Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-16
DOZEN MORE OR LESS HURT
Five of Nine Coaches in Train Wreck
pullmans.
AT GREENWICH. CT.
Girder Rail Saved Entire Train From
Being Mtched-List Of Injured.
Washingtonians on Board.

White Mountain express over the New
York. New Haven and Hartford railroad,
leaving New York at $40 this morning
and due to go through here, at a rate OF
about fifty miles an hour. at $40. was
derailed and almost completely wrecked
on the bridge over Greenwich avenue In
this town.
One woman passenger was almost In
stantly killed. one other woman very bad
ly injured. and at least a dozen other pas
sengers were more or less seriously hurt
SO that they had to be taken to the local
hospitals The passenger who was killed
was Miss Marguerite Armstrong OF
Wayne, Pa. an occupant Of one of the
Pullman coaches. 1t would appear that
Miss Armstrong had attempted to get out
Of the window as the coach toppled over,
and she was crushed to death.
The train was made up of nine coaches,
of which Ave were Pullmans. Outside OF
the derailment the day coaches suffered
practically no harm, while the Pullmans
by two electric locomotives, and after the
coaches were derailed these took three OF
the forward coaches and hauled them
fully 500 feet ahead before they could be
stopped after the engineers had noticed
that the train had broken apart.
The cause Of the accident is not yet
fixed, but inspection of the bridge shows
that the iron was ground up into pieces.
side alone prevented the entire train from
being ditched. The derailment occurred
about 500 feet east Of the Greenwich sta
ton.
Passenger Tells His Experience.
One Of the passengers in describing the
| accident said that he first noticed the
humping Of the coaches on the ties. then
q swaying from one side to the other.
| and finally OF his own and the other
coaches.
The speed at which the train was going
is responsible for the distance at which
the cars ran before topping over.
| There was.a wild scene, as the cars be-
came a mass of wreckage. the shrieks OF
the frightened passengers reaching the
stores and residences on the nearby
streets. and bringing almost instantly
hundreds of townspeople to the rescue.
| The fremen and the ambulances from
| the hospitals and surgeons In town were
at once summoned. 1t was reported that
one woman who had been taken out Of
the wreckaEe had died on the way to the
an error.
It >is thought that Of the slightly more
than 100 passengers in the Pullmans
| about half the number are more OF less
\
not number more than a dozen.
scrutiny OF the wreckage makes it
| seem miraculous that more persons were
not killed outright. as seemingly the Pull
mans We're very badly smashed up
Three Of the Pullmans were going
through to Breton Woods. N. H., and
the other two to Jefferson N. H.
List Of the Injured.
A partial list of the injured passengers
follows:
William S. Phillips, Brooklyn. n. Y:
| badly shaken up.
Mrs. Elizabeth Gibberson, Brooklyn; left
leg badly broken and otherwise hurt: con-
dition thought to be serious.
s. e. Whittemore. livery stable keeper.
Newport. N. H.; left knee injured, left
arm Wrenched.
Mrs. c. NJ. Crandall, New York; shock
and wounds in head.
Miss Bird. Wyoming, n. j.; badly
| shaken up.
L. T. Frost and Mrs Frost. address not
| given; internally hurt, but not at present
| considered serious.
| Mrs. w. c. Armstrong, Wayne, Pa. cut
| and bruised.
| The Greenwich Hospital reports that
| only two injured persons were brought
here, one q woman and the other a man..
Their names are withheld. Neither is
| said to be badly tlurt.
! The engineer and both conductors of the
wrecked train have been placed under
| arrest
Official Statement.
| NEW HAVEN, Conn.,, July 16.-The
New Haven road officials gave ont this
statement:
'The White Mountain Express, leaving
Grand Central station at $40. was derail-
ed short distance east of Greenwich.
One lady passenger was killed and one
other lady seriously hurt. The cause OF
the derailment has not been definitely
| fixed. The tracks at that point will prob
| ably be blocked for four hours"
| Victim From Wayne, Pa.
PHILADELPHIA, July 16-Miss Mar
guerite Armstrong of Wayne, Pa, who
was killed in the White Mountain Ex-
press wreck, was seventeen years old,
and was travelling with her mother. Mrs.
William c. Armstrong. and a party Of
| friends from Flatbush, L. l. The party
| was en- route to New Hampshire sum-
mer' resort, where 1t intended to re-
main until fall. Miss Armstrong; father
| was the late DIR. william c. Armstrong
| and she was an only child.
Mrs. AnnaF E. Hodges and Miss Helen
| of Mr.. Henry w. Hodges, clerk of the
Court of Appeals of the District of Co
| lumbia, were passengers on the wrecked
train. Mr.. Hodges received a telegram
that both escaped injury.