The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-06-28

is set down the time the train passes the preceding tower, his own, and the next succeeding one. This in1orma- tion is communicated from tower 70 tower by bell signals or over the wire.
 "H-Y-2" in charge of Engineer Beach was rung in from Greens Farms while Stanford was In the tower and Brown states that he went by his tower at 11:31 p. m. using steam" Stamford was sitting in the tower facing the west windows, and saw his train (H-Y-2) show up around the curve" and remarked 10 Brown, Brown, that fellow is com ing at pretty good clip, ana oon think has shut off,
 Thereupon both Brown and Stani- ford jumped up. Brown taking the red and Stamford the white lantern which were burning in the tower Brown waved his lantern out of the north window of the tower ad1acent to the track, and Stamford swung the white lantern in a horizontal or stop motion out of the west window facing Beach's train. Beach paid no attention whatever to any of the sig nals, but came on at the same speed.
 Frederick G. Noon, 'the conductor on 'H-Y-2," Beach's train, who was riding in the caboose, says that his train was inspected on leaving West chester, and everything as far as he knew was first class" He also states that the only showdown after leaving Westchester was while going into South Norwalk, and after that, erNn passing the Fairfield tower, there was no siackening of speed by Beach until the very sudden stop caused by the train running into Extra 338," which had just started up and was travelling about twelve miles an hour, according to Walsh.
 Noon estimated the speed of his train at about twenty-five miles an hour, and says that there were fifty also says that the brakeman in the caboose with him reported some thing the next morning after things had quieted donw on the wreck" that the distant signal at Fairfield was ''caution"-a yellow light-and ''both lights were out on the starting signal (the semaphore near the tower) on tracks and 4, but the signals were danger when the flagman went by.'' As stated before, these signals could not be changed while Extra 33S" was in the block between Fairfield and Burr Road tower.
 Noon says that it was only about two minutes after the train went by said caution signal when his train crashed into Extra 33s."
 Walsh further says that he swung my light before I got to the caboose, and he (the engineer) started and II stepped on, and when I hung up my lantern on the hind end,-- the red light and chained it on I went in and got the fuses and threw it out; went in and fixed the fire and sat in the cupola, and the conductor got on."
 The fusee is stick of powder which burns first red and then yellow; the red being a stop, and the yellow a caution signal. Upon experiment. I found similar fusee burned about four minutes red and about seven yellow. Walsh says the fusee didn't stick upright, but fell down, but says,
 no matter which position it is in it burns." I also found this latter state ment to be true with the aforesaid fusee.
 Stamford states that he didn't see any fusee, but as the train was about on the point of the long curve east of the Fairfield tower, it may have been beyond the curve that Walsh threw it off. Walsh's is the only posi- tive testimony as to the fusee. Walsh start on that, just got going pretty good" before the crash came. Walsh further says that there were lone red Qlght) on the deck, two markers, and two red lanterns that I had" all of which were red, on the rear of his caboose. Stamford testified that he could see the lights on the rear of this train as it pulled away.
 Hun, the conductor in the caboosa of Extra 3SS" says, "I heard the en- zine coming, H-Y-2) and I didn't imagine then it was on track 2, be- cause he hadn't ought to have been there. There hadn't ought to be a possible chance of his getting in the block with us. I heard the engine pulling and he kept right on pulling after he had hit us, until I guess the air broke on his engine and the air stopped him."
 Charles N. Flagg. the operator at Burr Road tower says, in reference to a signal for "H-Y-2", He (Fair- field operator) never asked for an He never asked for it at ali." Flagg states further that Pickup Extra SIP" passed his tower at 11:28 D. m that night, travelling westward on track 8; that "S-H-1" westbound on track l passed his tower at 11:3O D. block to Fairfield from Burr Road Clark, engineer on Pickup Extra 312," says that "S-H-1" was gradual ly overriding him, and was expecting some one to overtake him as track l was also clear.
 On the day in question, Extra 33S' passed the F'airc d tower at 11:16 p n,- eastboui on track g. and
 ms formation Was rCng in to the Burr Scad tower at that time, and also 10 tae one at Greens Farms The operator at Greens Farms received a clear" signal from Fairfield when this train passed on said track 2, which indicated a clear block be- tween him and Fairfield. and also that tho signals at Fairfield were set at danger or Stop, otherwise a "clear" could not have been given 10 Greens Farms