Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-07-14
FEDERAL EXPRESS
IN FATAL WRECK

Bridgeport Conn.,, July 11.-Many
lives were crushed out in an instant,
and forty ,or more persons were
frightfully hurt when, early today,
the federal express, running from
Washington to Boston, over the New
York, New Haven and Hartford rail-
road, was hurled over the viaduct
here by an open switch.
The Dead
Mrs. George Rogers and her in
FAINT son, of Washington, D. C.
c. W. Christie, 2021 Rittenhouse
street, Philadelphia.
Engineer A. M. Curtis, of express.
Fireman W. A. Ryan, of express.
George R. Saunders, fifty-five years
New London, Conn.
Two unidentified young women.
Unidentified boy, three years of
age.
Unidentified woman, about fifty
eight.
Negro passenger, about thirty.
| Two unidentified children.
Seriously Injured
| Mrs. Mary Walker, 1925 Eleventh
street northwest, Washington, D. G.
i Mrs. James B. Royce, 701 Nine
lteenth street northwest, Washing ton,
| D. C.
Mrs. Mary Note, sixty-five, 223
Massachusetts, avenue, Washington,
D. C.
Mrs. Sarah Calabro, Philadelphia,
and her three children, Christie, Tony,
and Ida.
Mrs. Bertha Monroe. twenty-four,
Cliftondale, Mass.
Mrs Mary Mccain, fifty, 1916 Wal
ton street, Philadelphia.
Mary Insolvency., address I'M
known.
| David Kissner, thirty-eight, 104
Willis avenue, New York.
| Frank Won Pfeiffer, twenty-three,
2427 East North street, Philadel-
phia.
| John Won Pfeiffer, nine, Readville,
Mass.
| Eleanor Wilson, eleven, 1921 Sears
stree, Philadelphia.
Mr.. Murdoch, Somerville, Mass.
Mrs. McCornnor, Chestnut Hills,
Maryland avenue, Philadelphia; ribs
broken.
Fire broke out in the wreekage, but
the Bridgeport fire department quick
ly put this out, and the men lent as
: sistance to rescue the injured. Am
balances and doctors, hastily sum-
moned did their best to save those
who were under the debris.
: The express left Harlem river an
hour late. 1t was going at high
speed when the open switch, a mile
' and a half west of the Bridgeport sta
l ton, was struck. The switch was
3 near the tower at the junction Of
/ Fairfield avenue and State street
/ There was one tremendous crash, al
: instant of intense silence, and ther
: the groans and shrieks of the wound
ed.
e The wreck was almost complete
J, five cars having gone over and Onl.
: three cars of the long train bein!
ed into junk, was 200 feet south o
Fairfield avenue. Behind were tn
mail and baggage cars, while tn
pullmans and coaches were in a mas
in the rear.
# The day coach was entirely crush
ed and in it the deaths were many
five bodies being removed at once
IN Three pullmans were almost con
- pletely crumpled up, but appearance
- were that the passengers were in
~ measure protected by the strengt
- of the cars.
80 With firemen, policemen and do
IL tors working as fast as possible, tt
20 dead and injured were laid out upc
IN the lawn of Mrs. B. A. Horan,
Fairfield avenue. AS fast as the ar
no bulance came, the injured were SCI
no to the hospitals.
- In the wreckage of the engine w
M found a body, thought to be that
~ the engineer, who had died at b
DC post.
>" A babe about year old was foul
3D. in one car. 1t was alive and had b
L. come separated from it's mother, Nj
d. w. V. Clephane, of Cherry Cree
III Nd, and it's aunt, Miss Beatri
Clephane, both of whom escaped wi
III minor injuries chiefly wounds
uis the head.
In another coach Mrs. Whatems
of Philadelphia, was taken out ali
but her child was dead under her
Mrs. L. M. Page, of 1928 Mas
= chusetts avenue, Washington, W
was with her maid and child, escaI
;, with minor hurts.
Inns AMERICANS LOSE
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