The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-07-23
STORY OF WOMAN
 TENDS TO LESSEN
 GAR MANS BLAME
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 were unable to see their danger, and turned on full speed. one to arrive at the next switch, and the other t0 make the steep grade.
 The ptcnickers were loaded in two cars The second followed about 200 feet in the rear, and had not yet turn cd the corner. when the motor1nan heard The crash. He shut off power and ran to where the two cars were piled one on top Of the other.
 Both cars must have been running in excess of 30 miles at the time of the crash People in the neighbor- hood heard the joyous shouts of the children as they were being conveyed on a return trip from Roton Point where they had spent the day in an outing Their shouts faIled the air and along the return trip people ran from their homes to share the picnick- CTS happiness They were greeted with shouts of joy Not one about tho cars realized the pending catastro- phe that would send four into eternity, and in5ure two score more
 The trolley bearing the school chill dren passed the switch, which lies about 300 to 400 feet west of the scene of the accident. About 100 yards above is d sharp curve at King street. Mo tor1nan Na.din of the Bridgeport bound special rounded the curve at an un- usual high rate of speed, and started down the incline.
 Everyone was at the evening meal, for dt waS just 6:15 when the crash occurred As far as can be learned nobody saw the crash. or saw the car after 1t rounded the curve.
 A short time before, the Coles ex.. press ear on which was Frank Ray mond of Nprwa1k. motorman, ana George Ea@t of NorWalkz messenger passed through the switch at West port Both maintain that the light was sopen-'s They had made the steep grade outside of the town, and were rounding the sharp double curve inn mediately above Burr road. As they passed this. Raymond increased his speed, and started up the steep grade.
 The sharp curves at this point make it one of the most dangerous curves between Bridgeport and Norwallx. Big trees with dense foliage screened the track from the vision of the two mo- tormsn-
 They crashed together head on. Neither of the nnotormen had time to shuE oR power The express car lit- eraIly leaped upon the open trolley car telescoping it, and demolishing the front end of the Coles express
 The air was filed with the noise Of crashing and grinding as the two cars came together. with which was mingled the screams of the dying and the shrfeAs of injured women and chil- dreu-
 Then came the. panic. Children fought frantically to escape from the wreck Many were trarap1ed upon, while they beat each others faces and scratched and tore in a frantic effort f0 reach safety. Many of the small CT children were badly injured, as they fairly hurled thenaseIvg gs from the debris.
 " B. Kellogg, who lives but a short o1stance down the road from the scene of the wreck. heard the crash, and then the awful screams which arose was the first man to arrive at the accident
 4 terrible picture presented itself to him Innocent children were sfruss- gling to gain exit from the car while older people fought each other to get out Children with broken limbs and bruised bodies were trampled under foot and their shrieks echoed and re- echoed through the trees
 All the dead and the dying znd +1,a most seriously injured were in the front seat. Here sat Miss Mabel Cleveland, George Raymond Fuller. Frank Negry, and Andrew Thonpson They were pinned by the framework of the express car to the back of the front seat
 The scene was the most horrible ever witnessed by the residents of the. quiet little town of Westport. The early arrivals pitched in to help ex-a tricste the dead and the dying. The snr1eks Aof little thirteen year old George Fuller. almost drove the res crers frantic. as they chopped and strained in an effort to free him.
 While they were still working to effect his release the lads sF1rie1xs died to groans. and his sroans to moans- Just as he was lifted from the car. he died, in the arms of his reseuers- Tears streamed down the faces of the men as they witnessed the gameness of little sixteen year old Andrew Thompson Although both Of his legs were fractured in many places one arm bent nearly double between the steel framework of the express car and the woodwork of the nrst seat hardly groan escaped him
 Then he began to shriek, and, before he could be taken from the vvreekage, he died
 Possibly the most heartrending sight was that of Miss Mabel Cleveland, an ether of the fatally injured She had sat in the front seat almost directly zn the rear of the motorman. Al piece Of steel from the underfranae of the Coles express pinned her to the back or the front seat It passed almost completely through her abdomen. Her face was pinched in agony, while her screams made the work of the rescu- ing party even more horrible
 yadnly they struggled to move the heavy cars from one. another At last the woodwork was chopped away
 Carefully they raised her from the debris. and laid her gently down upon the grass She died before physicians could dress her wounds. she had re- ceived a broken back, fractured skull broken leg, and many bruises.
 Miss Harriet Taylor, who lives across the road, not thirty feet from where the accident occurred, said she was feeding her chickens at the time of the crash She heFrds the laughter of the children, ana $ shout of sSHtlr- ra,n, boys Then the air was filled with deafening crash and the cries of women and children
 She dropped the pan Of feed which l she held and ran towards the house. i Lrnmad1ate1y it was filled with badly l