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wears and a subway train for about two years.
/ was a motorman on the subway from the time
IT opened until last October. when / passed an
examination and employed. first as an OPP
Grating inspector on the electrical division or
the New York Central
81 was made an engineer about February l.
I first had charge Of a passenger train last
Tuesday Before that 1 riding with other
engineers receiving instruction"
Rodgers said he had previously ridden on cleo
trio engines where two were coupled together.
but had never assisted in speed test on the
Central All he knew OF the speed that could
be obtained from an electric locomotive was that
he had been informed they could so seventy-ive
miles an hour. MI Carr chief operating insDec-
tor. told him he said a speed test had been made
on the same track on which the accident &C
Cured
Have you ever taken the time Of your train
on any Of these runs?" was asked,
SPEED OF sIXTY-FIvE MILES.
ION Friday night" he replied, bringing down
a three-car passenger train from Wakefield,
Westinghouse airbrake man who had a stop
watch timed the train by two posts for the dis
lance of a mile. That was coming down through
fremont. The speed was between g. and 6S
: miles an hour"
not 10 exceed scheduled speed between the Har-
lem River and Woodawn. even If trains were
behind time His speed in going under Wood
lawn Bridge. he said was between forty-fve
and fifty miles ar hour He said he felt jar
20 HIS engine as he passed under the bridge. but
did not realize that anything was wrong with
the train until he a reflected light ahead.
Looking back he saw flames leaping up from
a car and saw that the baggage car was partly
Ill
brake.
Coroner SchwauueCke examined the witness
for an hour Rodgers told the coroner that he
did not know how long it would take him 10
stop train IN case OF emergency, never hav-
ing received any instructions that point.
He had never been instructed as 10 slowing up
NJ curves. he said. and simply using his
own Judgment Mr.. Rodgers said that after the
train left the track It sllidded for an eighth OF
n mile
Fred f Williamson. assistant superintendent
OF the Harlem division. said he did not know Of
any speed limit for electric locomotives having
been given 10 engineers. Mr.. Williamson was
riding in the cab OF the locomotive when the ac-
cldent occurred. to study the working Of the
locomotive. The speed at the time OF the
cident was not more than fifty miles hour. he
thought
Coroner Schwannecke asked the witness II he
ala not think Il uuscientifc to attach three
light cars 10 the rear OF train hauled by two
heavy engines 81 can't say as TO that" ne
piled
The funerals Of Nyron Edward Evans. Charles
Fremont Page and Robert J. Roxborough, vie
Tins Of the wreck. were held I'm White Plains
yesterday. There We're no deaths yesterday as
a result ~ the accident and the list remained at
twenty-one It was learned that Bernard Kau-
mann. Of No. 8 Dusenherry Place. White Plains
who assisted I'm rescuiug the injured after the
wreck. collapsed ON Sunday. Vie remained un-
conscious until yesterday. when ne showed i'm
provement, but is supposed To be internally in
fured