The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-10-04

Thundering through Naugatuck
 function at a mile a minute clip to make up lost time, the seven car spe- ciaI train of the American Express Co, running from Boston to New York and due here at 4:39 ran off the rail at the approach to the Housa- tonic river roller lift bridge and fur nished one of the most spectacular wrecks in the history of the New Haven road.
 Engineer Fred Del1ert cIung to his post while his engine, like a huge plough, tore up it's own road bed, plunged through the intersecting dou- bIe tracks of the Nauagtuck division, pIoughing a furrow four feet deep DelIert stuck until the engine, which he could not reverse, took final plunge down an enlbankment into gully, then with a half semersault, tossed him out bruised, bleeding and unconscious. He Is at the Bridgeport Hospital His death is expected
 Fireman Lynch was preparing to leap when the engine took sudden swerve 50 yards before it threw out Engineer Del1ert; and tossed Lynch head foremost from the cab. He arose dazed and bleeding from many lacerations of the face his nose near Iy torn off, and his left ankle sprain- ed.
 Lynch waited to help other train men rescue his comrade, and while DelIert was being rushed to this city on a special train and awaited by the ambulance corps from the emergency hospital, Lynch was taken back to New Haven where he went to his home. Both men were first attended by Dr. J. W. Ives of Milford.
 C. N Woodward, superintendent of transporta ton of the Shore Line Divi- sion, was among the first railroad of- vestigation into the responsibility for the wreck. The derailment must be explained by Towerman William Lore, who has charge~of the operation of the switch and the signals, at Tower n, at Naugatuck Junction, and by Engineer Dellert- The latter is un- likely to be able ever to tell, for his death was almost momentarily ex- pected at the hospital this afternoon.
 That others were not killed or maimed, is regarded by the veteran the wreck, as nothing short of mirac- ulous. Fortunately the first of the but in the second car, the express mes-s senger was buried in a cushion of small parcels that supported his weight and broke the force of the shock.
 The wrecked train is made up in Boston, and comes to New York by way of Springfield. The cars are un- der the direction of the American Ex- press to. with it's own messengers stationed in them to assort the pack ages for re-shipment in New York:
  limousine and carriage bodies and did not require the attention of a mes senger, for had there been a man aboard, the expressmen say, he would have been crushed between the cargo.
 Leaving New Haven, late. Engineer Dellert was striving to make up lost Ordinarily trains slacken their speed for the bridge, but -Dellert was think ing of his lost time and was speeding furious1y when he drew within sight 0P fhA jI1nctiOn
 Just west of the west bound sta tfon at Naugatuck Junction stands Signal tower IT., where Lore was in is the derai1ing device, manipulated from the tower. When the derau is working the train is torn from it's Kange of the wheel, throwing it over until the opposite wheel drops from the rail and goes tearing along the ties.
 Just what happened Woodward is trying to find out, and he won't tell what he has learned, if anything The and threw the engine and cars off the rails as they passed over it. There is a slight curve to the left, and as the engine left the tracks it continued in a tangent, dragging the cars after it. Three car lengths away from the deraiI the double tracks of the Naug- 1 atuck division intersect the main line. | Driving her steel nose through the ballast and cinder bed, the engine tore through both tracks, leaving the rails ciIt as if by a huge knife and sinking l ever deeper into the earth kept tear ing it's way with a thunderous noise that could be heard a mile away.
 DeIlert c1ung to the cab as it sway | ed sIIusteadHy beneath him. while Fire 1 man Lynch slipped from his seat and | ran across the cab to prepare to leap He stood poised for the leap when the | engine hit the intersecting tracks, and | the jolt was 50 great as to send him like a stone from slingsllot before the eyes of the crew of a Naugatuclx special freight waiting at the inter gectfon of the tracks for the express train to shoot by
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