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Show DEATH TOLL IN RAILWAY HORROR REACHES 42 1 GREW FAILS TO I SEE SIGNAL IS BELIEF PORTER. Ind . Feb 28. Forty-wS bodies had been recovered today front H the wrck last night when the Can- H adlau and the Interstate limited n tb-t H Michigan Central and the New York. Central lines, respectively, crashed H a crossing here. It was a diamond- H shaped crossing, permitting the New H York Central train, which struck as 1 the other sprawled, derailed, across H the intersection, to rake two Michigan H Central cars instead of cutting them I at right afigles bH The Michigan Central train had missed block signals said to be set H against It, and had been derailed by th. automatic block system. It plunged ahead on the ties until It came to re.-i H across the New York Central right of way. with two day coaches at the point of Intersection H PASSENGERS DOOMED At nearly sixty miles an hour the New York Central train came on, the glare of Its headlight warning many lot the doomed passengers, who leaped from their seats. ( ne or two reached i the doors but not one escaped the I The New York Central mogul loco-, loco-, motive w-as stripped as It hit, wreck age flying up above the telegraph wires with a cloud of dust that wit-InesaSa wit-InesaSa likened to an explosion Bodies jof several passengers were carried with the locomotive and burled beneath It. i All the dead were In the two Mich- SB lgan Central coaches, which carried few through passengers- L'pwarda of fifty persons bound for Quebec, Mon-treal Mon-treal and Toronto were aboard the eastbound Canadian train. Their car-' were not much damaged. The New York train was hound for Chicago. SIGN i MAN TAIJLS A ata lenient by Towrrman J. C-Cook, C-Cook, on duty at the crossing declar d the block two miles away was Sj i against the Michigan Central train while the track was left clear for the N. e York Central train. Railroad of- I Engineer w. f. Long, of JacJuoh. Mich., who escaped unhurt, declaro.l he had received a clear signal and had che. Ri Hi early today for his home. The .New- York Centra) had plowed through the middle of the other train. Ail except the two baggage ana mail cars of the New York Centra! train remained upright, although bit- of the wooden coaches of the Michigan Central train were scattered for fifty yards Passengers In the four coaches of the Michigan Central train behind the two death cars were unhurt except for the shakcup and all of the passer-gers passer-gers on the New York Central cscapeu HI Mis c iRN H Tor no reason that roltroad o(fic!aD could assign, almost all of the dead taken to the little morgue at Chestet ton. across the ttacks from Porter. 'ireeeiverf their fatal wounds in' the H head. Some were decapitated, nc-counting nc-counting for the failure to Identify nine of the 25 which had been taken there up to t o'clock. The first group of those critics injured was rushed in an ambulance to Michigan City. Ind.. and two of them died on the way- Railroad offi-cials offi-cials expressed the belief early tods) I ilia', all of th.. others injured would , I recover. Hospitals and private homes at Michigan City and Gary received the injured, according to the charac-tcr charac-tcr of the Injuries- Records of the Michigan Central train disclosed a large number of rail-road rail-road employes, traveling on passes, be- I lleved to have been on the wrecked train, but they could not be found. Efforts of volunteer doctors and nurses from Michigan City and Gar to rush the injured to hospitals led I to confusion In the check of railroad I officials upon the list of casualties. N I UBISR 1 I N.H RED Railroad officials had no definite i earlj todaj i he nun, . H ..f seriously injured persons as they to Michigan ty and Gar; H by different groups of volunteers in aUtOS and ambulances. It Is bolleve.l that they numbered not more than " The engine of the New York Cent: i train burst through the wooden OOeohes With such force that II whirled half a round and started a blaze In ! the wreckage. Porter citizens dragged out a hose and quickly extinguished the fire. Within a short time lights In the upright coaches of both trains were turned on again from an emergency 'connection and any semblance ol panic among the uninjured was al-layed, al-layed, while the unhurt ministered to those hurled from their scuts but still living. ENGINEER Kll.LFH Bodies of Engineer Claude Johnson. of Elkhart. Ind.. and Fireman tiorg Deland. of Klkhart. engine crow on H tho New York Central truln. were re- mj covered from beneath their smashed locomotive I Engineer W. F. Long, of Jackson. Mich., and Fireman QeOrgS Block, of H I Michigan City, Ind. were able to savo themselves, their engine being fat be-vend be-vend the point of the collision- ll NIBS BL mi "I was not to blame." TowermaB H i , i on tinned .m Pagsj Cwo Crew Fails to See i Signal Is Belief M'oniinuod from Piufo One.) Ouok told an Associated Fres ropro-isntutivs ropro-isntutivs at his home in Ohesierton early today. '! throw the block, sgitlnst the M)chlrjiu CenlrvJ train while It waa two miles back from the crossing. I do not know why they failed to catch tho signal." An official statement Issued from the ohiof dispatcher of tho Michigan I Central at Chicago also daclurad the I Michigan Central engine crew appar-I appar-I ently failed to observo that tho oross-1 oross-1 Injr .ilt'nal was sot against them. |