Evening star., 1925-06-16
25 KILLED IN WRECK
Of EM|GRANT TRAIN;
MANY MORE DYING
lightning-Torn Tracks Send
LackaWanna Cars PiIing Up
Near Rockport, N. J.
BODIES STILL SOUGHT
UNDER TWISTED DEBRIS
Fifty Are in Hospitals, Dozen of
Injured Expected by
Doctors to Die.
BY the Associated Press.

BY tho Associated Press.
HACKETTSTOWN. \. j.. June
16.-Twenty.fve persons are known TO
have lost their lives in the wreck OF
A LaCkawanna special train at Rock
port Sag. miles west of here. early
today. Fiftytwo injured are in hos
ritals-3S at Easton, Pa; s at the
Warren General Hospital Phillips
burg; 3 al Morristown Memorial Hos.
pital, and at Dover General Hos
pital.
George Taule and Mrs. Augusta
1ssiman, both of Chicago, died at
Dover General Hospital
Eight dead include Jacob Scanlon,
trainman, of Easton; Fred Loomis, en-.
Gineer. Scranton, Pa; Carl Hahn, fire
man, Scranton. Pa; a young girl and
two unidentified women.
Bodies Not Removed.
The bodies of the engineer and fire
man have not yet been removed from
the wreck.
There are 13 dead at Easton, Pa.
The identified dead:
Helen Wagner, 9 years.
Martin HendiG, L..
Frank Bendich, so.
Mary Cink, 40.
Edwin Drummer, s.
Mrs. Antonio Barnhart.
Mrs. Barbara Sahrner
The critically injured at Dover
General Hospital include:
Katherine Wilgermein. Mrs. Kath.
crime kerlins, Karl Gantz, Hans
Toske.
Doctors said that at least a dozen
among the injured would die
Filled With Emigrants.
The train was filled with emigrants
who had become prosperous in the
corn belt and We're returning for a
visit to their native land accompa MED
by children and grandchildren. The
cars were decorated with banners
reading, See the old country again"
On Old Main Line.
The train had beeh rerouted at
Portland, Pa, over the old Lacka-
wanna main line that was replaced
by cut off IL years ago. The acct
dent occurred in what is known as
the Rockport Sag. where the rails,
although on a long straightaway, dip
into hollow and then rise at a
Trains generally speed down the
Grade and take the rise on the mo-
mentum.
Those who reached the wreck first
could see the body of Fred Loomis,
the engineer, his hand still on the
throttle. together with his fireman.
On the ploughed-up roadbed be-
meath the locomotive lay the twisted
body of little girl in a fiimsy night.
gown.
Mrs. Duncan Dunn, who lives about
500 yards from the scene of the crash,
sounded the first alarm. She tele.
phoned physicians who called hospi-
tails at Dover, Phillipsburg, Easton
and Morristown.
Many Were Scalded.
Hundreds of rescue workers had
arrived by daylight and two relief
trains began receiving the injured.
Scalds and burns caused the most
serious injuries. Steam was issuing
from the wreckage three hours after
the crash.
Bundled in blankets, bodies of the
victims were laid side by side on the
grass. The faces Of two were said to
be scalded beyond recognition. Pas
sengerS in the last two cars, which did
not leave the rails, escaped injury.
Twisted by lightning and under
mined by heavy rains the tracks
gave way beneath the train and the
cars and the engine piled up on one
another. Most of the passengers
were asleep in their berths when
coaches pounded upon one another
into the. steam and scalding water
bursting from the wrecked locomotive
Early this afternoon the list of dead
NJ the Easton Hospital had increased
to IS, as follows:
Mrs. Anthony Ernst. Mrs. Louis
Troike, Martin Heinig, sr.; Martin
Heinig, jr.; Mary Cink, Helen Wagner,
Edwin Brunner. sr.; Edwin Drummer,
jr.; Mrs. Wilgameier, Philip Schuster,
unidentified woman about 80, unidenti-
fed woman about 40 and an unidenti.
fed girl about 6.
At noon there were seven dead in
the morgue Of Undertaken Cochran at
Hackettstown.