Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-13
BODY BROUGHT HERE
Plans for Mrs. WalC0tt'S Fu-
neral Next Sunday.
ALL INJURED DOING WELL
Many Persons Attribute Wreck to
Great Weight Of Fish Com.
mission Car.

Funeral services for Mrs. Charles
D. Walcott wife Of the secretary Of the
Smithsonian Institution, who was killed
in the wreck OF the Federal express at
Bridgeport. Conn. Tuesday morning were
perfected this afternoon. The services
will be held at the Walcott residence.
1743 I'D street, this city, next Sunday
afternoon at o'clock. Rev. Stuart
Bready. assistant pastor Of the Church
of the Covenant will officiate. The inter-
ment will be private.
Mrs. Walcott's body arrived in Wash
ington last night at 9:55 o'clock aboard
the Colonial express. accompanied by MI
Walcott and DR.. George Otis Smith. di-
rector of the geological survey. who went
with Dr. Walcott to Connecticut fmme-
diately upon hearing OF the accident.
Having slept but little for thirty-six
hours, Mr.. Walcott was exhausted last
night and showed the effects of the
trying ordeal he had experienced, but it
was announced this morning at his home,
1743 22d street northwest, that he was
feeling much better.
Miss Helen Walcott is expected to ar
rive in this city tonight from Rochester.
n Y, accompanied by Mr.. and Mrs.
Holmes B. Stevens, Mrs. Walcott
DTOtnSr ana SlSISI-lH-AdW MI l1dA
williston of Lynn. Mass, Mrs. Walcott's
sister. also Is expected today. 1t is not
known when Charles D. Walclott, Jr.,
who is in Canada, will arrive here, but
colt, Mrs. Walcott's two youngest sons.
who are in Provo. Utah, will arrive in
Washington Friday or Saturday.
Mrs. Walker Still in Hospital.
washingtonians injured in the wreck
are continuing to improve. according to
advices received by friends and relatives
in this city today. Mrs. Mary E. S.
Walker, the school teacher who lives
at the Berlin. Z Iowa circle. has engaged
a suite at St. Vincent's Hospital. Bridge
port, in which to recuperate from her In
Juries, which are quite painful. Mrs.
ploye of the navy yard, living at 624 18th
street northeast. left for Bridgeport I'M
mediately upon hearing Of the accident
and Is now with his sister.
United States fish commission car, who
suffered a fractured arm and was badly
scalded, is reported improving. 1t was
learned yesterday that not all the crew of
the car were aboard at the time of the
accident, w. H. Britain of 2134 18th
street northwest having been ordered to
New York city and ]. F. Fearnow being
absent on detailed duty. H. l.. Garfield
and o. Ogden, jr., the other members of
the crew. who were in the car, have been
ordered to report here at once.
The wreck is attributed by many to the
fish commission car, which, because of its
great weight, invariably has delayed traf-
fic and caused couplings to break. The
car, because Of its dimensions and equip
ment, is said to be the heaviest in the
United States and probably in the world,
and, 1t is commended, may account for the
overturning of the train when it struck
the cross-over near Bridgeport.
Not Known at Soldiers Home.
That one of the bodies found in the
wreck at Bridgeport was identified by
letters found in the clothing as that of
Sylvester J. Bennett. an inmate Of the
Soldiers Home, this city, was the infor-
nation contained in a dispatch from
Bridgeport last night.
At the soldiers Home, it was stated,
there is no person of that name on the
register Officials OF the institution said
he is unknown to them. but may possibly
have been an inmate Of the home some
years ago.
+ BRIDGEPORT. Conn, July 13-Reports
from the hospitals indicated this morn
ing that all Of those injured in the wreck
OF the Federal express, on the New York,
New Haven and Hartford railroad, here
early Tuesday morning, are showing in-
prOvement, and. while several are classed
as seriously injured none is regarded as
being in critical condition