Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-29

1 block and witness could not give the
 unlock, but he gave 1t on second call | when 639 was at first home When he | gave the unlock the first home and
 distant signals were at normal, or dan | ger. All signals were clear when 633 l came into the block and when beyond. ! In order to give the unlock to Wood l River the distant signal must have | been yellow. or caution, or he could
 not have put the first home signal pack at danger. No. 633 stopped east of the | crossing and Engineer Weatherby, l Conductor French and Towerman Mo l Clusky came into the tower. The en- | gineer told witness that the engine
 was in low steam and could not pro-
 ceed on time. He then notified train l despatcher at New London, and he re- l cetVed word to put 633 on siding, stop l 25, and have 20 take on passengers of
 the local. Just after receiving this 1 word New London called in and Mo 1 Clusky took the message and witness 1 saw it after it was written out. which | gave orders to 25 to do the passeng ger work of 633 to New London. After l that McClusky attended to the lever work, and in order to carry out in structions MT. McCluslxy shifted the
 second home and distant signal.
 Then MccIusky epened the switch
 to put 633 on the siding, and this could
 not be done if distant signal was clear. McClusky made these changes | just after the engineer and conductor l left the tower, but he said he was not | clear on that point. He saw 623 then l proceed over the grade crossing just l west of the tower. At this time Mo l ClUsky souted that 25 was i'll the board, | then witness opened window and 1 swung the red lantern, and at that | ro4 ,S,1 T 1 was travelling at regular speed. He
 kept swinging the red light until the 1 collision. Witness did not see the en- l gineer of 25 and he. did not know 1 whether the engineer saw the red Ian- l tern. He did not know that train 25 l had broken apart until an hour after the crash. He did not know how far 1 the locomotive went into the rear
 coach of train 633.
 l At tEe time Of the crash the distant
 ard first home signals were at caution 1 and danger, respectively, and all the l other signals were at danger, according 2 tower. It would be physically irnpos- | s1ble to change the distant signal 1 without an unlock from Westerly until ] 65S went by first home signal at Brad | lord When train is locked in on a
 siding the signals can be cleared, but i 'o'' NStS i4OI OIl lI.S SIO1uS dL the time of the wreck.
 l Wood River announced the con1ina l of 25 while the conductor and engineer i of ooS were in the tower, by ringing four bells, and the annctlncement is
 niade when train passes first home | signal. Witness gave Wood River the
 unlock for 25, if not the. signals could | not be released there. The levers in 1 the tower house were not changed af- l ter the wreck. He did not see MT.
 GickeIson, sjgnalman, in the tower The levers were tied up shortly after | the wreck, ay q. man he did not know
 and were not changed while he was on l duty, which was until o'clock the | next morning. He had been in the tower but a short time. a few minutes.
 when the wreck occurred.
 Towernnan McManus was cross cues tIoned by Attorney Fitzgerald and
 testified that he had not been en1rIoyed
 by the New York, New Haven 3nd
 Hartford Railroad company for the
 past two months,s but is now a spare hand. Witness considered hin1self competent for tower work and he did iioI heed the assistance of McCIusky.
 During the trial he has been in Westerly and mad been talked to about
 the wreck, and had talked this morn
 Ing with Attorney Phillips and Sig nalnan Miller. Witness gave the m
 JOCK Tor 633 at 6.51, and was shown
 the time sheet. He said the entry wa e
 made by him and he must have been
 III the tower at that time He came In on tram 623 from Providence. which
 arrived in Bradford at ' o'clock. vos
 ms earlier testimony. He had made
 no no changes in the time sheet. The
 L1tne for unlock of 623 was 6.43 at
 T11T7R Rt
 charge of the time sheet from the fiy7oe or unlock for 633 until the wreck He
 was Tn charge of the tower at 651
 when 623 cleared, but he was in charga or the tower, McCIuslzy did it. 976e time of clearance was 7.1O on the shae+ for 623. The unlock for e33 was eiTere ri1r 5 minutes before the train reeched
 Bradford, to Wood River towern1an
 put WlJness could not tell the reason why. So far as he knows this was never done before the night of The wreck. According to the lime Sboa+ witness gave the unlock nina r,;,oI-teI nI-el De1ore he went on duty that night
 The figures on the time sheet inc vii ness sald could not be correct h1,t he was sure he gave the unlock. hut not seven minutes before he went on d11tv as the time sheet shows.
 Foreman McManus resumed bic 4.
 tImony at the afternoon session sed
 cross-examination was continueJ ahu hu
 Attorney Fitzgerald. MT. McMan1;Ss
 testified that the time on the tiroe
 sneet t was talkerF from the clock in the
 tower. He also gave the unlock for
 25 to Wood River, but never made %
 record of the time of the unlock Az
 633 was slowing down it took un his
 mind and he did not make the record
 lie could see the first and second home
 signaI lights, from the reflection of
 the lights from the train. as the siena1
 lights faced to the eastward The
 signal lights also reflected on the sece
 ton house which was about 800 feet
 rom the tower: It was at this point
 when he gave the unlock for s33 ana 1t was there when the train cononoencN
 ed to slow down. He could give the unlock after the train had passed inc
 home, or 800 or 1000 feet beyond. He did not give the signal for unlock at first, and did give it before 633 had cleared the hlncl IIo did ,aA4 ~r ~