The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-09-05
CORONER ORDERS ARREST
 OF ENGINEER MILLER AS
 WELL AS FLAGMAN MURRAY

White Mountain was making, but be. tween Meriden and WaIlingford (tht llatter three miles north of the wreck the train sheets show that she made six miles in seven minutes. Figure ii out for yourself
 This would be about 52 miles ar hour.
 MT. Belnap tooka surveyor to the l scene of the wreck yesterday and made measurements which he charted for use at the hearing today. He 1 found that the distance in dispute had | already been co1d-chise11ed into the
 rails. This was done, he learned, al the instance of the Public Utilities
 Commission on the day of the wreck
 M'CHoRD DETAINED
 Commissioner McChord who will pre-: l side at the federal investigation to- day, telegraphed last night that he | would not arrive until 10 o'clock this morning. The taking of testimony will
 begin in the federal court in public session as soon as he reaches the build ing. He will be accompanied by M. C. List, an attorney for the commission. | As mapped out by Inspector Belnap, | the evidence will be adduced with ref erence to the chronological sequence of the events of the catastrophe. The l specific causes of the wreck having 1 been estab ablished the higher officials Of | the road, including General Manager c. L. Bardo and General Superinten- dent Woodward, will then be called l proba bly, on Saturday, to testify on l the broader subject Of operating man agement, in an inquiry designed to bring out the fundamental causes of the many wrecks which the New Ha- ven has suffered in the last two years. Coroner Mix has practically conclud- ed his inquest, in so far as the 1mpor- tant witnesses are concerned but 1t will be continued this morning and as fast the coroner gets through with a witness he will be sent over to the, federal building where the Interstate Commerce Commission probe will be in progress.
 Charges Against Men.
 The state officials believe that when the inquest is over they will be able to fasten a charge of criminal neg Hgence on both Miller and Murray They charge that Miller ran his train reck1essly in fog when he knew that there had been bad Tagging on signal, signal 23, at Mi11er's crossing, set at danger, against the rules.
 Murray, they will charge, did not go back far enough to either flag the train or to put the torpedoes at the proper distance from the rear of his
  of the service in so doing.
 In answer to the charge against Miller the 1atter's friends say that he had a clear sign at 25, a mile and a, quarter above 23, that he was not running his train reckless1y, that the charge that he ran his train by 23 is childish because the second section of the Bar Harbor did that very thing or 1t wouldn't have been in the North Haven block and if it had not been in the North Haven block the accident would not have happened. Again, Mi1ler's friends say with the Bar Harbor stalled eight minutes at Mil ler's Crossing he had every reason to expect after the clear signal at 2o that if there was any danger at or near signal 23 he would be amply warned by a flag and torpedoes.
 Speaking of the charges against Murray railroad men say that if he was recalled by the whistle of his 1ocomo motive before he had a chance to go back the proper distance then he, too, is not to blame for he is sup posed, they say, to obey the order of the whistle for that indicates that his train is ready to start.
 At the hearing were Coroner Mix, his stenographer, Miss Iegg, Inspec- tor Howard of the Interstate Com merce commission and during the day State Attorney filling dropped in from  was done by the coroner. Only the witness under examination was allow ed in the court room, the others were kept in an ante room.
 Before he opened the hearing Cor oner Mix got in touch with Superin- tendent Bardo of the road and he told the latter that he wanted the crews of all the trains which went south over that track from late on Monday night until the time of the wreck at 6:55 Imme ediately the railroad officials got busy and the crews of these trains were ordered by messenger and tele- graph and telephone to report at once at New Haven. They kept coming in all day and up to o'clock last night and there will be another batch on hand today.
 Tell of Heavy Fog.
 The first witness called was Will liam T. Clarkson, of 19 Gray street. He was on his way to WaIlingford at the time of the wreck and saw the collision, though he was not near enough to hear the torpedoes. He said that while trying to reach an in jured woman through the roof of q sleeper he fell through the roof, the wood was rotten. He said the fog was so thick that objects a hundred feet away could not be distinguished. He said he heard some one say some thing about trouble with the DrakeS.
 Allen Seaman, of the second section of the White Mountain express, which was twenty minutes behind the first section and which was held up at Wallingford and proceeded cautiously down the line to the wreck, was the next witness. He said the fog was so heavy that one could not see fifty feet ahead
 Then came the porters on the vari- ous sleeping cars of both trains and it was along toward o'clock in the afternoon when their examination was concluded. For the most part their testimony was that the fog was very heavy, though J. F. Riggs, of the | Messina, said the fog was not so dense 1 that objects could not be discerned at