Show TWENTY TWENTY- ONE TWENTY DEAD i IN RECI Many of Injured in in New York Central Wreck May Die INVESTIGATIONS STARTED ee Inquiries Into mU Cau c of tr s Xo Xo Cause Yet It finitely A. A Assigned tl New Nev cw York Feb 17 1 Three i.-Three Three tc investigations were In pl progress toila reg regarding the cause of or tho the wreck o a othe or th the electric express train upon tin the New ew York Central railroad m near street tret lost night Twenty-one Twenty deaths are fire recorded u uto uto u up to tonight ns as a n It result sull of ot tho Hel tei and sev several ral among the tho five eighty in jurd jur d art are Hot ot expected to 0 survive according ac nc- cording to tn the UI latest Inte t reports from froni the thc hO hospitals One Ona ne Investigation was Ls conducted b by byall ball all t the tn ll leading of If the railroad r company compall who Iio met with the president nt for 01 fully ull si 51 Hours HOUIS toda today examining At t the conclusion of this meeting tho lie ra railroad Issued Is uel a 0 formal 1111 a t statement In which It was vas declared that no explanation of oC f the till wreck had l. l been Ml mind found The fi second Investigation was ws In charge chargo of oC th the district attorneys office the coroner r and tlC tie police x Follo Ing this eleven em ler persons were sul subpoenaed sub sub- d to tn appear at the Inquest l am and Coroner that he ho h believed the wreck due to I a plato plate connecting the all ral or fir the th spreading o of the rails with in un- un usual an unusually heavy havy odor motor nut too lou light cars eai al as cause cause- N Wreck Occurred O on First Pir-lt la Un Another feature of oC the wreck the coroner Is Ig IlIve Investigating tI concern tho ho banking u of the oad track on the tho curves ur The wreck occurred occurred oc oe- oc- oc on tie the t day of or the electric trains train's run rUIl and an J the engineers ns-In ns rs told the conductor that In view of oC high speed made mallo by b the 01 electric trains and the till l of the mot motors the th old oh grade gradt II of banking might be found clent nt AM of the twenty out bodies holIt of the i hn l hU lJ been tm and as I J lur IC thrilling nl tte e tI n T T lR I becane Known In n th the of the witnesses eS one lone by Uw te coroner Inspector Int and A District DI l Attorney Manley several geral sev sev- eral erat witnesses gave 1 detailed statements state ments regarding the the- high speed 11 el at al which the j a In wa was running Tin Th general estimate of o these the made the tho speed Iel about seventy vent mile an hour This estimate of oC passengers wa va confirmed b by an from rain Rodgers the motorman o of the wreck wrecked ell train finally secured by hy th the authorities In this Rodgers state state- ta that HuH hi hh J train was wa va six minutes lat tuti and 1 that th t It t It WD was running at nt nt high speed according to tu his estimate about miles an hour Re Hl List Itt of Dead HIml The official revised list o of the dea deaIn dead In the wreck Is as ns follows ws 1 th Mrs rs rfd t N. N Y K ans Myron I ron R. R While Plains Forrand Mi Mrs IlS s. s Catherine J IC Pleas Ploos- N. N Y Ju Jubin ln Miss lIss Jessie M. M N. N Y Johnson E. E S Briar cure Cliff Manor lanor N. N Y 1 Kh Mrs Mr Mar Mary Chappaqua N. N Y Hudson Clara I- I L. L While Pin Plains Ins I McLain Mrs 11 White hUe Plains Moorhead Miss 1155 Anna Page C. C F F. White Plains Perrin Miss Dorothy 1 Re Bedford N N. Y Rosborough Robert J J. J White While Plains Storm Julia W Bedford to be he woman won supposed Warren Mr Mrs V g H- H B Warren an Webster C. C B H Wh h Plains Bedford Station May 1 liiv elI Linnie Hawthorne Annie hUt litt Plains See nc Bessie II Mahoney Margaret Mar aret Purdys Mrs G G. G C. C While Plains The number r of Injured Is estimated at In fact hardly a n single peron per per- Ill fated train escaped sc un un- the 4 on non on seat thed of if Wreck reci New Net C lon Ven-lon in The latest l version erslon of or the causo of wreck Is that the train had at attained attained at- at the he such high tle speed when It reached reach reach- street that the thereat at ed 1 the curve snapped off oft the track car was icar reat Us Its side and W went nt The fhe C car r turne turned on along the outside track on which grinding It H had hall fallen alien for yards the three other Then Fien the pull upon coaches ahead of or It became so wooden also left h one they great that one by i and turned over o tU the rails these four foul cars car were dragged As literal literally j along the lL II they the were and passengers Jr Ir I r ground lound to pieces death like shaken haken to fairly them rat ral were In the jaws of ofa a ten terrier lor Before a a. could stop his train the the tho motorman ears cars also allo ha had been two motor motol nhI but hut remained stan standing off the a rails as s lil did thu i ui the smoker smoker- jI Injured were were strewn and amt deed dead Tho Thu under undo street on from all the way at Iron fruit bridge Woodlawn the th then to street where street and came to a stop Foa For Fo Forn Fora finally the train of ot more mure than 1000 feet fee cot a n distance with parts o otho of oC the trucks tracks were strewn the tho bodies of ot the dead a f r I Mangled I. I Many bodies WL-IH WL so 50 o mangled mangle an of tIC the could couill be but ut fragments that nothing together In one spot and gathered the Under for I the cOI nur an or of and valuables s segregate was to lead to It pap rs which h night checks wen h hastily silly a thou of t II out on tIl holy and W O un fl oil sere the tho placed CIne rr boa or 1 letter which happened to be 0 found u 1111 nearest A childs child's rc red woolen mitten was No o 1 1 12 and antI placed on the amo i-ame stretcher with a a. bundle ll which hall had nothing human about It except long tOil yellow curls eral Several of o the till survivors ors who gave their experiences to the police declare that the thc wreck was duo due to speeding Legar Walker of or Mount KIsco one I of or the Injured d passengers said Mill The cars can of that train were snapped of olt I the tho rails Jut Jutt as us U you would snap of elf the cracker of or-a or a whip The fIte motor car cal calwas was heavy The he passenger cars were w light and so fast aSt was the ito train going that th the passenger cars ears were sImply hurled off the time rails mils by hy their OWl own 1110 mo mild- This was a pure casu caso o of crIminal speeding |