The Sentinel=record., 1911-07-12
CARS TORN ID
 MATCH WOOD
TWELVE BATTERED BODIES ARE TAKEN FROM WRECK, BUT
 FOUR ARE UNKNOWN.
Coach Next to the Baggage Car Was spIintered and Every Occupant Was Killed or Seriously
 injured in Crash.

Bridgeport. Conn, July 1i-Twelve battered bodies ia the mDrgue, di sufferers in the hospitals, and ( mountain of junk at the foot of a 20- foot embankment at the western end of the city, tells the tale today of the worst wreck in 58 years history o the New York, New Haven and Hart ford Railroad.
 Although the accident happened tc the Federal Express just before the dawn. and the coroner's office has been busy all day answering tele- phone and telegraph queries from all parts of the country. Four of the dead. two men and two women, re- main unidentified.
 The others are:
 C. w. Christie, Philadelphia.
 George E. Saunders, Norwich Conn.
 Al; A IS s4'e: len r Rogers, wife of Sergeant George f. Rogers. Coasi Artillery, U. s. A.
 May Louise Rogers, her 7-months old baby.
 Mrs. Helen B. Walcott, Washing ton. wife of Charles B. Walcott.
 A. M. Curtis. New York; engi- neer of the train.
 w. A. Ryan, New York, fireman.
 With one or two exceptions, all of those in the hospitals tonight are ex- pected to recover. Several, howev- CT, are ill critical condition. Among them is Daniel Kissner, head brake man, of New York. His skull and sev- eral ribs are broken and he has in ternal injuries.
 John c. Won Prefer, of Read vile, Mass. and Mary McSweeney and Mrs. Loretta McRohan, of Phil adelphia. may not survive.
 The wreck will be responsible fol two more deaths if Mrs. Sarah Cal abra. also of Philadelphia. succumbs for she is about to become mother. Three of her children. aged from two to five years, were injured but not seriously.
 At one hospital is w. A. King, a young machinist. hardly scratched, but driven mad by the accident. He raves and shouts continuously for his Pal" George H. Kirby.
 Kirby has not been found and 1t is feared he may be one of the uniden- tified dead men.
 The other is a negro whose ucke' read from Philadelphia to Boston.
 When the Federal Express, bound from Washington to Boston, leapen the embankment this morning at cross -overn switch, q coach next lo the baggage car was caught at the bottom of the heap and smashed lhts matchwood. Not a person inside es caped death or injury.
 The five heavier Pullmans tha crashed down after it held together and the sleeping passengers inside a.tough severely shaken, for the mosl part suffered no worse injuries thar broken bones and bruises.
 Automatic signals protected the "crossoyer which the express hat to take to enable it to stop at ths station here, and the rules of the lln' prescried speed at that point or no more than 15 miles an hour
 Stories that the engineers was new man, not accustomed to tran of such importance, and that '"' tower man was not at his posi' denied by the company in ofiicia statements. The fact remains. no" ever, that when the express thunoet ed across the trestle where the swi'c' is. it was running nearly sixty mic an hour.
 When it struck the "crossovers 'ii' engine leaped the rails, dragging ~ but three of its cars alohs-
 The tower man says that when tn locomotive shot by, steam had pee' shut off, and the brakes were grihu ing on sand. He believes the ensl neer realized his mistake ana wa trying to slow down, although 'o late.
 Several hours elapsed before NJ ? Walcott was identified She IS U wife of Charles B. Walcott, or Wasn ington, director of the Smithsol ian Institute,
 W. H. Boyd. of New fofh' v member of the train crew. is s'' missing.