Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-12
NEARLY ALL HURT
FOrty-Four Out Of One Hundred Are
in Hospitals,
NEW "CRossoyER" THE CAUSE
Engineer Trying to Make Up Lost
Time on Trip.
FIVE CARS 60 OVER vIADUCT
Members of So. Louis National Base
BRn Team, who Were ON TrRin,
Have Marrow Escape
from Death.

BRIDGEPORT. Ooun., July 1.-THE Fed
eral express, one Of the New York. New
Haven & Hartford railroads fastest trains,
carrying passengers without change from
Washington TO Boston plunged down
twenty-foot embankment here today while
running sixty miles an hour.
OF 100 passengers that went down with
the first six cars. sVarcely one escaped
death or injury. sixteen bodies had been
taken out OF the twisted wreckage by
noon, including the engineer and fireman.
who were so mutilated that II Is evident
they must have met instant death, This
probably completes the death list Forty
four injured are in the hospitals, and
nearly score or more received injuries
not severe enough TO prevent them from
continuing their journey.
Partial List Of Dead.
The dead
ENGINEER A. NJ. GUSTS.
FIREMAN ". A. RYAN.
MRS. CIV ENDOLYN ROGERS, wife Of
an electrician sergeant coast artillery, v.
: ROGERS aged weeks. daughter of
Mrs Rogers.
Rogers.
6. w CHRISTIE Philadelphia
GEORGE +. SAUNDERS, Norw CHI. Conn.
-FOUR UNIDENTIFIED MEN, one
IN
ONE UNIDENTIFIED CHILD.
Partial List OF Injured.
Among the injured were;
Unidentified woman. eye gouged out face
terribly bruised, leg fractured.
Michael Furay, cOnGuctor, New Rochelle,
N Y. fracture OF skull, Will die.
David klssner, brakeman, New York,
fracture OF left leg and other injuries.
prVpably VIII die.
Mrs. James b. Boyce, Maury, a suburb OF
N NuShinEtOu. fracture wrist hac In
jured, shock; condition serious.
sarah Chalebro, .Philadeiphla. head badly
Christie and Antony ChaIobro. her two
chidren; Christie, internal injuries; Antony,
internal injuries. may die.
iracture OF skull, condition critical.
Frank Won Pfeiffer. cousin OF John, Phil
adelphia, fracture OF ribs. dislocation ef
EueTNoss vasRie ton. Internal Injuries.
George Rogers washineton, D, c.. fr4c.
tured arm, severe brulkesso His Young son
was killed and another, Frank BADLY hurt.
Mrs. Rogers is thought to be one OF the
Charles Frazier, Navretree, scaided ana
internal injuries, critical. .ffflf 49,
Mrs. Emily Wilson. Phliadelphia, frac-
tured left rib and leg. Condition critical.
injuries TO spine, condition eritlcal,
Mrs. Mary Mccain, Philadelphla, scalp
wound. fracture OF the arm condition criti-
cal.
rhe names Of thirty other people injured.
mostly women from the east, were also
obtained. but their injuries were minor.
Cause of the wreck.
new "crossover Installed ON the Burr
road viaduct and embankment on the
western outskirts Of the city was indi-
rectly responsible for the accident,
The train was late and the engineer was
driving to mako up lost time. When the
heavy vestibuIed train OF nine cars
struck the switch at full speed. the
locomotive leRped. rocked and swayed
over the ties for nearly 80 yards and fin
ally fell to the street below, dragging six
cars down the bank. The couplng broke
between the sixth and seventh cars, leave
ing three .sleepers upright on the embank-
ment. two of them still on the rails.
BaII Players to Rescue.
Many of those pinned beneath the debris
owe their lives TO the promptness Of the
members OF the st. Louis National base
ball team. The ball players were riding
in the last two coaches, which remained on
the track When the crash came they
piled out in their pyjamas, and several OF
them were bleeding from cuts about the
feet caused by racing over the wreckage.
II was in the next 70 last car" said
Roger Bresnaham. the teams manager
II was smoking at the time the spill came.
and 1 grabbed hold OF something and held
on got out all right. Not one Of our
men was hurt, but OF course, our baggage
is gone. We were on our way to Boston.
where we are scheduled for q game with
the Boston Nationals today"
The ball players left for Boston. on .
special train at $50 o'clock.
The wreck was almost complete, five
cars having gone over and only three cars
of the long train being left on the track.
The engine. twisted into junk, was 200 feet
south of Fairfield avenue. Behind were
the mail and baggage cars. while the Pull
mans and coaches were IN mass in the
rear. A
Many Victims in Day Coach.
The day coach was entirely crushed and
in 1t the deaths were many five bodies
being removed At once.
Three Pullmans were almost completely
crumpled Up. but appearances were thar
the passengers were in measure protested
by the strength OF the cars,
With firemen. policemen and doctos-
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