The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-12-10
REAR COACH IS
TELESCOPEO|N
THE COLLISION
In Addition To The Dead. At
Least Five Are Seriously In
jured When Third Section
Crashes Into First Section
WILD BILL DONOVAN is
AMONG THOSE KILLED
Failure Of Engineer To Heed
Stop Signals Is Blamed BY
Railroad Officials In For-
NAL Statement

NEW YORK, Dec 9.-tBss $50
ciated Press. )-NiHe persons were
Killed, one of them w b. eWiia
BilP) Donovan, mana ger ne ave Ees
Haven. Conn, basabstil zlue Ell tls
Eastern league, an at Jess. five nv
sons were injured se.ensly. d
today, when the thir5 sll5r
westbound Twentieth
tied of the New York Central crashed
into the rear OF the second section at
a highway crossing, east of B'orsytlie
n. Y, about 60 miles west of Buff
fa1o. n. Y.
The first section a short time
earlier struck an automobile at the
ForsSthe crossing and had stopped.
The second section, travelling a few
minutes behind the first section, also
came to stop.
The last Pullman car of the second
section was reported telescoped and
several other Pullmans were cerailed,
The Dead.
The list of dead. announced Off
cially by New York Central officials
Mr. and Mrs Otto Sweet Los An
geles.
Mr.. and Mrs. K. Ernes thurman,
Springfield, III.
w. b. Donovan, ma ger New
Haven Baseball club of sastera
Mr.. and Mrs. RichaI sadivsu.
Springfield, Ill.
Mrs. Carl D. Kinzie. aasie hali.
Chicago.
R. Pannen, Pullman New
York city.
The injured.
Five of the injured. jlroaG
officials said were take boss
pital at Erie. Pa. were;
Carl ID. Kinzie, MI laees
Chicago fractured leg a ids,
Carl Weiss New III Ufa-s
president of the New bs.se-
ball Cub of the Eas saEu
decorations of back and isea.
John zanist, New Yor alty right
forearm broken, scalp wounds ans
body bruises.
George Il. Van Hagen 1915 North
Dearborn street, Chicas =, back IN
jured.
George e. Van Hagen. Jr. same
address. slightly hurt.
An official announcement, issued
at the executive offices of the rail-
road, stated that the first section of
the Twentieth Century Limited
struck an abandoned automobile at
Forsythe crossing and was forced to
stop.
The second section of the train
was stopped by this accident, the
statement read, land was run into by
the third section, resulting in the
death of eight passengers and a
Pullman porter and the injury to
five passengers, who have been taken
to the hospital at Erie, Pa.
Engineer Blamed.
our information at this time In
dicates that the accident was due to
the failure of Engineer Charles Pat
of n nj
rain into the train ahead, to obey
caution signals one and one-quarter
miles east and the stop signal APP
proximately one-quarter of a mile
east of the point of accident, and also
the flagman lighted fuses from the
train ahead, all of which he states
he observed. Both trains involved
ere made up of solid steel ears; the
tracks in that territory 5rs protected
by automatic signals.
Engineer Patterson has been in
the service as an engineer Tor ~
years
The second section, which had gone
ahead of the first section az Albany
when it encountered engine trouble,
struck an abandoned automobile al
the Forsythe crossing. The train was
stopped to determine If any casu@S
ties had resulted, and after placing
danger signals at the crossing, the
second section proceeded The fTSt
section stopped to investigate the
signals and the third section crashed
TITO the rear cars.
CHICAGO, Dec. 9.-(By the Assoc
ciated Pres. John A. Heydler, pres
ident of the National league, William
+. Baker, president of the Philadel-
phia Nationals, Frank Gore, secre-
tary to President Heydler. and Cullen
Cain. publicity man for the National
league, and many other baseball Of
ficials were aboard the first section
of the Twentieth Century limited,
which was struck by the third sec
ton at Forsythe, n. Y, early today.
According to these men and others
who were in the wreck and who ar
rived here today, the observatte0
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