Norwich bulletin., 1912-06-15
Big Boulder In
 Path of Train
ROOSEVELT FIGURES IN A RAIL
 ROAD MlsHAP.
PROBABLY BOYS WORK
Locomotive and Air Brake Equipment Damaged and Passengers Shaken Up --CoIonePs Second Misadventure.

z boulder in the path of the train which is bearing Col Theodore Roosevelt to Chicago, brought his journey to an abrupt halt. Less than an hour after it began at 5.30 D. m, today. the train was running at high speed. when two miles north of Tarrytown. it came to a sudden stop with a series of j0lis and the crunching of brakes. The ac- cident, fortunately, was not serious but it delayed the trains arrival an hour at Albany. The train reached here at 9.55 D. m., and left for the west at 1928
 Roosevelt Remains in statsroom.
 Colonel Roosevelt sat quietly in his stateroom during the halt down the river, without coming out tO inquire the cause of the delay.
 T didn't know what had happened until it was all over" he said. 'T wondered at the long delay, but had no idea what the cause was"
 The ex-president remained in seclus- ion during the trip up the Hudson. reading or chatting with Mrs. Roose- welt, except when he went to the din- ing car. He declined to say a word in regard to politics, preferring Co stand on the explanation of his depart ure for Chicago which he made by leaving New York.
 Believed to Be Work of Boys.
 The damage from the accident was inflicted chiefly on the locomotive and the airbrake equipment. Various the ories were advanced as to the cause of the accident. The explanation gen orally accepted was that the boulder was rolled on the track by boys. Tho force of the blow was shown by the pilot, which was badly bent and twist ed, one side of the heavy steel frame having been wrenched back more than foot.
 Engineer Could Not See Boulder.
 John McAuHTe, the engineer, said | that the obstruction was struck as the | train was passing through a cut Tho | locomotive had just rounded a curve. | so that he did not even get a glimps | of the boulder. The stone. or a fraR- ment of it, tore gash in inc hose | conveying the compressed air. rclc1a- Ing the air and automatically applying the brakes.
 Roosevelt in Third Car.
 Engineer McAuline said that tho boulder must have been at least two feet in diameter to work such hav0. with the pilot Instead of being hurled from the track, the stone passed Un- der the locomotive and the first six | cars, pumping against the axies anI l brakebeams. Although the passengers were not severely shaken. the brake beams were bent and two of the brake shoes wrenched out of place. Colonel Roosevelt was in the third car which bumped over the boulder a second aft CT it struck the pilot
 Train Delayed at Poughkeepsie.
 After the train had been brought to a standsull, a hose was detached from the rear car to replace the broken one and a damaged brake-shoe was removed. Then the journey was re- stunned. At Poughkeepsle an inspector ordered the removal of the damaged locomotive, which was replaced by a smaller one A thorough investiga -
 ton of the train was made. delaying the departure from this city more than
 half an hour.
 Second Adventure of Campaign.
 It was Colonel Boosevelt's second
 misadventure of tho kind since the be -
 ginning of the present campaign { When he was travelling through tha mountains of Maryland on the way To Chicago prior to his tour through uil-
 nOis. the engineer or his train dIa.
 covered that the rails over a long sec
 ton of track had been loosened. The
 bolt which held the rails in place ha , been broken by the locomotive of a freight train. a driving wheel of which
 had slipped from place Danger of a
 wreck was averted by the engineer a discovery of the accident. l Brass Bands Await Him. Colonel Roosevelt is traveling to ' Chicago under the same conditions ~ as other passengers, without g. specla
 car. For the accommodation of the
 Roosevelt party two extra cars were added to the usual eight Pullmans. The
 Colonel reserved five compartments ir one of these cars. The remainins
 space in the two Pulmans was giver
 over to a small army of newspaper y correspondents.
 . Word reached Colonel Roosevelt thsI | at various points along tho way (, 7 Chicago preparations were being mad, ' to greet him by largo crowds ant , brass bands.
 2 Boys Arrested at Tarryso~r. ? Tsrrytowu \. Y., June t4-T1rs, . boys, all of them under l0 years o r age. were arrested tonight chargs'
 with having rolled on to the New Yori
 Central tracks the boulder which Col " onel Roosevelt's train struck. The bow V were paroled in the custody of thel
 parents to appear in court tomorrow.