The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-27

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were out and glass shattere
Ten bodies were. removed
within an hour. Firemer
searching the wreckage be-
Iieved at least seven more per-
sons were trapped. If they
were, they were dead or crit
ically injured.
There was no sound from the
wreckage.
The train was speeding at forty
miles an hour when it left the
rails.
1t carried two Pullmans for New
York.
The train was rounding series
of slight curves when something
probably a split rail-caused the
wreck. The train was not scheduled
to stop there.
Train Swaying Dangerously
Passengers, who noticed the trair
was swaying dangerous, were hurled
from seats as the train crashed
The diner circled the comblnatlor
car ahead of it and leaned crafty.
Four Negro cooks and walters
we're in the kitchen. They were
thrown IN a heap. Two OF them
were cut and bruised.
Rescuers feared it would take
hours to examine the WrecKage
thoroughly. One of the cars, ano
the locomotive were smashed one
of the cars careened against an eX-
tension of the Clark chewing gum
nlant. shearing a corner OF the
building and leaving a huge hoie
It rolled on. The last car Settleo
unrieht against the ruined wall.
Fire Flashes in Car
Fire flashed repeatedly in one o.
the two Pullmans. Passengers were
in near panic. A man tried TO qule'
them. g.
I'VE ought to be glad our car i
standing up" he said.
The fire appeared only IN hasheS
It did not spread and finally was
extinguiShed.
Authorities had difficulty ldentl-
fving the dead. The bodies OF tWc
white women, one of them fashion
ably dressed, a Negro woman, ano
tu,o white men we're taken TO the
morgue. but only the men were lden-
titled promptly. One of them was
David A. Ducharne, so, past grand
knight of the knights of Columbus
whose home is in Anconia. Conn.
A fierce Snowstorm, which hao
RACED over Pittsburgh since Sunday
morning, was forgotten as hundreds
waded through ankle deep snow tC
watch rescuerS.
Casualty List Revised
A revised casualty list in the
wreck issued late this morning;
DEAD
Frank bravo, president, bravo
Construction Company, Pittsburgh.
David A. Ducharme, 30. AnSOnia'
Conn.
Clarence ]. Mayer, Ingram. Pa.
Thomas JeffrieS, Negro, YUungs-
town, o.
The bodies of two white women
and a Negro woman lay unidenti-
fed at the mOrgue. Other bodies
still were in the wreckage, their
number undetermined. out three or
more.
Mrs. w. Miller WardrOp, Sewick-
ley, Pa, wife of the PennSy lvania
railroads assistant general manager.
w. NJ. Shaw, New Castle, engi-
neer of the wrecked train.
o. c. DOuthitt, Youngstown, o.,
fireman of the wrecked train.
Cold Increases HardShips
One-above-zero temperature in
creased the hardships of men and
women who were helped from the
battered cars. Some of them had
no topcoats.
The train was near the downtown
section of old Allegheny, the orig
inal Pittsburgh settlement. when it
was wrecked. 1t broke power cables,
plunging the vicinity into darkness.
Among the passengers not &C
counted for were Mrs. w. Miller
Wardrop. wife of the Pennsylvania
railroads assistant general man.
ager. and Frank bravo. one Of four
brothers who operate the bravo
Construction Company, large Pitts
burgh concern.