Waterbury Democrat., 1901-10-14
IMMIGRANT MET SAD FATE.
Asphyxiated By Gas After Ar-
 irving From Ireland.

Mary Mccormack Was Coming to Wa
 terbury to Visit Her Mother-Una-
 ble to Get Train for Waterbury She
 Remained in Bridgeport Saturday
 Night and Was Found Dead in Hel
 Room Yesterday Morning.
 Miss Mary Mccormack, young wo- man who left her home in Ireland a short time ago to visit relatives in this city, was asphyXiated Dy coal gas aJ the Union hotel, Bridgeport, Saturday night The body was brought to this city to-day in charge of Undertaken NIulville and taken to the residence Of her mother. brothers and sisters at p Luke street. The funeral will take place tomorrow morning at S:30 o'clock, with mass of requiem at St Francis Xayier's church and intermenr in Calvary cemetery.
 Miss Mccormack was born 21 years ago in the parish of Barna, Pallas Green, County Limerick, where Ter father, Michael Mccormack, and q brother, James. still reside at the Old homestead Her mother, Mrs Micnael Mccormack, three brothers, Thomas, Michael and Jeremiah, and three sls- ters, the Misses Margaret, Bridget and Katie, live at p Luke street.
 Thomas Mccormack, one of the dead girls brothers, told a Democrat "e- porter this morning that the family knew his sister was about to conc here. but that they did not expect her for a week or so yet, and that they had made arrangements to go to New York and meet her there as soon as they learned the name of the vessel she was to arrive on. But unfortunately she sailed earlier than they supposed ana probably sooner than she expected to seaport towns of the old
 world do not know just when they will be able to find accommoda- tion. Anyway, it appears that Miss Mccormack arrived in New York from Queenstown Saturday on the steam ship Lucania and reached Bridgeport too late to catch a train for Water bury. Finding that she would have to remain there over night she inquired
 for a hotel and was directed to the Union hotel, where she retired win the understanding that she should ba called at 6:3O o'clock in the morning. Evidently she expected to take the Sunday morning train that gets in
 here about 10 o'clock in the forenoon. When a waiter called her there was no
 response. An investigation followed, which showed that the girl had blown out the gas and died in bed from suf- | location.
 Medical Examiner C.. c. Godfrey was 1 notified and gave a certificate of death due to asphyxiation from coal gas, add l ing: "Blew out gas, not knowing the l difference.7
 l Sufficient information being found | among her effects to enable the aal- | thorities to ascertain her name and ] where she was bound for, Superinten- dent Birmingham of the Bridgeport police department notified Chief Egan l of this city and the sad news was 1 broken to the family. Her brother | Thomas, and other members of tic l family went to Bridgeport on the early l the remains to Waterbury, arriving I here on the 11:12 train.
 l The family are almost prostratad 1 over the fate that befel1 the bright | young woman whom they had been
 preparing to welcome among them
 after separation of many years. IL | fills their hearts with a sorrow which l time alone can relieve. The same
 conditions will soon obtain in the old | home beyond the sea, where a loving l father and brother and numbers of
 neighbors and friends anxiously await l tidings as to how she. fared on the voy-
 age and other matters which render the l first line' from the immigrant watched for with an interest that few | except people who have had children | pass out of their own homes to try their luck in other lands can fully ap- l prnciate.
 l The family have the sympathy of | their neighbors and friends in the
 great bereavement which so suddenly | has come to them.