Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-12-16
GUILTY OF HOMICIDE.
Coroner Mix's Report Upon the
 Recent Railroad Accident.

Coroner Mix's Report Upon the Recent Railroad Accident. Coroner Mix to-day gave his report concerning the accident on the New Eng land road last Thursday night, which caused the death of Fireman Gallup and seriously injured Engineer Burns and Michael Kelly of this city. He finds Conductor Marshal of the extra freight guilty of criminal negligence, and, if Marshal can be found, he will be arrested on warrant charging him with man. slaughter. The circumstances of the ac- cident were found by the coroner to be substantially as follows:
 Thursday afternoon, December II, an extra freight train consisting of one empty and eighteen loaded cars was made up at Hawleyville and drawn by engine No 94, made the run to Water
 bury without accident, reaching this city at G. 10. The train remained at this point until 1925, when it left for the station known as Summit. On the train were two brakemen and in the caboose was Conductor Marshal, con- siderably under the influence of liquor, and companion named Kelly.
 The regular freight train followed the extra, being about three miles in the rear. When the special reached Summit,
 one brakeman alIghted to turn the
 switch and run down the track to signal
 an approaching train, should one appear
 and the other brakeman was on the car
 nearest the engine. While the train
 was heinz drawn over the switch the coupling pin between the car nearest the
 engine and that following broke. The eighteen detached cars immediately
 started down the grade and soon gathered swift momentum. After run
 ming about one and half miles the de- tached cars crashed into the engine of the approaching freight, dsmolIshinx it
 and instantly killing Fireman Gallup. Conductor Marshal crawled from the
 His companion, Kelly, suffered severe bruises and broken leg.
 Marshal seemed bewildered when he gathered himself up after the crash, and remarked that he had been asleep. He told his engineer, who had backed his engine down to the wreck, that he did not know that the cars had broken away from the engine until informed by some one after the wreck. Those who saw him at the wreck smelled the odor of liquor about him and considered him somewhat intoxicated. Soon after the accident Marshal went to TerryviIle and there stated that he was pretty full when he left Waterbury. The next morning he went to his house at Brewsters sta tion, N. Y. Gallup's body was taken to Waterbury and Coroner Mix was notlfi- ed of the accident Friday, December 12. He came to Waterbury, but as all the trainmen were away on their trains he ascertained no particulars until Sat- urday. All the men then testified that If Marshal had been awake and had at tended to his duty he could easily have stopped the detached cars by applying the brakes, thus preventing the accident. As soon as the coroner learned of Mar shaPs negligence he made every effort to secure his attendance at the inquest Messengers that were dispatched to Brewsters reported Marshal in greatly excited and apparently insane condi- tion. Yesterday the coroner was inform ed that Marshal had left Brewsters for parts unknown.
 All the facts in the case will be sub mitted to State Attorney Huntington of Litchfield county, where the accident occurred, and the latter will ask Cover nor HIll of New York to grant extradit- ion papers if Marshal is found in that state. Coroner Mix thinks the case is one that should be pushed energetically, for the testimony of the witnesses ex- amined indicate that the negligence of rum- -befogged conductor caused the death of one human being and the serious injury of others.