Corning, N. Y., July 5.—The wreck
of Lackawanna passenger train No. 9
and express train No. 11, in which
forty-one persons were killed add
more than fifty injured, at Gibson,
three miles east of here, was due,
according to Engineer Schroeder of
the express, to hie failure to see
signals set against his train.
The morning was foggy and the ex
press train* going at a rate of sixty
five miles an hour, crashed half way
through the passenger, which was at
a standstill Many of the victims
were excursionists goimg to Niagara
Falls.
The wrecked train stood on the
main track, blocked by a .. crippled
freight train. There was no* flag out,
according to Engineer Schroeder.
The signals, which he declared It was
too foggy to see, were just around a
curve. The flying express plunged
past them and crashed into the rear
of No. 9, bringing death to over two
jBpore of its passengers.
Schroeder had taken No. 11 at "E1
mira fifteen minutes before. It was a
few minutes late. ,The stretch of
track from Elmira to Corning ts fitted
for fast running and he was sending
his train along at sixty-five miles an
hour. No. 9 was supposed to be half
an hour ahead of him. He had no
warning until he made out the out
line of the rear coe.ch of No. 9
through the fog. Then he threw in
the reverse without shutting off the
steam.
The jerk threw the train off the
track and the locomotive iplunged on
to splinter'the two day coaches 'filled
with excursionists and tear through
the last of the Pullman's. Schroeder
said the Impact threw him from the
cab and landed him on his shoulder
on the roadbed, practically unhurt.
