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Evening star., 1943-02-03

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Evening star., 1943-12-17
Dead and Injured in Wreck
List Of Identified Victims of Train
Disaster in North Caroline

Pitsko, Vladimir A., Fort Moul-
trie, S. c..
Raivell, Mrs. E, Seattle. Wash.
Rasenski, Pfc John H., Air Forces,
Miami Beach, Fla.
Rendell, Pvt. Clarence. Seattle,
Wash.
Rinsheimer, Mrs. J. W., New
Rochelle, N. Y.
Rose, George, Bronx, N. Y.
Roos, Mrs. A. j., Canton, Ohio.
Roy, Mrs. Fay, Clinton. S. C.
Schwartz, Corpl. Morris, Arcadia
Field, Fla.
Simonetta, Staff Sergt. Vito, Air
Forces, Miami Beach, Fla.
Smith, Thomas F. (no address
given.
stonebanks, Maj. Jack L., Miami,
Fla.
Stonebanks, Mrs. J. L.
Stowell, Winthrop M, Camp
Davis. N. C.
Strachan, Mrs. Donald, Rosemont.
| Pa.
Stevens, Sergt. Kenneth E., Pikes-
vile, Md.
Tesslar, Pfc. Martin A., stationed
at Charleston. S. c.
Templer, Robert E., jr, Charles
ton, S. C.
Vanderveen, William H., Madison,
Conn.
Wlehe, Theodore c., New York
City.
Wilder, Joshua Irving, Corona,
Long Island. N. Y.
Evening star., 1943-12-17
Witnesses Describe Wreck
Despite ACL Aqent's S Efforts

Between objections Of repre-
sentative of the Atlantic Coast Line
at Union Station today Star re-
porter heard from witnesses and
survivors of the North Carolina rail-
road wreck their accounts of the
crash that cost the lives of 10 per-
sons.
At one time the ACL man, who
declined to answer questions or re-
veal his name. called railroad police
to forbid news photographers in the
railroad agents office at Union Sta
ton to photograph the survivors.
Later he interposed his body between
the cameras as he escorted the sur
vivors out of the concourse.
Information was gathered between
commands of the ACL representa-
tive to Leave those people alone!"
Yet the reporter found the witnesses
entirely willing to talk.
Two persons who were on the
wrecked northbound train-one of
them a mother travelling with her
fiVe-week old baby and the other an
Army private-gave brief details
while the passenger agent tried to
coax them away And three service
people, one of them an Army nurse.
told of the rescue work
The mother. Mrs Stanley S. Call
OF Toronto. Ont, said she was lying
with her baby in berth of the first
,1i1r,or, -
CURED. The car was derailed, she
said.
The crash caused my head to
knock against the top of the berth.
Mrs. Call said. L reached for my
baby and found that she was all
right. They took me-to the hospital
i'll an ambulance, where they took
stitches in the back of my head
Mrs. Call apologized for having to
end the conversation when the ACL
representative beckoned her away to
make arrangements for her train
accommodations on to New York.
Pfc. James Zitello, 10. of Chicago
was found on the station concourse
and was the only one the railroad
representative did not try to silence
L can't tell you much he said.
I don't even remember what day it
is. I thought it was Saturday. I'm
sick of talking about it.
All l know is that the car I was
sitting in wasn't derailed, but when
the crash came the others ahead
seemed to fold like an accordion.
With other people in the car. l ran
out and We did the best we could to
help the injured"
1t, Clara E Jowett-- Army nurse
of Spring Rail. Me was found in
the ACL agents Office with Sergt
f. P. Olesen of Racine, Wis, and
Pfc. Burton / Bovine of Jamaica
Plain, Mass. They had been on
northbound train directly behind the
train which was wrecked. All their
Evening star., 1943-12-17
Press Aided by Army
On Wreck Pictures
Following Rebuffs
BY the Associated Press.

DS bHt hNoONidltu f.ItHS.
LUMBERTON, n c., Dec. IL
Army public relations officers were
sent to the scene of the train wreck
near here TO cooperate with news
papermen after arrest of a photog-
rapher assigned by the Associated
Press to get pictures of the crash.
Bill Belcne, Fayetteville IN. c.
photographer, said he was arrested
Yesterday by military police when he
tried TO make pictures of the wreck
age for A. P He was escorted from
the scene and told no photographers
would be permitted without approval
OF r. G. Murchison, district super
intendent Of the Atlantic Coast Line
Railway.
Two military policemen took me
IN custody said Mr.. Belche. L ap-
pealed TO provost marshal who
told me no pictures would be allowed
unless Mr.. MurchiSon granted per-
mission. I talked to Mr.. Murchison
and he refused, saying the railroad
didn't want that kind of publicity
l later was escorted to my car by
the military police"
Reporter Barred From Morgue.
Mr.. Belche returned to the wreck
after Maj Harold Tyler, public re-
lations officer, 4th Service Com
mand, Atlanta. had advised the
Army had no jurisdiction. He talked
to lieutenant and a colonel but
military police continued to bar
him.
Ralph l.. Rowland. Associated
Press reporter, said military police
barred him from an improvised
morgue at Red Springs. where
bodies OF wreck victims were taken.
Evening star., 1943-12-17

ACL officials said a broken rail
caused the first wreck-the derail-
ment of three coaches of the Florida
bound Tamiami West Coast Cham
pion. Only one person, First 1t.
Roy A. Griffin, student chaplain at
Harvard University, was killed in
this wreck.
Shortly afterward the northbound
Tamiami East Coast Champion
DloWed into the deralled coaches OF
the first train.
COldest Day of Season.
The disaster occurred on the cold =
est day of the season, in 10-degree
fore some of the injured and dying
could be tended
Magazine Publisher William Wood
a passenger on the first train and
eyewitness of the second wreck, said
five cars of the northbound train
"leaped the track and folded to-
gether like an accordion"
1t was like a bad dream, filled
with screams. and in the dark YOU
couldn't see what had happened,
he added
Injured Beg for Help.
First arrivals at the scene told
of the injured crying shoot me-
kill me-" and begging for help and
water.
The trains were crowded with
holiday travellers. Scattered about
the wreck scene were packages in
Christmas wrappings and broken
Christmas toys
After the first derailment. some
of the passengers built bonfires of
newspapers 10 stop two southbound
freight trains. They frantically en-
deavored by the same means to
warn the northbound engineer.
without succeeding
Evening star., 1943-12-17
Wreck
Continued From First Page. J

delphia last September. when 80
persons lost their lives.
The Southeastern seaboard's worst
previous rail wreck occurred at
Rockmart, Ga. in 1926. when 20
were killed. The largest wreck toll
in the Nations railroad history was
lis killed at Nashville, Tenn, July
9, 1918
Workers toiled throughout the
night and continued today in 12-
degree weather to clear the tracks
and remove the dead vrs ;
Time Placed at 1850 AM. q,
c. G. Sibley, vice president of the
Coast Line, today put the time of
the derailment of No. 81. the south
bound train, at 1880 am. North
bound train No. 8.struck the derailed
cars betVeen l:25 and 130 an, MI.
Sibley said. = :
Our Information is that the>fire-
man on train 9t Neat ahead 'of his
train to flag the northbound train.
but did not succeed in stopping the
Evening star., 1943-12-17
Congress in Brief
By the Associated Press.

By The Associated Press
Senate:
May act on 60-day extension Of
CCC to permit holiday recess
Judiciary Subcommittee hears WA
officials and District witnesses in
liquor shortage inquiry.
House:
Routine session.
Interstate Commerce Committee
studies rail pay increase.
Foreign Affairs Committee weighs
United States participat ton in
UNRRA.
Appropriations Committee con-
slderS 1914 farm program.
Evening star., 1943-12-17

train with his red lantern the
spokesman said in a statement.
He had a fusee. but lie stumbled
and fell and it broke and ne used his
lantern. The engineer on No.
evidently did not see the fireman s
signal. We understand that the
sleet and Snowstorm was still in
progress at that time. The fagman
on 81 went back to protect trains
following on the southwark track
A formal investigation will be held
to develop the facts with respect TO
the action of the crews on both
trains
Upward of so persons were in
jured smany SERIOUSLY
Someacivilian dead were still un-
identified. Witnesses said a few VIC
Tins were so dismembered it would
be difficult to establish identity.
Names Of the soldier dead were
withheld pending notification of kin
Evening star., 1943-12-17
| Kitty Hawk Halls
Wrights Despite
Heavy Snowfall
) The A socIated Press.

Is tNt H@SOCidleG Press.
MANTEO, N. c., Dec. 17-Kill
Devil Hill, virtually isolated from
the rest of the world, proceeded to-
day with celebration of the 4Oth
anniversary OF the Wright brothers
first airplane flight Oh Sharply
reduced scale The hill was the
scene OF the historic fight in 1908.
The worst SnoWstorm in this Sec
ton in 26 years blanketed the high
way from Elizabeth City to the
outer banks and the island with a
6-foot snOwdrift, making bus and
automobile transportation all but
impossible
All planes scheduled to bring visi-
tors and officials TO this area were
ordered by Army. Navy and civil air
patrol authorities to stay on the
ground. Ice and inches of snow
covered the landing field at the
Manteo Navy Air Base.
Evening star., 1943-12-17

baggage was lost when they re-
manned at the rescue scene and their
train pulled away.
These people are in my charge
and I don't want you talking to
them,' the agent said. Outside his
office they talked freely.
1t. Jowett told how a Marine
lieutenant called her out of the car
and told her what happened ahead
He did not want to alarm the other
passengers. she said. She called
Sergt. Oleson and Pvt. Browne. both
of the Medical Corps, to join her.
1T was bitterly cold" she said
We found tangled mass, with
bodies strewn all around the scene
We built fires and got blankets from
the pullmans to cover the injured.
"A doctor and nurse from Fayette-
vile were there with opiates. I
helped them administer opiates to
persons still pinned under the
wreckage. They were good sports
although it was quite while before
We could get to all of them. 1t was
so cold the water We used cracked
our syringes. Crushed bodies were
everywhere.
The man who deserved the most
credit is Capt. Jerome L. Allen, sta
toned in Washington. He took
charge of things and really did a
great job OF directing all Of our
work We worked there all night
but there is nothing to tell about
ourselves
Sergt. Olesen said: 1T was the
most CORY thing l have ever seen.
They were pinned so badly in the
cars we could not get to them, and
we had to stand by and see them
die. All the time we kept removing
the live ones and the dead ones.
Everybody worked as hard as they
could
Pvt Browne said the train on
which he and the other two rescue
workers were riding stopped half
mile behind the crash.
You never saw such mess i'm
your life. There were bodies out
of shape. all twisted up. Quite a
few were still alive and pinned un-
der the car. 1t was amazing
though I didn't hear any one
complaining.
The worst sight was two cars
that were buckled up together. Res
cuers worked with crowbarS and big
torches. There was very little
equipment available I spent most
Of the night carrying people to
IambulanCeS on stretchers. The
NJ. P.s We found on the scene did
a grand job giving first aid
The interviews might have been
more detailed but the three rescuers
said they would like to accompany
Mrs Call and her baby on to New
York While they waited to catch
their train it was impossible TO talk
with them. The ACL representative
saw to that
Evening star., 1943-12-17
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LUMBERTON. N. c., Dec. IT,
The identified dead in the wreck of
two Atlantic Coast Line passenger
trains near here yesterday included !:
Clarence H. Lou, Pottstown, Pa.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Spiedel
Jamaica, Long Island, N. Y.
Mrs. Hazel Northrop, Schenectady
N. Y.
First 1t. Roy A. Grif1in. student
chaplain at Harvard University.
Mrs. Jean E. Stein, wife OF Julius
Stein, stationed at Morrison Field
West Palm Beach, Fla.
Sergt. Nelson Vaillancourt, sta
toned at Morrison Field; his wife
Mary Theresa Vaillancourt, and then
3-week-old baby Catherine
Miss Helen Cohlmeier, Miami
Fla, and Richmond Hills, N. Y.
Mrs. Eva Mae Dunn, Charleston
IS c. Navy Yard.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stillwell, Long Is
land, N. Y.
Inc injured.
Abrams, Corpl. Edward A., Bing-
hamton, N. Y.
Allerton, Robert, Brooklyn.
Ball, Edward, Jacksonville. Fla.
Bass, John Eugene, Navy (no ad-
dress.
Bourgeois. C. j., Gainesville, Fla.
Boyer. Mrs. josephine S., New
York City.
Call, Mrs. Stanley s., and baby
West Toronto, Canada.
Chaplin, Mr. ana Mrs. E. M.
Brookline, Mass.
Clarke Seaman (Second Class
Francis H, Charleston.
Collier, Raymond A., Allentown,
Pa.
Connor, Pvt. Raymond c., Air
Corps, Charleston. S. C.
Cowee, Mrs. George, Meadville,
Pa.
De Gregory Sergt. G. L. Moultrie-
vile. s. C.
Difendale. Seaman CSecond Glass;
Wilbert T., Navy Hospital, Charles
ton. S. c.
Duchnowski, Stanley, Clinton,
S. C.
Friedman, Mrs. Sally. Brooklyn.
eagle, Paul F., Portland. Ind.
Goldstein, Mrs. Elaine, Roxbury
Mass.
Greeley, Mrs Eleanor, Cleveland.
Ohio.
Jacobsen, Pfc. Gerald E, Revere,
Mass.
Kane. Thomas. Philadelphia.
Kelly. Sergt. Kenneth c., Coal
Valley. Pa.
kemmlar. Seaman Third Class
Robert P, Charleston. S. c.
Khnger Harry R. Syracuse, N. Y.
Kimball. John, Naval Air Base.
Charleston, S. c.
Kovolivick, Corpl. Joseph, Pitts
burgh
Lallier, Mrs CLYDE, Lockport. N. Y.
Lang, Mrs. Richard NJ. Bronx
vile. n. Y.
Lessler, Pfc Martin H, Charles
ton. s. c., Air Base.
Lleoerman. Herbert. Brooklyn
Massey, Pvt. Julius. Charleston
S. c.
Mason. Staff Sergt. John j., Plain
field, n. j.
Matterson /. New York.
Mckinney, Mrs. Faye, Jackson
vile, Fla.
Mckinney, Mrs. T. A., East Beck
ley, w. Va.
Moss. Mrs. l.. Pittsburgh.
Murphy, Mrs. c. NJ. Charleston,
S. G.
Parker, Pfc Lawrence. Charleston.
S c.
FaSquine. Russell M, Coast Guard
Charleston. S. c.
Evening star., 1943-12-17
Priest Tells Of Givinu
Last Rites 10 Dying
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Dec. IT.
A Catholic priest, who was a pas
senger on one of two Atlantic Coast
Line streamlinerS wrecked near
Lumberton, N. c.. told last night
how he and fellow priest admin
lstered last rites to the dying in the
bitter cold of early morning.
The Rev. r. T. Rastatter and his
companion, the Rev. B. Smith, both
OF ST Mary's Church in St Peters
burg, were on the southbound Ia
miami Champion, which was the
first wrecked
We gave about 80 their last rites"
Father Rastatter said. Some OF
them were pinned under the wreck
age at the time About five of them
died within Is minutes after we
administered to them
Evening star., 1943-12-17

son, who lives here at the Black
stone Hotel. An uncle, Herbert E
Ryerson, jr, also lives in Washing
ton.
Meanwhile. other WaShingtonians
were waiting anXiously for word of
friends and relatives believed to
have been aboard one or another of
the two trains which crashed in
North Carolina
Inquiry Service Set Up.
The American Red Cross an
nounced that it had set up special
inquiry service at Lumberton tc
handle requests for information on
civilians thought to be involved
IN the wreck.
While it advised those who wished
immediate information to get in
touch with the Lumberton Red Cross
chapter directly, the Red Cross office
here is continuing to take inquiries
and to obtain any information pos
slble through the same source.
1t. Putnam, who was a passenger
on the northbound train. had wired
his mother from Jacksonville that
he was en- route to Washington. His
wife, the former Linda Clarke of
Charlottesville, had come to WASH
ington to meet him yesterday and
with Mrs Putnam waited at the sta
ton until late in the afternoon.
A member of a prominent Buffalo
family, 1t. Putnam attended the
University Of Virginia and the Uni
yersity Of Virginia Law School,
graduating from the latter in l941.
He enlisted in the Navy Immediately
after completion of his law course
He was married last year.
He was a grandson Of the late
Or. James Wright Putnam. brain
specialist, of Buffalo.
At the Atlantic Coast Line ticket
office here, a representative saio
they have had more than thou
sand telephone calls from persons
believing they had relatives or
friends on the train.
Robert E. Dutton. %, petty officer.
second class. attached to the Naval
Aviation Station. Beaufort. S. c..
was believed to have been on the
northbound train en- route to Wash
lngton to spend l2-dsy leave here,
according to his mother, Mrs Har-
riet R DuttOn, l705 c street Sc.
Mrs. Dutton had had no word from
her son early this morning. He was
due to arrive here yesterday, she
said, having planned to leave Savan~
nah "Wednesday evening.
Mrs. Aleph Somerset. 40, manager
Of the luncheonette in the Senate
Once Building, was reported to have
been on the southbound train en-
route to Jacksonville to see son in
the Navy. Her colleagues al the
hncheonette were still waiting to
hear from her today.
A former Arlington resident, Mrs.
E. Ruth BarthelmesS. 80. due to ar
rive here yesterday to attend the fu-
neral Of her mother, Mrs. Florence
Norfolk, 1928 North Albemarie street,
Arlington, Va. had reservations on
car in the northbOund train, which
was reported undamaged, according
to word from her husband, 1t.
Comor, Fred C. Barthelmess Her
family. however, ha0 had no direct
word from ner this morning
Conldr. anc Mrs. Barthelmess
moved from Arlington to Miami,
where he is stationed. last winter.
Word that William C. Bullitt.
former Ambassador to Russia, and
his daughter Anne escaped without
injury was received here late yester-
day. The two were reported to be
on the nOrtnbound train
Miss Louise Mitchell, FBI recep-
zionist, was passenger on the
southbound train but reached her
destination safely, according to word
received at her boarding house at
2l08 R street NV. yesterday.
Evening star., 1943-12-17

b e + t n, N. c.,
according to in
t or m a ton re-
ceived by t h e
family here from
MaXon Air Base,
Fort Bragg.
T he son of
Mrs. James OS-
borne Putnam, a
teacher at the
National Cathe-
dral School for
t h e past t six
months, 1t. Put
n a m W a S t h e
grandson of Mrs.
Herbert E. RXer-
Evening star., 1943-12-17
A machine gun was set up in front
of the mortuary, he said
A. p. Supplied With Pictures.

Later, plane from Atlanta
carrying an Associated Press staff
photographers few over the wreck
age and made pictures Public re-
lations officers from Fort Bragg, N.
c., and the Laurinburg- -Maxton air
base Immediately supplied A. P. with
pictures taken by Signal Corps
photographers Col Y. A. Pitts, COM
mander OF the MaXton base. also
placed a command car at disposal
of the photographers and made a
dark room available.
In Atlanta, Maj. Tyler said head
quarters here had instructed 1t.
Gerald Ford, public relations officer
at Fort Bragg, and Capt Edward
McGrail, Maxton public relations
officer. to lend every assistance to
newsmen and photographers cov-
ering the wreck.
Evening star., 1943-12-17
Bronze Cross Awarded

The Scout Bronze Cross has been
awarded to Scout Ernest Berry of
New Zealand who lost his life in
an attempt to rescue another boy
from drowning.
Evening star., 1943-12-17
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Evening star., 1943-12-17
Ii. James Putnam, Jr.,
Son Of D. {. Resident,
Killed in ACL Wreck

The son of Washington resi-
dent, 1t. i. g. James Osborne Put
nam, jr, 26, was killed in the At
lantic Coast Line wreck near Lum-
Detroit evening times., 1943-08-30

Ask him from what location
he's calling" my father SAID
Impeturbably
Dicl<y turned back 10 the tele-
I,hone and pat the question. Then
4fter listening 10 the answer
again told Ronald IN wait sec
ond." and turned again 20 my
father
From q drugstore about two
miles from here"
Downtown. or uptown
downtown"
"Ah-h!" my father bresthed.
Then he spoke crisply
OLGA TAKES HINT
Tell him tn come up here "a
quickly -Aa-A-tAxl Will hEIaa
him," he instructed, and as
Dicky turned once more "a the
telephone, l saw him glance
significantly Al Philip Redfield.
But IL was Olga who took the
hint most quickly.
1T wAs so good of you,
Charles" she SAID rising 80
let us hear all the stirring hap
peaings OF this morning.
But now we must 20 back.
Detroit evening times., 1943-08-30
BY ADELE GARRISON

loose end or two we perhaps can
tie up. But FIRST, Richard, did
Ronald give you any indication
~ to why he wanted 10 see
me-"
"No. but he was 30 terribly
excited 10 seemed To Indicate
that he had what he thought
was informa tiou about Marion"
"or perhaps Carolyn" kath-
arine suggested.
WILL TALK TO HARRY
Exactly" my father said.
'1nforma ton concerning either
nf- tAan -RaalA upset Renaid.
But I think before he gets here,
] had better talk to Harry
xuardedly, Of course-and find
out n he has any idea why
Ronald should he excited
GOOD idea Dicky COM
mented. "ShalI I call him ="
Please" my father said, and
then we all listened 10 a one
sided telephone conversation,
which. nevertheless. gave us
good idea Of what Harry Under
wood. Msrions anxious step
father, was saying.
NOT DISTURBED THEN
Ronald left the house Iess
than an hour ago, according To
Harry" ne said, land he gave
no indIcat ton whatever OF being
disturbed at that time. So what
ever upset him must have hap
pened since he left the house"
Katharine rose with decision.
Come on. DEcky-bIrdw she
said. II never was any good st
puzzles. Bring on the checkers
and let's transfer ourselves TO
the next apartment"
They went away, l think 10 my
fathers secret relief, and then he
and ] waited in silence until Ron
aid was announced.
I think my father was as
shocked as ! was at his CHASTITY
pale face and his terrified excite
ment No sooner had the door
closed behind him than he rushed
up 10 me and clssped me tightly
as II for support
Aunt Madge" he cried
hoarsely. II just saw Marion"
Continued tomorrow
Detroit evening times., 1943-08-30
PITFALLS OF LOVE

We have work tn do. and be
sides, that unhappy young mar.
Ronald. will wish To see you by
yourself"
"RonaId's coming up here d.
rectIy." Deky reported, "and
wishes to talk 90 you with only
Madge present. He was apol-
ogetic To me, hat Arm"
ffe quIrkpd a mIrthfui eyebrow
al Katharine.
QUIPS WITH KATHARINE
How are you at tiddledy
wtnks or checkers, Katrina :"
ne asked 1T strikes me that
we'd better adjourn I'm the con
Meeting suite and invite our
souls aatlI Ronald has chance
In unburden his"
Katharine settled more com
fortably in her chair and grinned
companionably back A. him.
Pm especially good at both"
she assured him, "but I'm most
comfortable here. and we surely
don't need 10 move until Ronald
Ia announced"
"Of course not" my father
said promptly And there IL a
Detroit evening times., 1943-08-30

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