| Show VICTIMS M S BOOKED FOR SALT LAKE Three Men in the Wabash Rail Railroad Railroad Railroad road Wreck 4 FIXING THE RESPONSIBILITY t t INDICATIONS ABB ARB ENGINEER WAS TO BLAME f t 4 Special to The Herald 4 New York Y rk Nov Frank Zot Zotti ti u Italian Hallan immigration agent in inthis Inthis this efty city booked fifteen Italians I taU f ff f for tor Wabash train IS 11 3 which was wu f ff f wrecked at Seneca Mich Mith Among Amon f ff f them were the following for Salt Lake Max Ma Covi f Frank f Antonne D RIAN DRIAN Mich Nov NOY 21 Just be before before before ADRIAN A fore the coroners coroner inquest in the Wabash railroad wreck adjourned l late e today Conductor Tm of th the ill JIl fated No 13 twain tram testified as to the number ef of persons who were on that train t un According to his statement there were passengers on board I When he was ordered to meet No 45 4 he Ii was u at Holloway and received hi Ida his order from Operator Martindale t e read r d the order in the nae presence preseD e of the operator and aDd took three copies i t two t o to the two engineers engineer of his train anu alK an retaining one himself elf The engineer meer of engine lii received the eras Shot first In each instance when the ther theodr order r was Has delivered by him the fire fireman fireman man maR was present He understood the train tram Was mas to sidetrack at Seneca for forNo No 4 If the train had passed Seneca he have Rave set the automatic brake Had the brake been set it would have re required Ired of ot a mile to atop stop U e train Be lIe had no warning that anything was wrong until he felt the shock At that time he was seated in the rear coach When he had gotten out fire had start started started started ed in the head coach and others were busy getting the injured out of the wreck He hurried down the track to Sand Creek to get the engrie eng ne of No 3 2 to pull away what cars ears could be saved sav and three sleepers were hauled away Conductor then came to his es estimate estimate estimate of the on the train How Horn Ho many had you ia was asked Had Passengers One hundred and ninety was wag the reply I 1 dont know knew how many tot Ins migrants We had passengers out of 0 Detroit I get my figures from the collector on the train I made a list of as as many as aM I could find who were ere saved ved I got the name names or of My collector and I w were ere together r get the Le list A number of passengers I W ay whose hose A names I did not get I f from this record I have haxe no of knowing how many were killed What W at is your judgment as to the number killed T he was asked I would not t say sav I cannot tell I could not make any estimate e Train Dispatcher Harvey Mann of or Montpelier testified as to the sending of the order to train No 4 I to pass paN paNNo No 13 at Seneca The operator at who the th order and gave gae it to Conductor Martin testified te as s follow follows s Conductor Martin Marlin tie the order to Continued on Page 2 0 VICTIMS BOOKED FOR SALT LAKE I II I Continued from Page 1 me inc aloud distinctly and then signed sIgn It It and after repeating his signature to te the dispatcher I delivered him his two copies eople The Inquest was wits adjourned until Tuesday next When Conductor Martins statement was repeated to Engineer Strong me ne engineer said I have not denied at any time that we received such an or er order erder order der I only say sa that if we did get getch such ch an order I misread and misunderstood misunderstood stood it it and that I should have been set right by the conductor My fire fireman fireman fireman man will tell you that he too under understood understood understood stood that we were to meet both trains at Sand nd Creek instead of Seneca If It I made an error I was not alone to blame The Th other three thren members member of af the crew must have understood as I did ld or else lse they would have corrected inc Hie Engineer Strong attaches to the conductor and brakeman brakhman bra man for the simple fact he says that If he be had understood he was to meet No 13 at Seneca be he would have blown one long Jong and one ne short blast Immediately after whistling for the Seneca station when his train was a from that point Nothing of the kind was done so 80 he be claims that either cither the con ductor or the brakeman if they un the order to read Seneca should have whistled him down by pulling the cord twice LIST MAY KAY Ni BE REDUCED Possible That Not Over Oyer Forty or I Fifty May day Have Been Killed Detroit Mich Nov 20 A News ape special cia cial Ial from Adrian Mich that says ac cc according cording to Romano B E of Chicago through whom was arranged the transportation to California of the Italians killed in Wednesdays night wreck on the Wabash there were only about fifty immigrants on the west bound train If this be true it reduces the death list li t by almost half hair and the number of dead victims between forty gad and 00 fifty Attorney A M 1st representing enting Levy lev at Chica Chicago go at the inquest here says that told him last Jast night in Chi Chicago Chicago cago that although he had not yet re te received full returns he did dIel not believe there were over owr fifty immigrants on the wrecked train Pietro Cardiello Italian consular agent In Detroit returned return d to the city today from the Ute scene ene of the Wabash wreck near Seneca to which he had ha hurried te to look after the Interests of his hl countrymen so 50 many of whOm Were burned to death He said he was pot not yet able to form fonn anything like lIe a cor cur correct correct list of the number of o Italians killed While I cannot cannot tell how many were killed said he I r am Inclined to think the estimates e thus far are a atri trifle e ex en exaggerated I shall do everything in my power to determine the number of Ital Italian Italian ian A victims and to t secure such information information information tion concerning them but it will wilt re require require quire time It Wilt will probably ablY be necessary sary to send to Italy for the t th P names of the immigrants who wh were ere on th the train and then check the list with ith those tho e eho who ho escaped Whether the terrible loss of Iffe life gus sus sustained tamed by the Italians will be made the subject of correspondence between the Italian and United States governments the consular agent could not say sa That would come conic within the juris jutIs jurisdiction jurisdiction diction of or Count the Ital Italian ItalIan Italian ian consul at Chicago he said I have no doubt that he has already ad advised advised our government of the accident Father Francis Beccherini pastor of the Italian l ian church of San Francisco who is in this city went to the Wabash wreck near Seneca yesterday in the hope of aiding some of his country countrymen men From Giovanni the young Italian who is dying in the farm farmhouse farmhouse I house bou e nearest the wreck and from pa papers pap pers p rs In his pockets Father Beccherini B I found that the party of immigrants j came from the northern part of f Italy I comes from in the I province of or I The party came on the steamer La Campania Carnia Arriving in New York the hand bend went to some street banker as the small Italian bankers I are called caned and exchanged their money Then they were given tickets to San Francisco The rho priest is sure the im ira immigrants immigrants migrants were bound for San Francis Francisco co cc as In pocket was his ticket for that point But how asked the father did this boy fet t out of Italy how into this country He is under IS 1 years of age ase he has no passport Ort from Italy I think I know These men were being brought over on a ft contract as laborers to be betaken betaken betaken taken out to San Francisco could not even tell me how many came across access with him or were on the train When I asked him who got him to come over he looked suspicious at once onee and ad I could see that he had hal been n instructed to say MY nothing He H only an answered a that a man had brought them across to work He said he had been given the 5 which he had hod with him lim limby Im ImbY by a certain street t banker to find out how many came and who they were |
