The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-10-04

know, where they found all the dead
They took a lot of them out Of that
car. After a while It burned up"
Mrs. James had been furnished with
gray sweater. 1t hid a silk waist
which was stiff with blood which had
come from Mr.. James's wounds. As
Mr.. and Mrs. James were about to get
into a taxicab to go to the house OF
Mrs. Jamess mother Wayne Macveagh,
ex-Attorney- General OF the United
States. came UP and Mr.. James recog-
nized him.
80 you were in that wreck?" said
MacVeagh.
II was" said Mr.. James. I'm afraid
I look it.
Mrs. James was Miss Elizabeth stobo
of New York.
Harry o. Swan Of 1872 Lexington ave-
nue.. Providence. r. l.. told a story Of a
gallant priest who risked his own life
saving those who were burning In the
forward cars.
| Took Crossover Too Fast.
II was in the second coach Of the
train" said Swan. "well toward the end
Of the train. We were crossing from
one track to another. and we were taxi
ing the crossover too fast. The train
jumped to the ties and then slid along
the roadbed, coming to a stop with a
grind / saw where the engineer and
fremen were thrown and suppose they
died while was looking at them.
with the other men passengers In
our part Of the train I jumped Off the
car and went forward to where the
worst Of the wreck was. I tried to break
into one Of the parlor cars. which the
flames were already beginning to lick
up. I saw four women and three chill
dren in there and tried to get at them,
but the fire was too bad and they had
to be left.
There was a young priest along with
the rest Of us. and the way that man
worked was a caution. He would stop
for nothing. The clothing Of many OF
the persons whom he rescued was al
ready burning when he dragged them
from the windows. He was burned about
the hands and face for his trouble. Let
me tell you that never saw so gallant
sight as that priest working at the
flaming windows.
1T seemed to us who were waiting
there that the trainmen were abomin-
ably slow In getting at the work OF
rescue. Following the accident all the
trainmen seemed to have disappeared
And the company was slow In sending
up relief trains to take away the sur
vivors. Toward the end I saw passen-
gers trying to break their way out OF
the windows to escape the flames"
Mrs. Wade Once Thought Dead.
| o. L. Wade. a lawyer Of Indianapolis
was on the train with his wife. Mrs
| Wade was one Of those who according
to early reports received by telephone
at the New Haven offices here had been
killed. She proved to spectators at the
station that she was very much alive
however. she had sustained a badly
wrenched back Mr.. Wade and DR.. T.
W. Anderson OF Indianapolis had been
In Boston attending convention oi
Masons. They were in the third parlol
car and got out of the reck soon after
the train left the rails.
=. ". Turner assistant superintend.
ent OF the Cunard Line in New York
was in the second car of the train with
his mother. Mrs. W. r. Turner. The
ligaments of Mrs Turner's right les
were torn. she thought, and she haC
been bruised. Nevertheless she was ablt
to come to New York with her SON.
help.
1T was a case Of taking a switch toe
fast" said Mr.. Turner. THE train wa.
simply wrenched from the rails. Aftel
the crash | went to the help Of my
mother and got her out of the car. WI
broke open the rear door of the cal
and climbed to the ground. on the
whole we got off easily. I think.
James Cotter, a travelling salesman
, of Boston, was in the rear car Of thu
train. where the shock was felt The
, least. He was reading when the crasf
came
Women worked Bravely.
1T seemed to US there in the real
. car to be simply sudden Jar. Tn,
, grinding noise and the crash tina
, others noticed who were f,frther for
ward did not reach as far back as ou
car. But the jar was enough 10 throw
us from our seats. We went forwar,
, and turned in to help the people in tn
| front cars. The women did their par
, too. They helped to bind up the cut
: from flying glass and didn't seem Z
4 mind the sight Of blood at ALL
II. W. Kane of st. Louis was in tn
first car Of the train, but when h
, entered the train he noticed that
friend Of his was riding In one Of tn
cars further back Soon after the trai
, left Bridgeport he went back for a tall
I "I suppose that chance friend save
: my life" he said. "or at least kept m
I from getting pretty we'll used up. Afte
the crash we grabbed axes and crow