The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-05

1 baggage car followed the mail car
 which directly followed the engine. It l is not customary to put the mail car | behind the engine.
 Asked to tell what had happened 1 prior to the wreck, he said: T was
 anything dnzeo fet one ola nof He saw l no signals, knew nothing about the l speed; that he was hemmed- in the | door of the car it was upon the track | but there were no wheels under the
 car.
 i Engineer Dean's Story. Henry L. Dean. 1O4 Hewitt avenue, Bridgeport, next witness, an engineer of F to 14 years experience on this l same road, was engineer on the con struction train occupying track 3, | standing almost opposite the Sauga- | tuck station. The construction train had occupied track 8 most of the day, carrying between Bridgeport and Saul
 gatuck equipment which is being in stalled in the block where the acci- dent occurred.
 While the cars belonging to the con
 raa creting g fomPany, 4 fba Na the engrne ms ar and
 vice, all trains had been switched around them with the exception of one, which one Dean could not state. Asked if it was customary to cc- cupy that track, witness stated that it was done so upon orders. The first information that witness na0 or the
 wreck was when his fireman said:
 They must have touched off a blast" Looking out of the window of his cab
 he turned back and said, Fifty: three
 is wrecked. .''
 Witness further stated that when he walked up the track after the accident the home signal was set at danger, which signal he thought was inter locking and worked automatically with the draw signal. Askei if much com plaint was heard by engineers as to %1 TCr- l11 l f7,-lZ he stated that the, most they could be worked was 16 hours. Testifying as all the others did, Dean stated that Clark was a, sober, industrious, pru- dent and abstemious man who knew his business we'll and took no risks.
 Trainman Rueger's Tale.
 Edward Rueger, S75 East Hist street New York ctiy, who has been a train
 man in the service of the same road nine years, testified that the train was late in leaving Bridgeport; that it crossed from track to track | at Bridgeport, and upon reaching the Saugatuck station felt a sudden jerk He was in the seventh car He could not state whether the pintsch gas was lighted in the cars or not. Thrown upon the floor he got up and left the train and hurried up and Tagged train approaching on track 2, east bound The wrecked train was run ming between 45 and 50 miles an hour.
 The inquest was continued this af- VtTHOOu. lnS tIIs5I W1LnSSS cdi10d WAS David T. McGill, conductor of work train which was stationed on track 3 at the time of the wreck He was al- so in the Fairfield wreck He lives in New Haven. He testified that the train was going anywhere from B to 40 miles an hour over what is sup posed to be 15 mile croseover. Ask ed if there were any longer. crossover. witness answered except in Eng land where the conditions are differ fSs aIat- crarhe The block ,ta system was set for was an explosion of gas tank When he got there the first parlor c:lr was affre, the car taking fire one minute
 Next witness, Charles P. Rogers of New Haven, who has been connected with the railroad for the past 27 years. was standing on the ground near the Saugatuck station when the train went by at 35 miles hour. The croSSover signal was set against 1t and also the home signal. There was nothing to obscure the engineers wis ion. steam and dust and then he heard the explosion of the boiler The first parlor car was ablaze before he left his engine. The parlor car was atop caught fire from the fire box. It was a very unusual rate of speed for the signals were set against him.
 Grove w. Reynolds of Norwalk, conductor of the work train was standing at the east bound station and was attracted by the speed of the approaching train. He noticed the signal was set against him at the crOasover. He waved his hands to | the engineer-crossing them indicat- l ing that there was a crossover. Wit. | ness did not think that Engineer 1 Clark saw him. When the train | struck the bridge it seemed to stop still, then stop and then jump for ward. Then came the boiler explo- | sion When he ran up to the train 1 the front car was ablaze. He broke into the mail car and helped out one l of the mail clerks
 s'Do you know of any reason why | the company does not have longer cross-ov ?'' asked Coroner Phelan. to know.
 Ever hear of the engineers being overworked ?" asked the coroner. Not at this time as the conditions
 What do you think of the expedi- | ency or feasibility of having two en. gineers on trains?"
 There are two in the cab now. en- gineer and fireman and they both have a lookout
 Richard Tobin, of Yonkers, N. Y, foreman of the electrical construction company which i is building the piers, | said he was seated in a standing pas | senger car at the time of the accident l. and noticed the excessive speed of the train as it went by. Thought it was going 50 miles an hour. He rushed out of the car and saw the train go off the track and helped rescue the passengers. He said that people pen killed anyway regardless of the fire.
 w. A. Mckeon, J. O. McKenna, James F. Hawley, with the interstate commission inspected the signals and
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