The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-04

unfortunate passengers.
 Wesstport, Oct 4-Wreekers are still working over the mass of burned. mains of the four parlor cars, bag gage and mail cars and engine of the second section of the Springfield Ex- press of the New Haven road which went over, the 30 foot embankment here, late yesterday. killing seven ond injuring many times that number
 The wreckM which is one of the worst in the history of the New Ha- ven road, is similar to the wreck of the Federal Express at Bridgeport, on July 11th,~ a year ago, 1n.e4Which l2 were killed, in that the derailment took place as the train was malSins cross-oyer a. a highf rate of speed
 The Interstate. Comm cree Commits sion has, been notified of the wreck and c. C.az Efwe1f, or the Public tUttl- '1ties comlnissien of the state, is n1ak- ilaratyE 5of the wreck to that of the Federal Express is presented in that there will be no one probably to hold serimina1ly Responsible for the wreck. iConn41ii ssioner EIwell, at the time. of the Federal wreck made an lfnvestiga- : ton of the. cross over on the road @ that could be taken at a higher rate sof speed than 15 miles an hour and that even that speed was excessive In the first confusion attending the, wreck it reported that 30 or more were killed Painting women arated reported that wives or hus- bands had lost their lives. It was not until this morning that all were accounted for and the exoct number or dead ascertained.
 A special car attached to the 11:31 a. n1. train at Westport took the bod ies of Flora Marcia Brady -Gavit, Mary and Jessie Hamilton Ramson, all of, Albany, N. Y, to New. York city. Rev. Father Duggan of Westport read ser vices this morning at the morgue in Westport over the remains of the four women. The bodies were transferred at New York and will be taken to The remains of Joseph Maucher, fire man, were shipped at 12:46 to Mauch Chunk, Pa. The body of George L.. Clark, engineer, will be sent to Spring field today, and the remains of Mark. A.. Wheeler of Stratford, Conn, will be shipped to Stratford.
 Racing at a terrific speed in order to make up lost time and unexpected- ly switched from the n-line just beyond the station of saugatue&, the Boston and New York Express wsIs piled up in a blazing heap at 4:45, yesterday afternoon, causing the known loss of ' lives, injury to scores, the partial, destruction of the. trestle over the Boston Post road and the losts of valuable Pullman cars as well as a quantity of mail in transit from Boston and intervening stations.
 Scenes of indescribable horror, in- human brutality, heartrending affec- tion and noble acts of heroism were enacted as the magnitude of the dis aster became apparent to the survi- vors. Men trampled upon women in a frantic rush for safety. Children were discarded by their protec tors, and amidst the cries of the dying and injured frantic plunges were made by utter strangers in vain effort to release the imprisoned and slowly burning passengers.
 The Express. running from Spring. field in two sections the second of which being composed Of ten cars: 1 coaches scheduled to leave Bridge port at AIS. was said to be late when leaving this city Running at high rate of speed. it approached section near the Saugatuck station, where block-sig improvements are being made On the main track, No :, a the station and the switches were set to throw the fast express to track g. Undoubtedly unaware of the deci- sion, or failing to observe the sig nais, the engine driver, suddenly req lizing his danger threw on his emer- Eency brakes and sanded the track He passed the first switch safely but, when taking the second. indications would point to the fact his engine jumped the rails with momentum that threw the locomotive partially upon its side Catching the corner of an enormous fifty foot steel girderr an extensive rent was made just for ward of the cab which caused an al- most immediate explosion of the ooil- CT. Both cab and tender were hurled together with the bent and twisted girder down fifteen foot embank- ment and buried themselves several feet -nto the lot below. The force of the explosion was such to riddle the end of the massive span like a sieve. The engineer and fireman se- verely scalded by the. escaping steam followed the cab and tender the fire man having been literally scalped Engineer Clark was said to have lived but a few minutes after the disaster The engine free from its load,