New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-09-05


and on in the fog into the rear of me
train beyond"
Mrs. Mary Norton, of Montowese'
who lived in the same house with Mill
Ter and who has been sort of foster
mother to him since he was thirteen
years old, corroborated the story told
by Mrs. Anna Scott, the owner OF the
house. Of the number of hours Miller
worked in the week ending with the
morning of the wreck.
Mrs. Scott told the truth she saiu
to-day, but she did not tell all. While
II is true that Mr.. Miller did two men S
work and had only two or three hours
sleep a DAY for an entire week IL Is
also a fact that he begged and pleaded
with his superiors not OF work him so
hard
81 vas present when he came nome
on Tuesday morning after the wreck
He was CRYING like a baby. He told us
that he finished his regular run-ahu
his regular run is not the White NOUN
,oin exnress. as the railroad people
sav--at 1:17 o'clock on Tuesday morn
ing. His regular run was from Slahi-
ford to Springfield.
He told me that when ne hnisheo
his run AT Springfield he was asked TO
AXE out the White Mountain Express.
He begged the men not TO send MN
cut and said he WAS tired out ahd TOO
nervous to make the run.
But they would not listen to nm,
They told him The regular engineer had
reported sick and he must take the
engine out
Mrs. Norton also said Miller told her
h, was given bad engines often 10 take
out, but that he always refused to
handle them.
Government Probe To-day.
The government probe Of the New
Haven wreck at North Haven on Tues-
DAY morning, when twenty-one persons
were killed and many injured. some Oh
them MORALLY, will begin tomorrow
morning at 1870 o'clock. c. {. Nc
Chord Interstate Commerce Commls-
sioner, who will preside, will reach here
on the 1903 o'clock train tomorrow
Officials of the Interstate Commerce
Commission in the last two days have
been busy rounding up witnesses ana
evidence in preparation for the investi-
CATION. which is expected TO be COM
pleted by Saturday evening.
The crews of both trains will be
called as witnesses. The stories OF
those Of the Bar Harbor train VIII be
heard first. The train dispatcher oil
this district, who was on duty at the
time Of the wreck, was subp9naed to-
day. together with several officials or
the New Haven road, including c. \.
Woodward. general superintendent; I.
L. Bardo. general manager; {. f.
Wildin, mechanical superintendent, and
C. H. Morrison, signal engineer. How
ard Elliott, the president, was not sub
poenaed. but it is expected that he will
60 on the witness stand.
Craftsmen and surveyors, working
under Mr. Belnap. chief inspector or
the Interstate Commerce Commisslon'
have prepared blue print maps of the
scene Of the wreck. These maps reveal
the position of the banjo signals, the
places where the torpedoes were placed
on the rail by Murray, the lagman, and
the position of the BAR Harbor train
just before Il was struck.
Murray has admitted that he placed
the torpedoes only six or seven tele-
graph poles back from the stalled train,
a distance of about nine hundred feet.
Miller. the engineer of the White Noun
tain Express, however, insisted that
the torpedoes were back only three
hundred feet
In the recent tests on the New Haven
line, following the Stamford wreck, it
was shown that heavy Pullman train
running at the rate of fifty-seven miles
an hour, could not be stopped after the
application of the emergency brakes
until the train travelled 1857 feet.
Train Doomed in Any Event.
That the Bar Harbor train was doomed
even if Murray had placed the torpedoes
back six or seven telegraph poles, was
evident from the fact that the White
, Mountain Express was travelling through
the fog at speed slightly exceeding
hfty-one miles an hour when the crash
occurred.
The speed of the White Mountain Ex-
press was positively established to-day by
the government investigators. The rail-
road time chart revealed that the train
passed Meriden at 6:4 a. m and passed
the next station, Wallingford six miles
away, at e:5l, or seven minutes later
Miier's story before the federal inves-
tiKators will not be told until Saturday
when Commissioner McChord will de-
msnd his presence. Murray will be
witness the same day.
While the federal investigators were
preparing for to-morrow's probe Of the
wreck, which will be open to the public,
Coroner Mix was conducting his own
little star chamber" inquest in the old
county courthouse. He invited T.. q.
auckland, vice-president Of the New Ha-
ven. TO be present, but Mr.. Buckland ex-
planned that he thought It would be the
better policy not TO attend
Coroner Mix held three sessions OF his
star chamber inquiry to-day. one in the
morning, one after luncheon and third
tonight The only person admitted with