The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-24
SIX ARE KILLED. Thirty-fve Others Injured in Wreck Half Mile
 from Hartford
 Station. TWO OF THESE MAY DIE Some of the Victims Pinned Beneath Labyrinth of
 Debris. HOUR TO RESCUE ONE MAN Passenger on the Highland Crashes Into Rear End
 of Work Train.
HOUR TO RESCUE ONE MAN

Hartford, June 2S.-Eight workmer
 were killed and thirty-flve injured
 when passenger train on the High
 land division of the New York, New
 Haven and Hartford railroad crashed
 into the rear end of work train that
 was backing into the city from New
 Britain, tonight about an eighth of a
 mile from the Union depot at the
 Sigourney street crossing.
 The dead: Bona Vindenzo, Carlo
 Cravagli, Domenick Scavallo, Tony
 Marcina, Italians, living in Hartford;
 Patrick Clancy, of Burnside. Uniden-
 tf1ed, decpaitated body.
 Of the Injured two are not expected
 to recover. The wreck is one of the
 worst that has occurred here in years.
 A shocking spectacle was presented.
 Dead and dying were strewn along the
 tracks, but worst of all, unfortunate victims terribly mutilated were be- meath the wreckage, some pinned amid a veritable labyrinth of tangled iron and wood. Their groans and appeals for aid moved the rescuers to despera- ton, and men worked till prostrated in an attempt to extricate the sufferers. Some of the victims within easy reach were dead, and after this fact was definitely ascertained, they were left while the rescuers united in getting the living out of their desperate position.
 In one instance 1t took an hour and D half to rescue one workman who was pinned between the trucks. His head was hanging down backwards, he suf- fered untold agonies, but the rescuers kept encouraging him while doctors reached between the frame work which held him a prisoner and treated his wounds.
 Within touch of the workers at this point was dead workman, whose head was hanging by few shreds, while directly across another man was pin- ned through the body by the bump CTS.
 There are three unofficial versions of the manner in which the wreck occur red. One Is that the passenger train for New Britain went out on track No. ? instead of track No. l. The second is that the worktrain had the right of way until o'clock and should have had clear track; that the passenger train was ahead of time at that point The third is that the worktrain opened a switch and failed to close it, thus making the collision possible. but this version Is generally discredit- ed. It Is understood that all the trains on the division to-day operated on track No, 1, thus leaving the other track to the worktrain, whose crew had been employed in repairing the rails.
 Superintendent Pollock of the High land division who was at the scene of the wreck could not be found to give his version of the affair. At the of- flee it was stated that the formal re- port had not yet been made.
 The engineer of the worktrain claims that he had the right of way, and his statements are born out by others on the same train. Engineer Wilson, of the passenger train jumped In time to escape injury. The passengers, how ever were badly shaken up and some, 1t is understood, were cut by flying glass One of them, Thomas Quinn of New Britain, gives the following yer sion of the accident:
 we left the depot at 12 minutes to seven. About two minutes later we were hurled over our seats without the slightest warning. was temporarily rendered unconscious, and upon recov- ering found myself on top of a baby under one of the seats, I pulled the in- fant out by the legs, and was makine my way from the car with it. not knowing just what had happened, when the frantic mother grasped it from my arms and jumped out among the peo- pie on the side track The excitement | among the passengers in my coach was | indescribable. When I reached the | ground I found the workingmen lying all around on the ground, and the fire man was astride the track, apparently | and others forgot our own slight injuries and went to work helping those who were badly injured"
 The four o'clock express from New York, was held up abou half an hour directly abreast of the wreck. The en- zine of the passenger train, had teles- coped two of the worktrain box cars, throwing the roof and sides of one across the main track, the passengers of the New York express had @ full view of the wreck, and the women were greatly excited.
 The 7;1O express, north, passed on an track soon after the accident and sideswiped the wreckage. When the news of the accident reached the city squadron of police. were detailed