Evening Star Newspaper, December 10, 1923, Page 5

* fog. " The Inquiries were instituted by GKILLED IN CRASH OF TRAIN SECTIONS Signals Ignored in Fog Cause Tragic Collision of Twen- tieth Century. Br the Asoctated Prexs. FORSYTH, N, Y., December 10— Tour investigations were launched to- day into the wreck of the New York Central‘"Twentleth Century Limited" near here vesterday, when nine per- sons were killed and a number of passengers injured, five seriously. i the authorfties of Chautauqua county. New York, and representatives of the New York public service commission, the Interstate Commerce Commission and the railroad company Physiclans attending the five per- sons who were serlously hurt, and who were taken to a hospital at Erfe. Pa., sald that there was no change in their condition. The bodies of the vietims also were taken to Erfe. Speeding on past ca ition signals in an attempt gain iifteen minutes lost ti sction of the train crashe sleeping car at the end of ‘tion, early willlam E. veteran base of the New who, with i 0 1 ball playr. Haven number ¢ including | of ti to C Toute ball List of Dead. ad Parnell, New York city, (“Wild Bill") Donovan, h street, Philadelphia, man- New Haven base ball club. A 4 Mrs. Richard M. Sullivan, Springfield, 111 Mr. 2031 Arec ager of t 5 Wind tureman, 214 R. street, Springfield, ton Carl D. 5649 Winthrop . Chicago, known injured _ George E. Van Hagen. 5 North Dearborn street, Chicago, severe Kinsey Van Hagen, jr, severe injuries John Zanft, Yerk, broken 1 D. Kingey, 56 © of the Chicazo 501 West 113th street, arm Winthrop place, Mausie Col- Batlev, Lake Shore Drive Hotel, Chicago, released from hospital Hy the Associated Press. HICAGO, December 10.—A story of a gray-haired engineer who stood with tears streaming down his grime- smeared face and amid the hiss of escaping steam a few minutes after the wreck admitted that he ignored stop slgnals as he rushed through the night was told here last night by John Lysle, publisher of the New Budford, Mass., Daily Sun, and a pas- senger on the first section of the Twentieth Century on which nine persons dled in a wreck near For- sythe, N. Y., yesterday. The engineer was Charles Patterson of Cleveland; for twenty-six years pilot, and the man who held the throftle of the third section locomo- tive as it crashed into the first sec- tion. Says Blame Admitted. Lysle declared that Patterson, a few minutes after the accident, ad- mitted to him that he had been to uestioned the en- | sineer, Patterson,” Lysle was quated as saying, “he told me he had left Westfleld, five miles from Dead-Man's | crossing, where six people were killed only last week, fifteen minutes late | and was speeding to make up time. | Three miles out from Westfield, he | sald, he saw a yellow caution light, and’ slowed down from fifty- five to fifty miles an was foggy and raining hour. It A second | side of the track. She was dead and mangled. 1 covered her with a orown blanket and placed a lantern by her side, “A heavy fog settled down on the wreck. It began to rain. 1 could see that pitiful blonde head In the lantern’s gleam. It was terrible. HEROES OF WRECK. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Proves His Metal. Among the passengers on one the sections in the collision of s tions of the twentieth century limited vesterday was Douglas Fairbanks, jr. son of the motion picture actor. Dr. O. C. Thoren, a woman physician, tescribed his help.. “I noticed one | young man who worked like fury.”! he said. “He was everywhere. helped with dressings. He carry the injured back to the lvlll'l‘ . He found husbands for hyster- iwal wives. This morning [ learned | that he was Douglas Fairbanks. Jr. | Last night he was mere screen hero. Another woman be: man doctor proved h as a result of the wree to passengers arrivin nma Washington, one of the passengers. and ministered to tne equal energy and skill the wreck she was observ .ng_windows of the obser with an ax. Then when the injured | were being taken from the car. she | the wo- | 1f a herotne | k, ac rurdxn | negro maid of he wieldedanax injured with | Just after 1 smash- after trea t M e Hyde Park minor hurts. hapel street, New Hav “president of the New Haveh base ball club Left Fiftceng Minutes Late. At Albany the first of the three Sections of the train experienced en- gine trouble and the second section was ordered to go on. The first and the third pulled out fiftcen minutes Iate, train crews said Near Forsyth the second section, now lcading, plowed through an au- tomobile whi 4 stalled on _the grade crossing. The occupants, three Pittburgh men, W. 8. Strattford, ¢ 'H. Harney and B. Maler, had jumped to safety. As the next sec- tion pulled rast the scene of the h-up rew noticed the flaming Jutomobile and brought the train to & stop to see if he ould be ren- dered any of the occupants of thej automobile While the train was stopped the third section came thundering on through the blinding rain and heavy The red warning flares and a brakeman fraatically waving hi lantern a ‘n length away were naticed too Inte by Engineer Cha Patterson Cleveiand, who piloting the engine Two Slecpers Overthrown. 1633 of was ushing applied and the track sanded, but the terrific mo- mentum carrled the llmited on through the rear car of the standing train with such force that it over- turned two other Pullman sleepers. Their steel construction alone saved the lives of their occupants, rallroad officiale sald Jolted out The brakes were of ll|ur berths by the mpact, passengers of both trains bent to the work of extricating the dead and Injured from the fated sleeper. Soon these forces were aided by farm- ers from the countryside, who for a time, with their lanterns, supplied the only light. Crossbars and axes were used to through the debris of the wreck- car, in an effort to reach the cken. A relief train sped on from . Pa., thirty-five miles west, fol- lowed by a wreck outfit Cut Through Car. Before all the dead or some of the more serious injured could be re- moved it was necessary to hack away the top of the telescoped car. Wild Bill Donovan was among the last taken from the car. His body was discovered by Mr. Heydler. . In a statement to newspaper men Engineer Charles Patterson of Buf- falo said he had noticed the yellow warning signais along the block and uccordingly cut his speed tol five from sixty miles. The red! discernible a limited distance away because of the fog did not give im time to avert the collision, he aid. He estimated his train was making twenty miles an hour when | it struck the sectfon in front of it. Woman Only Doctor. The only physician on either of the trains in the wreck was a wom- an, Dr. O. C. Thoren of Chicago. Dressed only in a nightgown and a cape, which some one tossed over| her shoulders, she worked tirelessly | until the relief train took the in- jured to hospitals. “The first thing 1 can remember.” | she said, “was a terrible scream and the next thing I knew I was tossed | out into the aisle of our car and was struck on the head by a suit case! falling from some place. At first I couldn’t think of anything. It was pitch dark. i Every story 1 had read of a train wreck flashed across my memory. 1 scrambled to my feet and made my way as best I could, sometimes on my hands and knees and sometimes on my feet, to the front of the car. T must have.stepped on many people. 1 remember that the car was on its slde and all the berths were made up. “Some kind man helped me through the door and there I was in the open. I couldn't seem to think vet, and then the sounds of the terrible suf- fering brought me'to myself. 1 guess it was the call to duty, I had on my shoes, 1 noticed. but don’t remember putting them on.” Features of Wreek. The three outstanding features of the wreck, according to President Heydler, who was in the first sec- tion, which was rammed by the third, twere the coolness and bravery of passengers and train crew, the life- saving property of steel cars and the tragie picture of one of the dead women who lay by the side of the! track. “We saw the little lady sitting on the platform of the observation car as we took our train in' New York,. #e sald: -“A few hours later wé saw her lifted through the t roof ] ogue, son of was agaln found tearing up sheets and providing the injured with emer- gency blankets and pillows foraged from sleeping cars. START WRECK PROBE. Interstate Commerce Commission Sends Investigators. Immediate steps were taken yester- day by the Interstate Commerce Com- mission_to investigate the fatal wi 5 “the Twentieth Contiry New Fork Central train in New York vesterday. Within two hours after the accident had occurred experts of the bureau of safety of the commissiaqn were at the scene, according to W. P. Borland, chiof of the bureau. Rallroads are required to report all accidents as soon as they occur to the commission, but in additfon the commission under- tukes 1ls own Investigation of the uses of the accident and publishes themi. Commission officials would not comment on the cause of the accident prior to a report from investigators for the federal regulatory body. 16 ADMITTED TO BAR. Willlam C. De Lacy, son of Wil- liam H. De Lacy, former judge of the Juvenile Court, ‘and James J. Man William H. Manogue of were admitted to Supreme Court of the local bar, practice before the the District of Columbia today on motion of John Paul Earnest, chair- man of the examining committee. The young men passed successfully the examinations last June, but were traveling in the orient when the Oc- tober admissions were held. Both are graduates of Georgetown Univer- sity. Others admitted to practice were George M. Stackhouse of South Caro- lina, Gerald E. Dufty of lllinois, Kingman Brewster of Massachusetts M. Randolph Calhoun, W. Jule Day, George E. Holmes, New York C. Humphreys, Kentucky; 3 H. Lane, Virginia; Leo W. Morrissey, New York; Elwell B. Murphy, Texas; John E. Quintrell, Tennessee; J. Earl Pratt, Kentucky: Carl Frederick von dem Bussche of Montana and Dennis Wheelock of Wisconsin GIRL SHOT WITH OWN GUN BLOOMINGTON. Ind, December 16.—While attending a motion pic- ture show here Saturday night Miss Mario Snoddy. eighteen-year-old high chool girl. was shot and almost In- stantly killed by _a revolver she had in her pocket. The shooting is be- licved to have been accldental. but Coroner J. Reed is Investigating. o rcason for the girl carrying the weapon has been learned by the police. The theater was thronged with a Saturday night crowd. which was thrown Into _an uproar. Engineer Confesses Ignoring Signals, Newspaper Man Says | curding to the law, and set the flares. | senger, was slightly injured Parker’s Pharmacy, North Capitol and Rhode Island Ave., just to leave your Clas- nfied Ads for The Star with Parler’s Pharmacy they will be taken care of—forward- No wonder The Star _prints MORE Classified Ads every day than all the other papers here combined. ! THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. WOMAN WOUNDED; MAN UNDER ARREST Mrs. Bessie Denny Likely to yellow signal cautioning him to slow down flashed past, the engineer said. Too Late to Stop. “‘Then 1 saw the flares and the brakeman running toward me, wav- ing a lantern,’” Lysle quoted the | engineer as having safd. ‘I sanded the tracks and applied the brakes, but it was too late. I was golng only twenty miles an hour by the time I hit zection No. L. Lysle said he was not satisfied with the engineer’s story and sought Ack- crman, the brakeman from the first section, who was supposed to have flageed the third section. “Patterson’s a damned liar,” Lysle quoted Ackerman as having declared angrily. “When our train stopped,” Lysle sald the brakeman told him, ran back the length of our, traln, a “Then 1 ran toward the oncoming | train, waving my lantern. It flashed | past me going at least forty-five or fifty miles an hour. A minute later it smashed into the rear of our train.” Sobs Out Confesalon. It was then, Lysle said, that the old engineer broke down. Confronted b Ackerman, Lysle sald, the pilot bab- | bled for a time ineoherently, the disconnectedly admitted that he ignored the ‘danger signals. Then, le said, he started sobbing and | murmuring his praver: Why didn't 1 stop? I thought I'd have time to slow down if anything came up. But I didn't. Passengers struggled about in the darkness immediately after the crash, Lysle said, until some one thought to fire a bundle of blankets. TWO PRIESTS HURT IN AUTO COLLISION Rev. Robert Froehlich Ex- pected to Recover—Rev. Peter Guilday Only Bruised. let a to on wh Rev. Robert Froehlich, assistant pas- tor of St. Augustine’s Catholic Church, | who served as chaplain overseas dur- ing the world war, was seriously in- jured in an automobile accident In | front of 624 L street northwest about 5 o'clock this morning. Rev. Peter Guilday, professor of history at Catho- lic University, who was driving the car which Rev. Froehlich was & pas- Father Guilday administered the rites for the dying while awaiting for amublance to convey his injured brot - priest to Emergency Hospital. The latter regained consciousness after reaching the hospital Recovery Is Expected. The assistant pastor had been on a visit to a brother of the Catholic Un! versity professor and was being driven home when the accident happened. Rain and fog contributed to the acci- dent, it ed, and pol e were lohl that there was no parkir ma ine that Father (‘,ulldu ruck The seriously injured man spent a ocomfortable ni . Jt was said at the hospital this morning that his condition was much Improved and that his recovery is expected. Nobis Godfrey, fourteen vears old. and his twelve-vear-old brother, Jack Gaoifrey, residing at Pennsylvania and Alabama avenues southeast. were injured last night about 10 o'clock as a result of a collision between their bicycle and the auto- mobile of Lester E. Plerce, 109 Ala- bama avenue southeast Wheels of the automobile passed over the younger boy's legs, frac- turing one ankle and otherwise in- juring him, whila Noble sustained injuries to his head and legs. They were taken to Emergency Hospital, where it was said they probably will recover. Charles colored, thirty-five ears old, heridan road sout was d down yester: ternoon in front of his home by automobile driven by Ollie Kerrick, a neighbor, and painfully injured. He was ziven first aid at Emergency Sospital. g While running to board a street car at Pennsylvania -avenue and 26th street last night about 11 o'clock, Sergt. E. F. Allen of the eighth police precinct, residing at 1022 26th strect, tripped over a “free air’ rub- ber hose, fell and sustained painful injuries to his knees. He was able to resume his journey to the station. s, 1615 13th street . was knocked down last night about 10.30 o'clock by an auto- mobile at 13th and U streets north- west. Jones, who escaped injury, reported the failure of the driver of the machine to stop and make known his identity. R. V. Sinclair, police chauffeur. sprained his back while trying to start the first precinct patrol wagon in the garage in rear of the station ! early this morning. He received treatment. at Emergency Hospital. WEBSTER ELECTRIC CO. 719 O §t.NW. Complete, re- f duced to. .. A.B.C Q Wireless Sets 1 Tube, re- 514 o8 4 duced to. A $5.00 EVERY ARTICLE FULLY GUARANTEED Lights--Spocial sm IF YOU HAD A NECK as' LONGASTHIS ¥ FELLOW, AND HAD SORE THROAT Suffering from bullet her twenty-four years old. place northwest, is a patient in Emer- geney critical and surgeons fear she cannot recover. Charles Shore, forty years old, 211 Tth street rest, charged with having shot her. Shore was arrested by Detectives Flaherty and Fowler two hours after | the shooting. which is said to have taken place about 4:30 Sunday morn- ing. avenue hotel, where he had reglistered without any attempt to conceal identity. the shooting., and claimed acted in self-defense, although he de- clared he did not intend that the bul- Shore declared, frighten her, never intending the | ant early vesterda reporter pre: was aroused by ¢ with Shore Denny started after him with a sharp | street. arving knife and frying pan sald he warned shoot if she did not desist, and fired | and that her first husband was named et e mm&h&ammh&@m&m@m&m&&m&&m@m&m&a&@&m@m@a@m%mm@a@m@m&m&m&@m@%« Die After Fight in Apartment. wounds Bessle 1% in Denny, Grant abdomen, Mrs. Hospital. Her condition is northwest, is under ar- He was found in a Pennsylvania his He is sald to have admitted to have should take effect. Admission Clalmed. “The woman was attacking me with carving knife and frylng pan.” “and 1 fired the shot bullet should strike her. Police nephew of the degendant, Lewls Relchert, :siding in the apartment of Charles sald that Edward sa companion, met Mrs. Denny and Florence a companion, roome: Grant place, in a4 Chinese restan v morning and in- 1 them to the Shore apartment S told a Star| nothing of thei apartment until he ¢ of the young men o sald they were having troubl the women. sald he intervened and Mrs. he knew sence in hix He her that he would { the shot to €righten her. Leaving the scene of the shooting, 3%%@‘&%@&%@%2@2%@%@'{@ Men Like! & Will Be Found at George’s Gifts “A warm blanket bath robe is fine to lounge around in You know the colors I like —they should fit loosely.” Blanket BATH ROBES Button-to-neck Style Bath Robes, with girdle. Good pat- terns in new shades Roll - collar, Button - front Blanket Bath Robes, with either belt or girdle. All the popular colors - Roll-collar Bath Robes, with button front and girdle, trim- med with silk cord. Three useful pockets and d: gift. city. “A sweater is somethingl need — just the right thing for out-o’doors these chilly days. Sure would like one as a gift.” front Sweaters, in navy and heather. A° good value at - Veneck, Snug, Warm Sweaters, in heather mixtures. Two and four pocket models. 3 Pull-over models, with large, warm shawl col- lars, in all the newest . shades. - The best values n_tow! Shore. | and Henry | both ina house | | e | before the BATH ROBE Lined Kid Gloves, warm sewn seams. Auto Gauntlets —in all largest assortment in the Lined and Unlined Du- plex Gloves, a good value MONDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1923. CHURCH TO PRESENT | CHRISTMAS PAGEANT| Composition of Rev. Dr. Pierce to‘ *Be Staged at First ' | Congregational. Il The First Congregational Chureh | is to teach the story of Christ’s birth by means of a Christmas pageant with music, arranged from the Bible ! by the minister, Rev. Dr. Jason Noble | | Plerce. | The Christmas pageant is enittled} “When Christ Was Born" and is com- | posed of seven episodes, or separate | lacts. A cast of forty-two characters | will be seen on the stage, while the | music be rendered by an Invisible | chorus. The costuming will be hl!-. | torically exact, and the lighting ef- fects will be elaborate. Estelle Wentworth, as the Virgin | ary, and Albert Parr, as the Angel | Gabriel, will again direct the presen tations and will be supported by a! strong company of talented artists. The first presentation will be next! Sunday night, and the entire pageant | Will be repeated every night of the | week, excepting Saturday, concluding on Sunday night, December 23. In making the announcement Sunday services yesterday Dr. Plerce | sald: “It is unusual for this church | to give a pageant on Sunday. We || haye spared no expense of time nr‘ money te make this pageant a great | success. The world needs to know the | story of the birth of Christ. ‘When | '{hrlx( Was Born' is a Bible |vagl‘an!“ which will_tell the story with fine dramatic offect. We anticipate that it | will be given to crowded audiences and | | will do great good. This jus Ifi the | cost which makes it possible at i II" Tyler hurried to police headquarters and told Detective Em- t cheif of detectives, of the | The wounded woman had been | cene of the shooting | arrival of the d the ri rt of the pistol shot hl\\lhgr attracted attention of persoms on the | "nfl'nir taken from the Police say they learned that Mrs | Denny's malden name was Luckett | Cooksey. She is sald to have rela- | tives in Maryland. 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