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Show TWENTY-ONE DIE IN AWFUL TRAINWRECK Rear End Collision of Flyera on New Haven Line Brings Harvest to Grim Reaper New Haven, Conn., Sept. 2 Twtfn-ty-one persona were killed and near-J near-J y fifty Injured, some of whom may I die, In a rear end collision shortly before 7 o'clock this morning on the New Ycrk, New Haven & Hartford railroad, six miles north of hero. The first section of the Whlto Mountain Express, bound for New York, speeding speed-ing along at probably forty miles an hour In a thick fog, rushed by a danger signal, It Is said, and crash, ed Into the rear of the second Section Sec-tion of the Bar Harbor Express, standing 100 feet beyond the block s'gnal. The White Mountain englno cleaved through the two rear Pullman Pull-man cars, both of wood, splitting them In two, and tossing their wreckage hnd three score of mangled human beings, some alive, some dead, on either ei-ther side of the track. The third' car, also of wood, and occupied by1 40 "boys on their way from a summer camp at Monmouth, Me., was llffed into the air and almost al-most completely off the track. The car fell on Its side crumpled up, crushed two of the boys to death and Injured several others. Hurled Fifty Feet Some of the v ctlms of th? two rear Pullmans were hurled from their berths over (i fence para'elllng the track 50 feet distant; mattresses, bedding and clothing found lodgement in the tsleraph wires. It wns the third serious wreck that the New Haven has suffered within a year and Inaugurated the fi'st day of the regime of Hownrd Elliott, the newly elected head of the road. Mr. Elliott, returning from his summer home In New Hampshire to assumo h s duties, passed over the scene of tthe wreck on tin earlier train, bss than an hour before. Practically nil the passengers on both trains were returning home from summer vacations and all but two of a camping party of nine guests of S. Croser Fox of Elklns Park, Pa., returning from Maine .were wiped out. Fox was among those killed. No one was hurt In the White Mountain Moun-tain tra'n. Revised Death List The death list, revised from th9 coroner's report and from the list of tho railroad company Is: Killed In the wreck: Altchult, William, Norfolk, Va. Armstrong, Miss Margaret, Washington, Wash-ington, D. C. Bullitt, Miss Marie L., Philadelphia. Philadel-phia. Green, Albert, New York. Hotchklss, Itoyal W., New Haven. Diddle, Miss Harriet, Torredale, Martin, H. F., Bryn Mawr, PH. Martin, Mrs. H. F. Bryn Mawr, Pa. McQuillcn, Drtniel Neal Jr., Philadelphia. Phila-delphia. Fox, S. Crozer, Elklns Park, Pa. Itutter, Frank B., Scranton, Pa. Davis, Miss Emllle Kennedy, Philadelphia. Phila-delphia. Yahn, Robert M., Philadelphia. Died At Hospital Hotchkiss, Phllo, New Haven. Korgart, George L., New York. Mary Jane, residence unknown. Died at Merldan: Iraar, Harry K., New York. Unidentified dead: Elderly man, aged 60; 145 pounds, gray Van Dyke beard; otherwise smoothly shaven; clothed only In union suit. "For Life and For Death" Elderly woman, weighing about 200 pounds, evidently of Germhn birth; had gold band ring inscribed "For life and for death 120-70." Woman aged about 85, had diamond cluster ring engraved D. B. L. or O. n. L. on left hand; locket with P. B. Rand, Mnn, gray haired, brown eyes, I smooth face (Inquiries made for Halo N Stelnman, Lancaster, Ph.) I Tho Now Haven officials Were j frank to admit tonight that the so-J so-J called "banjo" slgnnl system which rr on this part of tho lino has not yet 1 been replacod by the semaphoro sys-1 sys-1 tem, recommended by tho public utll-1 utll-1 ties commission last Deccmbor, In a I mensuro. was responsible for tho I wreck, although tho question as to I whether tho englneor of tho Whlto I Mounthln train, Augustus B. Mlllor, I was making too much upcod under the weathor conditions, is under Investigation. In-vestigation. Under tho "Danjo" system as soon o train passes n signal It sets red and automatically opens the signal n tho previous block, allowing a rain following to enter noth more thnn im hour late, the wo trains passed Wallingford, thrco miles north of the scene of the accident, acci-dent, eight minutes apart, shortly be-'ore be-'ore 7 o'clock. Eight minutes nhead of them was the first section of tho Bar Harbor express and a local train due to stop at North Haven, three miles south of the wreck, led them all. How 8lgnals Worked According to the officials, hn engl neer may pass a "banjo" signal Bet at red after he has brought his tra n to a stop. This .according to the railroad officials tho engineer of the Bar Harbor express did, and then came to another stop about h, mile north of North Haven. This opened the signal In the previous pre-vious block, a ratio away, and down a stretch of track, straight as an arrow, ar-row, plunging through the thick fog, came the Whlto Mountain express, with the Impetus of Beven cars, baggage bag-gage car, dhy coach and five sleepers behind the engine. Meantime, Flagman Flag-man C.H. Murray of the Bar Harbor train hnd gono back with torpedoes a distance it was said, of 400 feet. The torpedoes went off, according to officials of the road and some of the train crew. Then camo the crhBh. According to Vice President Wha- ley of the New Haven, 't would not have been possible at the speed the train was making for Eng.neer Miller to have stopped within 1600 feet after af-ter he saw the signal. The engineer did not see it, he said, until he was almost upon It, or scarcely more than 100 feet from the rear of the Bar Harbor express, and at the same moment mo-ment he heard the torpedoes. "I don't wish to placo any blame on the engineer," said Mr. Whaley, "but In view of the foggy conditions a question to be determined is whether whe-ther he was running too fast under tho circumstances. There Is no rule of the road which would require him to make up time and take a risk while running In a fog and as far ns I know he received no Instructions to make up time." Chief Elwell shld tonight tlint the New Haven had been advised twice by the public utilities commission to abolish the "banjo," once last December Decem-ber and again In March, following minor wrecks, In 'both of which the blame was laid at the door of the "batajo." ' Passengers In both trains were asleep when the collision occurred. I The White Mounta'n engine. No. , 1,337, twin of the New Pacific super heater locomotive thtit figured In the Stamford wreck of last June, ploughed plough-ed through the two parlor cars of the liar Harbor express. For several minutes after the first shock there was silence, tho passengers passen-gers said, and then sounded the screams of the wounded. Passengers from both trains turned out to the work of rescue. |