Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-09-02
FR|GHTFUL WRECK
4 THIS. MORNING
Bodies Of Twenty Persons
Removed From The
Debris.
FORTY ARE INJURED.
Rear End Collision - Fireman and
Engineer Leap For Their Lives
Fog Cause of Accident.

New Haven, Sept. 2.-From great
piles of twisted and broken steel and
lsp.intered wood, score of physicians
and u relief crew of hundred men
'Lhave removed the bodies of twenty
ipersons killed in the most fearful
iwreck the New Haven road has ever
ihad, early today. Forty persons are
iknown to have been seriously injured.
awhile scores of others are suffering
minor injuries. 1t is feared that
there are more bodies in the debris
strewn over the tracks.
The White Mountain express was
speeding along few minutes behind
Itch fast Bar Ha,'bor express, in an at
tempt to make up time, it is said,
when the rear end Of the first train
domed up in the dense fog. The engi-
heer reversed his engine, and with
the fireman, leaped from the cab.
! The locomotive crashed into the ola
Pullman wood coaches CT the train
ahead and plowed its way complete
:ly through four of them. The fifth
was practically thrown upon end.
( Every one of the eleven Pullman
cars on the Bar Harbor train was
wooden. All were packed with pas
sengers, and most of them were dam
aged.
laundering III the wake Of she Bar
Harbor express, all the way from.
New York, was the White Mountain
train, itself heavy and also jammed
with persons who had been spending
their holidays in the New Englnad
mountains.
The White Mountain train was AN
hour late and it is believed for this
reason was making up lost time.
According to the best estimates,
the White Mountain express was run
ming at least fortytive miles an hour.
The big locomotive crashed through
the antiquated wooden Pulfmans in
the rear of the Bar Harbor train like
a snow plow sweeping through q drift.
Practically nothing Of these four cars
was left on the track. Crashing on,
the locomotive appended the fifth car
and when the train came TO a stop
: this coach was standing on ned with
the locomotive acting as prop.
Albert Miller, the engineer of the
White Mountain train, and his fire.
men, whose name is Robertson, had
seen the train ahead too late to avoid
tthe crash. but had time to save them
selves by leaping. Miller reversed
! his engine before he jumped.
! The shock of the impact threw from
their beds all those in the cars that
were not smashed in the collision.
When the two trains stopped after the
wreck, passengers rushed from all of
the remaining cars Men, women and
children appeared in all manner of
scanty attire.
I L. H. Fowler, conductor of the White
Mountain express. said that he could
mot account for the accident, except
that the fog and the midst might have
hidden the SIGNALS
The fielts around the wreck were
filled with debris. Mattresses and
bed clothing hung from the telegraph
hwires. where they had been flung by
1.-THE force of the collision. The two cars
that bore the blunt of the shock had
been splintered as if they were pack
ing boxes.
! As soon as rescuing force could
be organized attention was directed
to those who were most seriously in
iured and hurry calls for aid were
sent to all nearby towns.
: From the car sheets and mattresses
were brought. wounds were tied up
and the injured were made as comfor-
table as possible.
Ten Killed by Automobiles.