The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-11-28
Broken Axle Wrecks
 The Boston Express
Electric Locomotive Jumps Rails, But Coaches Slide Safely
 Into New Rochelle Station

New York, Nov. 2S-A broken axle on new electric locomotive on the service between Grand Central Station s<=d Stamford, Conn.,, over the lines of the New York, New Haven & Hart foard Railroad, was responsible yes terday for the wrecking at New Ro- ehelle of the Boston express which left Boston at noon and was due here at s:42 o'clock
 ,sS the train, which was made up of five parlor cars, four day coaches, one baggage and one express car. was somewhat late when 1t arrived at Stamford. two electric locomotives were hitched on to hurry 1t into the ing at from forty to fifty miles an hour. and had a clear right of way over the southbound express track past New Rochelle. Those on the plat form there saw the train suddenly slow up with a jerk. heard the crash and saw the second locomotive blow ing it's way along over the roadbed, dragging the express car and the bag gage car behind it. while the other cars rode steadier, as they were still on the rails.
 There was little time to run, as the express train bore down upon the sta- ton, throwing out a shower of ballast rock from the roadbed and splinters from the wooden fence upon the heads were waiting for the 5:32 local train to New York.
 Not a picket of the 300-foot picket fence was in place when the train came to a standstill minus the pair of wheels from the rear locomotive which has.been attached to the broken axle.
 one woman on the platform was struck in the face and across the shins by splintered pickets. She limped to a taxicab, gave the driver instructions to drive her to New York, and to in quirers said that she was the wife of an official of the railroad and did not care to have her name mentioned. She refused medical attention.
 Angelo Alino, a roofer, living at 524 East Nineteenth street, was the only other person seriously hurt by the fly ing debris. He was struck over the and was knocked down. When others ran to- his assistance he cried that he was all right and attempted to stag ger away. An ambulance surgeon from the New Rochelle hospital found him somewhat dazed from blows up- on the head and body. He was sent to his home.
 The train. which was known as No. B B. A, ~as in charge of Lambert Fowler. conductor, and Henry Kolb. engineer. 1t was an hour late ana was said to be making a special ef- fort to regain the lost time. All of it's parlor cars and most of the seats in the day coaches were filled. The first motor passed a cross-over switch immediately east of New Rochelle, but the second motor struck the frog with force enough to snap the rear axle and send the motor into the picket fence
 The motors, when they were finally stopped, were 100 feet beyond the sta tion, while the cars containing passen- gers came to a standstill where the passengers could step out as conven- iently as if the train had made New Rochelle regular stopping place.
 Few of the passengers waited for the tracks to be cleared, but took trolley cars to New York. Traffic over the inbound local and express tracks was delayed for three hours, and trains arrived at the Grand Central Station, after being switched around the wreck, from twenty to forty minutes late.
 A wrecking train cleared away the derailed motor, and the baggage and express cars and the rest of the train, drawn by 8 single motor, was brought into the Grand Central Station at midnight.