Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1911-07-13

bridgeport. Conn. July 1l.-Twelve bat
n tered corpses in the morgue, a sufferers
g. In the hospitals and a mountain of junk
: at the foot OF a 2o-foot embankment at
81 the western end of the city t,ti the tale
n tonight of the worst wreck in IS years
M history of the New York. New Haven Il
VI Hartford railroad. Although 1t occurred
Il just before dawn and the Coroner's office
u has had one man all day long doing moth
: ing but answering telephone and tele-
graph queries from all parts Of the coun-
8 try, four of the dead, two men and two
n women remain unidentified. The others
are:
c. w. Christie, Philadelphia.
George Il. Saunders. Norwich. Conn.
4 Mrs. Gwendoln f. Rogers, wife Of Ser
h geant George +. Rogers. coast artillery,
A [. 3. A.
May Louise Rogers, seven months old,
( daughter of the above.
Mrs Helena -. Wacott. Washington,
Il i. c., wife of Charles d. Walcott.
- - Hartman seven years old, son
: OF Mrs. Louis Hartman, NewAeld n j..
who is in a serious condition at the hos
pital
A. NJ. Curtis. New York. eng .neeer OF
the train
w. A. Ryan, New York. fireman.
COACH MADE MATCHWOOD.
When the Federal express from Wash
! ington to Boston leaped from the embanlt-
ment this morning, day coach next the
4 baggage car was caught at the bottom
of the heap and smashed into matchwood
b. and not person inside escaped death
or serious injury The heavier Pulmans,
five of them, that crashed down after it,
held together and the sleeping passengers
inside, although badly shaken, for the
most part suffered nothing worse than
broken bones and bruises.
With one or two exceptions all those
Il in the hospitals tonight We're expected
Il to recover. Several. however, are in a
n critical condition. Among them is Daniel
= Kissner, head brakeman, whose home IS
i IN New York, His skull and several ribs
Il are broken and he has Internal injuries.
a John +. Won Pfeiffer of Readville, Mass,
ID and Mary McSweeny and Miss Loretta
n McCrohan of Philadelphia may not sur
a vive. Mrs. McCrohan received several
- broken ribs and internal injuries. The
wreck will be responsible for two more
~ deaths If Mrs. Sarah Caabra also of
Philadelphia, succumbs, for she is about
10 give birth to a child Three of her
3 children. aged from two TO five are al
the hospital with her. none of them badl,
hurt
DRIVEN MAD BY SHOCK.
In a private ward at st. Vincent's
hospital is w. A. King. young ma
chinIst, who recently came to Bridge
port from Kansas City and who wen'
to Philadelphia yesterday to meet
e George IT. Kirby. who was COMING
b from Kansas city to get employment,
q shows hardly a scratch, The acciden
u drove him stark mad. He raved ant
N shouted continuously for his pal"
When they were dragging me gu
saw two legs under the wrecxa ge.
he said in one of his lucid moments
"Thc trousers were the same kline
81 George wore"
n Kirby has not been found here an,
H he may be one OF the two dead mel
n still unidentified, The other is Il nc
N gro, whose ticket read from Philade
n phla to Boston and whose trunk wa
" checked from West Chester. Pa
M on May 5, 1853. there was wreci
d ut South Norwalk, Conn, In which /
n lives were lost. Since then until to
"a day the New Haven railroad line ha
h1 been singularly free from disasters
. Automatic signals protected the cross
n over which the express had to TAX
N here to enable 1t to make the stop a
"a the local station and the rules of tn
NJ line prescribed speed at this point o
"a not more than 10 miles an hour
ENGINEER WAS NOT GREEN.
Stories that the engineer was a ne,
man not accustomed to a train of sue
N Importance and that the tower ma
L. e,
II company in official statements TIL
H fact remains, however. that when tn
express darted across the trestle wher
q the switch is located, It was runnin
n nearly GO miles an hour. When
Id struck tho cross the engine leape
n the rails, dragging all but three of 1t
cars along.
n The towerman says that when Cur
" tis's locomotive whizzed by steam ha
been shut off and the brakes wer
n grinding on sand, He believes tn
engineer realized his mistake and wa
trying to slow down, but too late.
II Several hours elapsed before Mr..
Walcott, one of the dead, was identi
fed, first by the name on her clothin
and then by n ring marked &c. d, "
to +. B. L., June 22, 1888" She wa
the wife of Chas, u. Walcott OF Wash
ington. a director of the Smithsonia
Institute. Mr.. Walcott telephoned tha
he had left Washington and would b
here late tonight.
w, II. Boyd of New York. a membc
Of the train crew, Is still missing.
The unidentified white man at III
norguo had on a blue shirt such g
railroad men wear. His head wa
split and his face battered almost b'
yond recognition.
list OF the injured follows:
"A AT ST VINCENTs HOSPITAL.
W II. Saunders. New London. burne
about the hands.
Mrs. w. H. Saunders. leg fractured.
~ Mrs. w. b. Clephone, Cherry Creel
as0 Md, bruises
Unknown Siavonian woman, leg broke l