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Show SHnr TOiar Number of Dead Now Total 23--There Are 37 injured Middlet'iwn, U. July ."..Three Tio-tin.:-, of. the wrut of the Big Four New York tlyer yesterday dud frun their iujurtew during lh. night, bringing bring-ing tho total dead in 2.1. Report from mo hospital In Diy-toii Diy-toii and Hamilton, w here Many of t'.o 37 injured were taker., Indicate that a number of the-o Wlll die. Souk- f thrni jire lrlghtfiilly lnjuinl. The-names The-names of thoe who died during the r.lgbt wito Edward Dnnley, ...! luy-ton. luy-ton. Edard Cain of Dayton, and N 11-11am 11-11am Anirlue. residence unknown. Imnky is 11 cousin of William Dun-ley Dun-ley wbe-io name was in the list of dead given out last night. All the bodies have been blcutii:.d but one. It is that of a woman aim-it 43 years of age. The wrecking crews were working all nU'ht and today the track w.U cleared. No mure bodies were f,md . In the debris. Officials are now ni- gaged in trying to place tho blame fr the wreck. It I almost certain thai In addition to the coroner's Imiuctt an investigation investiga-tion of the disaster will he made by the Ohio railway commission. Both tbo Dig Fur and the Cincinnati-Hamilton & Dayton railroads. It Is said, are endeavoring to play the responsibility responsi-bility for the accident on the other. It I said that the state rall.oad commission com-mission will determine- this point. Of the killed, eighteen wcie passengers, pas-sengers, the other victims being members mem-bers of the passenger train crew. The trains were the Cincinnati section sec-tion of the Twentieth Century Limited Limit-ed on tho Cleveland. Cincinnati, Chicago Chi-cago & St. l.uU (Big Four and the j the eecond section of a freight train on the Cincinnati, Hamilton Dayton. Day-ton. Tho latter wai attempting to mako a aiding to give the passenger train a clear track when tbo fllng llml'i-d. traveling lifty miles an hour, flashed around a cure and crashed into it. The Dig Four train had been de-toured de-toured to avoid a track blocked by a freight wreck earher in the day. Orders Not Understood. A misunderstanding of orders caused caus-ed tho disaster. The euglnc crews had time, uo jump and all escaped. AH the dead and iu-J iu-J u red were in the llrst two cars, the smoker and the day coach. Every feat In this coach waj torn from Us fastening, tho roof via thrown to one side and massive timbers tim-bers from a freight car. hurled with a full forco, struck among the mon and women In the coach. Even before be-fore tho crash came, rescuers were running to the wreck from the Mid-dlotown Mid-dlotown station. |