Bisbee daily review., 1904-05-18
Gid Death
 Grasp Throttle?
MILLION DOLLAR" ADAMS FIX PRESS FLYER DITCHED-NO
 HEED PAID TO SIGNAL.
Flew Across Switch, Running a Mile a Minute-Watehman Saw Engineers Head Hanging Out of Cab Window as Train Dashed by--Lawrence Keenan May Have Been Dead in the Cab.

Pert Chester. N Y, Tuesday.-An
 investigation Of the mystery surround
 ing the deraflment cf the Adams E,x-
 press flyer att Port Chester. N. Y. at ( o'clock Saturday morning was begun
 yesterday by Coroner Weisenlanger of Westchester county.
 - The train is known as the Million Dollar Express because it is always loaded with large sums of money and valUables between Boston and New York. During the last Christmas holi- days an armed guard travelled cn the train to protect the treasure en route because the authorities of the New York. New Haven and Hartford Rail road had been threatened by tsain rob- bers.
 In view Of these facts. the first Of three theories which suggested them selves yesterday after the train had plunged down a forty-fcot embank- ment. failing to slow eown to make a switch which had been set, was that the train robbers had done their work and succeeded in hurling the express cars from the track in revenge for not receiving the payment of money they had demanded
 A second theory was that Engineer Lawrence Keenan was dead in his cab and had not seen the signal from the switch. This theory was suggested by . night watchman a. Greenwich, the next station above Se spot where the wreck occurred, who says that when the express passed that town it was going at a fearful rate of speed and the engineer was hanging far. out of his cab, his head being below the level cf his Window.
 The other explanation offered is that the engineer was behind time was making a desperate effort to reach the Harlem river in time for the ferry bo. which takes the train down East river around the Battery to the Pennsylvaina railroad station in Jersey City, where it continues On it's journey to Washington. and per haps disregarded the signal to "slow down"
 It was ascertained as true that the express train had been ordered fe leave the tracks it was running on and take the outside track. The New York. New Haven and Hartford rail- road has four tracks at Port Chester The express train had been switched upon the inner track at Cos Cob, and was ordered to be switched back to the outer track at the bridge over the Byram river. Signal Operator Phil lips set his signal a quarter of a mile ahead of the switch to call the en- gineer's attention to the fact that he must take a switch, and consequently must slow down. /
 Completely disregarding this signal the express train came laundering on toward the bridge. Phillips says he heard no escaping steam to indicate that the engineer had put on his brakes. He was perplexed at this, ] and when at last he saw the giant loco. motive plunging toward him in the tower, swaying to this side and that, going at the mile-a-minute clip, he shuddered as he realized what was surely going to happen.
 Chilled with horror, he saw the heavy train go dashing over the switch ! and plunge forward down the em- bankment.s 2 q el
 .Hastening down the embankment he found the dead body of Engineer Keenan hanging over an abutment of the bridge of the masonry work over