The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-06-27

than two hours.
 In addition to the congestion caused
 by the derailment of the car, the lack
 of coaches for the officers and men
 made the possibility of entraIning be-
 fore nightau a, matter of doubt.
 The overturned car, which was lad
 en with first aid stores blocked both
 main tracks. To the east of the de-
 rai1ed car soon accumulated tWo-
 score or more of passenger coaches
 which were filled with Massachusetts troops. In addition to the derailed
 car the platform of the next care was
 crushed in.
 At the time of the accident the
 ambulance company was lined up on the station platform ready to entrain.
 This command had been at the station since 6 a. m. The first sergeant had
 just ordered the men to fall in for the | section was being slowly shunted down | to the platform
 As the men stood there in line they saw the first freight. car topple over
 It was necessary for the men to begin
 unloading their supplies and to trans fer them to other cars which were shifted up to that point.
 Two commands were abIe to get laway during the morning after long and tedious wait all night. The signal corps, which was the grst unit on the schedule for departure, was marched out of camp at six o'clock last night stayed above the station two hours and then marched to siding where the men got into some coaches and stayed there all night. This section was finally made up and departed west at 8:55 followed a little later by Troop B, of Hartford.
 The troop loaded it's baggage last night and the men were marched to the station and at ten o'clock were re- turned to camp with their horses The field hospital and ambulance company was the next on the schedule to be en- trained but the railroad accident held it up for an indefinite period At noon officers of the first infantry fetI certain that they would get away late in the day but the second infan- try officers seemed of the impression that they would be in camp another night. While the two Connecticut com- mands were being dispatched troops containing commands from the second and eighth Massachusetts regiments went by the Mantle station. l On the camp grounds the men who were there had little to do. Towards noon some of the infantry company began to strike their tents again but they did it Ieisurely.
 There were few orders from General Headquarters. The most important one was that detailing reserve officers | to undertake the instruction of re- cruits who are left behind. Major J.
 Richard North of the second infantry will command the depot battalion of five companies of recruits. The other officers will be: Lieut.. Gadd, of Hart ford; Captain Haggerty, of the second infantry: Captain BoIlman, who has been with the Yale batteries; Captain E. B. Thomas, of New Haven; Cap tain Bliss, of Meriden; Captain Che ney of South Manchester; Lieut. Fra ger, Lieut.. Sherman; Lieut.. King of Hartford and Lieut.. Theodore LiIley of Waterbury.
 Troop A, cavalry, will probably be ordered to the southwest within a very i few days, receiving it's mounts from a supply station which will forward
 them to the troops destination. Mean
 while, during its stay in camp, the troop is doing entire guard duty. Neither infantry regiment will take | a band with it. The entire First regi-
 ment band refused to take the Fed
 era1 oath and it will be left behind | Only three men, including Leader l Frank Ficht1, would take the Federal oath in the Second regiment band. | Iieut--Co1Onel TilsOn, who joined his
 regiment last night, was ordered by Colonel McCabe to see the band and
 ask it what 1t would do. Leader
 FichtI reported to Colonel Ti1son, with
 a paper on which were three names. | Iieut.-Co1onel Tilson reported to Col
 onel McCabe in these words, handing
 him the paper:
 Here is the band.'' With this nu-
 cleus of two bandmen, Leader FichtI
 was ordered to try and recruit the
 band so that it would go with the
 regiment. The other bandsmen will
 remain in camp.
 The lack of tourist sleepers for the
 enlisted men was one Of the causes of j ja1a in 1-i iT7cr ,1fTTf | Colonel Tilson, to whom had been as-
 signed the task. of handling this mat
 ter with the railroad officials. reported ] at noon that enough tourist sIeepers | had been promised to provide for the
 men of both regiments. The plan was
 to deliver these cars to the regiments at New Haven.