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Show CARLOAD OF COFFINS FOR VRECK DEAD List of Fatalities in Han. Chester Horror Nam. bers Twenty-six. SIXTY-NINE OTHERS CROWD THE HOSPITALS Accident Dae to Defective ' Rail on Trestle Spanning Span-ning Stream. MAKCHB8TEK, V. Y, An. 96V Twantraix persons ar dead, half dosea amor II at death' door and xtxty-aln other crowd the hospitals from Oanandalgna to Eochester today, according to lataet flgur, aa the rV ralt of the wrack of Lehigh Valley train Xo. 4, eastbound, behind two powerful locomotlr, a oa - a trwtl panning flanandslgna oaHet yester-dny. yester-dny. A ninety-pound rail on the four hundred-foot bridge,' shattered into seventeen seven-teen pieces, showing defect in manufacture, manu-facture, marked tho weak spot, . Investigators Inves-tigators say, and explain too cause of the disaster. , So far but half of th tweety-sii persons who met death amoag the twisted and plintered mas of wreckage wreck-age fifty feet below th trestle have been identified. Whar Injured Ar. . Four of theee ar at Boch ester. The other twenty-two li ia th Bhortavill morgu ia rough pin boxe. Th injured in-jured srs ia the following hospital.- Rochester Henneman hospital 18; homeopathic, 7; total. 25. Clifton Spring Sanatorium. It. fanandaigu Memorial hospital, 17. ' Bhortavill Reported as injured and not. found at preceding hospital, 15. - Step looking to the usual rigid Investigation In-vestigation hav already bee taken by the public eervie eommissioa, coroners coro-ners aad other official, whe hav worker work-er on th scene. ' ' ,, A csrioad of rough thi boxe was delivered de-livered her today, an before daylight day-light farmer and villager began carting cart-ing them to th temporary morgue. . It is low established that the wrack waaVbaneed bv a broke fail. Three can out of the train' of fourteen plunged from th treek. Th train waa bound from Buffalo to Jersey City and a majority ma-jority of those aboard were oa their way Vo -their heme ia New Jersey and astern Pennsylvania. The following "revised list of Identification Identifi-cation waa given out this sfternoon by Coroner Eisellne at ShortsvlU: Th Dead, weaker. Henry. Weverly. N. T.: brak- Be'n. .D. M.. le-Angeles. Cal: O. A. R. ,veteran. 70 years old. died In Rochester Roches-ter hospital. Heediey. Mrs.. Philadelphia. Hlritey. Joeeph, Philadelphia. Hick. Charles. Newark, N. J. Hanelcker, Mr. C. F. of Lakswood. uhurban of Cleveland. Johnsoa. Dr. c. P.. Philadelphia. Madde, L. C. Trenton. N. J. Parurburn. Edgmr D.. of Brooklyn. O. A. R. veteran, employed at Bills Island, aged (i. Pownell. Helen F... rJewton. Ia. t'ncle.1. .. Bmlthvtlle. N. .1. t'ncle. Mr. X. -. Bmlthvllle, N. J. Thle couple have evidently been prepared pre-pared for a violent death. On the worn-an'e worn-an'e corset and on the man' necktie were eewn hand written tags marked: "In case of accident notify operator at mlthvllle. N. J " wl Vanderilo, Mrs. Rebecca. Niagara Winkler. Mr. Freda. Philadelphia, Identification Iden-tification not positive. Mr. A. Zudeeeke, Buffalo. Willi P. Runkl. postal clerk. Baaton, Pa. Eight bodlea remain to be Identified. One Is a man. one a slx-year-old hoy and alx women Most of these are believed to be residents of Philadelphia, Th Injured, Among tb injured ar: Two anna. Sister Hortemia and Veda of Geneva; ' Right Ber. Mouaignor Hendrirk of Ovid; Charles Bichardsoa, Philsdelphie. J Mr. Harry Hamilton, Saa Antonio, Texaa. Captain Robert Sallisbury, Philadelphia. Philadel-phia. S. P.-Draper aad Emilia Draper, Lancaster. Pa. Mr. and Mra. & W. Walker, Lake-wood, Lake-wood, O. Colonel . A. E. Kllr, Washington, D. C At th hospital la Bocbester ar th following: ' F.mll Kohler, Lancaster, Pa. Ber. Wkittley aad wife, aged coup! of Boydatowa, Ta. Cbarle H. Saddler, negr porter, 8barovill. Pa. Mra. Sweeney, Philadelphia. . W. P. Bundle, postal clerk. Mra. Ida Douglass, Chicago. Three ether victim srs unconscious and unidentified. At Caaandaigua ar tb following Injured: In-jured: Mr. Harry Smith of Sayra, Pa., who i reported dying. Mia Agnes Garden. Atlantic Oft v. ' Mr. and Mra. George Irving and son John, aged It. Philadelphia. , Mr. and Mra. Charles Puddarh. Baltimore.: Bal-timore.: -Woman Cannot Lfr. - On woman, new fThompsoa memorial memo-rial hospital, Csaandaigua, has a fractured frac-tured skull aid cannot live, but so far aa known th other injured will recover. re-cover. Coroner Eiaelin ha bee making careful efforts to obtai the names of tb injured, but o many were taken away, to various citie. including Geneva, Ge-neva, Canadaigua. Bochoster nd small intermediate plaoe. thst a complete list i almost impossible te eempile. Linemen Line-men hav afruag temporary wires around the wreck and aeiose the creek, aad iaqairie er heieg received from persons wbo have relative miseiag. At preeent st Bhortsvillc. accessible f (CoaUauvd oa pegs 12.) CARLOAD OF COFFINS (Continued from page 1.) by rail enly from a brancfc of the New York Central, aeareely a down refugee from the wreck here come to make bona fide efforts at identification. Thi morning eleven of the twenty-two twenty-two bodies in the fehorteville morgue hid not been identified. They include nine women, one man and a six-year-old child who mother ia aaid to be one of the unidentified dead. Coroner Eiaelia aaid thi morning: InqtM Monday. "I have decided to hold the inauest Monday in the village town hall in Shortaville. I am getting out eubpoe-naa eubpoe-naa for th train crew, railroad track inspectors, passenger and y wit-a wit-a esses. It will b impossible to hold aa inauest todlr. The public service commission of th second district ha three officials here under the direction of Archibald Buehanaa." A staff of sixteen undertakers worked all night embalming bodic and removing, where poaalble, th scars made by th wreck. The place selected for a morgue waa ill adapted for thi purpose. It was in the baaement of a country furniture furni-ture store and wag about fifty feet long and twentv Bve feet wide, the wall cluttered op with stock. In the extreme front a email space was afforded af-forded for I he handling of the bodice. A faat aa they were brought ia they were taken one at a time and placed side br side on cheap cots, and a they soon tilled the cellar in many case-two case-two bodie wer placed on one cot. Sllghttr Hart Mart Horn. , Nearly all who were not seriously injured in-jured took train for their respective aome. - Hteam derricks were busy all night t the wreck and a greater part of the wrecked car, including tboae at the bottom of the gaily, were removed and the main line was cleared before midnight mid-night so that trains might cross the bridge lowly. A room full of personal effects (till remains piled np in the Manchester pas4 aenger waiting room, and oa top of the mound, along with half a dozea aoft hata of the O A. B. veteraaa, is aome little child doll, waiting probably in rain for it owner to claim it. |