Show PROMISE THOROUGH PROBE OF WRECKS Lackawanna Railroad Company Corn Com pany I Investigating Disaster at Corning LAW BROKEN AT LIGONIER State Commission Will Inquire I Into nto I Backing Up of Passenger Passenger Passenger ger Train Scranton Pa July C. C The Tho The Lackawanna Lackawanna Lacka Lacka- wanna railroad company today toda began I an official nl In e Investigation into the railroad rail rall- road load disaster lIsa ncr near Corning N. N Y 1 on July 4 when two score persons wore were killed and tind ha haf f a hundred injured All 11 the lie members of ot the train crews summoned sum sum- monc to Scranton In conDo connection with Iho ho Inquiry were examined arid the In Investigation In- In week will be bo continued next General Superintendent Rifle Rine In lit Is being whose offices the tue investigation hold held said tonight the testimony toi totty iy y corroborated in ip every lly d detail the tue findIngs find find- Ins hugs the tho lie company's officials made In their lieu Investigation at the lie cen of or tho lie wreck It was shown It Is hs stated that lint Flagman Flag Flag- man inait Lane LallO went back halt half a it mile mila with witha a n Cia flag and lI lighted a green fuse fue use an and that ent Engineer ran past at least two signals that t were set laC lIn t him Flagman La Izuno no however admits that hi lie did nut not sot a n torpedo It was vas brought out that the thit ml mist t was not notI heavy enough to obscure an engineers engineer's I view of oC tho lie semaphores or tho lie green I Continued on Pt Page C 1 I. I Column 4 w PROMISE THOROUGH PROBE OF WRECK Lackawanna Railroad Company Corn Com pany Investigating Disaster at Corning Continued From Pa Page c One fuse CUl which Is supposed to be discernible discern discern- ible In iii a a. fog rOg I Engineer Schroeder has ot yet et given I en an any statement other than that ho he failed tailed to see the signal because o of a fog tog Ills His whereabouts on th time the evening e of oC Jul July 3 und and the possibility that he did not go 10 goto goto to bed oi 0 or If IC he went to bed beel did lid not sleep because o of the noise on the night of July 3 are being Investigated Law Inv Violated nt at Ligonier Ligonier Pa July lly C. C It G.-It It was an- an that a representative of ot the Penns Pennsylvania I anla state slate railroad commission would arrive here Monday Ion ay to conduct an in Investigation Into the wreck of oC a passenger slonger train and a I freight train on the tho ho onier Lis-onier Valle Valley railroad d on Friday afternoon At the same time Coroner II H I A A. l Ic McMurray urra pro probably will begin tin nn Inquest These two Inquiries It Is said will wille willbe be e directed in particular to one phase of the he catastrophe the fact that the pasSenger passenger pas pas- er train wo aj being pushed along with an engine Ine behind Pushing or backing up a pa passenger train Is de declared le- le dared to bo be a violation of or a n fI state ta te law With the list of oC dead fixed at twentysix twenty twenty- six and with twenty nine Injured extent of or tile the disaster was sas definitely knOWs known tonight General Generl Superintendent tonight said We have been een working all day to place lace the blame There was a n mistake mistaken In n communicating or orders ers somewhere I but ul Just where we have not been able I Ito to find All Jl the Injured In the hospitals are reported to be Improving n by liy Steel Conche Jackson Miss lIss Jill July Juh 6 Steel G Steel coaches probably saved eel the lives of more moro than a score of or passengers when Illinois Central Central Central Cen Cen- pas passenger train No Xo 3 southbound wa was wrecked two to miles south of ot Jackson Jackson Jack Jael son late this afternoon A number of oC paSS passengers were badly shaken up and bruised but only onh five required more than passing medical attention These were wele brought to Jackson and placed In Ina ina a hospital where It was said their In Injuries inJuries In- In juries were not serious The Thc wreck wn was duo Itie to a soft roa roadbed bed caused b by hea heavy rains The plunging coaches stripped the rails loose for tor yards One Ono rail pierced n a well filled coach passing through both floor n I and I roof I |