The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-14
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N6Y our stan COrTSSpOno6nL Stamford, June IA.
 The ~Skylark" is no more, aG f6 was burned Thursday night by order of the officials of the New Haven Co- af- ter the great mogu1 had crushed through its vitals and destroyed both the life and happiness of its tempo rary occupants And perhaps from ! the tales that were told by it's eight surviving passengers in the Stamford hospital yesterday, 1t was nisnOmer anyway.
 But one of its surviving and badly Injured occupants, lying a little white cot. told of anything approach ing happiness, as some were asleep, others i'll. and those not reading were engrossed in absorbing conversation. A single solitary individual on that seemed to have a premonftion of impending evil. just one-and if he saw the onrushing monster he was too terrified to cry out, as he fled up the nArroW aisle. Whether he is alive or dead Is not known, but one thing IS sure, he never got beyond the door before the car was a prison pen of mained, dying and screaming human ity.
 Six persons will never tell of that awful scene. and none of the living recall what happened in the short space of time. when driving at a hf- teen mile a minute clip, the face of the huge engine plowed through the coach. None knows what influence kept them from witnessing the ap pearance of the life destroying agent, but one passenger recalls seeing many sparks and feeling shock like contacts with the floor. Possibly it may have been electric shock from overhead wires that stupefed all within It will probably never be known.
 Distributed through three wards in the Stamford Hospital yesterday, however the remaining patients told of their experiences:
 Eleanor Blum, 1120 Jefferson ave- nue. Brooklyn. N. Y., said that she her 6ance Albert A. Goodsick. She had felt i'll and he had come from New York to take her home. T was sitting In seat Is, towards the rear of the car My head was upon my knees as~I eS4 not feel we'll do not re- member anything until awakened after the accident. The car seemed full of black dust and my foot was wedged against a truck. Someone came to my rescue and they had to tear off my shoe before was released. People were carrying me to a near by saloon when the police interfered and I was brought to the hospital. When released can remember a gem tleman in seat Il crying. Let me out as the steam scalded him. Miss Blum besides receiving many deep cuts has several broken bones.
 Albert A. Goodsick. 3oSs Prospect , avenue, Brooklyn, related his exper- at Hartford to accompany my sweet heart to New York. I was seated in chair 13 in the parIor car. the right side. We had been talking but as the crash came without warning knew nothing more until I found my Eelf in the hospital with these cuts. He exhibited a head in which 1t was said q stitches had been taken to re- place the scalp besides which he Is confined with a fractured knee
 F. J. Heustis, a salesman for the Price Leather Company, of Boston, and residing in Roxbury, told the most vivid tale Of all He said, 'T got on the train at Bridgeport, having stop ped there to make a call upon a customer My wife was to meet me at New York. but it appears that she was on the second section of the same train and had I taken that instead of taking the first by mere chance, I should have escaped injury
 'SThe train had stopped at Stamford and I was leaning up against what believed to be the rear partition 1 did not pay much attention to it at the time, but fellow came running out of the rear end of the coach. He
 
 dressed in a grey suit of clothes. He went up the narrow aisle at the mo- ment we were struck.
 .s'I do not believe he got out of the car and have not seen him since as rsmem bered no more until I found myself upon my hands and knees. I iwradua1ly worked myself up. As did SO could just see the front of the en- zine with the steam missing out. It was about ten feet from the front, and the screams within were some- thing frightfu1-
 'Tt was awful as but a moment be- fore everyone had seemed 50 content and happy as looked down the aisle from where I stood. Some were read ing. others talking and still others laughing A little child was playing in the passageway-
 There seemed to be an electric thrill to the car and there were bright spzrks whenever I touched anything I do not think the car was moving when we were struck"
 Frednrick B. Jennings, IT,, S6 Park avenue, New York. who got on the erain at New Haven. was asleep at the Amstant of the collision. 'I had a. Rtate-room at one of the ends, probab- " the forward one. cannot recall. The first thing r do remember was someone chopping through the roof of the car and was soon lifted out and carried to this hospital. I have m broken arm and leg"