The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-09-05

gine driver was packing a defective
Journal, and a rear fiagman had gone
back 400 yards to flag any approach
ing train when the White Mountain
train, running on eight minutes head
way, bore out of the fog and went
through the wooden sleeping cars ike
an immense steel wedge.
August B. Miller, the engine driver
of the White Mountain train, set
brakes and jumped with his fireman,
Emile Robinson.
Mail Car Overturned.
The impact, which split the two rear
sleepers of the Bar Harbor train, hurl-
ed the third sleeping car over on It's
side and derailed the other cars Of the
train. Wreckage and bodies showered
about the great plunging locomotive
like wheat before reaper. Bodies,
arms and legs, injured and uninjured
and Of the startled rose from the
wreckage. The overturned sleeping car
Chisholm, third from the end, which
had been overturned, held party of
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| From this car seven dead were taken.
The trainmen and passengers swarm
ed to the rescue Of the living and the
removal of the bodies. A report was
made to New Haven at once, but 1t
was an hour and half before the first
relief train reached the scene. In the
meantime many of the injured had
been placed on trolley cars, which
We're turned into temporary ambu-
lances, and the suffering victims We're
hurried to the New Haven and other
hospitals. The dead also We're taken in
by electric cars to the James street
car barn, where space was cleared as a
temporary morgue.
| Bardo Issues Statement
G. L. Bardo, general manager Of the
New Haven road, issued the following
statement:
Train 81, first section of the Bar Harbor
express, passed Wallingford at 6:35 a m.
Second 81, consisting of baggage car and
| ten sleepers, passed Walhngford at 6:49
a m. First IS, consisting Of baggage car,
day coach ana five sleepers. passed Wal
| lingford at 81 a. m, all three trains run
| illllS dpprOAlInaJSly dI elBtlL minutes. LO-
| cal train SH was running ahead Of first 81.
which stopped following trains at auto
matte signal 23 on account OF the local
train making the station stop Train
second 81 was run into by first 95 about
one mile south Of Wallingford at the ex-
treme end of a three mile tangent, pro-
teoted by automatic block signals. There
was fog prevailing at the time.
Train second 81 was IN charge of Con
ductor Brace c. Adams, who had been ir
the service nineteen years-nine years IL
freight service as brakeman and fagman
ten years as freight conductor and about
five months in charge of passenger trains
Train first IS was in charge of August
B. Miller, engine driver, who has been IT
the service since Oct Z. 1899. He was pro
NOTED TO engine driver IN 1903 and servet
ten years as an engine driver and Is 6
regular man on this train
Second 81 stopped at the signal Flag
man Murray states that he went back a.
once with proper signals and put two tor
pedoes on the rails and that all rear ent
markers lights were burning. Investiga
ton is now being held by the public utili
. | ties commission OF Connecticut Jointl!
with the officials 10 determine responsible
| ity for the accident.
On the body of young woman VIII
had a hand bag with the initials on /
of an. NJ H." or IN. II. M."was jew
elry worth $1,000 or more. She ha'
evidently been dressing when tn
crash came, and for tRts reason it /
thought she may have intended t.
leave the train at New Haven. In
chamois bag was string of hundre'
pearls, with three diamonds in tn
clasp. She also had an opal and dia
mond bar pin and an opal brooch.