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-vr FORECAST Warmer Temperatures yesterday: High, MO drjerrra: low, 54 degrees text Til I T7 A Jhls newspaper la served bv Associated Press. United liliil J- X-iVA. Press. International News and Gannett National Service. 22 Pages ROCHESTER.

N. TUESDAY, AUGUST 31. 1913 7 P. FOUR CENTS OKLDtME kit (smm wmim 24 MULM9 tW OPA TO LIFT GASOLINE BAN AT MIDNIGHT Many of Victims Scalded As Escaping Steam Pours Into Their Smashed Coach Wayland Trapped in coaches turned into veritable boilers by wild live steam and pinned in twisted baggage cars, at least 24 persons were killed and upwards of 110 injured late yesterday when the crack Lackawanna Flyer 3 sideswiped a freight engine a quarter of a mile east of the Wayland depot. The dead and injured men, women and children mainly were in one coach, the steel wall of which was penetrated by the partially; overturned freight engine.

Live steam roared into the narrow confines of the coach, scalding its nearly 60 passengers. The wreck was one of the worst in recent years in the history of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, and of Western New York. The Flyer, carrying 500 passengers and roaring through Wayland at high speed, clipped the freight engine as that locomotive either was backing into or leaving the siding near the start of a wide, gentle main line, curve just east of the depot. Engine Breaks Through Car Wall r4-vv -f rate) i i I a. ft iff i -'IV-' 4 ifamiMimnl.

-rtf iljaiffli if "nntnni mM nnw imljii Mm j-gfry iisi sZZ Witnesses reported that the speeding Flyer left the tracks, and that the following three baggage, mail and diner cars were tossed crossways on the main line. The freight engine, which had a few cars attached, flopped around, scraped the sides of the first three coaches, breaking windows. The seventh car received the lethal blow, when the engine broke through its sturdy wall and scalding, sizzling steam enveloped th interior, escaping; from the broken cylinder of the freight hauler. The wreck came about 5:22 p. m.

as the flyer was roaring: through Wayland, where it stops only on flag. The first of the dead to be identified was Frank H. Meincke of Scranton, superintendent of locomotives for the who was believed riding in the cab of the flyer engine and was thought to have been trapped when he leaped out as the engine overturned. The crash was viewed by Steuben County Deputy Sheriff Arthur Clearwater of Wayland, who was driving across an overhead bridge nearby, lie immediately radioed from his police ear to the sheriffs olTiee where Sheriff Renjamin II. Balcom sounded a three-county call for medical services.

Panic broke out among the passengers in the seventh coach, the only coach of the 13 in lie train seriously affected. Soldier Felt Engine Leave Track Corp. Wade Gibson, USA, 22, of Scranton, en route to Gowan Field, Poise, a former railroad worker, and occupant of the fatal eoaeh, said he "felt the engine leave the track, and then the next thing 1 knew the car was filled with, live steam. "I pushed the man in the seat next to me to the floor and. then started kicking out the windows.

Suddenly, I slipped and fell out a Gibson suffered a severe gash Drivers Returned To Honor System; Told to Save Washington (UP) Tlic nPA lat night lifted the East- t'ru states pleasure driving ban. effective at midnight today. However it asked motorists to restrict their use of gasoline volun tarily to that absolutely necessary for essential uses. The action means that East Coat motorists will return to the honor system" first invoked last March by Price Administrator Prentiss M. Brown fend in effect until the ban on unessential driv ing was clamped down in May Thcie was no increase in the islue of or coupons Reliable sources reported, how ever, that OPA plans a vigorous drive to reduce the number of and coupons issued in the shortage area to effect the greatest possible saving of gasoline.

OPA officials, it was said, plan to visit boards to urge them to cut the supplemental rations to the bare minimum. Joint Announcement The announcement was made by the OPA and the Petrol eum Administration for War, which warned that lifting of the' ban "should not be interpreted as meaning that there is an increased sup- riy of gasoline now available for "Unrestricted pleasure driving Is out as long as gasoline is needed tjr our fighting forces," the agen cies said. "It therefore has been determined to rely on the patriotism of car owners and tc discontinue stopp'u? cars on the highway to determine the purpose for which they are being used." The formal announcement came fome eignt hours after it had instructions to lift the ban had been forwarded to all local ration boards in the affected states Miint-, New Hampshire, Vermont. Massachusetts, Khode Island. Connecticut, New York, Jersey, -Pennsylvania, Delaware.

Virginia, the eight eastern counties of West Virginia and the- Dist.ict of Columbia. Enforcement Difficult The agencies conceded that enforcement of the ban had been 'difficult" and had raised considerable protest from motorists stopped by enforcement officers. They ali! persons hired in enforcing the ban now will be used In e. 'vijroroiw prosecution of those who engage and participate in black market gasoline operations at the expense of law-abiding citizens who are patriotically supporting their government in this time of war." Lifting of the ban means that motorists no longer will be required to obtain ration board permits for vacation driving on basic rations system invoked in mid-July after Eastern congressmen had brought pressure to permit their constituents some measure of vacation driving. But it was thought likely motorists may be urged to voluntarily forego long vacation trips and restrict themselves to places close to home.

Fulfills Promise It fulfills a conditional promise made by Acting OPA Chief Chester Bowie Aug. 13. when the value of A and coupons in 21 Midwest. Southwest and Gulf States was reduced from four to three gallons. He said then the ban would be lifted if motorists adhered strictly to the prohi! f.

r- a ,1 ctrillx- tio rtTTViibif inn during the rest of Aurust. tions would be boosted if suffiicent oi! stocks could be built up. But OPA Chief Prentiss Brown said last week it may be months before the value of coupons can be incr ea-sed. ontinueil 1'uKe Nine Half-Minute Interview QUESTION: Do you think the Danish revolt against Nazi tors will have any marked effect on the course of the war? INTERVIEWED: Mis Helen Ce i ofj Chicago, guest Ti nt 342 Fourth St. She said: Vet.

I think this is only the 4 iK'ginning of re- volt which will if spread amon? I all the con quered countries and soon provide a time and place for tin Allied inva-ijon of Europe. ZK.KMAK I Mr nuuumSmtKmn N-n MT mi "ii'Vir'n it mi'i itTT'i 'T'lT 'J At least 24 passengers were killed and 110 injured yesterday when a freight train, left in upper picture, sideswiped the crack Evening Flyer near Wayland. Shattered windows in passenger coach, through which live steam filled the interior of the car, are visible at right. Below, crowd of would-be rescuers. Note windows broken by passengers.

DEADINJURED IN RAIL CRASH Casualties In the Wayland train wreck included: Dead: Fred IL Meincke, about 50, of Scranton, supervisor of locomotive operations for the D. L. who was riding in the cab of the limited. Margaret Gramback, Cleveland. Clayton K.

Koleson, 54, of Bath, Mercury Aircraft Corporation official. Katherine Middleton, 32, of Buffalo. Mrs. Henrietta Smith, Brooklyn. Catherine Elliott, 21, of New York.

Helen Foster, Binghamton. Anna Human, Brooklyn. Injured: Margaret Sautter, 27, of East Orange, N. J. Staff Sergt, Richard L.

Franz, 23, of Marshfield, Ore. Maurice Newman, 61, of Troy. Frank J. Gruslin, 67, of Elmira baggage master. Mildred Cohen, Jersey City, X.

J. Katherine Weber, Buffalo. William Stafford, 62, of Buffalo. Julia Richmond, Staten Island. Doris Kugler, New York.

Augustus Hunt New York. Edith Schcnlleck. Staten Island. Clement Cahill, New York. Alice Raff.

New York. Robert Kaieer, 32, of Kenmore, state parole officer. F. L. Cooper, Binghamton, fireman on the locomotive.

Mrs. Harriet Gibson, 32, of Corning. Miss Jean Ranking, 27, of Rah-way, N. J. William G.

Bryant. 43, of Boston. M. 11. Lubowltz, 47, of Marble-head, Mass.

James E. LeRoy, Buffalo, engineer of the limited. Theodore Paldino, Buffalo, fireman of the limited. John Wright, Brooklyn. Edward Blackwell, Brooklyn.

Gerard Alsea, Rochelle, N. Y. Richard Ryan, New York. Walter Kienan, New York. George Macbeth, Corning, vice-president of Corning Glass Works.

Frank S. Conable, Corning, pur chasing agent of Corning Glass Works. Dr. W. C.

Taylor, Corning, chemist of Corning Glass Works. Joseph Adamer, New York. Al G. Adams, Elmira. H.

Anderson, Kenmore. Edward Breflin, Brooklyn. Frank Coyz, Bronx. Anne Chelko, Cleveland. Domine Domato, Bronx.

Mrs. C. F. Evans, Newark. Thomas Eustice, Bronx.

John Gill, Bronx Anna Hurt, New York Mrs. Pearl Jones, Chicago Mrs. A. T. Cramer, and Louise Cramer, daughter, Pottsville, Pa.

Paul King, Williamsville Lawrence Lober, Brooklyn Joseph Lavin, Bronx Louise LeRoy, Niagara Falls William Loury, Brooklyn Joseph Nay, Brooklyn. Martin Murphy, Brooklyn. Jerome Murphy, Brooklyn. Joseph O'Connor, Newark, N. J.

Margarie Paterson Niagara Falls. Helen Pfaff, Ridgcway, L. I. Penicillin Patient Still Gravely 111 Buffalo (U.P) Sisters Hospital authorities yesterday revealed the condition of Mrs. Thelma Burke, 22-year-old septicemia victim, was still critical, despite the administration of more than half of the rare drug penicillin released for her case by the Army.

Mrs. Burke was hospitalized Aug. 11, and through the efforts of her sister, Mrs. Alfred Pepe, the Army released 500,000 units of the new drug, which was flown here from Newark, N. last Monday in a specially-chartered plane.

Approximately 320,000 units already have been administered intraveneously to the victim. Infant Found Killed as Its Mother Prays Russians Mop Up Germans Trapped in Taganrog Fall London AP) The Red Army in a general break-through lias smashed the southern end of the German front, capturing the anchor city of Taganrog on the Azov Sea along with more than 150 other towns and villages. The Russians are wiping out the Through the roar of steam and anguished cries of injured at the Wayland wreck yesterday, rescuers heard the low but firm tones of a grief-stricken woman. She was saying the Lord's Prayer, punctuating each phrase with: "My child, my child. Where is my child?" "Thy will he done," she continued the prayer.

Then they handed her a child- victories and second only to Kharkov. Taganrog normally had 190,000 people, with steel mills, boiler factories, hydraulic press factories, shipbuilding yards, leather and shoe works, building materials planU-. flour mills and fisheries and canneries. The strategic Implication of the victory was enormous, for the south 'anchor of the entire German line had been smashed. Continued nn I'ae Two RAF BOMBERS HIT AT REICH London CP) RAF bombers blasted at Germany anew last night after a two-night lull in attacks upon the Reich, the British announced t- "ay.

he scope of the raid and the target were not disclosed in the preliminary announcement, but it presumed that the attacking forces were composed of heavy bombers, which were last over the contir Friday night when thev hammered Nurnberg. The lull in the Allied aerial offensive, which was marked oy three successive night raids on Berlin last week, apparently was 41 I I'M H.I IIICUIUIII L-UIIlUCm a i i i i the U. S. Eighth Air Force blasted at targets In France. Reports from the British sou'h-east coast said that large formations of RAF planes were heard roaring eastward acroj the channel late last evening.

37 Jap Planes Bagged on Wewak BULLETIN Allied Headquarters in the Southwest Pacific Thirty-seven Japanese planes have been destroyed in a new raid on Wewak, New Guinea, where more than 300 enemy aircraft were wrecked in other recent raids. General MurArllnir'i) head quarters announced today. Lightning downed 25 out of J0 Zeros In the air and Liberators got at least 12 planes on the Baseball Scores INTERNATIONAL LEAGUK Syracuse-Jersey City postponed). NATIONAL LEAGUE Pittsburgh 4, St. Louis 3 (1).

St. Louis 4. Pittsburgh 3 AMERICAN LEAGUE New York 3, Boston 1. his right leg and was treated at one of the emergency medical centers. Dining car workers rushed to the steam-filled coach and began breaking windows and pulling victims out.

Coroner James J. Sanford of Bath, after viewing the victims, declared: "The dead who breathed the live steam had their lungs literally cooked. So many escaped without their belongings that I cannot be; sure of identifications found in the' iorm or pocKetDooKs and purses scattered throughout the cars." TVars Rail Line The wreck tore tin about 1000 feet of main line track, blocking westward movement cf trains. Six of the 13 cars, which iemained upright, were later taken back to Elmira where passengers were treated and housed last night. S.

L. Cooper, conductor of the limited, of Binghamton. escaped injury. The engineer was James IRoy, of Buffalo, and the fireman. Theodore Paladino, Buffalo, who received a back injury.

According to the Associated Press, LeRoy said the limited was traveling at high speed through Wayland when he saw a switch engine on the siding parelling the main line westbound track. "The engineer of the local freight locomotive apparently was confused and thought the limited had gone through and started to pull out on tne main line to continue switching Lc Hoy was quoted. When, I saw the other engine pulling out, 1 slammed on the Limited' emergency brakes, but it was go.r.g too fast to avert a collision. "The two locomotives met at the switch." The Steujen County sheriff's office tried to take llngerprints of the dead to in identification. Scenes of Suffering Horrible scenes of suffering and dispair were rt ported by passengers able to escape the dead-bearing coach.

Robert Kaiser, 32. of Kenmore, a state parole officer, who saw he man next to him and a woman in front of him killed RAILS IN ITALY BLASTED ANEW Allied Headquarters in North Africa iJP) Allied air might poured ruin on remaining links in southern Italy's railway system Sunday, with Flying Fortresses battering Orte, 40 miles north of Rome, and other fleets pounding Torre Annunziata below Naples by day and night Twenty Axis planes were shot down in these and other assaults over the toe of Italy, and three Allied craft were lost. Allied headquarters announced yesterday. The Fortresses, making their first attack on Orte astride the Rome-Florence railroad, concentrated their heavy bomb load in five minutes on freight yards. DICKSON- numose behind the creation Corporation is to build up eastern seaboard to President, Roosevelt that ages, are the reserves coming from? Another question, if oil and gasoline shortages in the East are due to transportation limitations, how are the reserves to be built up? The answer to both questions The oil reserves will come front Venezuela and Colombia because better shipping facilities due to grand job our sea and air forces have done on the German U-boats.

Continued on I'age Mn Id a Oil Reserve Plan Sold To Roosevelt by Ickes remnants of an encircled German army, a Soviet communique said last night. It was indicated that a victory which Marshal Joseph Stalin announced in an order of the dav and which was detailed by a special communijue later might prove the greatest of tlie summer cam paign, since the entire German po- sition in the rich Donets Basin was urgently threatened. The Russians, with Infantry. tanks and tank busters, smashed through from a point about 10 1 miles east of Taganrog, on a front! of some 30 miles, and their advanced force reached Kuteini-kovo, 53 miles northwest of Taganrog; Anastasevska, 30 miles north-; west; Fedorovka, 25 miles west northwest, and Veselo-Voznesens-kaya, 28 miles west on the coast 1 Thus in their Donets break-', through the Russians had ad-i vanced more than 38 miles, evi-l dently overwhelming the entire German army in the Taganrog area, and they were now only 40 miles from Mariupol, chief seaport on the Azov. In capturing Taganrog, the Rue sians took a city bigger than Orel or Belgorod, which they had taken in their first two great summer Index Comics 10 Crossword puzzle 10 Deaths 7 Editorial 8 Features 9, 10.

15 Financial 14 Horse Sense Bridge 15 Radio 7 Society 15 i Sullivan 8 Theater 6, Want ads 19, 20, 21, 22 I dead. She collapsed. It was hers. outright, said it was a "gruesome sight." Staff Sergt. Richard L.

Frarr, 23, of Marshfield, who w-as irt a coach car. gave this account of the accident: "All I can remember is thev slammed the brakes on and the train stopped. We didn't realize the train was wrecked. Thn tha steam pipe broke and everybody started screaming and began to pile out. "The steam was so dense you couldn't see where you were going.

"But finally after hreaking a couple of windows wi-h my hands I found a door and jumped out. I tried to got back in to help an old lady out of the car, out I couldn get back through th steam. It was awful." Sergeant Franz sufi'eied burns and cut about the hand and wrist. Freight Engineer Hurt The engineer of the freight was identified as Al Driscoll, of Buffalo, who was slightly hurt. The fireman was not identified.

From Elmira, FBI men rushed to the scene. They had been holding a conference there with local police and interrupted it when word of the disaster came in. Continued-on rage I'ie- By CECIL B. 1YASIIINGTON (GNS) The of the Petroleum Reserves huge stocks of oil reserves on the Secretary Ickes sold the idea our oil resources are being ex- hausted; that they will last only 15 to 20 years, because of few new oil dincoveries. Back in the Harding administration a similar report was made public bv the then Secre- tary of the Interior Albert B.

Fall. Ickes served notice yesterday that operations of the new corporation, created by Secretary of Commerce Jones as another Reconstruction Finance Corporation subsidiary, would be held secret. rPIIE QUESTION naturally arise where, If the United States is suffering from petroleum short is: of the.