New Britain herald., 1915-03-01
LITTLE CHILD KILLED
 BY EXPRESS TRAIN Alta Aifierj, Sevcn Years Old, Struck at 1 O'Clock This Afternoon. fATnfR AND MOTHER PROSTRA1EO

] Victim Is Oldest of Four Children
 Attended St. Mary's Parochial
 School.
 l Alta Alfieri aged seven years, and 1 the oldest daughter of MT. and Mrs 1 Carmeno Alfieri of No. 345 Myrtle | street, was struck and instantly killed ] by the 1 o'clock inbound express from 1 Waterbury this afternoon as she at 1 tempted to cross the railroad tracks 1 directly opposite Grove street and in ] full view of the Workmen at the : Marketable Iron Works. The child's i parents are prostrated with grief and 1 their suffering is pitiful to behold. Rusles in Front of Train
 The little girl and a younger sister were walking along the tracks when Alta crossed to the south side and went down to the edge of the Lock Shop pond. The other child was safely trudging along dn the north side of thetracks As the heavy ex- press train rounded the curve at the Stanley Works Alta, fearing for her little sisters safety, scrambled up the embankment and essayed to cross the rails in front of the onrushing loco motive. The pilot of the huge engine smashed her cruelty on the head and tossed her down the bank where she lay inert, dead. At so great a rate of speed was the express train going that although the engineer applied the emergency brakes four cars passed the spot before it could be brought to a standstill.
 Death Was Instantaneous.
 Almost immediately a big crowd gathered and Officers Richardson, English and Nealon, as we'll as Chief Rawlings, were kept busy holding then in check. Medical Examiner Dr. T. G. Wright view the remains and said that death must have been in stantaneous as the girls skull was completely crushed in where the train hit her. The rest of her body was not mang1ed
 The train is known as the Water bury express and is due at the local station at 1 o'clock. It was in charge of Conductor Brigham, of Hartford, and Engineer Phillips, of Danbury. Engineer Phillips saw the little girl try to cross in front of his train but could not stop in time to save her life. He is much wrought up over the trag- ic accident
 Engineer Phillips Story. i
 Engineer Phillips states that he was rounding the curve at the Stanley Works at a good rate of speed when he saw the girl ahead of him along side the track. He sounded his shrill whistle and when he saw that the lit tie tot was about to cross in front of him he threw over the emergency brakes hard.
 But it was too late. The momentum of the heavy train was too great and it carried the locomotive four car length beyond the spot where the un- fortunate little girl was struck.
 Mother Is Heart Broken.
 It was about twenty minutes after the accident that the frantic mother arrived on the scene. Rushing down the tracks, screaming as though he" heart would break, the distracted parent raced for the group that stood , sadly around the body of her little girl. Screaming wildly, tearing heT hair, and beating her breast the heart broken woman lifted the GOV cring that had been placed over the mangled face of the victim and then went from one fit of mysteries into an other She had to be forcibly re- strained by three men and when she was later taken to her hone in Chief Dame's autom obile it required three m en to hold her ih.the car. Her cries could be heard for blocks.
 Father Paints Beside Body.
 The girls father is employed at the ! Sto,, md fnyJ- ,frc. ter the mother had arrived he was notified of the accident and hurried | to the scene. Bending over the ! prpstrate form he fearfully lifted the l coH Hering and then, with a wild shriel1 !! of grief, he clasped the little body i in his arms and buried his face l a against the mangled bloody head of | his little daughter, raining kisses upon ! her gaping wounds. ::
 His grief was even more terrible ! than that of the mothers and he had 1 to be taken from his daughters body 1 by force. When the first spasm of ! sorrow had spent itself tho father fell ! in a dead faint beside the body. He ! was finally revived and taken to his i h ome in the auto.
 As both the mother and father were :. in such a condition they could give ! no directions and Medical ENamnep1 Dr. T c. Wright turned the body i over to B. C. Porter Sons until the parents make known their wishes.
 Attended St. Mary's school.
 Alta was the oldest of four chill dren and was a pupil at St. Mary's Parochial school It is supposed that, with her little sister, she was on the way to school when she met her death. The supposition is that with plenty of time to reach school the two children walked down Myrtle street and the older one crossed th2 tracks tO look into the pond IL