The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-02-23

Heroes of Ya1e's baseball and football
history were heroes in the Milford
wreck yesterday. Allan A. ('Pop,,)
1911 baseball team; Clement M. Gle.
star pitcher OF the 1913 champion
ship team; Hugh HARRISON, Of the
1913 football and baseball teams; J.
Ford Robinson, one time quarterback
at Yale, and John r. Fitzpatrick, the
famous Yale end. were on their way
to New York on the fated express.
w7th them was LorganJ. o'Brien, JFy
son ofttEe- New z ork justice.
D'Brien was the only one hurt A
liberation of his scalp was dressed
a surgeon here. The Yale ath-
letes stayed at the scene of the wreck
until their rescue work had been ac-
cosnplished and tEaen came to Bridge
port by trolley.
before leaving for New York early
last evening, Mr.. Gle told this story:
..Harbason and Iswere sitting to-
gether in a coach two or three cars
from thesrear when suddenly a, freight
train going slowly past us began the
mos lawful whistIfng you ever heard, .
he said. TT kept it up for about a
minute and I had ust turned to Har-
bison to ask him what it all meant
when. bangt and we were hit
ssI was thrown back against the seat
and lost my hat, which, by the way.
did not recover, and then we both
Jumped up to see what had happen
ed Even then we didn't believe it
was serious until we came out on the
Platform and saw a man crawling out
from the wrecked coach, which was
living right across the tracks He
was moaning and dragging something
slowly from the smoking car. AS we
looked, I got positively sick as saw
the man pulling out an unconscious
woman, VIII was badly cut across the
forehead, with a wound that laid her
scalp back.
ssWe both ram back in the car then
and tried to help the injured out.
Several trainmen came along to help
us with axes, but there was no need,
as there was no fire. only scalding
steam We walked to Milford, and
from there took the trolley for
Bridgeport, where we caught theN train
coming from Milford. On that train
we ran into the claim agent for the
railroad the very first thing, and he
offered me SO for my lost hat, and
also for the bump my head got, and
for the blood had got on my
clothes
THE most curious thing about the
wreck that I saw was the boiler of
the engine which had struck us. 1t
had been torn clean away and hurled
over the freight train into the ditch
at the side of the track
Mr.. Corey, who was a Yale foot
ball player and captain of the Yale
baseball team in 1911, and is a son
of William E. Corey, president Of the
M1dva1e Steel and Ordnance Co, said
that he was playing bridge with three
companions in the second car from
the rear of the express train when
the local smashed the rear coach.
Before the steel coach lurched TO
the left, striking the freight train,
travelling in. the same direction, and
was hurled to the other side, John r.
Fitzpatrick, who was sitting opposite
Mr.. Corey, dropped his hand in the
game, and ran to the narrow space
between the linen closets. He braced
himself with his hands and feet, and,
as he said, afterward, was ready
for the next play
Girl Thrown Through window.
Mr.. O'Brien was humping around
despite Mr.. Corey's warning to grasp
the supports of the seat. Mr.. John
son, ex-Yale quarterback, who had
been sitting next to Mr.. Fitzpatrick,
and was bumping all over the seat
tried to seize one Of four girls as she
fell from the seat across the aisle,
sweeping the cards from the table,
and dropped through the window to
q snow bank.
ssGet the next one" shouted Mr..
Corey. J. ~
II WILL replied Mr.. Johnson and
he s.tack1eA% the second girl. as she
swung. screaming, from her hold in
what was new che upper part Of the
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