The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-09-03

There was a frantic rush for the car Near breakdown from the strain of 1 the uncertainty, every mother was anxious if her son were dead to know it and to resign herself to her grief
 As each boy was rescued he was rushed from the station. There seemed to be a wild haste to leave the place that reminded them of the terrible or deal.
 The crowd in the station was kept from being larger because the survi- vors arrived before news of the wreck had had time to get about town. Most of those who met. the train had come to meet friends or relatives and had waited the four hours after it's sched- u1ed arrival.
 At the time scheduled for the arriv- al of the Bar Harbor Express notices were posted it would be late on &C., count Of an accident. That satisfied the waiting crowd for a time.
 CROWD BECOMES UNEASY
 But as the minutes stretched into half-hours and the train still did not arrive they grew impatient. They wanted more informa ton about the accident. Every one was referred to the offices of Edward c. Riggs, pub ltcity agent, on the third floor of the Terminal office building.
 When they saw they could get noth- ing definite there most of them went DaCk to the grand cOncOQrSe. mere they paced up and down, their nails pressed into their palms as they wait ed.
 At 1o:2o the uninjured first section of the Bar Harbor express arrived de- layed by the traffic tie-up caused by the wreck None of the waiting knew for certain whether the one sought had been on the first or second section, and there was an eager rush to scan the faces of the passengers they emerged.
 IGNORANT OF WRECK
 Few on the first section knew about the wreck. They knew. of course, there had been an accident that made them three hours late. But it had been foggy, and many of them thought the sIowness had been largely ais mat ter of caution, and that nothing seri- ous had happened
 A message from the New York office Of the New Haven, asking if any pas sengers wanted to telegraph relatives they were safe, had been received on the first section some miles from New York, and passed through the train 1 The passengers thought the sugges- 1 ton was made merely that they might | al1ay any anxiety for the few hours lateneas, and few a,vai1ed themselves of the opportunity.
 WRECK TRAIN ANNOUNCED
 Finally, when the wreck train with the survivors drew into the station, it was announced that 1t was track near the east end of the station, in stead of at the opposite side, where | most of those waiting were clustered The crowd at that time was about 25o.
 Ambulances had been called from he Presbyterian, F1ower and Mount Sinai hospitals Porters were sent with stretchers to meet the cars and carry out the injured.
 When the crowd reached the track sn trance the first of the survivors were walking out-their clothing torn md soiled, and some clothed scarcely It all. The porters were standing about with the stretchers
 The sight seemed to drive the crowd nto a frenzy. Ropes had been placed across the entrance to keep them out They tore them down. In 8 moment hey were out on the platform, crowd. ng alongside the wooden cars that lad been far enough forward in the rain not to be smashed to ktndling.
 INJURED IN BAGGAGE CAR
 Most of the badly injured were in he improvised hospital in the baggage ar. In a comparatively short time hey had been taken out, and the un- injured already had left the station with those who had been waiting. Those who had waited without finding hose they waited for walked dazedly bout the station for a few momen ts- s if they were not quite able to realize heir son or daughter or father or nother was lying dead in New Haven. Then they, too, left.
 At POS the be1ated White Noun ain Express, with its practically unin- ured steel cars, arrived. Most of it's assengers, however, had come in on he earlier train.
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