The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-10-04

But Dellert c1ung to his cab. striving
 10 reverse his engine. It was impos-
 the lever. But still intent upon saw
 ing his charge, the engineer remained
 in the cab even after the fireman had
 gone, and until the engine, slipping away to the river, drove it's cowcatcher
 so deeply into the earth that the rear
 was carried high in the air by it's mo-
 mentum. Then it collapsed.
 Conductor Frank Scott, Brakeman
 Henry McNichols and Fireman James Gordon of the Naugatuck special freight who had gathered to chat
 while waiting for the belated train to
 pass, rushed to the engineer. They saw Fireman Lynch arise and limp painfully towards his comrade, and need. hurried to Dellert. He lay upon a mound of soft upturned earth upon which he had fallen as he was tossed out of the engine cab. He must have struck his head upon the roof of the
 cab as he was thrown out, for his skull was crushed in. Blood was streaming from his mouth and nostrils, his face was gashed and he must have been internally hurt.
 Tenderly they carried him to the shelter of the Naugatuck division sta tion- Lore rushed from the signal tower for a moment, took in the sit uation at a. glance, saw with dismay that. a telegraph pole had been moved down by the wrecked train, and not expecting to find the wires in working order, tried to telephone New Haven. go his surprise he found the service was intact, and he made a brief report of the wreck to the chief despatcher's office.
 Orders came streaming out to New Haven, Bridgeport and Harlem River. In the East End yards here a special train of a baggage coach and engine was made up and rushed with all the railroad men who could be spared, and the same was done in New Haven.
 Meanwhile the chief daSDafchor'S flee got into telephone communication with the home of Dr. J. W. Ives of scene in an automobile, beating out the special trains. He saw that Lynch's condition was not serious and turned his entire attention to Dellert. The critically hurt. A stretcher brought on the special car was gotten out and he was carried aboard the train and sent to Bridgeport. From New Ha- ven the Bridgeport hospital was noti- fled of the wreck, and of the approach of the victim. Supt- Jones of the hos 1 McQueeney, and Driver Burlison had the ambulance at the Bishop avenue crossing waiting for the special, sev- eral minutes before it's arrival.
 Dellert was transferred to the Bridge l port hospital, where surgeons found he l had fracture of the dome of the 1 skull, internal injuries and was suffer l ing greatly from shock. They offered ! little hope for his recovery. 1 e Fireman Lynch went back to New | Haven in the other special train, and | an ambulance to St. RaphaeIs hos pital.
 Conductor Harry Desmond of the | wrecked train found himself unhurt, | made a nasty search amid the wrecked 1 cars, and found all the expressmen and l brakemen had escaped with nothing | worse than slight bruises and joIts.
 The crash of the engine into the | telegraph pole made the wires hum for 1 miles around. Upon the pole were l scores of telegraph wires for the rail- | wires of the railroad company. The | pole was neatly severed four feet above 1 the ground, and the heavy wires eaSed | it's fall so that it still remained up with not a wire broken. But the l semaphore cables boxed in by the dozen, running alongside the track, were torn to pieces and reduced to | seemingly helpless maze.
 Hundreds of people reached the | scene of the wreck during the morn l ing and watched the work of the two | wrecking crews from Harlem River | and New Haven. One devoted itself 1 to fighting the engine and tender and | the other to setting the cars back up- on the tracks. All seven cars had | passed the deraiI, but the latter two | were not badly damaged. The first | two cars were badly smashed, the first lying upturned on it's side.
 Engine, tender and the first bag gage car were lined up side by side as if by prearrangenent, all at right angles to the main tracks the engine i heading towards the tracks, the eten- der facing the opposite direction and the first baegage car heading the same as the engine.
 The engine was upside down. The sheet had been torn from it's sand dome the bell had gone tdmbling down toward the river barely a hun-eI 1red yards away. and the headlight and other fixtures were strewn around for a distance of more than a hundred l feet
 The front truck Of the locomotive vas buried out of sight in the soft l. earth. The locomotive itself was