The morning journal-courier., 1908-07-17
.ep0rt That Spikes Were Pulled From WcTm-Eatel Sleeper StirS the COrOner'S
 Vigilance.
FRECKAGE BEING WATCHED
Engineer and Conductors Under Arrest-Victim's Mother Out of Her Mind-Dr. Whit temore Tells of Cas-
 ualties.

Al Greenwich, July lb.-Une woman was Billed, two may die from shock or in- Huries and nearly dozen persons were E EerlousIy hurt when the White Noun San express, on the New York, New XIaven & Hartford railroad, was Hyreckcd l0o feet west of the station 6 lere al 9;20 o'clock thls morning, Spreading rails caused the ten car rain to leave the tracks while 1t was rossing a bridge over Steamboat road, md five Of the passenger coaches, in- luding four pullmans. were hurled Into a ditch, where they collapsed like |paper boxes.
 That less than l5 of the lSO passen- bers were killed or injured seems It. le short of ;niraculous, as the train {wa.s going 90 miles an hour The most Tragic incident of the wreck was the {death of Miss Margaret Armstrong Of IWayne Pa, who was seated beside her Brother in one of the Pullman coaches kwhen the train left the tracks Miss .Armstrong sprang from her seat and |leaped out of window just as the ear |toppled over, and she was ground to death as her mother looked on. Mrs 2Armstrong fainted from the shock and kwhen she recovered consciousness in 1.-the hospital she was out of her mind. EThe doctors administered opiates to squiet her. They say her condition is serious and that she may die, although 1 she was not injured in the wreck. The { 4other woman who may de is Mrs. A. INV Drake of No. r East Eighth street. New York city who was crushed in one of the cars
 An Immediate investigation as to the cause of the wreck Is to be made Tho coroner has had the engineer, w. J. 4iimball of New York, and Conductor H. F. May of Hartford of the train Dlaced under arrest, and he IS having tSe work of removing the wre ekago watched This action was taken be- cause of a report that reached the cor oner that a rotten tie on the bridge caused tie accident. There is evidence, it is alleged. that the tie was in such a worm-daten condition that the spikes holding the rails were pulled out. The White Mountain express left New York at $40 o'clock this morning. 1t was made up of two baggage cars. 2 mail coach, five Pulmans and two Sday coaches, and was drawn by two heavy electric motors. Exceptionally high speed Is maintained by this train. as It makes but a few stops. The ex- press is not scheduled to stop at Greenwich and 1t swept by the station going nearly a mile minute. A few seconds later a grinding noise was heard as the rails spread and the wheels went Jumping over the ties The train was broken by the accident and the baggage cars, mail car and two cay coaches were carried along the road bed for 800 feet before they stop ped. Four Pulmans went into the Glitch and the third one, in which Miss Armstrong and her mother were turned over on it's side. It was in this car that nearly all of the other injured passengo rs were riding.
 A wreeking crew had to jack the Pullman up before the body of Miss Armstrong could be removed. A single girder on the bridge appears tc have been all that kept the other cars from turning over. The noise of tho wreck followed by the cries of tho injured and frightened passengers was plainly heard in the town, and il few minutes several hundred person, had gathered at the scene of the wrecl and aided in caring for the wounded The fire engines were called, as 1t wa feared the cars would catch fire, ant ambulances were summoned from al of the hospitals Great surprise wal expressed when it was found that les than q dozen persons had been injur cd The coroner and officials of tn railroad were quickly on the spot ant separate Investigations were begun The coroner said that he would hay nothing to say as to the cause of tn wreck until he has concluded his in Nestigations and the railroad official would not discuss the accident. Tn road was blocked for hours, and al trains on that division were delayed.
 THE DEAD.
 ARMSTRONG, MARGUERITE, sev
 enteen years cld of Wayne, Pa.
 SERIOUSLY INJURED.
 GIBERSON, Mrs. ELIZABETH, 29
 Adelphi street Brooklyn; left le broken and otherwise hurt; condi
 tIon thought to be serious.
 PHILLIPS, WILLIAM S.. 516 Wester
 avenue, Brooklyn; badly shaken uY
 WHITTEM0EF, s. E., livery stabl
 keeper Newport, N, H.; left kne
 injured left arm wrenchcd.
 CRANDAIL. Mrs C. M., 11S Yves
 Ninety-feth street, New York; shoe
 and wounds in head,
 :, BIRD, Miss, Wymasng, N. J., badl shaken up.
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