The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-10-10
EXCURSlONISTS IN WRECK
4 DANBURY FAIR SPECIAL
 CRASHES INTO 4 REGULAR.

Young Woman Killed and Many Other Persons IDjmred-FutiIe Attempt of the Regular to Get Ont of the Way of
 the s-eciai-The List of Iajured- Several May Die.
 1 Danbury, Oct. 9.--What is alleged to have been the carelessness of Engineer
 Edward Farrell of the excursion train running from the Danbury fair grounds
 to Waterbury, tonight, resulted in the death of one person and the injury to
 over score of others.
 One thousand persons were returning
 from an outing at the fair grounds on
 special train to Waterbury, the train
 being made up of fourteen coaches. At l Sandy Hook, without the least note of warning, there was a terrible crash and
 the occupants of the first car of the ex- cursion train were thrown in indescrib- able heaps among twisted and broken
 seats and iron, with glass flying about l them.
 ! The regular west-bound train leaving Waterbury at 6:3C, bound for this city, was discharging passengers at the lit tie station at Sandy Hook. It was the understanding of her engineer that he
 was to pass the Waterbury special from the fair at siding a. few hundred feet west of the station. He was at his post ready to proceed, when he saw the ex- cursion train bearing down upon him.
 In moment he reversed his lever and attempted to get out of the way. He
 could not get headway, however, and l in moment, despite all his efforts, his engine was met by that of the east bound train in terrible crash. Shrieks l of pain and agony soon filled the air, and messages were hurriedly sent for
 assistance to both Waterbury and Dan bury. Meantime the train crew built
 several large fires near the wrecked
 cars, which enabled them to look for in- jured persons in the wreck. Miss Mamie Quinlan was found be-
 meath the trucks of the car, having fell
 through a hole which was broken in the
 floor She was carried into the railroad station, where she died few moments later. One by one the injured persons,
 many of them pinioned by the wreck
 age, were tenderly extricated from their
 painful positions and placed on the
 ground near the wreck, while Doctors Graves and Goodrich, of Waterbury,
 who were on the train at the time of l the accident, did what they could to
 make them comfortable. The most se
 riously injured were the first attended to, after which theY were removed eith- CT to nearby residences or the hotel near the station.
 Two of the passengers on the -excur-
 sion train are so seriously injured that death may result. Richard Farrer,
 nife-grinder, aged fifty years, had his left leg and arm so badly mangled that
 amputation became necessary. Will
 liam Hamn, fourteen years old, receiv-
 ed an injury to his spine and was seri-
 ously injured internally. His condition
 is critical.
 1 A list of the most seriously wounded | follows:
 ! Richard Farrer of Waterbury: left
 arm and leg badly crushed: both am-
 putated.
 William Hamns of Waterbury; spinal and internal injuries: condition critical.
 John Kingston of Waterbury; badly bruised and cut about the face and 1 head
 Charles Balken of Waterbury: cut about the face and neck: spine injured. Dan Condon of Waterbury: nose broken; badly cut leg.
 MT and Mrs. John P. Spencer of
 Waterbury; both had their legs badly crushed.