Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-06-18
REAR END CRASH
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| the work of clearing the main lines
and replacing more than 100 feet OF
rails, ripped out when the limited,
hauled by two giant locomotives, cut
its th-dealing path into the ex-
press sleepers. The two engines were
reduced to scrap and three sleepers
and a club car became q mass of
twisted steel, ripped asunder as
though made Of paper.
List Of Casualties
The following is a revised official
list Of the dead:
Trainmen:
w. S. Gordon, Merry, Pa, engineer
of the first locomotive hauling the
Cincinnati Limited.
n. L. Hollingsworth, Greensburg,
Pa. Gordon's fireman.
e. A. Mcconnell, Altoona. Pa en-
gineer of the second Limited loco
motive.
A. McLees, New York City, bag
gage master Of the Limited.
Passengers:
Edwin G. Donaghay, Pittsburgh.
T. F. Farrell, Orange, N. j.
c. S. Bowman, Columbus, Ohio,
general agent of the Erie Railroad.
DIR. c. B. Carter, Pittsburgh, Mellon
Institute research expert.
A. r. Dinsmore of Moundsville. w.
Va.
Peter Spanos, Massilon, Ohio.
Mrs. William Brooke Dundoody,
Williamsburg.
Betty, age 4. and Frances, age s,
daughters of Mrs. Dunwoody.
Thomas L. Porter, Washington,
Penna.
Claude Smiles, Cincinnati, Ohio.
The five passengers reported In
critical condition are:
George Powell, Pittsburgh, frac-
tured shoulder, decorations, shock.
J. s. Crowinck, New York City,
fractured pelvis and broken arms.
Mrs. S. e. Bryan, Oventown. KY,
lie gamputated.
Ralph Jones, Cincinnati, lacera-
lions, bruises and shock.
G. f. Kelley, New York City, inter-
nal injuries.
Among the dead was Gordon, en-
gineer of the first Limited locomo-
tive and his fireman, N. L. Hollings-
| worth, who according to Pennsyl-
| vania railroad officials, ran by flare
| signals and torpedoes, set by the
| fagman of the express to guard his
Train Willie d Ia ohCi ASSS NSAAAANN~ -o-
| was repaired.
By tomorrow it was expected that
| four Investigations of the disaster,
county, state, interstate commerce
commission and railroad, would be
under way.
Survivors of the wreck, in relating
| their experiences, all agreed the
| trainmen and many uninjured pas
sengers worked heroically before the
arrival of relief trains to render aid
| to the stricken. The scene was de-
scribed as one of utter confusion q
| few minutes after the crash. Women
and children. trapped in the dark
depths of the wrecked cars, scream
ed for help. The Cleveland sleeper
| in which a majority of the fatali-
ties occurred, was despatched with
| blood. In one berth was found a
| mother and her two small daughters,
their lives crushed out.
Heroism did not rest alone with
those physically fit. Farrell, the New
Jersey man, listed among the dead,
| drew his last breath as he thought
of the welfare of others. His story,
the outstanding recital of the wreck,
was told by DIR. William Bentz of
Blairsville, one of the first to reach
| the scene.
Making his way through a tele-
scoped car DR.. Bentz said he heard
| a man grooming in a lower berth.
Nearby a woman was shrieking for
help, her foot caught under a piece
| of steel. Several others less seri-
| ously hurt were making a loud out
| cry.
From experience" continued the
| Yn6CCio{ap hot
| making the deep groans was prob
ably worse off than those who were
| shrieking and I fastened to draw
! aside the curtains. A man, his face
CHASTITY white, was bleeding from
several wounds and was suffering
from internal injuries. He looked at
me and shook his head while l hast
lily examined his MANNED body.
asked him his name. He told me he
was Farrell, of East Orange. n. j.,
and | shall never forget the name
nor the voice in which he said:
It's no use, Doctor: it's no use.
I'm about through and you can't do
me any good. Go and help these
other people; these women-help
them. You can do them some good
but no man can help me now"
Meantime Alexander Ditmar. of
Blairsville, rescued one of the wom-
en- and uninjured passengers were
assisting the less fortunate.
Again Farrell waved me away"
DR.. Bentz said. Il never saw such
heroism in the face of death. Dur
ing all this time all was confusion
ana we were struggling in the dark,
first to get the victims to the light
and the air and then to place them
where we could give them profess
slonal aid with the few facilities we
had at hand.
Blankets were dragged out and
placed upon the ground and we lift
ed down the wounded as rapidly as
we could. We carried the dying man
out after the women had been res
cueo. put when We laid him down
there IN the open meadow beside
The track and placed a blanket AT
his head, he passed awayn