The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-07-14
Coroner Wilson Begins Secret Inquiry Into
 Federal Express Wreck
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 despite the activity of the police and the railroad special agents. in prowl- ing through the debris of the Federal Express wreck, in the opinion of of- ficials of the railroad company.
 There are three distinct cases in which theft appears to have been com mitted. But the railroad men are e1ated that none more serious has come to light.
 The most extensive depreciation that as been revealed to date has to do with of Richmond, Va. Mrs. Palmer car- ried hand bag, in little pocket of which she was accustomed to depos- it her purse. Her son, M. w. Waddy of Richmond, identified the handbag at police headquarters. When he and railroad representatives went through the bag they found the little recep- tacle where it was his mothers cus- tom to carry valuables, without any contents.
 MT. Waddy did not know how much money his mother carried. It was a considerable sum. he believes, but he has no way of making an accurate estimate. Another instance of theft came to the attention of the railroad when one of the victims at the hos pitals identified his trousers, and a purse that was in a pocket. In the purse, he said were a $20 bill and a $1 bill. The S1 bill was found, and the s20 missing. The railroad men believe the $2O was stolen. Still an- other purse is reported as having been filched from a handbag just as was Mrs. Palmer's But these are the only three thefts thus far discovered.
 Tragedy and comedy were brought into sharp contrast in the awful scenes of the early morning of the wreck. With the clearing away of the debris, and the passing of the first grim shock of the catastrophe, the more humorous happenings are being detailed.
 One of these is told of a man who was flung from his berth without his trousers. He ~nt outside the wrecked car and vas trying to assist the oth- CTS still imprisoned.
 A mother handed her babe up through the broken window of the overturned car.
 She pleaded with the man to pros tect her child until he could rescue her.
 But first, madam" said the rescuer politely, may I trouble you for my trousers? I think you'll find them in the next berth
 The missing garment recovered. the rescuer then dragged for the mother. Both, he said, escaped practically un- hurt.
 S. F. Morley, the last of the bereav- ed to identify his dead at the city morgue, told with dramatic intensity of a reparkable dream he had upon the same train that brought death to his wife, when two weeks before he was a passenger over the same trip.
 Morley and his wife, residents of Varre, Vt, were visiting in Washing ton. He left fortnight ago, return ing by the Federal Express. He ar ranged for his wife to follow two weeks later
 T don't know just where we were, but I'm sure it couldn't have been very far from the scene of the wreck.'' 27, as he detailed the story in the morgue yesterday, "when I awoke af ter a terrible dream
 "I thought my wife and I had given up our idea of returning home one at time, and my dream was that we were on the train bound homeward to- gether. Then there was a terrible crash, and it seemed that my wife had been killed and that I was dying while I take no stock in such things ordinarily, I confess it preyed upon my mind. When I heard of the Fed eral wreck, the dream came back with awful force. and I was not greatly surprised to learn that my wife was among the killed, for I knew she was coming home on that very train"
 At the Bridgeport hospital today the condition of every one of the score of patients showed a marked improve ment Loretta McCrohan, the worst case at the hospital, was much better this morning. She passed comfort able night, and despite her severe in-