Show SIXTEEN DIE IN WRECK AT NEW NEWHAVEN HAVEN Bar Harbor Limited and White Mountain Express Aristocrats of the N New ew Haven Roads Road's Train S Service Ser Ser- r- r vice in Rear End Collision in Rag fog Forty People Are j Injured Bodies of the Dead Badly Mangled NEW TEW w HAVEN HAYEN Co Conn Sept 2 Sixteen Sixteen persons lost their lives and forty were injured when when the White Mountain express bound t for New York crashed into the rear end of the second section of the Bar H Harbor limited bearing sojourners from l fa Maine Elaine ne summer mer resorts The wreck occurred on the New Haven railroad just outside outside outside out out- side the city limits shortly before 7 0 o'clock clock this morning Failure to 8 see e a a. block signal veiled in a B. thick fog is given as I Ithe the cause of the accident by Engineer A. A B. B Miller l who says that jf as soon as he realized the danger he did all he could to stop the t train The brakes would not hold on the wet track and the train down grade plowed its ts way through two wooden Pullman cars sp splintered ter d them to kindling and killed or wounded most moat of the sleeping passengers in their berths The accident recalled the l recent wreck on the New Haven at Stamford Conn when a sec second nd I section tr train failed to take its b brak brakes akes and and over overran n. n a block d dealing death to passengers of the first section tl Only p part of f the dead hay have been identified TIle The Bodies of ot y most of the victims were mangled II Although gh today's wreck on the New Haven railroad oc occurred nned at o'clock this morning only about half halt of th the l dead had bad been identified at noon AUthe All AU the passengers were in their night nightclothes nightclothes clothes when the collision came makIng makin mak mak- i in Ing identification difficult t Coroner Mix directed that all aU the bodies be collected at a local street meet streetcar car barn as a a. temporary morgue and anti began at on once e an inquiry to determine the identity of the dead i Several of the bodies are those of I boys who were members member of a s. camping ping 1 party returning from Monmouth Me Partial List of Dead Among the dead identified at the scene of the wreck are H. H A. A HOTCHKISS son eon of Leonard Leonnrd Hotchkiss of C. C W. W Scranton 8 Co brokers of New Haven ALBERT GREEN Ne New York WILLIAM WILLIAU Norfolk Va FRANK PRANK B. B RUTTER vice president and sales manager of the Scranton Bolt and Nut comp company ny Scranton Pa Woman Woma 5 feet 6 inches tall pounds wore gold ring en engraved ra raed ed For life or death April 30 SO 1874 I Young man 0 13 feet tall talt pounds 25 years old initials II S S C. S.- S. C. C W. W on green stone stono gold ring HAROLD AVERY AVERY Broadway New York died while being taken to to hospital ROBERT YAHN YARN Lyceum street Philadelphia died at New Haven Hayen Ha Ha- yen ven hospital H. H F. F MARTIN Bryn Mawr Pa Pat CHARLES W. W PLACE broker 67 Wall Wan street Now New York Woman family name unknown given name Mary Jane Tane Hartford Conn Woman with handbag marked M Continued on pa page e 6 6 SIXTEEN DIE IN WRECK Continued from Da page a 1 1 H. H M. M or M l 31 H. H II H. died on way to hospital HARRY K lAlI died did at Meriden Mention hospital Injured in Hospital The Injured at the hospital here hero In- In elude Robert Philadelphia Internal Injuries L. L E. E Collum Nemours France concussion concussion con con- and Int Internet Internal Injuries Mr Ir and Mrs Pemberton W W. Price Ph Philadelphia 11 ad Catherine Brooklyn Jeanne Annette Bayonne onne N. N J. J Philo New Ne Haven Ha cn W XV 0 O. O Rowland Rowlan Frankford Pa Pap Richard rd F. F Decker Summit N. N J J. A A. M. M B Torresdale Pa Richard Frank Now New York Rose Zimmerman New Ne York Frank Condon secretary Y M. M I C. C A. A and young youn son Trenton N. N J J. Miss Mis Margaret l Murphy U North Broad street Philadelphia scalp wounds sent to her home Miss Jean Jeaa Stoddart New Now York back hack InJured Ralph talph Downs New Ne' Haven HI A. A M. M Marls Maria 40 Clinton street direct t. t Philadelphia Phila- Phila dr delphia bruised body hody taken home J. J Browning Clement Jr Chestnut strict street Philadelphia cut and bruised taken aken home Boy Campers Killed A part parly of oC bo boy campers camper sixty five In number returning from Monmouth Me fe were in lii a Pullman car which was overturned over over- turned Two of these thele boys William Alt- Alt of Norfolk Va a and Albert Green of or New York were killed A party of or young girl Irl campers pupils of th the tima Friends FrIends' school Wash Wash- Washington In ington ton D. D C c. returning from Belgrade Lakes L. Me le were in other cars of th the Bar Harbor express These girls were not reported re re- ported as Injured Tho Time dead were all taken to New Haen Ha Ha- ven en The Injured received first aid from physicians on time the two trains later being removed remo to h hospitals Coroner Mix b began gan an Investigation of the wreck at 10 0 Protected by Banjo Signal The track on which the time wreck occurred Is s protected b by the so called Banjo 51 nals n a a. type which the public utilities I commission lon had ordered chan changed cd The New cv Haven road rond had begun beJ the time reconstruction recon recon- and the tile line tine from Hartford to to Springfield neld had been already chan changed cd I The members of a girls girls' camp Rt also o re returning returning re- re I turning from the th Maine woods were on onboard onboard board the Bar Harbor train The raIlroad railroad rail raIl- road officials said MId this morning that so far as M the they knew none of or these young oung people had been Injured Both Doth trains were heavily laden taden with re returning returning re- re turning excursionists from fashionable re reports resorts re re- ports sorts In Maine and the tho Whito mountains They The were running behind time through a II hen heavy Y to fog The Tho Bar Harbor limited had stopped In Inthe Inthe Inthe the block but the tho last Jut car of oC the long train was Just on the time ed edge e of the the- block limits The Time signals had cl cleared ared and the limited l had ld d gotten under slight headway when the White Mountain express camo came along The engineer of tho the latter was unable to stop atop his lila locomotive and crash crashed d completely through twp of tho the sleepers on the Limo Bar Harbor train and knocked the tile next sleeper over tho the embankment The he shook of the tho collision was as so 80 terrific terrific ter ten rifle that tho the linen and bed clothing from the berths berth In ill tho sleepers was swept out of the tue broken windows and carried to the tho teJe telegraph wires and poles nearby where It tt still sun hung when tho the wrecking trains arrived Express Not Damaged Tho Time White 11 It Mountain express was as scarcely scratched by the tho collision It proceeded on its way a after a few hours hours' deta delay arriving at tho the station here at and proceeding at once to lo loew New ew ew York The Tho first section ClIon of the White Mountain Mountain Moun Moun- tam tain express consisted of seven cars drawn rawn h by engine No Engineer A. A B. B Miller Conductor Fowler Fowier The two rear sleepers demolished were the Pullmans Chancellor from Kinro Mo Mc fc and the Kasota from Portland Me e. e Nineteen passengers In t the tho o Kasota lasota and two twenty In the time Chancellor Th Tho overturned sleeper steeper was the holm hoim It was almost entirely occupied by a camping party of boys bos returning from Monmouth Me The boy boys boys' homes were cre In New York Philadelphia and arlous sarious va- va rious parts of or the south Seven bodies were ere taken from this car Victims Nearly All In Berths All tho the passengers were In their berths and in their night clothes making Identification identification Iden iden- lineation of the dead difficult The dead and amid injured were brought to morgues and hospitals in this city The Tue engineer of or th the White Mountain express stuck to his post and andas was as only onty III slightly hurt The ot two wo sleepers which were ore crushed by the Impact of or engine 1337 were a mass mus massof massof of splinters after the accident rhe The locomotive loco ieee- p I motive ran mn on top of the wreckage cage and I remained 1 almost upright for a considerable his ble time The en engine ne was ono one of or the new of the type that hat figured d dIn In the recent wreck at Stamford The engine in tho the latter Instance was as No 1315 1338 Most of nf the tho pa passengers on the two trains belonged in New York and beyond and and were en route louto from New England summer r r resorts in Vermont Yermont and Maine to their homes New Havens Haven's Finest Trains The two trains are regarded as among the finest In the ihl ho N New w Haven roads road's service servie ser ser- vice vie and at this tItle season acason of oC the tIll year ar th the they I arft ar laden to their capacity with Pullman I passengers C CI I I The Bar Harbor express R left Mount Desert ferry terry the tho railroad rond station for lor Bar lIar Harbor at p. p m. m yesterday Its route to iO to New York was via Portland Worcester Springfield and Now New Haven It t was as scheduled to leave leave- New Haven at a. a m. m and arrive in New York at The Tha White Mountain express left Bretton Bretton Bretton Bret- Bret ton Woods N. N H. H at 9 p. p m. m yesterday Md ad d traveled to le C ew York over the Bos Boa ton ion Maine 1 and New Haven lines lilies via Ia Springfield and New Haven It was due in New York at 72 a a. a m m. On account of tho the holiday rush and the fog both bolh trains train were running behind time |