The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-07-12
Odor of Decomposing Re mains Leads Trainmen to Huddled Body Beneath
 Heaps of Wreckage Coroner Wilson Gives Or ders that All Energies Are to Be Bent to Reach Dead Man, Who Wears Brake mans Uniform.
He Is Believed to Be Ger tainly Missing Flagrnan, Edward Goff-Brakeman Joslin Also Missing, Sup posed to Have Been with Goff-Dead Identified.

believed to be that of Edward Golf,
 a railroad flagman employed on
 Springfeld-Harlem river freight, who
 was known to have been deadheading
 on the Federal express, was taken
 from the debris as wrecher lifted
 away the Speeding car Alteus.
 Goffs wife came to Bridgeport to- day with railroad engineer who had heard that Golf was reported killed. Golf lives with his wife, 254 Llyod
 street. It was his custom to return home on the Federal from Harlem river after he completed his run.
 The remains were taken to the nor que tor a more complete Identification than was possible in the condition of the body as 1t came from th6 wreckage.
 Golf was a flagrnan very well known in railroad circles. For many years he was on the road He lives with his wife in New Haven, and has a son, Robert J. Golf, also a trainman. He was on SpringieldHarlem river freight known as s. H. 1.
 Rumors of the presence of bodies ir the wreckage began late yester- day when clothing that appeared to be that of. railroaders was dragged out of the debris. Goff's coat is re- ported to have been found among others, but the whereabouts of the garment is not now known.
 It was reported also that another trainman, named Joslyn, was in the wreckage. Joslyn and Golf, the story goes. were on the same run. ana leaving their freight at the comple- ton of its run, they "deadheaded' it, as the trainmen call it, from Harlem river back towards New Haven, on the Federal express.
 Mrs. Golf heard of the wreck at her home in New Haven yesterday fore noon, and at once suspected that some harm had befallen her husband. MT. Golf is reputed to be one of the most reliable trainmen on the road, and his unexplained absence from home at once gave rise to fears that he was numbered among the victims.
 Mrs Golf enlisted the services of another trainman, an engineer, who accompanied her to this city today. ming the single unidentified male there, at once concluded that it could not be that of MT. Golf.
 Then they went to the hospitals and found at both St. Vincent's and the Bridgeport hospital that there was none answering Goffs description They concluded that he must be still in the wreck, and they decided to await the removal of the last two cars. Mrs. Golf did not go to the scene, re- in the center of the city while the railroad man went to the disaster, to witness the work of clearing away the temporary tomb of the missing fagman.
 Fire Chief Edward Mooney is doubt full as to whether there any more bod ies beneath the wreck He says he 11f ho y011 over the wreckage and have made a search as thorough as was possible. He will admit the possibility of there being more bodies still to be disclosed, but he thought it improbable after he had made another examination of the scene at noon today.
 Throughout the day the morgue was filled with people seeking to identify the unclaimed bodies. Until late this afternoon there was no claimant for the body of Engineer Curtis
 Curtis is the man upon whom the railroad officials have shouldered the responsibility for the wreck. He was not in good standing, says the Broth erhood of Railway Trainmen, for non- payment of his dues. Though his family in the Bronx, New York, have been notified of his death, and that the body is still unclaimed, up to late hour today no word had been received as to the disposition of the remains.
 One of the female corpses lying in the morgue was identified this morn ing. It was that of Mrs. Virginia W. Palmer, 61, of Richmond Va Her son, M. P. Waddy of that city, came on here when he read press dispatches the discovery of a body with the initial in the clothing. At first glance he identified the body. and all but swooned. Upon second glance, he was dubious, but later was convinced that the remains were those of his parent.
 He made arrangements for the ship nent of the body on the midnight express to Washington, D. c.
 The body of Walter M. Ryan, the fireman, was shipped at 10 o'clock this l to the Bronx.
 Identification of the woman with he name Bertha M. Walcott was completed today by her husband, Dr. | ]. A. Walcott, secretary of the | Smithsonian institute, of Washington, | D. c. Mrs. Wa1cott was on the way o visit her sister in Lynn, Mass. She l her trip for several days on l account of the heat and finally board | d the ill-fated train with reluctance because of the sagreeable conditions | 'or travelling. This body will be | shipped to Washington tonight. Dr. Walcott arrived here early this morn | ng.
 At the morgue this afternoon there | ,emain three unidentified bodies l These are the unidentified negro un-