Milford chronicle., 1913-09-05
rs DEAD, 40 HURT
IN R. R. WRECK
Express Crashes Into Wooden
PuIImanS on Train
BRAKES FAILED TO WORK
Accident Occurred During a Fog Near
New Haven, conn.-SeVeral Victims
From Philadelphia.

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From Philadelphia.
Twenty-six persons lost their loves
and forty were injured when the
White Mountain express, bound for
New York. crashed into the rear end
OF the second section OF the Bar Har-
Dor limited, bearing sojourners from
Maine summer resorts. The wreck &C.
Cured on the New Haven railroad
just outside New Haven, Conn.
Failure to see a block signal yelled
in a thick fog is given as the cause
of the accident by Engineer A. B..
Miller who says that as soon as he
realized the danger he did all re could
to stop the train. The brakes would
not hold on the wet track and the
train, running down grade, ploughed
its way through two wooden Pullman
cars. splintered them to kindling and
killed or wounded most Of the sleeping
passengers in their berths The bodies
of most OF the victims were mangled.
A party Of boy campers, sixty-fye in
number, returning from Camp Cob
bossee," at Monmouth, Me-, were in
Pullman car which was overturned
Two of these boys, William Altschul.
of Norfolk, Va, and Albert Green, Of
New York, were killed.
The latest list of dead is as follows:
Miss Maria Stockton Bulitt, Miss
Harriet Biddle. S. Grocer Fox. Robert
NJ. Yahn, Daniel N. McQuillen, Miss
Emily K Davis. all of Philadelphia.
William Altschul, Norfolk, Va.
Harold Avery. New York.
Frank Butler, Scranton. Pa.
Albert Green, New York.
R. A. Hotchkiss. New Haven, Conn.
Philo Hotchkss, brother of R. A
Hotchkiss.
Harry Imar, a Japanese, New York.
H. F Martin, Bryn Mawr, Pa.
Miss Agnes White, Boston
Mary Jane (no last name),
Hartford, Conn.
Margaret Armstrong, Washington.
2 Albert Freed, New York.
George Koga, New York.
Five bodies are unidentified.
The bodies of some of the dead were
found fifty feet away in the fields.
Some of the dead and injured were
hurried to New Haven Walilngford
and Meriden. Many of them we're TAX
en- in trolley cars.
Both trains were heavily laden with
returning excursionists. They were
running behind time through the
heavy fog.
The Bar Harbor limited Lad stopped
in the block, but the last car Of the
long train was just on the edge of the
block limits. The signals had cleared
and the express had gotten under a
slight headway when the White Noun
tain express came along. The engineer
of the latter was unable to stop his
locomotive and crashed completely
through two Of the sleepers on the Bar
7Harbor train and knocked the next
sleeper over the embankment.
The shock of the collision was 50
terrific that linen and bed cloh'ng
from the berths in the sleepers was
swept out Of the broken windows and
carried to the telegraph wires and
poles nearby, where it still hung when
the wrecking trains arrived.
The White Mountain express was
scarcely scratched by the collision. It
proceeded on its way after a few
hours delay.
All the passengers were in their
berths and in their night clothes max
ing Identification of the dead difficult
The engineer of the White Mountain
express stuck to his post until the last
moment and was only slightly hurt.
The two sleepers which were crushed
were a mass Of splinters a few min
7ites after the accident. The locomotive
ran on top of the wreckage and re-
mained almost upright for a consider
able time.
The collision occurred on a straight
stretch of track, but the fog was very
dense at the time.