Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1919 — IDENTIFY ALL OF WRECK VICTIMS [ARTICLE]

IDENTIFY ALL OF WRECK VICTIMS

Twenty-Two Persons Were Killed on New York Central’s Wol- • verine Express. LIST OF DEAD GIVEN OUT Engineer's Tale Refuted by Flagman's Statement of Lighted Fuse and Danger Signals of the Automatic, Says Report. Batavia, N. Y., Jan. IL—All of the 22 persons killed in the wreck of the New York Central’s Wolverine express at South Byron had been identified with some degree of certainty. The list follows: Capt. Franklin E. Leonard, Jr., Grand Rapids, Mich. Herman Harvey, Grand Haven, Mich. Ballard Jones, negrp porter, New fork. Thomas B. Cummings, New York. Mrs. Jennie Levine, New York. Henry W. Sears, 333 Washington street. Grand Rapids, Mich. R. 0. Parker, Grand Rapids, Mich. Miss N. Delaney, 427 Union avenue, Grand Rapids, Mich. Miss Grace Remington, 132 Fulton street, Grand Rapids, Mich. George Rigby, New York. Patrick R. Dougherty, 412 West Fifth street, Flint, Mich. Mrs. Patrick R. Dougherty, his wife, who died yesterday. Mrs. Ledeaux, 110 Henry street, Detroit, Mich. . Simon Ledeaux, three-year-old son of Mrs. Ledeaux. Anna Ledeaux, five-year-old daughter of Mrs. Ledeaux. Celia Grauman, 240 Woodward avenue, Detroit, Mich. S. J. Adams, New York. Mrs. Henrietta Hollister, Brooklyn. Capt. F. Staud-Jiminez, New York. Mrs. Staud-Jiminez, New York. Philip Levi, Norfolk, Va. William Johnson, Detroit, Mich.

Lickermans Will Recover. Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Lickermnn of Chicago, who are in the hospital here, will recover, it was said. Railroad officers who have been investigating conflicting statements regarding the collision, declared that they could see no explanation of the cause of the wreck. John Friedley of Buffalo, engineer of the Southwestern Limited, maintiflned that no block signal was set against his train and that -he saw no warning light until lie was within a few car lengths of the Wolverine. In his statement he was supported by his fireman. J. R. Dinan, superintendent of the western division, declared he could not explain the accident. Found Fusee Lighted. New York, Jan. 14.—New York Central officials issued a statement from C. P. Babcock, flagman on the Southwestern Limited, tending to confirm the statement of the Wolverine Limited flagman that he lighted a red fusee at least 25 car lengths behind his train. Walking east, he overtook the flagman of the Wolverine and together they proceeded to the automatic signal tower, where they placed torpedoes on the tracks. Babcock,, said the statement, tfoticed that the automatic signal was set at “danger.” He later re turned to the sigdfcl tower with Engineer Friedley and found it still at “danger.”