Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-02-18

Plains, N. Y.
 Mrs. Mary Kinch, Chappaqua, N. Y.
 Clara l.. Hudson, Minneapolis, Minn.
 Miss Margaret Mahoney, Purdy Sta tion, N. Y.; died at Fordham hospital.
 Mrs. Annie H. McLain, widow, aged sixty years, sister-in-law of Superin- tendent Lyons of the Bloomingdale Insane asylum.
 Miss Annie Moorehead. Briar Cliff Manor, N. Y., reported to have former ly been a resident of Pittsburg.
 E. L. Page, White Plains, N. Y.
 Cornelius Kelly, North Salem, N. Y.
 Robert J. Rosborough, White Plains, N. Y., employee of W. & J. Sloane, New York city.
 Julia W. Storm, Bedford Station, N. Y.
 Mrs. Isaac L. Webster, White Plains, N. Y.
 Miss Bessie See, Pleasantville, N. Y.
 Miss Annie Sievoni, servant, White Plains, N. Y.
 Elsie D. Warren, New York.
 An unidentified girl. about sixteen years old; died at Fordham hospital.
 Those badly injured are:
 Mabel Smith, aged thirteen. Overton, N. Y., fracture of skull; probably fla tai.
 Elsie Sniffen, EngIewood, N. J., skull fractured; probably fatal
 Unknown girl unconscious in Ford ham hospital, skull fractured.
 Ira J. Dutton, White Plains, N. Y., both arms broken; will recover.
 Emily Fendrock, White Plains, N. Y, serious.
 Miss Belle Fowler, Pleasantville, N. Y., legs broken; probably not fatal.
 Sarah Merritt, Pleasantville. N. Y., arms and legs fractured; dangerous.
 Ernest Moll, Mount Kisco, N. Y., leg broken.
 The train was a double header, with two electric engines and five cars. The engines were of a new steel type, and then came five of the old type passen- ger coaches. The motors and first car kept upright on the rails. but the oth- CTS were turned over and were wreck ed, being dragged along on their sides.
 The train was crowded, most of the passengers being women. According to trainmen, the motorman, E. R. Rogers, was trying to make up lost time when the accident happened and was running, it is said, sixty or sey- enty miles an hour.
 Just before the Two Hundred and FiEth street bridge is reached there is a we'll defined curve. Going at high rate of speed. which some of the pas sengers estimated at more than seven ty miles an hour. the train swung around the curve. the cars rocking vio- lently. As nearly as can be learned the rear car of the train was pulled from the tracks by the excessive speed, and this in turn pulled the three cars in front of it from the rails. The cars turned over on their sides and went pumping and smashing along. tearing up roadbed and rails and themselves being torn into kindling wood. Other theories were that spreading raiis or a broken coupling started the trouble.
 Of the passengers in the last four cars not one escaped injury. They were piled In heaps when the cars overturned. Then the sides of the cars fell out. and dead and injured were hurled to the tracks.
 The scene along the tracks was a fearful one. For 300 yards bodies were strewn in heaps or singly. DOT tions of wreckage. iron and wood lay about. practically every foot of rail was bent and twisted. and ties were torn from their fastenings.
 Immediately before the accident the train seemed to he flying through the air. All the passengers agree on this point. Fourteen feet north of the bridge the electric engine seemed-to jump clear of the rails. and it was declared that when 1t settled on the track again one of the tires had be- come loosened. When the last coach struck the spot where the engine shot up the coach nOo9 described com plete revolution in the air and settled over on the right ar east side of the track. burying carload of passengers underneath it.
 Ghouls who tried to rob the dead added to the horror. In the confusion immediately following the wreck and before enough policemen had arrived to do anything except the work of res cuing the injured and removing the dead from the debris Italian workmen living in the vicinity rushed in among the bodies of tle uez,a as they lay be- side the track
 The first msn to reach the scene of the overturned cars discovered that ! the last coach was afre. The wreck aee was burning on top of the dead. and flames were scorching those injur- cd who were pinned beneath the de bris. An alarm of fire was turned in It was a matter of ten minutes or so tp extinzuiah the flames. and then Bat