Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1911-07-14
EASTERN TRAIN
WRECK IS FATAL
NEW HAVEN EXPRESS PlUNGEs
OVER vlADUCT AND Twelve
ARE KILLED.
ST. LOUIS BALL TEAM ON BOARD
Pepty.sour Others Are Injured, soms
efWhom Probably Will Oie-open
Switch Causes Disaster on
Outskirts of Bridgeport.

eastward at forty miles an hour, tn
Colonial express on the New Havel
railroad plunged over a thirty-foo
viaduct on the outskirts of this cit.
killing twelve passengers and injur
ing fOrty-fOur, of whom twenty vii
probably die. The wreckage caugh
fire almost Immediately and the cit.
fire department had to be called tt
prevent many of the passengers be
Ing roasted to death in the wreckage
Train Strikes Open Switch.
Tho express left Harlem river an
hour late. It was going at high speed
when an open switch mile and hall
west of Bridgeport station was struck
There was one tremendous crash. al
Instant of intense silence and the
groans and shrieks of the wounded.
The wreck was almost complete, five
Dars having gone over and only three
cars Of the long train being left on the
track. The engine, twisted into junk,
was 200 feet south Of Fairfield ave
nue.. Behind were the mail and bag
gage cars, while the pullmans and
coaches were in a mass in the rear.
The day coach was entirely crushed
md in it the deaths were many, five
bodies being removed at once.
Three pullmans were almost COM
pletely crumpled up, but passengers
we're in q measure protected by the
strength of the cars With firemen.
policemen and doctors working as fast
% possible the dead and injured were
laid out on the lawn Of Mrs. B. A.
Koran in Fairfield avenue. AS fast as
The ambulances came the injured were
tent to the hospitals.
In the wreckage of the engine was
,ound a body thought to be the engi-
neer who had died at his post. A baby
about year old was found in one
Ear. It was alive and had become sep
lrated from its mother. Mrs. w. V.
Clephane, of Cherry Creek. Mr., and
It's, aunt, Miss Beatrice Clephane, both
IT whom escaped with minor in.
Iuries, chiefly wounds on the head. In
mother coach Mrs. Whatoum, of Phil
ldelphia, was taken out alive but her
child was dead under her. Mrs. L. w.
Page of 1928 Massachusetts avenue,
Washington, d. c., who was with her
maid and child, escaped with minor
lurts.
The members of the st. Louis Ma
ional league baseball team on their
way to Boston, were in the last Pull
nan, but all escaped injury The car
stayed on the track, but it's sudden stop
It the moment OF the crash threw
avery one of the ball players out of his
,erth. Without waiting to dress COM
,letely the players hurried from their
.ar, climbed down the viaduct and
.pent strenuous two hours helping
.ailroad men, policemen and surgeons
It their work, in the wreckage. All of
he teams baggage including their
uniforms was lost in the wrecked bag
gage car.
AS q mater of fact the mistake of
switching crew in the New York
Yards probably saved the lives of most
II the players. When the team board.
I'd the train out of Philadelphia they
we're in the fourth car from the engine,
,ut when the cars were taken off the
.erry after circling Manhattan island,
The switchmen accidentally put their
coach at the end of the train.
HarpIng Rails Causes Oregon Wreck.
The Dalles, July 1.-THE warping
II the rails by heat on the Oregon
Trunk railroad caused the wreck Of
! southbound passenger train. One
nan was killed and about 20 persons
we're injured, two perhaps fatally.
Among the injured are Mrs. J. w.
Rasmuss Of Ellsworth, Wis, and c. s.
Wanson of Minneapolis. Mrs. Rasmuss
nay die. Wanson is slightly injured.