The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-02-23
Milford Gives First Help.

cars and then sent on TO Bridgeport in
automobiles or by ambulance trains.
Milford Gives First Help.
A few feet ahead of the wreckaee II
the little bridge spanning The indian
River. About "A mile to the west oil inns
along the railroad IL HE little town OF
Milford. Milford turned out about an
OF it's population that could get TO the
scene. and these citizens immediately
added what help they could to that OF
the trainmen and passengers sun apie
to lend first aid assistance to me uyins
and badly injured passengers VINO We're
crying out In agony among the tangle OF
cars, shrouded by escaping steam from
the locomotive boiler down In the deep
hollow below the eastbound track
The local tore headlong into the ex-
press at II 81 A. NJ. or at n time when
the express was supposed TO have been
Mt least as far on its westward way as
bridgeport. The statement that the local
was about twenty-five or thirty min
utes late" was made personally TO TIE
stu reporter by General superintendent
j. A. Drocge when questioned al the
scene of the wreck late this afternoon.
one Of the passengers on the local..
jacob, Zeisepp. u sixty-year-old mar
chant of 156 Whalley avenue. New
Haven, said this evening that when the
local was very slowly getting under way
at the New Haven station the express,
which his train later ran into. was pull
ing out. so short "A distance ahead That
he could hear the noise made by the
express.
General Superintendent Droeye said
In answer to questions at the wreck that
ne believed the express had been stopped
for about three minutes" when 1t was
run into. Passengers on the express
place the time at about a third OF the
general sup.rintendent's At
any rate. Flagman George l.. Tourte-
lotte, who had been sent back from the
express to flag any oncoming train that
might be around the curve. had not
reached the curve. about 500 feet to the
east, when the local came laundering
toward him on the outer westbound
track. with the freight train approaching
not far behind on the track just next TO
the local
Died rs lie waved signal.
Tourtelotte is spoken OF as a hero
here tonight. lie went down to his
death while frantically trying to wave
back the local and the freight approach
ing him almost side by side. The ex-
PLANTATION OF his death is that instead OF
standing in safety outside the fourth
track he stood between the fourth and
tnITu SO tndI lHt ttlEIitlilen VI u
freight train. somewhat to the rear,
could see his signals az well as the
driver and fireman Of the local bearing
down upon him.
The oncoming local was made up Of
q powerful three drive locomotive OF The
Atlantic type, drawing Il baggage car
OF steel and FIVE day coaches. There
was a steel coach at the rear Of he
fve. those ahead of il being Of wood.
The stalled gNprsSS was COnpOspd OF
locomotive. Il steel combination bag
gage and smoker. two wooden coaches.
three steel chair cars and finally a rear
coach of steel. which was the one that
was sent hurdliug to the left across
three tracks and down the hill. carrying
steel coal ears Of the gondola type and
II wooden freight car. which WAS
smashed to matchwod by the locomo-
tive boiler and the steel cars that rolled
down tc destruction with IL.
The boiler and cab after striking the
steel coach at the req. ~ the express
broke from the engine axles and accom-
panied the express coach across all the
tracks. landing under the coach. The
tender of the local locomotive. pressed
between tie suddenly halted engine
ahead and the steel baggage car Of the
local just behind the tender. was pressed
into "A shapeless mass.
"VVP 80
The local baggage car behind the
end was bulged and ripped at is
forward end. but was not deraiied. All
five coaches Of the local also KEEP, 10
the rails. but stopped with such terrific
suddenness that the passengers were
thrown forward 50 violently that many
of them suffered broken noses. loss oi
teeth and decorations about their faces
Few of them can talk tonight owing 70
the swathes OF bandages.
Engineer Curtis and Fireman Conner
OF The local were instantly killed wher
their cab was torn from the engine
trucks and sent spinning to the left.
The deaths in the rammed express
train all occurred in the steel day coact
Mt the rear end and the steer chat
car directly ahead of 1t. Miss Susan Hy,
land. "A clerk in the New York, New
Haven and Hartford offices, at New
Haven; G.. F.. Allan OF Groton. Conn.
and an Armenian pearl dealer nance
Narderos Des iIovhanessian. whose ad'
dress has not 80 lar been learned, wer,
killed. when the last car of the express.
was Shot through the air.
standing IN the vcstlbule of the chaiI
ear Just ahead yas a negro porter nance
j. J. Frye, who lived at IS Vernon
etreet. Springfield, Mass. The rear ca
before leaving the tracks banged int,
me chalr car so violently nat the bod,
III the latter car was torn from the truck,
and would have rolled down the rim,
hand bank If "A basket steel column sun
porting the overhead electric eauipmen
had not held IL leaning to the right al
sharp angle. The negro porter wa,
thrown Violently against the side OF m,
testibule and received a fr,c,rr ..rr
He died later in the Bridgeport Hospita,
Inc hrst OF the Milford people I,
reach the wreck sent a messenger IN
telephone down the road for assists NO,
from this city and New Haven I
happened that the collision ocrurra,
at the hour when most OF the visits,
physicians to the Bridegroom Hosnita
were at the institution treating patient
there.
DID, Doctors Hurry In Autos,
Eleven were despatched In a hurry
most of them racing eastward in thei
automobiles rather than wait 70
An emergency train To bc sent out
Three Bridgeport mun.cipal ann,
lances, twO OF which are motor drivcn
also hurried out TO Milford. At IN,
same time "A dozen or more physician
and surgeons were leaving New Have,
10 cofnc westward at top speed
train made M of "A few freight ga,
was also sent off from New Haven
Among the first men the physjcis,
came upon trying to drag the wounde,