The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-07-11
St. Louis Baseball Team in Last Coach Which Does Nol Leave Track, Renders Assistance in Early Morning Rescue of Dead and Wounded Who Are
 Reached by Chopping Through Cars

Fairfield avenue, who was statione
 nearby, rushed to a fire alarm bo,
 sounded the alarm, and phoned to DO
 lice headquarters.
 The first man aside from those wh
 were upon the train, to reach tn
 wreck was Policeman George 4 North, driver of the automobile patrol | wagon, who was sleeping at his home l 1901 4 falrfeld avenue, next to tn
 Horan homestead. North rushed ou
 scantily clad. reaching the wreckag
 just as the ball players, some in pa
 Jamas. others barefooted, ran dow 1 rom the tracks. by way of the stee grassy slope Just west of the bridge In a few minutes f1remen and police
 men were on the scene. North en g1neered the work of rescue with tn heFp of the bali players, until othe succor came. One of the sleepers wa on it's side. It's ends were piled u, With wreckage. There was no means of access to the inmates whose muf
 ned screams were borne through the
 ventilators to the rescuers.
 Are you hurt?" shouted North.
 Not much in here," came a voice from within.
 In few minutes firemen had chop. pea big aperture through the roof and one by one the injured and those who had escaped were lifted out. The first to be taken out was an immense woman, whose weight must have been little short of 300. The hole was made ample. But it was only by pacing four of the ath- letes beneath the woman, and two policemen above the hole that they got her out The others came up easier. Np
 pr. McQueeney responding to. the ambulance call picked up Drs. Green stein, Bennett and Ives on the way out. Police. f1remen, doctors and bail players were working like beavers.
 The lawn in front of the Horan homestead was soon piled with dead and injured. The dead were cover ed with white sheets taken from the wreckage of the sleepers, and there they awaited the morgue wagon from Rourke Rourke's while the in ured.
 On all sides most pathetic sights net the eyes of the rescuers. One 'I the most pitifu1 of all was that 'i d brave little woman who was un- lpie to move, in the wreckage of the iay coacn. As the car swept off the 'laduct, 1t dislodged a. huge granite block. weighing a ton or more ani arrled the stone along in it's flight The stone dashed into the open Side if the car as the wreckage settla6 IS weight was planted upon a nile | I sphntered timbers beneath which sss.
 For an hour and a half she sat nere, sweltering in the heat, with plotches of blood dripping from the mbers about her John J. Barton ne stalwart ex-soldier and ex-sailor' ow policeman, lanky Jim Dooley eorge North and the ball nIayers INV her plight Uniting the;r -rength they dislodged the rock suf- clently to get the timbers loose octors Kept ministering to the wo lan: giving her istimulants and ad- os osnisnlng ner to be brave, that re- nee did she falter. When she was nally dragged out Dr. Coops. who ere Kept racing back and forth 10
 the automobile of Dr. Gardner.
 section of the shattered picket nee rom the Horan place was f ardner's car and with his for an npulance the woman was taken I way. T The ambulance and police natrol f as Kept racing back and forth to nospltaIs. and the automobiles of : 'ctors ana citizens who had hurried s lt eltner on hearing the crash or [ essed into service c A. l.. Riker of the Locomobile Go. f IS pressed into service by Ambn- ii nee Surgeon McQueeney. Frank ]. ii aieahS; ana Go general e1as manager of the I e. scene. He told Dr. McOueeneV at his residence. at 911 Fairfield enue was at the disposal of the eek victims pr. McQueeney gathered a dozen
 the victims who were without gar ,nts and not seriously hurt, and
 patched Riker's car to the MrI- ny home with them. Here theyl re made welcome. and provided Ln the necessary articles of wear apparel to continue their trip.
 search Tor the dead and injured s sys.ema No tlcaiiy dHa begun. Engine | ana Z, trucks 1 and and all "
 FlVes men that could be spara5 w m the house were sent to the tw ne No. ? truck and Five's men N re summoned by Chief Mooney. n, o was among the first to reaci, III
 scene after the alarm. w ne nremen at once organized and tn cad throughout the wreck. Even he ore tnelr arrival the wreckage had w, en ire. William H. Saunders. who Kt II ms Wife was in the day coach. m escaped death by what seems ,1e e short of miraculous, beat out w,
 la amess several times with his co e hands. thus saving the many toned beneath the wreck from al, tn in most horrible manner. cir ne arrival of the firemen and to ce brought system. The firemen est an an organized search through If
 Wreckage. The Horan lawn was ws n strewn with dead and injured Ln
 as fast as automobiles and ambu, T ,es and other means of transpor- on could be brought into play they eo e taken to hospitals. The morgue n, ons ons began to cart off the dead a Ia,,a5 aalu ,hLees. m, leVen dead bodies were stretched ha