The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-02-24
BOTH new HAVEN
WRECK INQUIRIES
HELD IN SECRET
Coroner and Railroad Refuse
to Give Out Testimony
Relating TO Cause.
TENTH VICTIM DIES:
ANOTHER IN DANGER

NV HAWKS, Conn. Feb. c3.-Coroner
Fji Mis- of this city. who IN add"'on 10
heinr returned To ONCE term In ana term
M, Also is unique among Connecticut
coroncrs Az the INC who always con-
Auc,s hts Investigations into train WRECKS
In secret. again refused 10 divu'ge any
details Of tho testimony taken to-day IN
IN. inquiry into the New Haven rail-
mad wreck at Milford yesterday, when
caused tho death Of ten persons ana INC
injury Of three score or more.
The tenth victim Of the wreck died
to-day in ~. Raphaers Hospital mere
He was Harry Schappa. FL years oio' OF
.1s Elm street. stamford. and WIS "a
c,erk in the railroads offices here.
simultaneously with the beginning OF
Coroner MINIS investigation an investi-
ration under the direction OF General
Manager Esrdo NJ the road was under
way in tho compsny's offices here. THIS
too was secret. -
ro.p,orrow an Interstate Commerce
Comriss,or inquiry will be begun here
AZ the Hotc, Taft with inspectors
Be,knap and Howard IN charge ms
promises to be less secretiNe IMAM 'ne
two other inquiries. Also the fup"c
i~,t,ii,,es commission under the direction
Of Commissioned G.. Z. Elwe' IL ioohirs
into the causes Of the wreck.
When a statement from General Man
aeer Rardo and his investigating col
leagues was sought late to-day MT.
Rardo sent word tn the reporters mat
he could make no such officta, statement
then. The reason given was that 10
make an official statement concerning
the roads idea Of the reason TOT the
wreck would be "discourteous 10 the IN
terstate investigators.
Rnrdo Refuses 90 Guess.
Private Investigators who had looked
ever the wreck scene and knew the local
which had ploughed into the Connecticut
River express had swept at top speed
,,o,nd a curve about 500 feet back OF
the stalled express then sought to learn
from General Manager Bardo approxi-
mately how ,oug n stretch OF track a
locemtive engineer would need upon
which TO bring his train 20 an emergency
stop. Genera, Manager Bardo's reply
vas that he could not answer III" oues-
tion, because his answer would merely
- q guess" 49,.
"Enetneers are not fined on the New
raven WIZ" '"o sroa ,hou,
the DELAY. the motto Of the New YORK.
Nav Haven and Hartford being Safety
Nrst."-such vas the answer from MT.
Rardo's office in repiy to n question as
20 wb.,h.r OF not the engineer OF the
,oc., vino was making up lost time,
would have been fined for being late at
the end nj his run.
pespitc the railroads reassuring motto
there WAS a great deal of nervousness
around the waiting room OF the station
bere late this afternoon when passengers
hound Cor New York learned that the
fas, BOSTON E>press. du. To leave here
for New York "A, i:2s 4. NJ. was still
some place back of the 5:I3. which was
nm time.
Anxious inquiries we're made at the
New Haven station a. tn how far east
card was the DELAYED BOSTON Express.
I-pon assurances that the express would
NOT arrive her. for ~ least an hour and
a half after the 5:I3 had pulled out-thc
anpinc Of Inc Boston Express had broken
down near Wa~llingford-the anxious pas
sengers decided to climb aboard the 5:1;.
II, IN, tim. tho 5:l3 passengers were
arriving H. New York directions we're
being .cni tn New York to post upon tho
Grand C.uival termiua bulletin board
the lin, "Eoston Express, due her. Il 90.
uiu arrive .h.ut Sut"