The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-09-02

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 this and adjacent cities. The camI
 has been carried on by Miss Hortense
 Herson, a teacher of the Friends II School, one of the best known es-
 establishments in the fashionable section
 of the city. The party went yearly
 to Belgrade Lakes, Me, leaving July ]
 and returning about September for the opening of school. The school was closed, today. Principal Sidewe11 and I his wife being absent in Virginia.
 New Haven, Sept. 2-Running at a | good speed in a thick fog, which had rolled in with the sun from Long Isl- I and Sound and over the meadows, the | first section of the White Mountain Express, due at New York at 7:52 a. m crashed into the second section of the Bar Harbor Express, which had just l been standing in block at North Haven, four miles north of the sta- l ton here at 6:55, this morning. The engine of the White Mountain Express No. 1887, p1oughed through the two rear sIeepers of the Bar Harbo9 Ex- press and bowIed over the third car from the rear.
 1 From this last mentioned sleeper l seven bodies were later taken The early death list indicated 15. The rail- 1 road company, shortly before 10 o'clock issued a statement to the effect that 13 persons were known to have been killed and about 20 injured Some of latter are not. seriously hurt as five were placed on trolley cars at North Haven and sent into the hospitals here. Eight others who had been hurt were placed on a relief train and brought into the city and placed in ambuIances. At the scene of the wreck and at the station here, at Wallingford, four miles beyond the wreck and at Meri- den, further up the line, great confu- sion prevailed for a long time owing 4or F~T if1 The list of dead may be increased over the early estimate of 13 made by the railroad company as one man is said to have died on the White Noun tain train after it backed up to Meri- den and that train also had another body on board. All accounts agree that there were practically no injured per sons on the White Mountain Express and the passengers on it seemed to know very little of the collision until after their train had stopped.
 The engineer of the White Mountain Express stuck to his post but was not badly hurt. The most seriously hurt appeared to have been in the 3rd sleep CT, which was thrown over the em- bankment. Two passengers said they were thrown from their berths and found themselves fully forty feet from the overturned car.
 The two s1eepers which were crushed by the impact of Engine 1887, were a mass of splinters a few minutes after the accident The engine ran on top of the wreckage and remained almost upright for a, considerable time The engine was one of the new superheat- CTS, which type figured in the wreck at Stamford. The engine in the latter instance was No. 1338
 The collision occurred on clear stretch of track, but the fog was very dense at the time as a mile below the North Haven meadows which runs down to the tidal waters of the Sound and over which at this season of the year come banks of fog nearly every morning.
 It is stated that the Bar Harbor Ex- press had stopped inside block until the engineer could make sure of his clearance signals. The rear coach was just inside the block limit. The signals had cleared for the Bar Harbor Ex- press and the engineer had just applied steam and the train was moving when the White Mountain Express bore down The grade is slightly descend ing This is a very fast stretch or track No statement is yet made as to the speed at which the White Noun tain Express was running or whether the engineer had disregarded signals
 It was stated at the scene of the wreck that the engineer of the latter express had his engine under control but the track was slippery and the grade one on which 1t was diHculr to hold the train.
 One of the sights which met the eyes of those who were first at the wreck were the bed clothing, cushions portions of wearing apparel, and bits of wreckage suspended from the wires along the tracks This all came when two sleepers were thrown up into the air by the impact of tn cen zine.
 Coroner Mix, who is the official for
 
 ty, began an inquiry into the wreck at 10 o'clock. He ordered that the bodies which had been taken from the wreck be brought into this city. The railroad company prepared place for 13 bodies in the trolley car barns the Cedar Hill station of the rail- road.
 At the wreck Identification was only made of the bodies of R. A. Hotchk1ss, a young son of Leonard Hotchk1ss. or Charles w. Scranton & O., brokers of this city: Frank B. Rutter, vice 1 president and sales manager of the | Scranton Bolt & Nut Co.,, of Scranton, Pa; Albert Greene, of New York city, | and William Altschu1, of Norfolk, Va l
 Among the unidentified bodies were those of young woman about 20 | years of age, with brown, curly hair. | She wore a pearl necklace and gold l chaised ring. Another body was that | of a woman with a ring on which was engraved 'F'or life or death, April 30, | 1874''
 Another was of a young man with s<s. C. F." on g green stone ring.
 A report current at the wreck was that the White Mountain Express ran past the f1agman- sent back from the Bar Harbor Express. The railroad officials who were at the wreck had very little to say in the preliminary inquiry by Coroner Mix. The latter expected to resume his inquiry at the street car barn when the bod les have been brought in
 The track on which the wreck oc- cured, today, is protected by the so- called Banjo signals which type of signals the Public Utilities Commission has ordered changed. The New Ha-