Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-06-22
b DEAD, 10TH CENTURY FLYER WRECK.

said he, "when the engine left the track It occurred so quickly that l little knew what happened until we crashed into the Mentor freight house. 1 neither heard nor saw the engineer after that
 '.,rhe engine overturned and some how the tank managed to fall upon me, but not heavily and was sheltered by it. I lost consciousness from the terri. ble blow which I had received upon the head and knew. nothing until was dragged from underneath the wrecked engine. My escape was posi- lively a miracle, since did not meet the fate of poor Tyler"
 Inhalation of steam and terrible burns were the worst features Of vlie cases in the hospitals here.
 A. r. Head, of London, Eng, had in- haled flames and smoke. His tongue was swollen and his lungs were scared so that the doctors declared he could live only few hours.
 H. H. Wright of Chicago was pinion- ed in the train and was partly extri- cated by his own efforts when the flames overlook him and burned him so severely that he died later, He was brought to Cleveland on the relief train and taken to the Cleveland general hospital. His arms and head were burned so that he was hardly recog- nizable.
 Mentor, the scene of the wreck. is the home of the widow of the late President James A. Garfield. Mrg Garfield has lived in Mentor for a number of years. Her residence, how ever, is about two miles west of where the wreck occurred.
 Conductor Alexander Hammond Of the limited told his experience thus:
 T rushed back to the switch imme- diately after the wreck. It was open and locked open. I tried 1t and found that it worked all right. The switch light was out. Not wheel rolled over the switch since No 10, the east-bound Chicago and Boston train, went through forty-five minutes before. J. Prior. colored. of New York, a porter on the second car of the train. was busy preparing berths for the passen- gers when he felt the train leave the main track. He said he just went up into the air, and then he lurched side ways. That is all can say about it. I fell against window and broke It. I crawled out of. the window, coming out on the under side of the train. Whenever face appeared at a win dow I grabbed for the man and pulled him out All were saved, but was hurt little. My hand was badly cut and my shoulder sprained severely"
 James H. Gibson of 475 Fiournoy street, Chicago, q passenger on the train, died at the Cleveland hospital early to-day from his injuries. Gib- son was conscious up to within short time of his death and spoke calmly Of his experience. He said: T can tell very little about 1t, for soon lost con sciousness and saw but little of what occurred after the crash came. 1 was seated in the smoker pretty well back and the first realization l had of an accident was when felt myself sud denly hurled over the backs of the seats and found myself in darkness among shrieking mass of human beings. There was frlghtful roar ing and hissing of steam and l seemed to be stifling in dense cloud of it. 1 grabbed about blindly and found a window frame. With my hands I broke the glass and managed to drag myself through the window. had the instinct to stagger away from the blinding, stinging steam that could feel was scalding my flesh.
 q must have lost consciousness about this time, for have only con fused recollection of people coming to help me, and their impression that my hands and arms were bleeding where I had broken the glass; then remem- Der nothing more until l was on board the train coming to Cleveland"
 William Barclay Parsons of New York city, who was chief engineer for the construction of the New York sub way when it was built, was on the train, but escaped injury.
 A quantity of first class mail matter was destroyed by the fire, which con sumed all except the two rear coaches. The mail was largely composed of through pouches from the west and destined for eastern points. Just how many pouches were destroyed the rail way officials are unable to say at the present time.