III by railroad officials ana the
! coroners of the bodies in the Cnesterton
!, Morgue at o'clock tonight revealed
! that there were not more than thirty
seven known dead in the Michigan Cen
trail New York Central wreck last night
| The discrepancy between this count
and the one of moro than forty previous,
ly announced by Coroner II. Q. Seipei
vas found to be due to the mutilated
condition of some OF the dead. In some
cases a body badly mansled had been
counted as two The list or identineo
| dead follows
| ARNoY, HOWARD. Cleveland. Ohio;
BEVIER, Mrs. EMMA. Augusta. Mich.
BEyIERov, J. G.. Angustsa. s,.,,as1 Mich CIV rnd
| cAvANAuGH, PEARL MAY. 3. adopted
1 daughter Of Mrs. See. 80 -,
| pAEHR, Miss LILLIAN, Michigan City. ina.
ECESMAN. ARTHUR f., z. nephew Oh WIS
COLLINS, JUSTIN. London. Ont.
CAMPBELL. GORDON. Revelstoke' o. W.
student OF a Chicago trade ssho9i. oi..n .,
DE LAND, CARL. Elkhart, Ind. fireman OF
the New York Central train. 49,
ENGLER. W. c.. travelling on pass from
| GOLDSTEIN, PHILIP, Detroit:
JOHNSON. CLAUDE, Elkhart. Ind. engineer
of the New York Central train.
\ CAIN. PETER, Regina. Sask. Canada.
KRAMER, Mrs. BARNHART. Michigan oi's'
scHNwlER. Mrs. FREDERICK, Michigan
rhree.year-old son of Mrs. Frederick
sohwier. Michigan City, Ind. o,. =,
VAN Van RyPEk RyPk 4 4 H. H. Miehsan Mishsan city, Ind
nAkER; I,ASi J. VI; .ga,I n Pasa, Scn,rea, u,
! EVA. Mrs. RICHARD. jackson. Mich.
HECK. L. A.. Chicago.
WAYNE. FRANK, Milwaukee.
FLEMING. Mrs. FLORENCE. Kalamazoo.
MILLER. JACK; crsscsn. City II; ILL., n
GREENWOOD. ROY f.. Kankakee. III.
COLLINS. Mrs JUSTIN. London. Ont.
GoLpsTEIN. Mrs. f. PHiLir;; Idi;.oS petrSItc %ich.
A revised list Of persons missing was
iesued tonight as follows:
CAMPBELL. Miss JUNE. stenographer for
Michigan Central division superintendent
CAMPBELL, T. J. address unknown. but
supposed to be relative of Miss June Camp
bell or Gordon campbelD.
McCRAY, Mrs.
McCRAY. Mrs. Chicago.
McCRAY. Chicago.
wOOLER. Detroit.
LIGGETT. FRED, Niles, Mich.
BAKER. Mrs GEORGE, Michigan CITY. ind.
Charles Whitehead, telegrapher In the
signal tower which regulates the pas
sage Of the trains over the crossing.
substantiated the statement OF Joe
Cook. operator Of the fifty-six levers
In the tower. that the signals were set
against the Michigan Central train, and
exonerated Cook OF any blame for the
disaster Whitehead. too unstrung to
talk connectedly last night. tonight
was back at his job. outwardly calm
II send and receive all messages tell
ing when trains will arrive" he said.
Ordinarily a man named Biering runs
the levers. but he wanted to take
night off and hired Joe Cook, who lie
substitute operator. to work for him.
Because Of the mass of switches, de-
tours and the intersection. both of Us
must be on our toes all the time, ana
we We're last night.
Far down each track Is an appli-
ance which rings a bell in the tower
when a train hits II. Last night when
we heard the bell we saw 1t was the
New York Central. About thirty sec
onds later the Michigan Central bell
rang. Joe set the signals against the
Michigan Central. and opening the
track for the New York Central, we
sat peering down the New York Gen.
trail tracks, watching the headlight
gradually grow larger and larger. We
hadn't noticed the Michigan Central.
"The New York Central engine grad
ually grew larger and larger. and finally
its outlines were plainly visible. Sud-
denly heard Joe shout: My God,
Charley, the NJ c. Is coming through
the block / turned quickly to the right
and there. not 150 feet away. was the
Michigan Central. No. 20. crashing down
at sixty miles an hour. Joe jumped for
the door and jumped after him.
I'VE heard terrific grinding smash.
There was a hiss of steam. n brilliant
red glare lighted up the tower and our
little building shook all over. The
crashing of glass--the tower windows
breaking-tingled In my ears and the
tower continued to rock.
I'VE lay against the door for a mo-
ment and then collapsed to the floor. A
few seconds later Joe got UP and dashed
downstairs. followed him
II went down to the wreckage. The
conductor OF one OF the trains came up
and tried to ask me something. He
couldn't talk. he was shaking SO. and
guess ! couldn't have answered. I don't
remember much after that"
Whitehead explained that the signal
system was interlocking. SO both tracks
could not have been open at the same
time. He said that the Michigan Central
probably was making sixty miles an
hour, but that the New York Central
was travelling slower--probably forty
miles an hour