New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-06-03
FREIGHT TRAINS WRECKED.
FAULTY SIGNALS CAUSE A BAD SMASH ON
THE n. Y, n. II. AND H.
a REAREN COLLISION NEAR RYE INJURIES TWO
MEN AND PILES FREIGHT CARS ALL OVER
THE TRACKs-A HOT JOURNAL AND
BROKEN COUPLING PIN FAC
TORS IN TIE ACCIDENT.

TORS IL TIE ACCIDENT
A disastrous wreck occurred on the New ork,
Ncw-Haven and Hartford Railroad early yester-
day morning between Harrison and Rye IN when
two men were severely injured forty loaded freight
cars badly smashed and the road blocked for ten
hours The wreck happened at 5:2o o'clock. and
was caused by a rear-end collision between two
castbound Sunday extra freight trains, known as
the Bridgeport freight. No. PA, and extra No. T.
No. A. which was the first train. had passed the
Harrison block station and then stopped for the
purpose of cooling a journal which had become
heated. The Journal soon cooled. and the rear
brakeman. who had gone back 10 nag WAS ca"eu
in Just as he reached the caboose and was about
to Jump the train started. The engine had
hardly started when coupling pin IN the middIe
Of the train parted, and the rear section remained
standing while the forward section ran snort
distance ahead before the mishap was discovered
and the engine stopped. The brakeman at once
ran back 10 nlg the Bridgeport freight when
was closely following. but before he had gone lar
the train came along at full speed. nearly forty
miles an hour. He signallel the engineer to stop
but it was too late. and as the engineer whistIed
for brakes he and his fireman jumped in safety.
The engine. which is one OF the most powef7ul on
the road was hauling forty loaded freight cars,
and the great momentum which they had drove IL
completely through the cahoosc Of the first train
and partly through the car In front. The locomo-
tive was wrecked. and the cars Of the Bridgeport
train ani a number Of those in front were piled
up in great confusion and their contents-iiour'
cats feed and prOvisi0ns-were stre~n uroau'dS'
over the tracks.
The locomotive of the last train. the caboose of
the forward train and twenty cars were com
pleiely wrecked and the remaining cars were
badly smashed. while the castbound track was
blocked both east and west bound tracks ana
stopped all traffic.
In the caboose Of the first train were Edward
Wilson, a conductor. and FredeIlck Glover, Il
brakeman. They did not belong To the crew but
were returning to their homes in New-haNch
They were asleep when the smash came. am no"
they escaped alive is a mystery. as the canoVsc
was smashed into bits GloyerS collar-DDN y" was
broken and he was badly injured about the nndy :
he was taken to the Port Chester Hospital VII
son escaped with nothing more serious thdh
scalp wounds.
Wrecking trains We're at once sent TO the scene
and the work OF clearing the tracks begun. from
the fact that the wreck occurred on SUNDAY IL"
great delay in traffic followed Tho trains
known as the Boston Owls. which are due
here at COS. $40 and : a IN. respectively were
stopped the wreck and IN" passengers trans
ferrel to a train which arrived in the city at :
o'clock The passengers on the and go a. IN.
local eastbound trains Were also transferred " "a,
the wreck The westbound track was cleared by
10 A. m and the castbound by p III. The IL
side tracks were cleared last night.
The hot Journal and broken couphhg or 'vui,'
were the first causes uf the accident. but IN"
railroad men appear To place the blame on ue
signalmen, who allowed the second freight L"
enter the block before the first had l"it IL. An
differentiation into the cause Of the accident Was
begun ly the railroad authorities. The engineer
OF the Bridgeport freight said that he had re-
ceiyed the signal AZ Harrison to go ahead az
,ba ,rack was clear as far as the end Of the
block which IS at Rye. Consequently. ne pnt
on full speed and went ahead. lie said thai J.
he had received the signal in time he could have
et,rned in 900 feet and could have stopped any
way il the standing train had been clear - tn"
block John j. Carmody. the operator M HIATT
son admits that H. threw the signal Nr ~"
bridgeport train to go ahead. but saii nc W.
signalled by j. \. Bergen. the operator al lE''
that No. had cleared that block IN answer 10
this Bergen says that he did not give any 'itn'
after he had responded 20 the signal II CaFnoi, ;
which informed him that the first train mao
entered the block. . -
sad all the tracks would be cleared anu u"'"0
today would not De delayed.