The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1911-07-12
OPEN SWITCH HURLs FAST Ex.
PRESS OVER VIADUCT AND
DEATH REIGNS.
Federal Express on the New York,
New Haven & Hartford Wrecked
Observation-Disclosures of Big League
Ball Club Escaped -.

Federal Express, the New York, New
Haven & Hartfords fastest train, car
rying passengers without change from
Washington to Boston, today plunged
down a twenty-foot embankmene hiie
running sixty miles an hour
OF one hundred passengers that
went down with the first six cars,
scarcely one escaped death or injury
Sixteen bodies had been taken olt Of
the twisted wreckage by noon, includ-
ing the fireman and engineer who
We're so mutilated it is evident that
they must have met instant death.
This will probably complete the death
list.
Forty-four in Hospitals.
Forty-four injured are in hospitals.
Nearly a score more received injuries
not severe enough to prevent them
from continuing their journey
List of Dead.
The dead:
ENGINEER A. M. CURTISS.
FIREMAN w. A. RYAN.
MRS. GWENDOLIN F. ROGERS,
wife of an electrician.
SERGEANT OF COAST ARTIL-
LERY, United States army.
- ROGERS. aged weeks, daugh-
ter of Mrs. Rogers.
G. w. CHRISTIE. 2031 Rittenhouae
street, Philadelphia.
GEORGE e. SAUNDERS, Norwich,
Conn.
Four unidentified men, one negro.
Five unidentified women and one
unidentified child.
crossover Responsible.
new "crossover" installed on the
Burr Read viaduct and embankment
on the western outskirts of the city
was indirectly responsible for the ac-
cident. The train was late AMI the
engineer was driving to make up lost
time. When the heavy vestibuled tr,;n
of nine cars struck the switch at full
speed the locomotive leaped, rocked
and swayed over ties for nearly $50
yards and finally fell to the street be-
low, dragging six cars down the bank.
The coupling broke between the sixth
and seventh cars, leaving three sleep
ers upright on the embankment, two
of them on the rails. The wreck oc-
Cured just before dawn when one
hundred and fifty passengers occupied
berths and one was day coach just
behind the locomotive. Three cars
were piled one ahove the other on
the bottom of the heap was the day
coach and a majority of the dead were
taken from this car. Axes we're used
in chopping into the overturned cars
and assisting passengers to safety.
Many lives, probably twenty were
crushed to death instantly and sixty
or seventy persons injured frightfuiiy
when the Federal Express was hurled
over viaduct here by open switch
Fire broke out in the wreckage, add
ing to the torture and suffering of
imprisoner passengers.
The fire department extinguished
the flames, and the firemen assisted
in rescuing the injured Ambulances
carrying doctors were hurried to the
scene and did their best to save those
under the debris
Struck Open Switch
The express train left the Harlem
river an hour late, shortly after 4
O'Clock this morning. It was going at
high rate of speed when the open
switch, a mile and a half west Of
Bridgeport, was struck The switch
was near a tower. There was a tre-
mendous crush, an instant of intense
silence, then the groans and shrieks
of the wounded.
Five Cars Crumpled.
The wreck was almost complete,
five cars having gone over the via
duct, and only three cars Of the long
train left on the track The engine,
twisted into junk. was two hundred
feet away. Behind were the mail and
baggage cars, while the Pullman and
coaches were in mass. The rear
coaches were entirely crushed. 1t was
in these that the most deaths oc-
CURED. Three Pullmans were almost
completely crumpled up. The passen-
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