The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-16
The Standard,
 The Engineer;
 and MT. Mellen

The Bridgeport Standard which has acquired new management and new ideals printed it's first page, engineer is to blame for wreck and on it's last page fearful appeal to withhold judgment an appeal which not intended rebuke to Mr. Meen who had NOT withheld judgment but to 'the yellow which thrves by attacking somebody sonething.'' 7.+ of inc New Haven road it could scarcely go further defending the railroad saughters, which have iterrorized1 Connecticut
 zvichthe engineer has been killed in which Mr Mellen or somebody else has failed to ''B1AAME THE ENG1-
 Buesoretirnes the Interstate Commerce Commission, for Fairfield county, the prosecuting author- essfor county, the Public Utilities Commission ofthen, declinedto accept the convenient view andhave sometimes recommended criminal indictments of veryti ytimportant'railroa officials.
 MT. Melleris atthis1noment under indictment for the Ilingedn Westportwreck if mistake not,although the usual ofthe engineer as the sole offender was attempted
 dignifed and intelligent in Mr. Melen to let the duly instituted public authorities place the blame
 And we further suggest as mater t ol pusle r that ought to at pretend to deplore railroad kgs ana to effect to desire the blame 1 TOT IaoSe ' E @ placed exactly where it belongs some aances are exceedingly patent might be nursed to usefulness by a little judicious dissimulaton
 was also-ths is merely an oplnlon gwen or pure desire to contemporary to less spectacular American railroads This would been just eff fecve other dayand not so extraordlnafl as an apology for the Stamford killings.
 When this newspaper considers accidents the New Haven nes it makes the comparison aga1nst the com
  ation that from time to time the whose Judgment contemporary appealsthough it has accepted Mr. Mellens judgmentwhich have var1Ously the of the company too shor it's signals not modern it's not utodate, it's train crews scanty and it's methods sngulary prolific of death and maiming injury.
 For our own part we say that quite the yeIlovest tribute the disposition of in places of the community lay the shoulders of brave utiful the constant burden of grevous blood shedding that is not theirs.
 Within two years five wrecks have occurred with large fatalities the 9 miles of line between Bridge port and Stamford
 At Bridgeport, July 12, 191l 12 were killed and 1OO injured.
 At Fairfield June g. 1911, four killed
 At Greens Farms, November 16, 1912, 35 injured
 At Westport October B. 1912, nine killed and 50 injured
 At Stamford, June 12, 1913, six were killed and 20 injured.
 The engineers charge of these trains numbered five. Three engineers and three remen perished.
 n never a of these wrecks did engineer fireman jump. None quit his post to save himself
 The engineer who rides in the cab and the fireman who rides beside him. rides with his life in the balance
 It does not become the ponpous and the overfed the insolent and the stupid servitors of blind pl tocracy to shout too and too loudly The engineer is to blame.''
 Engineman Doherty the witness stand, his liberty stake shaken by his terrible and by the tells his story blaming none except the facts cast blame
 Why should Mr. Mellen cast the first stone? Why should The Standard rush to praise MT. Meen
 THE ENGINEER IS TO BLAME It is an an- yore.