The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-07-17
Man Registered as William A. King Declared by Trainmen to Have Been First Seen Among Spec tators.
Real Name Said to Be Ke,na Wreck Victims Are on High Road to Recovery
 Conductor Furey Now Expected to Survive.

That the man who for several days was regarded as crazed by the hor- TOT of the Federal Wreck, and who kept imploring the surgeons and att tendants at St. Vincent's hospital for news of his dead comrade, Kirby was not a wreck survivor at all, but an imposter was the declaration of railroad men who visited the man at the hospital.
 Registered under the name of Will liam A. King of 634 Fairfield avenue. this city, King was kept at the hos pital from Tuesday, the day of the wreck, until yesterday. King left the hospital yesterday, after physicians had declared he was perfectly ready for discharge.
 He was suffering from no. injuries of any sort, and for the few days he was in the institution he was re- garded as merely delirious and un- strung because of the shock and tragedy of the express train catas- torphe. Yesterday, however, it de- veloped that his name was not King, but Kema, and under that name he is on the corrected records of the hos pital. He gave his home as Provi- dence, R. r. but did not leave at the hospital his street address.
 Railroad men visited the man at the hospital as well as the other vic tims, and one of them at once sin gled him out as an imposter. One railroad representative declared he had seen the man walk up to the scene of the wreck among the hum dreds of others who gathered shortly following the disaster. He said he saw Kema walking about in the crowds with the others, not at all de- lirous, and how he got among the in- jured to be taken to the hospital he could not say.
 Kema was one of the most carefully watched of the victims, for he be- came what was supposed to be raw ing maniac. He insisted he had gone part way to meet friend coming east and again and again he called out in what were supposed to be moments of delirium, begging the nurses and doctors to tear away the wreckage and haul out his friend, Kirby, who he believed was lying pinioned in the de- bris.
 Yesterday Kema became perfectly normal When the doctors and the sisters at the hospital broke the news gently to him that the railroad men said he was an imposter, he became furious
 .'I'll see,'' he yelled, "that they get me into that wreck
 He declared that the claim agents were trying to bluff him out of se- curing recompense for his sufferings. But he left the hospital late yesterday still declaring that the road would settle with him. Nothing is known of Kema in the vicinity of 634 Fair field avenue. There is no house bear ingp that number, and in the adjoin- ing homes Kema is unknown.
 Steady improvement in the condi- tion. of all the victims at both hospi- tals was reported today. At the more to be discharged today, not completely recovered. but sufficiently strong to go by train either to their homes or to their destinations
 Helen Gibbs and Mildred Ernest, both of Washington, D. C., left the Bridgeport hospital today with rela- tives. They gave up their eastward trip and returned to their respective homes to recuperate. They suffered bruises. lacerations and general shock, but both are well on the road to re- covery.
 Jennie Nickens of Washington, D. C., who was bound for Boston when the crash came, was also we'll enough to go to the station, and instead of returning home, she decided to con- tinue on to the Hub. She too suf- fered severe shock, decorations and bruises, but she rallied rapidly
 Loretta McCrohan, the pretty 16 years old girl of 1883 Wharonj street, Philadelphia, the worst of all the ac- cident cases at the Bridgeport hospi- tai, is still in serious condition. It was said at the hospital today how ever that her recovery was only a question of time unless further com pications not now suspected, arise.
 Miss McCrohan has displayed splen- did fortitude throughout the ordeal. Her little sister Eleanor, who was at St. Vincent's, went home with the fam- fly physician, from Philadelphia. for the mother of the girls could not be persuaded to the belief that both her children had not perished. The moth CT is recovering now that the younger girl has assured her, by her presence, of her escape, and has brought assur- ance that the elder sister is progress ing favorably. Loretta's ribs were crushed and she was almost suffo- cated in the debris She was mistak- en for a negress when she was re- ceived into the Bridgeport hospital, so badly was she bruised and be- grimed.
 Mrs Mary Walker of Washington. D. C., whose condition is still very serious at St. Vincents passed a comfortable night. She is suffering from concussion of the brain, and her neck and back are so sore and stiff that she suffers much pain. She enjoyed her first restful night since the wreck, last night, and while there is little change in her condition. the attending physicians say she is slight ly improved.
 Conductor Michael Furey who with
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