Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1910-07-12 | Page 3 | Mistake in Orders Causes Big Wreck

MISTAKE IN ORDERS CAUSES BIG WRECK Train Dispatcher Makes This Admission at the Coroners Inquest Hamilton 0 O July 11 That conflict conflicting conflictIng ing orders ardors giving two trains the tho right of o way WaT caused the wreck of July 4 at Middletown was way admitted at the cor coroners coroners Inquest here hore today by Albert Albort J Smith train dispatcher for the Cin Cincinnati Cincinnati Hamilton Dayton railway at Dayton O 0 After trainmen and operators had told Coroner Burnett of at atthe the tho orders order they had received that day and BOO that official had declared his be bo belief belled lid lief that Smith was to blame for the deaths the latter took the stand We Wa were were rushed with trains that day he said 1 I sent the tho Big Four passenger on from Dayton to CIncinnati Cincin Cincinnati Cincinnati nati then after It started taMed I figured I could save savo time in getting tho the freight to Dayton 00 so I J tried triad to send an order to Carlisle to have the Big Four stop atop at Post Town and let the freight pass When I reached Carlisle by wire I learned that the passenger nger had passed p there going like wildfire Then to prevent trouble I X sent word to Mid Middletown ld to bust the order allowing the freight to proceed to Dayton If the tho freight had been on the siding at Middletown when this order was W IS re received received there the wreck would not have occurred Leo Lee Crider operator Oll at Middletown testified Wh n I received the tho bust bu t order I ran out to t tell teU Conductor Wea Yea Wearer Weaver yer ver of the train but It was too late to cars had passed the e station and d running toward tho passenger ngor train r