Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-07-11

The New Haven road issued the fol-
lowing official statement:
Train No 70, the Federal ExpresA'
left Fairfield at 3:2s a. m. and was
wrecked at 3:32 a. m. The train con-
sisted of United States Fish Commis-
sion car, baggage car, day coach and
six sleepers. Total. nine cars.
1.-THE engine and the first SIX oars
left the rails at the oross-over and
went down the bank, most OF them In
the street, at Fairfield avenue. OF the
remaining three sleepers two are still
on the rails, while one OF the sleepors
was derailed
"The cause Of the accident was due
to the engineer striking the cross-ovsr
from track No. 2 to track ND. I at a
high rate Of speed, estimated at close
to sixty miles an hour. He was going
from track No. Q TO track NO. 4 in
order to make the station stop at
Bridgeport.
Time card rules specify fifteen miles
an hour"
THE DEAD
Engineer A. NJ. Curtin.
Fireman W. A. Ryan.
Mrs. Gwendolyn F. Rogers, wife or
an electrician sergeant. coast artillery.
u. S. A.
- Rogers, aged weeks. daugh-
ter of Mrs. Rogers.
Helena B. Walsott, residence un-
known, identified by name on UNDER
clothes.
C. w. Christie. 2031 Rittenhouse
street, Philadelphia.
Two unidentified men, one a negro.
Two unidentified women.
One unidentified boy.
Rudolph A. Braun, a well-knowu
lawyer. of Newark. N. j.. was in the
accident. He boarded ths express at
Newark at 10:45 for Boston on b:usi-
ness.
Train Making Up Time.
A new "cross-over" installed on the
Burr road viaduct and embankment on
the western outskirts of the city was
indirectly responsible for the accident
The train was late and the engineer
was driving to make up lost time.
When the heavy vestibuled train OF
nine cars struck the switch at full
speed the locomotive leaped. rocked and
swayed over the ties for nearly 15o
yards and finally fell to the street be-
low, dragging six cars down the bank.
IT, coupling broke between the sixth
and seventh cars. leaving three Sleep
ers upright on the embankment, two OF
them still on the rails.
The express left Harlem river an
hour late. 1t was going at high speed
when the open switch, a mile and a
half west of the Bridgeport station.
was struck. The switch was near the
tower at the junction of Fairfield ave.
nue. and State street. There was one
tremendous crash, an instant of intense
silence, and then the groans and
shrieks of the wounded.
Five Cara and Engine Go Over Viaduct.
The wreck was almost complete, five
cars having gone over the viaduct,
twenty feet high. and only three
cars of the long train being left on the
tracks. The engine. twisted into junk,
was 200 feet south of Fairfield avenue.
| Behind were the mail and baggage
cars, while the Pullmans and coaches
were in a mass In the rear.
The day coach was entirely crushed,
and in 1t the deaths were many, five
| bodies being removed at once
Three Pullmans were almost CONF
pletely crumpled up. but appearances
were that the passengers were in a
measure protected by the strength of
| the cars.
| The dead and injured were laid out
upon the lawn of Mrs. B. A. Horan, in
Fairfield avenue. As fast as the ambu-
lances came the injured We're sent to
the hospitals.
| In the wreckage of the engine was
found a body thought to be the en-
gineer, who had died at his post.
babe about year old was found in ono
car 1t was alive and had become sep
arated from it's mother, who escaped
with minor injuries.
| In another coach Mrs. Whatonm, Of
Philadelphia, was taken out alive, but
her child was dead under her. Mrs. L.
w. Page, Of 1928 Massachusetts ave-
nue., Washington, D. c., who was with
her maid and child. escaped with minor
hurts.
The members OF the St Louis Mas