Rail Wreck Inquiry Opens Today
An inquiry into a major rail crash begins as Lackawanna reports the wreck on a main line when a way freight moved too far and fouled No 3. The Limited collided, 19 of 27 bodies removed from a fifth coach, 300 feet of track torn up, repair crews working to clear the line.
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Lackawanna
New York
Driscoll
Elmira
NL Y
Y.M.C.A
Groveland
N. Y
James £. Leroy
Buffalo
Limited
Waydand
Evie
Lehigh
Soldiers Help Save Passengers in Steam Emergency
Soldiers aboard a Lackawanna Limited train in Wayland hastily faced a scalding steam leak from outside. They removed shoes, smashed windows, and charged the car doors to rescue frightened passengers as cries filled the coach.
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Henrietta Gibson
United Press
Wayland
Lackawanna Limited
Sream
Smoothpack
Train Disaster Injures Passengers and Porter
In a sudden derailment the last coach jolted violently causing water to flood aisles one to two feet deep. Passengers burned while fleeing through windows and over seats. a Negro porter remained calm as many were helped out. The narrator suffered a burned hand and shock. Mrs Gibson of 118 Cedar Street Corning is mentioned.
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Gibson
Cedar Street
Corning
Identified Dead in Wayland Wreck Details Rail Losses
The tentative list names dead and injured from the Wayland train wreck. Officials identify Fred H. Meineke of Scranton as locomotive supervisor and list victims including Catherine Elliott of New York and Henrietta Smith of Brooklyn. The report notes a Ryan PT-25 plane with wooden wings, tail, and structure as part of the era’s training craft.
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Wayland
Fred H. Meineke
Scranton
Catherine Elliott
New York
Helen Foster
Binghamton
N.Y
Clayton Roloson
Bath
Mercury Aircraft Corp
Hammondsport
N. J
Margaret Grumbach
Cleveland
Volunteer Harvesters Among Dead
Sixteen metropolitan women who volunteered for a vacation harvest trip were among the dead and injured in the Lackawanna Railroad New York to Buffalo Limited wreck. At least eight were dead, ages 16 to 50, including secretaries, clerks, office workers, housewives, and war plant workers. Names and addresses of the dead are listed, with injured and uninjured members noted. representatives from the employment service planned to assist identification in Wayland.
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New York
Lackawanna Railroad
New York-Buffalo
U. S. Employment Service
War Manpower Commission
Silver Creek
Dunkirk
Henrietta Smith
West End Avenue
Brooklyn
Catherine Elliott
West 114Th Street
Anna BE. Heyman
Barberry Street
Margaret Sauttex
Springsdale Avenue
East Orange
Helen Pfaff
the Bronx
Jeanne Rankine
Essex Street
Rahway
N. J
Anna Pfaff
64Th Street
Ridgewood
Mass Pfaff
Ida Rosen
Department of Labor
Market Avenue
Agnes Hodge
Biscuit Packer
15Th Street
Employment Service Office
Wayland
Stephentown P T A Remarks and School Opening Plan
Stephentown Mrs Roy Kenyon will teach in Berlin Central School next year. A special business meeting of the United Stephentown Districts Parent Teacher Association executive committee was held Wednesday evening at Mrs Emma L McFeely’s home. Schools opening Sept 7 will have the following.
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Roy Kenyon
Berlin
United Stephentown Districts
Emma L. McFeely
Miss Margaret Fischer and Marie Fitzgerald in Stephentown
Names Margaret Fischer of North Stephentown and Marie Fitzgerald of Stephentown village appear in a local notices item. The fragment hints at residents involved in a community event or notice without additional context. Further details are unreadable in the supplied text.
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Margaret Fischer
North Stephentown
Marie Fitzgerald
Stephentown Village
Mrs. Helen Stuart in Sweet District Sidney Heckler
Sidney Heckler of Stephentown is named in connection with Mrs. Helen Stuart of Sweet District in a brief society notice.
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Helen Stuart
Sweet District
Sidney Heckler
Stephentown
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Mildred Cohen
Jersey City
Dorothy Middleton
Anne Chelko
Mavis King
Williamsville
Margaret Sautter
Frances Ripley
Helen Piaf
William Clayton Davie
Granton
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Betty
Margaret Flegg
New York City
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Mary Eynon
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Mary
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