Evening star., 1912-10-04
DEATH TO Fifteen S|GNA[SN0T Needed
British Submarine Cut in Alleged Cause of Train Wreck
Halves by Ocean Liner. and Seven Deaths
MEmRERs OF CREW DROWN SCORES OF PERSONS HURT
Officer Among Railway Accident Conneccut
Those Who Perihed Charged to Engineer.
BUT ONE SURVIVOR WAS RUNNING AT HIGH SPEED
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Navy Barge rival at crossover Said to Have
Phladephfa. Been Disregarded
SCORES OF PERSONS HURT
Railway Accident in Connecticut
Charged to Engineer.
WAS RUNNING AT HIGH SPEED
Warnings Set Before Trains Ar.
rival at Crossover Said to Have
Been Disregarded.

| WESTPORT, Conn.,. october 4-Ihe
| death list from the wreck Of the second
| section of the Springfield express. west
| bound. over the New York. New Haven
| and Hartford railroad for New York late
yesterday, numbers seven. OF the sew
| eral score of passengers who were more
or less injured only ten remain at the
Norwalk Hospital. All these were rest
ing comfortably this morning and are ex-
pected to recover.
The dead:
Mrs James c. Brady of New York city,
wife Of a son of Anthony n. Brady OF
Albany, n. Y.
Miss Mary Hamilton, sister of Mrs.
Brady.
Mrs. f. Palmer Gavit. daughter of A.
n. Brady.
Mrs. c. Ransom Of Albany, sister OF
| Mrs. Brady.
Engineer George L. Clark.
Fireman J. J. Moker.
| Mark Wheeler, mail clerk, who died at
| the hospital.
Medical Examiner Powers. who began
| an inquest at the undertakers rooms 70
which the bodies We're taken last nlsht'
| officially made the statement TINS lh1,n, pa
/ ing that the list numbers seven. II nao
been thought there was an efghtn DOoy'
| that Of a woman, but this has been dis
proved.
The bodies of the four members Of An
| thony N. Brady's family will be taken TO
| Albany during the day.
Alleged Cause of Wreck.
The cause of the wreck given by the
railroad officials, in statement issued
from the Offices of the New York. New
| IJor railroad at New
| Haven, is that Engineer Clark had failed
to regard the standing order of the road
| to bring his train to slow speed in taking
| q crossover, but instead had driven his
| engine at terrific speed, estimated at fully
sixty miles an hour, over this crossover,
which was to place his train on track &
from track /; and the engine instead OF
swinging to the main track at the points,
| leaped off the rail. carrying the coaches
with it. Two signals that were set against
the train, are said to have been disre-
garded.
General Supt. Pollock of the road re-
ports that the section was only little
late. It is the supposition that Engineer
Clark had IN mind the making up OF this
lost time. 'Ofncially. It is stated. that the
was at danger" but the engineer did
not obey 1t.
The cause Of the accident seemed to
have been not unlike that Of the wreck
viaduct, July II. 1911, when the engine
on the train took a crossOver at high
speed and leaped far out from the road
bed. taking many Of the coaches with
it down the embankment The loss of
life at that time was fourteen.
But Little Of Train Remains.
All that remained Of the train this
morning were heaps of smoking wood,
masses Of twisted metal from three par
lor cars which burned, a battered locomo-
tive on its side,- two westbound tracks
| torn up and a bridge spanning the street
by which the station is reached almost
wrecked. The DAY coaches which had
been left standing and one parlor car.
| blackened and somewhat shattered, had
been placed on the rails and hauled away.
Among the more seriously injured are:
Elliott Harrison Of Aiken. s.. c., leg
broken.
r. Price Of Warehouse Point. Conn, leg
and arm broken.
James Brady. Albany. n. T., shock;
e. J. Bridgette of Wellesley, Mass,
chest crushed and head injured.
| Mrs. o. L.. Wade Of Indianapolis, Ind,
ribs broken.
o. L. Wade Of indianapolis, Ind, ribs
broken.
Phillip L. James of Lake Forest, Ill,
head and hands cut and bruised.
| Mrs. Phillip James of Lake Forest, Ill,
cut on leg and fingers and arm cut
| f. L. Hill of 1909 orth 18th street,
| Philadelphia, cut on head and right arm.
| Train Goes Into Ditch.
| The engine, driven at high speed, failed
to take crossover from one track to
another. The train went into the ditch
alongside the tracks, and the four parlor
| cars which followed the mall and bag
| gage cars We're demolished. The wreck
| age took fire. adding to the horror of the
| accident The women killed were pas
l sengers in the first parlor car. which had
| to bear the brunt of the shock
| The women Of the Brady family, with
| q party of friends, had attended the fu-
| neral Of Patrick Garvan at Hartford yes
| terday afternoon. He recently died
abroad, and many friends from New York
| and elsewhere went to Hartford earlier
| in the day by special train to attend the
| funeral
| After the express had been wrecked
great fear was entertained that the spe-
cial car had been attached to this second
| section at Hartford 1t was not until a
| late hour that 1t was definitely deter
| mined that members of the funeral party
separated at Hartford. and James c.
Brady and some relatives took the
| Springfield express.
| 1t was not until w. F.. Brady, another
son OF Anthony n. Brady. had gone to