The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-11-17


lane. New York. deep hole In back Of
head: probably fractured skull condition
critical; at Bridgeport Hospital.
MENTE, f. w. Hotel willard. New
York, three ribs fractured, scalp wound
10 hospital in New York
RUFFIN, j. IL. $50 Elm street, New
Rochelle, y. Y, internal injuries, scalp
wound. bruises. fractured knee. at
Bridgeport Hospital.
Other Injured.
ALLISON / A.. Hotel Longscre. New
York. shaken and bruised.
BANERDoRF, s. S25 West End avenue.
New York scalp decorations and shock.
BARTHMAN, j. WILLIAM JT.,
Maiden lane, New York face cut.
DALLEN. f. NJ. 35 Rugby road. Brook
lyn; bruises an decorations on head.
GARIBALDI. II. West End avenue.
New York: bruises and con tusions.
GRAHAM, K. A, Reading. Pa. cuts
about head and face bruises on body
JOHNSON, L. A, Brooklyn; bad
bruises.
MADIGAN. II. y. 81 Madison avenue.
%sw York decorations OF head aud arm.
MARLACK. GEORGE. New York. cuts
on hcad and dslocation Of right knee.
soMMES. ;. H, ESQ Wes, N.nety-third
street, New York laceratioGs of hands
and head bruises or body
TELBRICk, CHARLES, 3jo PGS ave-
nue., New York bruises and scalp wound,
TENGOFF. g. -. New lork cut on
head.
WILSON. NJ. b. II West Th.rty-sixtn
street New York lacerated head back
sprancd.
WITTPENN II. OTTO. Mayor OF .Ter-
s.y City legs and face cut; internal in
juries.
an hat y a arlt mo N
or the train with whom he had been
:or the Steel Corporation was carried
nf The train badly cut and bruised and
,arried on to New York.
The wreck took place about Ave miles
east of Westport, the scene five weeks
go Of one of the worst wrecks in the
history of the New Haven road. The
,leine and one parlor car passed over
the split rail in safety and the parlor
,ars smoker and diner were derailed.
The train parted, the forward section
running 1000 feet before it could be
stopped. The derailed cars leaving the
rack ploughed along beside 1t and were
about to overturn when they were
brought up against one Of the
sianchions being erected for the elec-
.rical equipment Of the line and stopped
The passengers were badly shaken up.
As soon as the news Of the wreck
reached this city there was great en-
element, the first reports being that
'hc number of dead exceeded twenty
four. Hurried calls were sent into
bridgeport for all available ambulances
and doctors and scores Of medical men
IN autos rushed to the scene. The
ambuances of the bridgeport hospitals
had taken back to Bridgeport the most
seriously injured.
The doctors turned their attention n
patching up bruises and minor injuries
~ the passc ngers who were anxious Il
proceed to New York.
The train, which makes the run be-
tween Boston and New York In Ave
hours, left here filled practically to
capacity. Many Of the passengers were
splrg home to New York from points In
NV England to spend Sunday. The
1ran was in charge of +. ID. Ross OF
Now Haven as conductor and w. C.
Morley Of this city as engineer
IL pulled out OF here three or four
minutes late. According to one Of the
plssongcrs. who escaped with bad
shaking up. the train seemed TO be
ro.ng at a fifty-five mile an hour clip
ana had not quite reached the Green's
Farms station when 1t seemed to leap
into the air and then with a crash set
re down on the ties and bumped over
Them AT terrific speed,
Tho men in the smoker and observa-
'Ipr car which was at the rear OF the
're!n and in which were the most
'.rlously injured. were all thrown from
i'"lr seats and pitched into the centre
"i 'io car with chairs piled on them.
AL The electric lights went out and
'H'r" was great excitement
When those VINO were not injured
mad managed to crawl out of the train
'''y found that the cars stood on the
''r" of a steep embankment and had
"fon stopped by a stanchion OF the
'irctrIc equipment, which probably
saved the cars from rolling over this
rank This Is the fourth bad wreck
~ crack trains Of the New Haven road
.HrA has taken place within twenty
nVs miles Of each other within the past
'Eltr"n months,
d" Federal Express, between Boston
''" Washington, was the first to be