The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-13
DOHERTY IN TEARS AS HE TELLS OF FATAL CRASH AND INTERFERENCE AS ENGINEER IN PASSENGER SERVICE;
 THE AIRBRAKES FAILED TO WORK

whether the towermen were watching a. fire in the distance as some aver, or whether the am-brafe on the fate fJ1l engine refused to operate is not yet known definitely, but almost wild with delirfJUrn from the frightfui knowledge of disaster he could not avert, both engineer and firerren were seen to wave their hands in agony and sticking to their engine rush into the dismal gloom and dying agony which was precipftated in the parlor- chair-ca1 "skylarlz' the last coach of the heavy and long first section The engine tore about three quarters of the way through the Pullman before coming to a dead stop with it's brakes set and sand still flowing in streams from the supply pipes
 It was a, clean telescope. the sides and roof Of the +'Skylark'' being fore ed slightly outward and upward and leaving the levtathan 'wedged as tight ly into the shell as a, human hand in a glove Those seated in the car were either carried forward in one souirming mass of flesh or were rolled along the top and sides of the car with shattered glass, sphntered wood and Ioosened upholstery. Fire immediately broke out but was as quickly quenched by the fire companies which had been summoned by a thoughtful policeman
 
 cue of the imprisoned passengers who but for their quick response would have burned to death.
 The scenes following the moment of silence which succeeded the grinding crash and the metallic hail of broken glass which filtered the v1aduct roa,d- bed for a distance of three hundred feet were, heart-rending. Kissing steam, above which were the shouts of trainnen, the cries of hyster1cal messengers, and the grUans of the dy- ing and injured. rose, too. and blended into one dndescriable egonized- wall or distress.
 Men and women ran from the for ward and after coaches minus hats, coats or baggage. All congrega&ed about the teIescoped car from which human forms were dropping from windows and doors while one or two crawling from above the engine body swayed dizzily from the roof or she now fired car.~ One husband who but a moment before had been seated be- side his wife, pleaded va1nly for a. sight of her. She was soon discover ed fearfuI1y mangled hanging out ward from a window beside the boiler of the black demon engine. The en-- gineer and fireman who had witness ed the awful confusion within the fated car with eyes rivetted forward were able to be pulled from their cabs by assisting trainmen, police and fire men. Uninjured they were conveyed to a train-shed and taken to New Ha- ven, according to reports
 There were about thirty passengers in the rear-car and almost every one of these was injured to some extent. While a few rushed b1indly about the tracks and railroad station from which they were finally taken to hos pitaIs or treated by physicians and placed on the KI1ickerbocker Express which was the first train through to New York, the great majority were taken to the hospitals in any convey ance that could be impressed into service by Acting Chief of Police James Hefferman who with common. dabIe zeal marshalIed his men and quickly patrolIed the scene of disas- ter and prevented vandals and ghouls from footing the wreckage. Direct ing his forces and the work of the railroad employees Hefferman is cred fted with rare presence of mind and is especially commended for impress ing carriages and automobiles into ambulance service with patients for the hospital.
 Within the car several acts of hero ism are reported as men braved the awful inferno of steam to drag un- conscious forms from beside the pant
 
 succor to the injured was Father An thony Berh1er. BAT East 57th street who was in the fated car at the time of the disaster.
 But one Bridgeport man is credited with having been in the fatal com partment- He is Bernado Papa, 881 Connecticut avenue. He was not hurt.
 As the fremen quenched the spreading fire from without, many of their number were within the car re- moving the unconscious forms from the human tangIe. The first to be released from the. outside was Mrs. D. J. Kelly, who with her husband had been seated in the two rear seats. She was still conscious but before medical assistance could be rendered died. The body of Everett H. Wood ruff was found damned between the engine and side of the car. Frank Garfield pushed through the flooring the Journey to the hospital but died shortly after admittance. Dr. J. G. Howe. of Hartford. died at the hos pital during the night. One woman, Mrs. w. H. See1ey, was carried upon the top of the locomotive and the car-roof and had to be chopped loose She was badly scaIded and had prob ably died instantly.
 Coroner J. J. Phelan, accompanied by Superior Court Stenographe George Hawley visited the scene of the wreck shortly after the occur renee and the coroner carefully ob- served such evidences as were left He instituted an immediate investiga- ton and ordered an inquiry for this It had been the intention of the railway officials to hold their own investigation at New Haven at To l O clock today but these instructions i were superseded by the coroner's or ders that the states inquiry would 1 take precedence.
 In the tower-house he learned that the signal bridge had been giving