Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-02
FOUR DEAD, MANY HURT
TWO PASSENGER TRAINS IN A
HEAD-ON CoLLISIoN.
Warrants Are Being Prepared for the
Arrest Of Conductor and
an Engineer.

WATERBURY,. Conn. March with an
impact of sufficient force to crush the pom
derous locomotives together like paper,
twist and bend them and topple them from
the track. down an embankment and into
ditch beside the track, two passenger
trains. regular and special, met in a
head-on collision early today on the Manga
tuck division Of the New York, New Haven
and Hartford railroad at Platts Mills, about
a mile and half below this city resulting
wounding Of two more and lesser injuries
to over score of others. The dead were
the crews of the engines. The special was
made up of an engine and coach, in which
was party of about sixty-five members of
Company F, I'd Regiment, Connecticut Ma
tional Guard. known as the Grays, and
Gov. Woodruff and members Of his staff.
The Governor Escaped.
The governor escaped injury They had
been in attendance at banquet in their
honor in this city by Company A of the
same regiment. and were on their way
home at the time of the accident The
train left Waterbury at 12:45, and as the
regular train was then late orders were
given the special, it is understood, to run
to Hillside Crossing, there take the siding
and wait until the regular went by. The
special, however, is said to have run be-
yond that point and so met the regular at
Platts Mills
The tenders of the locomotives did not
leave the rails but were hurled backward
into the coaches behind them. Almost all
Of the occupants of the special coach re-
ceived some hurt. The baggage car of the
regular was telescoped.
Dead and Injured.
The names of the dead and the more
seriously injured are as follows
Dead:
William Fisher, New Haven, engineer.
William Norton, Waterbury, engineer
Charles Carpenter. fireman.
E. G. Erickson, New Haven, fireman.
Injured:
Fred G. Russell, New Haven, head
bruised, ears and nose and one eye in
jured; internal injuries.
c. V. Champlin, New Haven, elbow frac-
tured. head and face badly cut and bruised
minor cuts and bruises on the body; internal
injuries.
Lieut.. Nathan B. Fitch, New Haven, face
and head cut and body bruised and cut.
Lieut.. F. G. Crabb, New Haven, stomach
injured; bruised on body; seriously affected
by shock.
Charles E. Julin, New Haven, private
secretary to Gov. Woodruff, face badly
bruised; nose and leg cut.
v. G. Hodges, New Haven, rib broken,
scalp wound.
John L. ellison. New Haven, cut on arm
and minor injuries.
Carl Bollman, New Haven, face cut
Giovanni Duongiurno, jaw and head badly
bruised.
Burton N. Blatchley, New Haven. cuts on
head
Conductor Eaton of the special. left leg
bruised and sprained.
May Be Arrests.
BY order OF Coroner Mix. 1t is under
stood warrants are being prepared for the
arrest of Conductor George Eaton of New
Haven, who was in charge of the special
train of the New Haven Grays last night,
and for Engineer William e. Fisher of the
special. It was supposed that Fisher was
killed, but as the wreckage il being cleared
away no trace of his body has been found
and the belief IL growing that he jumped
from the engine cab and fed. His name.