The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-12
Forty-Four Are In Hospitals Suffering Form In-
 Juries
TRAIN PLUNGED DOWN 2O-FOOT BEREAVEMENT
Worst Catastrophe in History of New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Occurs at Bridge
 port. Conn.

tered bodies in the morgue, A sufferers in the hospitals and mountain of junk
 at the foot of 20-foot embankment at
 the western end of the city tells the tale
 tonight of the worst wreck in 5s years
 history of the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad The ooroner's office has been busy all day answering tele- phone and telegraph queries from all parts of the country. Four of the dead. two men and two women, remain uniden | tified. The others are: | c. w. Chritsie, Philadelphia. | George E. Sanders, Norwich Conn. Mrs Gwendoyn F. Rogers, wife of 1 Sergt George F. Rogers, Coast Artiller.,
 U. S. A.
 May Louise Rogers, her 7-months-old | baby.
 Mrs. Helena B. walcott. Washington, D. C., wife of Charles D. Walcott. -. Hartman, years old. son of Mrs. l Hartman, Newfield. N J.. who is in | serious condition at the hospital. A. M. Curtis. New York. engineer of the | train.
 W. A. Ryan. New York; fireman. | The more severely injured are: Unidentified woman. eye gouge1 out. face terribly bruised, leg fractured.
 Michael Pury conductor of train, New Rochelle. N r.. fracture Of skull, inter-
 nNl injuries will die. David kissner. New York, brakeman,
 fractured leg, other injuries will prob ably die.
 Mrs. James B. Joyce. Washington.
 fractured wrist. back injured. shock; condition serious.
 Sara czalobro, Philadelphia, head badly
 cut body bruised, shock; condition seri-
 ous.
 Christie and Antony Czalobro, her two children, and s years; Christie
 bruised about head and body. internal injuries Antony, fractured arm, scalp wounds, internal, may die. | John F. Won Peneiffer, Mcdonald street. Readville, Mass, fraetured skull; 1 condition critical '- Frank Von Pfeiffer. Philadelphia. fractured ribs, disocated shoulder; condition serious
 | Miss Lucy Note. Washington, internal l injuries; condition critical | George Rogers, Washington, D. c. | His young was killed and another | son, Frank, badly hurt Mrs Rogers
 is thought to be one of the women who | was killed.
 | Charles Frazier Naviertree, Md. | Mrs. Emily Wilson, Philadelphia. | Mrs. Bertha Monroe, Cliftondale, Mass
 i Miss Mary Mccann, Philadelphia. | With one or two exceptions all those | in the hospitals tonight are expected to | recover. Several, however, are in a critical condition Among them is Daniel Kissner head brakeman, of New York His skull and several ribs are broken and he has internal injuries. John C. Von Pfeiffer of Readylle. Mass, and Mary
 McSweeney and Mrs. Loretta McCrohan of Philadelphia may not survive. The
 wreck will be responsible for two more deahs If Mrs. Sarah Calabra, also of Philadelphia, succumbs, for she is about to become d mother. Three of her chii-
 dren, aged from 2fto ,, were injured but
 not seriously. At one hospital Is w. A.
 King, young machinst. hardly scratched
 but driven mad by the accident. He raves
 and shouts continuously for his pal
 George H. Kirby.
 Kirby has not been found and it is
 feared he may be one of the unidentified
 men. The other is negro whose ticket
 read from Philadelphia to Boston.
 Coach Smashed To Splinters
 When the federal express bound from
 Washington to Boston leaped the embank-
 ment this morning at cross-over switch.
 a coach next to the baggage car was
 caught at the bottom of the heap and
 smashed into match wood. Not a person
 inside escaped death or injury. The five
 heavier Pulmans that crashed down after 1t held together, and the sleeping pas sengers inside, although severely shaken, for the most part suffered no worse in- jures than broken bones and bruises. Automatic signals protected the 'cross-over" which the express had to | take to enable it to stop at the station
 here, and the rules of the line prescribed | a speed at this point at not more than | i5 miles an hour. Stories that the engineer was a new
 man not accustomed to train of such | importance. and the tower man was not | at his post were denied by the company l in official statements. Tried To Slow Down
 The fact remains. however, when the | express thundered across the trestle where | tho switch is, 1t was running nearly SO miles an hour When if struck the cross over the engine leaped the rails. drag gng all but three of its cars along. The towerman says that when the To- conceive shot by steam had been shut off and the brakes were grinding on sand
 lie believes the engineer realized his mis- take and was trying to slow down, al- though too late.
 Several hours elapsed before Mrs. Wal,
 cot was identified. She is the wife of
 \
 C. d director of the Smithsonian Insti-
 tuition. w. H. Boyd of New York,
 member of the train crew, is still miss
 ing.
 Engineer Curtis is said by brother en-
 gineers to have been one of the most experienced and careful on the system.
 It is stated that while the federal ex-
 press was not his regular train, he had run it many times. Investigation of the wreck will be be- gIr at an early date, according to an announcement made tonight by Coroner Wilson.
 new cross-over installed in the
 Burr road viaduct and embankment on the western outskirts of the city was indirectly responsible for the accident The train was late and the engineer was driving fast to make up lost time When the heavily vestibuled train of ninc cars struck tho switch at full speed. the locomotive leaped, rocked and swayed over the ties for nearly 1 50 yards and finally fell to the street | below. dragging six cars down the bank The coupling broke between the