Norwich bulletin., 1913-09-15

territory between 8 o'clock Saturday night and o'clock Sunday afternoon. 1 The Wrecks were both within the city 1 limits one Saturday night at a switch 1 just south of the Falls bridge and the l other Sunday afternoon under the 1 West Main street bridge.
 1 In the wreck at the Falls. in which 1 the southbound boat train so called, l Jumped a switch and left the track, l Mrs. Minnie A. Cram, a nurse at the l Norwich state hospital, was injured l about the right kIAee and possibly has s fractured kneecap. She was taken 1 to the state hospital
 Capt Henry Austin Smith over 70 years old and an old-time resident of Massapeag, was terribly injured when he was struck by a passenger train on the trestle at Massapeag Sunday morning about 7.30 o'clock. Caught on the trestle, with no time to get off, he lay down outside the rails, hoping 1 that he would be safe, but was struck by the train. His skull was fractured, bone i'll his lower left arm was brok- en, he had a compound comminuted fracture of the hip, and five or six ribs broken. He was brought to the Backus hospital.
 In the third accident of the series Conductor Thomas Jordan was thrown from the runaway S6-ton steam derrick at the West Main street bridge. He was picked up unconscious. with .. dis located right shoulder and bruises. He was sent to his home in New London in the afternoon.
 Boat Train Jumped Switch. The series of accidents began with the southbound boat train Saturday night, It consisted of engine and tender, with mail ear, combination baggage and smoker and passenger sengers aboard, G, H. Vassar was en- Doth both being New London men, Just after passing the Falls bridge, at speed estimated at 30 miles an hour it is said, the engine jumped the west switch just south of the bridge and teok te the ties eff the siding, blowing along fer a considerable distance and heading towards the steep r1yerbank te the west, but suddenly sianting off ia the opposite direction and going over en it's left side across the main track, which it completely blocked.
 The tender and the mail car followed it and remained ea their wheels, twist ed acFess the siding tracks, with the mail ear tipped up at an angle of 43 degrees, Wedged up by the ties that that had been torn cut by the engine The smoker and the passenger ear broke loose from the other part of the train and remained in an upright position, running alng the ties of the siding.
 Fireman Thrown Gut,
 Engineer vassar stuck to his place iH the engine and was on the upper side When it landed. He cfaWled out through the cab window and was un- hurt, Fireman FatFo was hurled out of the window 6n the other side and landed uHh1lFt among some bushes. The engineers seat followed him out through the window: When the engi- HeeF first efaWied out 6n to the ground the fireman was nowhere te be seen, I,o f.~0zo h had been thrown into the bushes.
 In the baggage car the Baggageaaa was sitting oR a trunk ready to put it off at the Norwich Town station. He was shot forward through the car on tsp of the trunk, but was unlurt.
 In the passenger gar those riding there were tossed about in confusion and Mrs Cram was threwn over two seats. sustaining tha injuries men, stonc3,
 Heightened fer Doctors.
 Expecting that there might be large list of injuredB word was at once telephoned to the Norwich police head quarters for doctors and Captain Two mey sent Drs P. J. Cassidy, Louis Cassidy and J. w, Callahan to the scene, Mrs, Cram was carried out of the car in a chair and the injured leg was put in splints by Dr, Louis Cassi- dy, She was then sent to the Norwich state hospital in one of M, D. Rings automobiles
 Adolphe Nothe of Monson, Mass, who was also 8 passenger on the train, did not experience any bad effects un- til he had reached the city, where he went on a trolley car with many of the other passengers. The nervous shock had it's effects on some of his internal organs and he was treated by Dr. J. w. Callahan A conductor on the train cut a slice off his little finger when his hand went through a window
 The passengers reached the trolley cars near by and came to the city to proceed to New London by trolley.
 Steam Derrick from Midway.
 Word was sent to New London of the accident and at 1.30 Sunday morn ing the steam derrick from the New Haven yards at Midway arrived with a. crew and started the work of clearing the track.
 The work attracted thousands of people during Sunday, and the line was cleared about 3 o'clock, after the wreck. ing crew had first built a temporary track around the wreck to let Sunday morning trains pass. The engine had it's front trucks torn off A wrecking crew from Palmer also arrived and worked on the cars while the New Haven steam derrick was used to get the engine on the tracks again.
 Struck on Tres4le.
 The accident to Captain Smith at Maasapeag was connected in a way with the wreck of the boat train, as the n0rthbound passenger train which struck him was running at a time WhenI he did n0t expect it. When he saw that he was caught he lay down between tha rail and tf4e outside stfingeF, but was struck by the train, Ii was at enee stepped aHd he was picked up, In spite of his injuries ke retained con- seieusHess.
 A telephone message fer d6et6F wa sent te Norwich and alse fer the am buIaHee, and he was rushed to the Baekus hospital upon his arrival here.
 At the hospital Sunday night his con- aitien was said te be quite eHeeuFag- ing:
 Steam Berriek's Wild Fisat.
 Sunday afternoon about o'clock ee= cured the thiEd of the accidents, when the 86 ton steam aeErielE get away and started down from the Falls along the more than half a mile of down grade, with nothing ta stoR it, as it had pe brakes. The %EeekaRe train had gone down ahead of it. leaving it to he at fachea to another ear and brought down by another engine. But the was made to hitch if win a chain. Btlt the chain broke when the engine staEt Cd up, and before anyone rea4ized it fA steam derrick was underway down the grade and gaining momentum at every fool.
 Ednductor Jordan who was on board Mtth another man, 55unped to the Whis- HA and pelq thai 'dpWn Throughout the l Wild ride, but the other fFaiIl man l