Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-06-19
THEN THREW ON EVERYTHING
Sobs for Several Minutes ut
Stamford Inquest-Arrested
on Charge of Manslaugh-
ter--SiX Dead.


story to-day at the inquest into the wreck
in this city last evening, caused by tho
ramming of the first section of the Spring
field express 10y his engine of the sec
ond section on the New York. New Haven
y Hartford railroad. and which resulted
in six deaths besides injury TO many
others.
Dohcrty described his trip in detail from
Bridgeport 20 Stamford. He first discov-
cred that his airhrakes We're IN trouble
at Norwalk and because of ,hdt fact had
applied them sooner than ordinarily and
before seeing the distant signal at Stam-
ford. When he found this was set
against him he gave the brakes more
air' and when that did not work he let
her have he whole thing
THAI failing to stop the train. he threw
on the emergency brake and applied sand
to the rails, but could not stop it. That
was all | could do" he cried, and break
ing down completely sobbed for several
minutes.
In the midst of the examination Of wit
nesses Corone: John j. Phelan turned
suddenly to Attorney Bent. |. Spock Of
the New Haven road, who was seated in
the audience, with this questions:
is it true, Mr.. spock, that the
wrecked parlor car, the Skylark, was
burned?"
Mr.. spock replied that it was true.
! The car had been ordered burned by
officials of the New Haven road. This
was the regular procedure. he added.
ALWAYS BURN WRECKAGE.
"r, 4, .ho roru,or nrocoduro boForo
an inquest has been held" asked the
coroner
1T is" replied Mr.. Spock, "whcn the
car in question is not directly respon-
sible I'm the accident"
In response to further questions by
the coroner, Mr.. Spock explained that
the car was simply n mass of wreck
age and the ompany officials ordered
it burned up.
Among the other witnesses called
were Fireman Barry Smith of the coll
liding engine, Thomas Dunn of New
York city, CONDUCTOR of the second
section. and William \. Wilson of New
York, baggage master OF the second
train. The testimony Of Smith was
c~orroborative OF that of Doherty as to
the airbrakcs ana the efforts made
by the engineer to avoid the collision.
When the hearing adjourned for the
day. the coroner went to the railroad
station to observe how the train anne in
to-day. The inquest Will be resumed to-
morrow. Engineer Doherty was arrested
Tonight. charged with m~anslaughter
upon a warrant issued by Assistant
Prosecuting Attorney T.. w. IIuXfurd.
Bail was fixed at 5000, which was fur
nishcl by John Dillon of New Haven,
his brothcr-in-law At the stamford hos
pital Tonight, it was reported that all
the injured were resting comfortably.
DEATH OF NEWSPAPER MAN.
One additional death was added to the
list when Gregory Hume, a newspaper
man, Nd this morning. The body of
the woman which was not identified last
night, is that of Mrs. w. II. Seelev. wife
of W. II. Seeley, manager of the indus
trial bureau OF the New York, New Ha-
Ven & Hartford railroad at Boston. Two
brothers oe Mrs. sceley reached here to-
day ard completed the identification.
Edward ]. Keli:. Canadian Pacific
lana commissioner at Winthrop,
Mass. rccounted his experiences in the
wreck in which his wife, occupying
Ni| -iJNN Stfl ~ Us W. tlllAlpSI III
SANITY killed. He said,
one minute ! was joking with my
wife; the next instant. without the
slightest warning, came the crash, my
wife was killed, and | escaped, but I
AN so dazed ny it all that ! find it hard
to realize what has happened.
MY wife ana ! occupied seats No.
II ana - at the rear Of the Pullman
ca" SEylark, near the extreme end Of
the train. | remember the trains stou-
ping IN Stamford to change n1ine
My wife had gotten up to get n drink
of water and brought me "A glass. Then
we noticed that a young fellow seated
IN seat No PC. WAS flirting with a
pretty girl in seat No. II, and turned
to my wife and laughed and quoted a
couple Of lines of verse:
youthful mar is never dead.
Tho flowers are ever blooming.
CRUSHED BY GREAT WEIGHT.
we laughed and | swung my sea
away for "a moment so that my bach
was turned toward my wife and Just al
that instant | heard the most tcrrln,
grinding crash. The whole roof of tn,
car seemed to come in on me and a grea.
weight crushed me down. | heard fright
fun shrieks and screams. My first though
was for my Wife. ! seemed to be pinned
down by an immense weight but man
aged to twist around and called Ada
where are YOU" and tried to reach fol
my wife. My hand and face came II
contact with the boiler of the locomotive
which had ploughed It's way through t,
where | sat. | was scalded by the steam
pipes and the escaping steam, Next thinl
| heard people shouting and some ON
took hold of me from behind and pulled
me out into the open.
Il begged them to get my wife, They
told me she was not in the car. | said tina
knew she was and implored them t.
look for her. Then | suddenly caught Z
glimpse of my wife, her body hanginl
half way out of a window in the wreck
age. For Gods sake get a ladder ! shout
ed. People came with the ladder and WI
lifted her down. When we took her on
OF the window her pulse was beating
We carried her to a little shanty and /
seemed an age before a doctor could b'
found. Just before the doctor came
felt my wlfe's pulse again and it ha'
stopped beating, Her eyes were opel