Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1911-07-12
Flying Train On New Haven
Road Leaps High Embark
menti Victims Buried In
Mountain of Junk,
ACCIDENT WORST IN
ANNALS OF NEW ENGLAND
Doomed Express Travelling at
Mile a Minute Gait When 1t
Strikes Misplaced Rail at
Crossing,
IBy Morning Journal Special L.a..S wire,

! Bridgeport Conn. July 11-Twelve
bodies In the morgue forty-four in
iured in the hospital and mountain
of junk at the foot of a twenty-foot
embankment at the western end of
the city tell the tale tonight of the
worst wreck in fifty-eight years his
tory of the New York, New Haven &
Hartford railroad.
Although the accident happened TO
the federal express Just before dawn
and the corners office has been busy
all day answering telephone and tele-
graph queries from all parts of the
country sour of the dead. two men
and two women remain unidentified.
The others are:
C. W. CHRISTIE. Philadelphia.
GEORGE T.. SAUNDERS, Norwich.
Conn.
MRS GWENDOLIN +. ROGERS.
wife of Sergeant George Il. Rogers.
coast artillery, l.. = A.
MAY LOUISE ROGERS, her seven-
months daughter
MRS. HELENA y. WOLCOTT.
Washington, ID. c., wife of Charles d,
Wolcott.
----HARTMAN. seven years old,
son of Mrs. Louise Hartman, New
field, n. j., who Is in a serious con-
dition at the hospital,
A. NJ CURTIS. New York, en-
gineer of the train.
+. w RYAN, New York. fireman.
With one or two exceptions all
In, al. ta1
to recover. Several, however, are in
a critical condition,
The wreck will be resposiblc for
two more deaths If Mrs Sarah Cal
abra, also OF Philadelphia succumbs,
Tor she is about to give birth to Il
child. Two Of her children, aged from
two to five, were injured.
At one hospital is W. A. King, u
young machinist who recently came
TO Bridgeport from Kansas city and
went to Philadelphia yesterday to
meet George H. Kirby. who was com
ing from Kansas City. Although
King shows hardly scratch the ac
cident drove him stark mad. He raw
ed and shouted continually for his
pal
Kirby has not been found although
Bridgeport was his destination and 1t
is feared he may be one of the uni
Identified dead men The other is a
negro.
When the express bound from
Washington to Boston. loaped an em-
bankmcnt at CrossOvcr switch,
day coach next the baggage car was
caught at the bottom of the heap and
smashed into matchwood. Not a
person inside escaped death or SER
iOus injury.
The five heavier Pullmans that
crashed down after II held together
and the sleeping passengers inside,
although badly shaken suffered no
worse injuries than broken bones and
bruises.
Automatic signals protected the
"crossover" which the express had to
take to enable IL to drop at the sta
ton here. and the rules of the line
prescribed speed at this point of not
more than fifteen miles an hour.
Stories that the engineer was new
man not accustomed to train Of such
and that the tower man
was not at his post were denied by
the company Ill Official statements.
The fact remained however. that when
he express darted across the trestle
where the switch is located, 1t was
nearly sixty miles an hour.
When it struck the 'crossover' the
engine leaped the rails, dragging all
Dut three of Its cars along.
All night long the wreckers, the To-
cal police and tranmen worked over
the mass of wreckage but up to mid |
night no more bodies had been discoV-
cred. Up to the stme hour none OF
the wounded In tn, two hospitals had |
TO their INJURIES though the
of at least four Is considered |
serious. one name was added To the |
list of injured, that Of Mrs. May Wal |
ker of Washington. ID. G. Her eondi- !
ion is not serious.
The police and many of the train I
men believe there are one or more /
bodies still In the wreck of the first |
Pullman, the forward end OF which /
vas driven into the ground and of
which thorough search has not been
made.
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