New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-23

of a freight train on the track 10 our
left, when suddenly there was ter
rife crash and then a sound of pro
longed smashing. The people in our
car were flung from their seats, glass
smashed and seats were torn up. Many
of US had scratched and torn faces, and
/ saw several who had had their teeth
knocked out.
"As soon as ] could got out Of the
car. As ! did so almost stepped on a
body lying at the side Of the track. 1t
was the engineer of our train. The
top Of his head mad been cut Off
The force Of the collision was so
great that the boiler Of the engine and
the rear car of the express were thrown
clear across the freight The boiler
rolled down into the ditch on the other
side. The baggage car of the local next
TO the engine was also badly shattered.
heard the paper boy had been killed
in it. also saw a Pullman porter lying
at the side of the track, a big hole torn
in his neck.
No Excuse for Wreck.
"lt is impossible for me to under
stand how the accident occurred. The
day was perfectly clear and the engi-
INSTRUCTED view ahead Of him"
A man who said that he was r large
stakeholder i'm the New York. New
Haven & Hartford. but refused 10 give
his name. also asserted that he could
see no excuse for the accident.
I'VE had only stopped for a minute
and a half" he said. when the crash
came. | was in one Of the forward cars
Of the express and J was thrown clear
out Of my chair by the shock, but was
not hurt. understand that hagman
was sent back to warn the local. He
could not have gotten far, however.
Trains are supposed. | believe. TO run
on not less than a ten-minute Roadway.
The local hit US almost as soon as We
had stopped"
Clement Gle, former Yale baseball
star, who had returned to New Haven
for Alumni Day. was also outspOken in
his criticism Of the action of the train
crews
They ran around without knowing
what 10 do" he said. They were alb
solutely inefficient ! saw one brake
man chasing about wildly, hourishng
en- axe in either hand without the
slightest idea upon what he was going
TO use them"
Mr.. Gle was sitting with Hugh Har
bison, Yale, "a, and a varsity football
man, when the crash occurred. They
were both badly jolted, bat otherwise
unhurt. and immed lately left the eX-
press 10 aid i'm the work of rescue.
"The first thing we saw" Mr.. Gle
said was a man dragging something
cut from beneath the shattered rear
Pullman. lie was sickening sight, all
.pattered with blood The thing he
pulled out into the light had evidently
been his wife. Her scalp was almost
torn Off"
Mr. Gle and Mr.. HARRISON took the
trolley 10 Milford and then went TO
Bridgeport, where they got a train 10
New York.
Claim agents. both men say, be
sieged the survivors on the way BACK
to town. inducing them 70 sign state
ments RELEASING the road from respon-
siblty for their cases, IN return Tor
cash payment.
OF the Blue eleven. with Pop Corey
another baseball and football lumlnary,
and Morgan J. O'Brien, jr., were to-
gethcr in the fourth car of the express
when the collision occurred they were
all badly shaken up. but hurried ou'
and helped in the rescue.
Into their hands fell Mrs. Charles
Harmon, Of 26 Tracy Street Newark'
and her three little boys. All were
bruised. scratched and hysterical. ne
three men took the woman and her
children TO Milford in a sleigh, which
IN chartered. and took the trolley 10
Bridgeport, where they got transporta-
ton back TO New York.
Miss Catherine Flanagan and Miss
Naude Bourgeois, Of Hartford. were
Messengers in the local. The former
was rendered insensible by the shock
ard her companion carried her from
the car to the side Of the track.
"The first thing ] remember" NJ ISIS
Flanagan said, was Maude bending
over me and pouring water IN my face.
Miss Bourgeois would not talk OF
her rescue. 81 suppose that .ince the
engineer is dead" she remarked, as her
/ only comment on the disaster, ne VII!
be blamed for the e..tire accident, as
q h. Cook. Of Hartford, student at
Yale. told on his arrival in the city last
NIGHT Of how the first train sent froi"
w Haven 10 the rescue OF the
urecked was derailed outside of Ml!-
Z lord. 81 had "A friend on the express,
he said. "and | took the first train GU,
Of New Haven to see II l could md
him. The passengers were mostly
rewsnaper men and physicians. AS We
COT near the wreck the engine OF our
.rain iumpcd the track. All OF US were
nrettv nervous anyway, ana the way
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