The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-07-12
Asst EXPRESS
WRECK CLAIMS
MANY VICTIMS
Twelve Are Dead and More
Than Two Score
Z Are Severely In
jured.
TRAIN JUMPS TRACK
DOWN EMBANKMENT
Ball Players on Board the
Ill -Fated Train Prove
Themselves to Be
Heroes.

N BRIDGEPORT. Conn, July H.
* Twelve bodies i'll the morgue,
~ fortyfour in the hospital and
q" huge pile OF junk at the foot of 4
twentyfoot embapkment at the west
ern end of the city tell the tale tonight
of the worst wreck in fifty:eight years
history of the New York. New Haven
e. Hartford railroad.
Although the accident occurred to the
Federal express just before dawn and
the coroner 8 office has been busy all
day answering telephone and telegraph
queries from all parts Of the country,
four of the dead. two men and two
women, remain unidentified.
Partial List of Dead.
c, W. CHRISTIE. Philadelphia.
GEORGE Il. SAUNDERS, Norwich,
Conn.
MRS. GWENDoLIN f, ROGERS.
wife Of Sergeant George F. Rogers.
coast artillery. L. 5. A.
MAY LOUISE ROGERS, her seven
months. old daughter.
! MRS. HELEN B. WOLCOTT. Wash.
ington, ID. c.. wife of Charles ID. VOL
colt.
- HARTMAN. seyen-vear-old son
of Mrs. Louis Hartman, Newfield, y.
j., who is in serious condition at the
hospital
a. NJ. CURTIS, New York, engineer
of the train
+. w. RYAN, New York. fireman. 49,
Two unidentified men.
Two unidentified women.
List of Injured.
George Rogers. Washington. d C.;
fractured arm. severe bruises. lils
Young son was killed and another son.
Frank, badly hurt. Mrs. Rogers is
thought 10 be ono of the women dead.
Charles Frazier, Navertree Green
Nd; scalded and internal Injuries.
Mrs Emily Wilson. Philadelphia:
fractured left rib and leg.
Miss Bertha Monroe, Cliftondale,
Mass; injuries to spine.
Mrs. Mary Mccain. Philadelphia;
scalp wound, fracture OF the arm.
Unknown woman. eve gouged out,
face terribly burned. leg fractured.
Michael Furey, conductor of train.
New Rochelle. \. Y: fracture of skull
David Kissner. New York. brakeman:
fracture of left leg. other injuries
Mrs James B. joyce, Marry, n sub
urb OF Washington: fracture of left
wrist. back in iured, shock.
Sarah Czalobro. Philadelphia; head
badly cut, condition serious.
Christie and Tony Czalobro. her two
children; internal injuries.
John +. Won Pfcffer, Readville,
Mass; fracture of skull.
Frank Won Pfeffer, cousin of John.
Philadelphia; fracture of ribs, tisloca
tiou of shoulder.
Lucy Note, Washington; internal in.
juries.
The uames Of thirty other persons 10.
jured, mostly women from the east.
were also obtained. but their injuries
were minor.
The wreck occurred Just before dawn,
when l5o passengers occupied the
berths and the one day coach.
With one or two exceptions all those
in the hospitals are expected to re
cover Several, however, are in crit
ical condition,
The wreck will be responsible for two
more deaths if Mrs. Sarah Calabra, also
of Philadelphia. succumbs. for she is
about to give birth TO a child. Three
of her children. aged from two to five,
were injured.
Young Man Goes Mad.
Al one hospital is W. A. King,
Young machiuist, who recently came TO
Bridgeport from Kansas City and went
to Philadelphia yesterday to meet
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