The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-04-22
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Die in Train


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NYCs Luke Shore
Limited Wrecked:
Speed Is Blumed
LITTLE FALLS. -. Y.-The
Lake Shore Limited luxury express
train which jumped the track and
piled into q cliff here last night.
was running IL miles faster than
regulations permitted. New York
Central Railroad said today.
The state police said At least Ss
persons were killed a. Pullman
coaches piled atop each other and
the charging locomotive exploded
United Press correspondents ac-
counted for ~ dead.
Coroner Fred c. Sabln said "a
bodies had been recovered. hut
that only IL of them had been
Identified. He said rescue work
ers still were trying to reach adj
ditional bodies in two coaches
wrapped around the wreckage OF
the locomotive. He said he be-
lieyed at least six more bodies
were in the two coaches.
The total Of those listed as in
jured reached IS. but officials
estimate the total might reach
more than 100.
The bodies were under two cars.
which must be moved before they
can be recovered. He said IL was
possible more bodies were con-
cealed in the wreckage.
showing Heavily
In a violent snowstorm hundreds
Of rescue workers continued dig
ging into the wreckage for sd-
ditional bodies OF dead and in
jured. The snow piled up rapidly
and hampered the work.
Officials. attempting to determ-
inc cause of the accident, indicated
that the train. one OF the New
York Centrars flyers competing
for the passenger business between
New York and Chicago. roared in
to Little Falls at high speed. The
train was running behind time.
The engineers watch stopped at
1913 o'clock. The train was due
in Utica. 20 miles west, at 11:2s
o'clock.
Rules Are Cited
In New York, company officials
said: Company rules call for
speed of As miles an hour for a
curve at that little Falls) point.
The speedometer tape in the en-
CINE cab registered SO miles an
hour. Engineer Jesse Earl and
Fireman j. Y. Smith both were
killed.
State Police Lieutenant John p.
Roman said: There are at least 80
dead"
The train was the Lake Shore
Limited, one of the crack trains
of the New York Central operat-
ing in the highly competitive trade
between New York and Chicago.
II had left New York City at 6:51
p. m. Friday and had been due
in Chicago at Ito p. m. tEST)
today.
Engine Jumps Track
Rounding a sharp curve at high
speed while entering the out
skirts Of Little Falls. the loco
motive leaped its track, careened
over the other three tracks of the
right-of-way. and crashed into the
side of a 200-foot rock embank-
ment. Its boiler exploded. shoot
ing up a huge cloud of live steam.
BY a strange break, the baggage
car Immediately behind was brok-
en- free and rolled on down the
tracks. hating 200 yards away
The mail car, directly behind the
baggage car, piled into the loco
motive and was telescoped into
a fourth of its length. The follow
ing Pullman smashed into the top
of this wreckage. the next Pull
man piled on top of the first Pull
man. and a third Pullman piled
into this mountain of wreckage.
Pullman Is Smashed
This third Pullman was smashed.
The Pullman behind ii was tele-
scoped and its roof was partly
torn off, the heavy steel torn as
though it was paper.
The seven Pullman coaches next
were Topped on their
sides, their windows were broken.
their wheels torn off or loose, but
otherwise they did not appear Sc
verely damaged Five coaches
all Pullmsns except one-behind
them remained upright on the
tracks.
The last coach was day coach.
which contained 80 Chinese pris-
oners Of the immigration service
en- route TO San Francisco for de
portstion.
Enginemen Killed
The engineer and his fireman
we're killed. The two mail clerks
were believed TO have been killed
The remainder OF the dead were
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