Evening star., 1925-11-12
No Names of Passengers
From District Found in
Casualty List.
HIDDEN BY FOG, EXPRESS
TELESCOPED FROM REAR
More Victims May Lie in Splinter
ed Cars-Doctors and Nurses
Rushed to Scene.
Ry the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
PLAINSBORO, y. J.. November u.
Thirteen persons were killed early
today when st. Louis express train
on the Pennsylvania Railroad, bound
for New York. telescoped another
Pennsylvania train from Washington,
also bound for New York.
Eleven bodies have been recovered
from the wreckage of the two rear
cars of the Washington train. Two
more bodies are still in the wreckage.
The bodies of the dead were sent by
train to New Brunswick and Trenton.
Crashes at so Miles an Hour.
The Washington train. made up of
six steel coaches and three Pullmans-
the Bruceville Snedaker and Nor
heid-waS proceeding at a rate of 10
miles an hour over a straight track
through a heavy fog when the st.
Louis flyer, said to have been run
ming at a 50-mle an-hour clip,
ploughed through it. The Pullman
car Morheid was rammed through the
car Snedaker and split in half. Most
of the dead and injured We're in these
two cars.
The engine of the speeding train re-
manned on the rails. The engineer
Timothy Carroll of Jersey City. es-
capped serious injury. and ran to the
nearest telephone. about two miles
away, and summoned aid
The known dead:
j. A. Porter, Philadelphia.
j. a. Horstman. Schenectady, y. Y
+. w. Bates, Baltimore, Md.
Injured Identified.
W. II. Cunningham, Newark. y. J..
a brakeman, injured back.
Thomas Wry, Lynn. Mass. injuries
to head and back
Paul j. Mathiea. Hempste cad. n Y
head cut and knees lacerated
Frank Herzig, 529 North Robinson
street. Baltimore. multiple decorations.
Eugene LOWING, "a Work drive,
Akron, Ohio.
II. NJ. Lotion. Chattanooga. Tenn,
injured back
b. Z. Van Borst Baltimore
Arthur Gross, Schenectady. " Y
o. j. Mather, Hampstead, Long
Island. injured about the head: con-
tinued on journey.
Leon Rongstall, $50 Schiller street,
Baltimore, head lacerated; continued
on journey.
Adolph Staleb. 3451 College avenue,
Baltimore, injured about head; con-
tinued on journey.
w. J. Cunningham. Newark. n. j..
fiagman of train 166, slightly injured.
Eugene Lowney, "a Work drive,
Akron, Ohio, badly injured
Frank Herzog, 529 North Robinson
street. Baltimore, back broken; at
st. Francis Hospital, Trenton.
H. NJ. Lotion. Chattanooga, Tenn.
badly injured; New Brunswick Hos
pital.
A. II. Deyoe. New York.
AdoIph Stoelb, Baltimore
The following eight mail clerks
were slightly injured:
J. II. Hittrick, Newport. Pa.
G. X. Delsinger, Harrisburg. Pa.
A. NJ. Angstadt. Lancaster, Pa.
T. II. Bowman, F'linton. Pa.
Charles Inch, c. A. Polk, NJ. P
Strous and W. p. Stroube, no ad-
dresses given.
1t was announced that 122 uninjur-
ed passengers were taken off the two
trains and sent to New York.
st. Louis Train Late.
The Washington train was on time,
and had slowed down when the St.
Louis express, which was 20 minutes
late, plowed through the two rear
Pulmans, crumpling them up like
cardboard. The 19 persons We're said
to have been in the last car.
The wreck occurred about two and
a half miles from this little village. not
far from Princeton. Uninjured pas
sengers aided in the work of rescue.
Many of the injured were pinned un-
der the wreckage, which was cut away
with acetylene torches. A sister from
a Trenton hospital made her way
through the tangled wreckage to help
an injured man.
The Public Utilities Commission has
sent investigators to the scene. At
the point of the accident the tracks
are straight for nearly 10 miles. Wit
nesses said heavy fog prevailed.