The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-04

plowed a distance of almost 50 yards upon it's side before it's momentum was checked It lay upon it's driving wheel upon a local siding. obstructfng the track upon which it had been hurled. The baggage-car. following the locomotive, t'side-swiped'' or brush ed past the pcostrate mass of tangled steel tearing away the rails upon which it stood and causing the mail car. n which were three clerks to buckle and topple down the embank- ment just forward of the spot on which lay the tender
 Following the mail car came three though still remaining upon their tracks, had been greatly diminished in speed due to the forcing of. the bag gage car past the engine
 The forward Pullman coming in con- tact with the steasning leviathan. turning partly upon it's side rarnTaed it's forward end into the open fire. box, utterly denolishing a corner of the roof and part of it's side. All the passengers. Some twenty In number. were thrown into a confused mass Of spIinters and humanity in the for ward end of the vehicle and directly over the live coaIs which had been scattered along the tracks. A gas tank connection becoming 1oosened. a rapid flow of gas escaped into the solidly closed car with the result that combustion was almost instantaneous In this car the greatest loss Of Afe occurred and scenes of horror were enacted
 The second parlor-car was partially overturned ats were the two other Pullmans, one of which hung at lprecarious angle over the Boston Post road and eventually crushing the weakened supports fell to- the road. way below The snnc king car and coaches attached to the rear of the train were left intact and afterwards separated from the wreck.
 Immediately after the deafening re- port caused by the explosion of the 0nginR'S hOi10fr which scattered chanica1 parts for a distance of two hundred feet and broke the: windows was momentarily silent lapse Of of time, followed by flash of flame and q discordant medley of piercing cries, screams and groans. Passen- through windows, some crawling from beneath the cars and others climb ing through sky-waraiy raised panes. | Amidst sthe din could be, heard the successive smashing of window af-. ter window ads those imprisoned with- in attempted to extricate themselves. Pandenonium reigned outside.
 Women, cut and bleeding, pleaded for medical assistance. Men writhed in agony upon the embank1nent, while fire slowly creeping along the uphoI- stered interior of the forward s.parlor car tortured the imprisoned victims beyond human endurance.
 Those more fortunate in their ets- cape rushed to the assistance of those Esti11 imprisoned, and aided by the crew of the construction train around which the express was being thrown, with axes. crow-bars and every avail able instrument attempted to- chop through the side of the ear and extri- cate those less fortunate They were aided by two spectators who, under the bridge at the time the wreck narrowly escaped with their own lives.
 Doolan, carpenters. residing in Vest port, who had been at work on the William P Enos estate, but a short distance from the scene of the wreck. Rushing up the embankment they were the fi1sst residents to reach the burning car Men and women were then crawling through the windows and imploring others to try and eff feet the rescue of those behind C1annb nnbering upon the car Keiser tow cred himself into the smoke fill- ed space and groping forward stum- b1ed over the prostrate form of a man. Calling to Doolan to assist him in pulling the injured man from the unconscious body to the crowd out sside Getting their breath for a mo- ment the two again plunged into the forward end The cries of women could be heard and they attempted to pull one from the burning spIinters. She was too tightly wedged and al- though she inlplored piteously for help the suffoca ting smoke drove them back Two or three other rescuers were then III the car and an 1nIanC baby was found where it had been abandoned by it's parents or guar dians Returning to the forward end Ketser and Doolan distinctly saw four women wedged beneath a burn ing mass of seats and sp1intered maIlo- gany. The ear was then otherwise empty according to their view. The sounds of axes outside. sounded with hollow force above the piercing shrieks within. A porter caught in mar row paasage in the rear of tho frSf relpa hlOW all axe and though suffering from shook WAS able to minister to the com