Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1911-07-11
FEDERAL EXPRESS
LEAPS SWITCH
Scarcely Any of Hundred Pas
sengers Escaped Death
or Injury
CRASH IN BRIDGEPORT CITY
Locomotive and Six Cars Drop
Twenty Feet to Pavement
Below.
tBy Special Leased Wire TO New Mexican,


Bridgeport. Conn, July 1.-THE
Federal Express, one of the New York
New Haven and Hartford Railroad 5
fastest trains carrying passengers
without change from Washington tc
Boston, plunged down a twenty-foo.
embankment here today while rum
| ing 60 miles an hour. Of the one
hundred passengers that went dowl
with the first six cars, scarcely one
escaped death or injury. Twelve
bodies had been taken out of the
twisted wreck by noon, including the
engineer and fireman, who were sc
mutilated that it is evident that they
must have met instant death
Forty-four injured are in the hos
pitals and nearly a score more re.
ceived injuries severe enough to pre-
vent them from continuing their
journey.
The dead are:
Engineer A. NJ. Curtis.
Fireman w. A. Ryan.
Mrs. Gwendolyn F. Rogers, wife of
an electrician sergeant coast artillery
L. S. A.
-Rogers, aged Z weeks, daugh-
ter of Mrs. Rogers.
c. w. Christie Philadelphia.
George E. Saunders, Norwich, CT.
Four unidentified women.
One unidentified child.
A new "cross over installed on
the Burr road viaduct and embank-
ment on the western outskirts of the
city was indirectly responsible for
the accident.
! The train was late and the engin-
eer was driving fast to make up time.
When the heavy train of cars struck
the switch at full speed, the locomo-
tive leaped, rocked, and swayed over
the ties for nearly $50 yards, and
finally fell to the street below, drag.
ging six cars down the bank. The
coupling broke between the sixth and
seventh cars, leaving three sleepers
still on the rails.
Engineer Exceeded Speed Limit.
Boston, Mass, July 11.-Twelve
persons killed and forty-two injured
in wreck due to the engineer TAX.
| ing a cross-over at speed estimated
at 60 miles an hour, when the time
card limited the speed to Is miles an
hour, was the statement concerning
the Bridgeport wreck issued by Off
cials of the New York, New Haven
and Hartford Railroad here today
Baby lmpaIed on Splinter.
Bridgeport, Conn.,, July 1.-THE
wreck occurred just before day light
when $50 passengers occupied the
berths and cne day coach
Just behind the locomotive, three
cars were piled one above the other.
At the bottom of the heap was the
day coach and most of the dead were
taken from this car.
Many of the dead were so mutliateu
that Identification was slow. Two
babies were found, one with it's head
severed, and the other impaled on a
splinter.
Base Ball Players were Heroes.
Many of those pinned beneath the
debris owe their lives to the prompt
ness of membersoftheSt.L .LouisNation
| a baseball team.
! The ball players were riding in
the two last cars, which remained on
the track. When the crash came
they piled out in their pajamas and
several of them were bleedings from
cuts about the feet caused by racing
ever the wreckage.
81 was in the next to the last car,
said Roger Bresnahan, the team.
manager. Il was smoking at tht
time the wreck came, and I grabbed
hold of something. l got out all righ
Lot one of our men was hurt, but oul
Luggage is gone"