The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-11-18
Three WreCkS In Thirty Hours On New Haven Road Provoke
 Great OutburSt Of Anger

left his seat to attend to his wife
 and almost at the same moment the
 steel overhead work of one of the
 stanchiors crashed through the top
 and window of the car ripping the
 seat which he occupied It is a curi-
 ous coincidence that the seat the for
 tunate passenger was occupying at the
 time Vas No. 13.
 Were 1t not for the steel piers there
 ous loss of life for the cars would
 have turned turtle and buried their
 human freight in the debris.
 one cng iI5urep s pas
 general counsel of the United States
 Steel trust. it was necessary for one
 smash ins the door of the Pullman
 as in the upset condition of. the car
 it was impossible to open the door by
 The train was lighted with eiectri-
 buted the fact that the cars did not
 gas in use as was the case in the wreck of the Springfield Express at
 Westport Oct. 3 last, the chances are that there would have been a repetition of that horrible experience
 where four women were burned to deeth.
 The roadbed was in a fearfnIly torn upand twisted condition. Several reputable persons declared they had gone back to where the cars first left the tracks and found that the switch at the point where a short crossover joined inc rails of Track 3 and the track on which the trains was travel ing, was open.
 spikes that are supposed to keep the rails fast to the ties were missing and that the condition of the ties not dissin1ilar to that described by a wit ness when Coroner Phelan was iuves-
 tigating the cause of the Westport wreck, which was that ties along that line of the roadbed were in rotten condition.
 The call for physicians here brought many local doctors to the scene of the wreck. The Emergency staff, Drs Curley, Bennett, Parker and Pratt went with the ambulance and they Schulz Waterman. Wasson, Ives and Smith also arrived in time in their autos to give first aid to some of the Dr. Tracy of Norwalk, who was a passenger on the wrecked train, had devoted his time to giving first aid number or other local physicians. i'm cluding DTH Godfrey, R. J. Lynch, Nfonahans Johnson, Bill, Healy. Blank, Wright,% Curran, Budau. Roberts, Gardiner, and Ford, were also on the scene in attendance on the injured. Mayor H. Otto Wittpenn of Jersey the wreck occurred. He suffered cuts and bruises about the body and a bad ly wrenched back, which will keep him in his home until the end of the week.
 
 the Mayor said: II was in the smoker reading when
 1g the over 39iln tise ties Ther ln were ten or fifteen other men in the car, some reading and others playing cards, All of a sudden there was an extra ed to the front of the car. It was a struggling and noisy pile of humanity.
 U was on p the bottom t, at, of the pie; e7,7 off the pile and at last found myself
 free. struggled to my feet and like the rest climbed through window. citement had passed that I realized
 that I had been hurt. I then looked : about for some one to administer first aid and after that waited for the special train It was nothing short of miracle that the train did not
 plunge down the embanFznent. killing us a1.'' Those who were injured to a de- gree making treatment necessary, were
 as follows:
 J. H Harber, g Maiden Lane. New York, hole punched in. head, face cut
 and bruised, arm dislocated; at Bridge
 port hospital. Rochelle. face cut, left knee hurt F. William Barthman. Jr.s Maiden
 Lane New York, New York jeweler- H. GaribaIdi, Maiden. Lane, New York right wrist disIocated. George Marbach. New York ctiy- H. .. wittpenn. Mayor of Jersey City, N. J.. bruised, cut and suffered from shock.
 e. Fl. Sornn1ers, 259 West 93d street
 New York. bruised about the head Edgar M. Dollen. B Bugby road New York. arm hurt
 E. W Mente, Hotel Willard. New York, three ribs broken, injured. scalp
 Charles H. Tebrich, 9so Park avenue. New York. scalp wound H r Madtgan, 66 Madison avenue New York, bruised and suffered shock E. A. Johnson, Brooklyn, slightly 1 hurt. New York, scalp wound, sprained hand c. c. Linthicum, Chicago, guest at Hotel Plaza, New York, scalp wounds and bruises.
 of face, shock.
 L. A. Allison, Longacre Hotel, New York bruised.
 George Marback, New York, dislo- cated knee. H. B. Terry. Hotel Plaza, New York
 Q. + Martin. St. Louis. suffering from shock.
 Ditrneyer Watervleit. New York, dis located shoulder.
 nue, New York, bruised and shocked. j. H. Harber, g Maiden Lane, New hospital suffering with slaceration of the face and scalp, is reported as suf- dcently recovered to be about today ELWELL AT SCENE OF -nTSrA1cs rADAEC xrTn