The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-06-07
Freight Trains Pile In Colossal Wreck;
 Four Dead, Five Hurt
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The injured were found strewn at various points along the wreckage.
 From Fairfield word was sent to Bridgeport and the ambulance corps of the Emergency hospital and the po- lice patrol wagon were rushed out. In the ambulance were Drs. McQueeney, Wason and Bennett. Patrolman Campana accompanied Driver McGirr with the patrol wagon which was inn pressed into ambulance service.
 Conductor Oliver Hough of the first freight, was compiling his tally sheets in the caboose when the express crash ed into him. Hough's caboose was split open as if with a huge cleaver and he was pinioned in the wreck age.
 When the Fairfielders and other trainmen found him, he was half delir- ious
 For Gods sake, flag the local,'' he yelled as the men were fishing him out. He did not know that the local and another express, coming from the opposite direction, had already been added to the mass of wreckage.
 Hough had both legs broken, his shoulder was crushed, and he was bleeding from many decorations. But he was game as could be, and insist ed that the men should hurry out to flag the local. He was placed cn leather cushions fished out of the WrGckdSe. Inen they 1Ounu trainman lying off in an open lot, 10 feet from the wreck. How he came there he didn't know. His moans brought succor. He was not badly hurt, and insisted on remaining with his fellows at the wreck, though doc tors urged him to go to a hospital for examination.
 Walsh was found lying along side the tracks. He was helped to the Burr residence, a stones throw north of the tracks. He thanked the other trainmen for what they did.
 "Good-bye, boys," he gasped, as they shook his hand and left him to the care of the Burr family. I'm done for. I'm much obliged. Then he lapsed into inconsistencies.
 Dr. McQueeney piled Hannah and Walsh into the ambulance, brought both to St. Vincent's hospital in this city, then rushed back to the wreck. Then he took Hough aboard, and rushed him to St. Vincent'S hospital. The police patrol brought Fox to the Bridgeport hospital.
 / Fox was found in a pen formed by the wreckage of the two locomotives that piled against each other, and big oil tank, which fortunately was empty.
 The death of Beach is especially sad. He leaves a widow and several chill dren. Within a few months both his
 
 He was driving a work train at Nor walk, when his son, accompanying him, fell under the wheels and was beheaded. His father was flung from a wagon at Woodmont and suffered fatal injuries.
 Beach's remains were brought out of the wreckage shortly after Arthur E. Law, president of the Royal Equip ment Co of this city reached the scene Law is a cousin. Beach's brother is employed at the Royal Equipment Go.
 Near the two wrecked locomotives was found note that had fallen from Lauries pocket:
 couldn't send the pattern before, but sister let someone take it and they didn't return it. I hope it is not too late Anne Laurie
 A driving rain came up about 10 o'clock yet hundreds of spectators were so curious that they remained beside the wreckage and were thor oughly drenched watching the opera tiOnS of the four wrecking crews. About 300 men were working on the tracks and remaining debris at 5 o'clock this afternon.
 Two engines, those on the local east bound freight, and on the outside west bound freight were not badly damaged, but the others were reduc- ed to scrap.
 Oats, onions, oranges, boxes of gro- ceries, baskets of fruit and vegetables, were piled up in heaps beside the tracks.
 Several big empty boxes from the wreckage were pressed into service as observation stations by spectators. They arranged the boxes so as to shield them from the rain and wit nes the work of the wreckers.
 A special train from New Haven shortly after midnight, brought many officials of the road, and railroad po- lice Several railroad police were sent to the wreck from New Haven in an automobile.
 Tho bodies of the four victims were