The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-02-23
IRST.FATAL CRASH
UNDER NEW REGIME
Milford Wreck Is New Haven'S
sixteenth Since Fairfield
Disaster in 1911.
HOW THEY HAPPENED

The wreck near Milford. conn. yes
terday was the first fatal accident or
any proportions tina, has occurred on
the New York. New Haven and Hart
ford Railroad since Howard Elliott
actually took up the reins OF the presi-
dency Of the road after Charles =. Mel
lens resignation became effective. The
New Haven's last big wreck-the ram
mini Of the Bar Harb0r Express by the
White Mountain Express North
Haven and wallingford. Conn, on Sep
TENDER 2. 1918. when twenty-one were
killed and more than forty we're injured
took place al hour or so before Mr..
, Elliott assumed his new duties.
Including the wallingford wreck there
had occurred fourteen serious smashups.
derailments and other accidents on the
, New Haven In "A little more than W
years. In which seventy persons were
killed and 3si were injured.
Less thar two months after MI
Elliott took charge the Gilt Edge Ex-
press. bound for Boston. val thrown
from the track by a broken rail one
mile west Of Westerly. II. l.. and fifteen
persons were hurt. The most severe
| injury. however. was the fracture OF n
c~ollarbone. The fact that all the cars
were Of steel. IL was believed. saved
many from being killed. o OF six
cars rolled over on their sides after leav-
ing the rails.
Yesterdays wreck was the sixteenth
on the New Haven railroad since the
1911. when four persons we're killed. A
freight train d~isregarded signals.
Federal Express In Crash.
on July IL. 1911. the Federal Express
jumped a c%fossover at bridgeport. Conn.
going at high speed. and twelve were
killed and 100 injured. Five cars went
down a twenty foot embanknent into
the street. Mrs. Helena II. Wolcott. wife
OF the secretary OF the Smithsonian In
stitution. lost her life in this wreck.
on August %. 1911. the rails spread
under a passenger train at Middletown.
Conn. and sixty were injured.
Runaway freight cars struck a pas
senge train at Berlin Junction. Conn.
on October IS. 1911. and two were killed
and Ave injured.
\ passenger train ran into AN open
switch al hirh speed at Clinton. Mass
81 June II. 1912. Eigh were huf;
\ passenger train collision. attributed
to defective signals. caused the deaths
OF three and injuries to -four AT Stoning-
ton Junction. Conn. on July ~. 1912.
On August y. 1912, a passenger
train jumped tho track AT Dorchester,
Mass. killing five and !njuring sixteen.
A passenger train VAS derailed on a
defective track a. South Boston. Mass,
on August q. 1912. and seven wer. killeG
and forty hurt.
The Springfield Express jumped :.
'crossover a; Wcstport. Conn, at high
speed ON October 2. 1912. and nine were
killed and Atty injured. The pai.or cars
caught fire and several persons were
burned TO death. Among the dead were
Mrs. Flora Gayit. daughter OF the late
Anthny y. Brady Mrs. James Cox
Brady. his daughtcr-in-iaW. and a
daughter o. the late Judge Andrew
Hamilton Mrs. c.. s. Ransom. anounei
daughter OF Judge Hamilton. and Miss
Mary Hamilton. her sister,
The Merchants Limited VAS wrecked
by a split rail at Greens Farms. Conn.
on November rs. 1919. Thirty-thre,
persons were hurt. steel oars preventing
a repetition OF the Westport disaster.
\ rear end freigh, collision At Put
nam. Conn. on November II, 1912, re-
suited in the death Of one and injuries
to two.
A passenger tram rear end collision
In a fog AT Waterbury. Conn. on Wash
ing,on's Birthday. 1913. caused injuries
70 twenty-one.
on June IL. 1913. the first section oi
the Boston Express was rammcd BY the
second section AZ stamford. Conn, as u
tore around "A curve. six were Killed
and twenty-five we're injured.
Then came the New Ravens greatest
wreck Of all. which MIR Elliott found on
his hands the first day 81 his presidency,
Scp:ember .. 1918 II VAS the rear erd
| collision between North Haven and Wal
! lln2ford and twenty-one were Killed and
forty We're hurt. The White Mountain EA'
! press. filed with returning vacat!onists
ripped it's way through the two las, cars
OF the Bar lIarbor Express. TIE COLI
sion hlpp. ned an instant after the TIA,
Harhor Express had stopped al "A sirns
SCI agains. Il. The engineer of the
second train said that - fog prevented
him from Scyiue tho signal.
Most of The passengers who wet
among the fifteen must ~ the Westerly
wreck on pctoucr -. 1919, when thu
Gilt Edge Express from New York ray
into a broken ra!l. lived in Sew England
Bishop Terry ~ Providence. VII" was ~
the train, helped rescue several.