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The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-02-23
CRAWLING FROM UNDERNEATH
ENGINE TENDER, MESSENGER
THINKS ONLY OF HIS DUTY
Frank Doherty Extricates Himself From Perilous Posi-
tion and Injured, Mounts Guard Over Employers
Property-Ignores Own Hurts to Aid Other Victims

Frank Doherty, express messenger
of the Adams Express Co. is a valu-
able railway employe. When APP
preached by reporters he had nothing
to say though he was severely in
jured: Standing hour after hour in his
baggage car, looking forward at the
wreck of express matter under witch
he had been pinned directly behind
the tender OF the accommodation loco
motive, he guarded the property of
the Adams Express company wonder
ing when relief was going to be Sent
to him.
pany climbed into the car he freely
told what his experience had been. He
said:
sI was standing at the front of the
car when the shock came. I was i'm
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-02-23
Massachusetts Girl
Received Peculiar
Fracture of Nose

Five girls from Massachusetts, were
among the victims of the wreck who
were brought to this city on Train
No. 10, the Bay State express. when
it backed up to Bridgeport, They
were taken to The Stratfeld where
they were attended by DR.. G. S. Ford
Among them was Mrs. Theresa Tier
ney of Springfield. Her nose was
fractured and SO peculiar was the
break that DR.. Ford urged her to go to
a specialist in New York for a. plastic
treatm ent. She left the hotel at once
for the metropolis.
Miss Elizabeth Masterson of North
ampton, Mass; Miss Minnie Carufal
and Miss Alice Nealey of Springfield.
were taken to the hotel DR.. Ford
found them suffering from slight shock
and bruises and after a cursory treat
raent, they left the hotel to continue
on their way to New York.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-02-23

George S. Clark, living with his faith
er, former Representative George w.
Clark, on New Haven avenue, Milford,
distance of about 500 yards from the
scene of the wreck was the first and
only English-speaking eyewitness to
the catastrophe from the outside. 8
Representative Clark was at his
home in Milford, having been con-
fined to the house with pneumonia,
from which he is recovering. He
places the time of the wreck as Short
1y before 11:3o O'Clock, as it was at
this time that Charles Clark, his next
door neighbor, te1ephoned him from
up the road that a wreck had just oc-
Cured This was instantly substan-
tiated by a host of passengers who
used the telephone to telephone of
their escape to New York, Boston,
New Haven and elsewhere.
George S. Clark said that it proba-
bly, was a, few minutes before 1880
when he was at work in the woods
about 40 rods north of the scene of
accidents. He was chopping poles
with two Swedish employees, who,
frightened, ran away as soon as they
saw that a wreck was on the tracks
They have not been found since,
5, Mr.. Clark said, when seen by re-
porter for The Farmer yesterday:
eve were chopping= and loading when
usually heard when a man is walking
on the tracks. The sound is IA
1nilfar one around here and I did, not
pay much attention to it but the next
instant I heard a ripping and splin-
.tering noise. AS I looked through
the woods saw cars rear up like a
volcano.
".Joe, said to one of my men,
There has been a. srnasl-up! 1 start
ed to run across towards the tracks
with the men. When they saw what
happened they turned and ran away.
I have not seen them since. There
was an awful cloud of dust rising
above the wreck and slowly Settling
down.
st ran down one side of a train
and turned around it. Here saw a
freight train that I am sure was not
in motion although one of the rail-
road officials named Carroll insisted
that it was. Thrown high across the
freight train was a passenger coach
that jutted out over the other side.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-02-23

mediate1ys covered with all kinds of
trunks, packages and other debris
sent through from the forward yesti-
bule as twas forced to the rear by
the impact of collision and the water
tenderYeof the accommodation engine
which te1escoped5 the forward end of
the express car
When he had extricated himself
with the aid of some passing trainmen
he guarded the doorway and took in
the dead bodies of those who were
brought to his car on stretchers
Among these Tourtel1otte, the dagman
and three other men.
Asked by reporters if he heard any
warning of the collision he refused to
answer, but will tell his story before
Coroner Mix and the other officials
who will Investigate.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-02-23
DRAGGED WIFE
FROM WINDOW
OF WRECK CAR
Couple Start For New York,
and End Trip In Bridge
port Hospital.

Louis Goetz and his wife. Lillian.
were on their way to New York from
their home in West Haven. They
were aboard No. 5 train. Both were
brought to Bridgeport hospital, Mr.
Goetz suffering from cuts and bruises,
and Mrs. Goetz with a possible frac-
ture Of the left Jaw.
There was a typical holiday crowd
on the train" said Mr.. Goetz to a
Farmer reporter. Everybody was
chatting happily .yhen a terrific i'm
pact threw everyone from their
seats.
"A second impact followed. This,
believe. was when we were side
swiped by the freight. against which
part of our. train was thrown after
crashing into the express,
The shr1e11s Of the injured were
horrifying. found my wife under
parts of a seat and dragged her out
She was stunned by the fall, and her
jaw was broken where she had struck
a seat.
II dragged her out through a win
dow and then gave what aid I could
In helping others
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-02-23

! of the tracks. It was on fire at the
end. Another car was leaning up
against an electric column, A sgondola,
car was wedged against and beneath
the big steel passenger car Two
trainnen were hollering for fire ex-
tinguishers. They had little brass
ones in their hands which could not
work well.
Il helped the passenger throw snow
upon the burning debris at the wreck
ed end of the car. The engine boiler
had rolled down the ennbankment be-
low us. Some were afraid that it
would blow up and others said that it
came out of the coach which was on
fire had their clothes burned. Finally
three or four large fire extinguishers
with hose on them were brought and
the fire was put out.
1.-The express train then discon-
nected its engine and a couple of cars
and putting the wounded aboard,
woman We're underneath the big steel
car. 7 think they were dead for
did not hear them cry out.
ct saw GrinneIle Martin of the
Beaver Brook. farm among the pas
sengers on the train. He said he
was on the accommodation train.
LAS I walked back saw men and
dazed. One had to be restrained from
jumping back into the car through
a broken window. Many of the women
seemed to have gone temporarily in
sane.
81 saw a man and a. woman lying
in the snow on my second trip about
the express train. Those who had
come out of the cars went back in
shame and aided in bandaging those
who were n I1re(7
There was difficulty in! rescuing
passengers as the coach was in a pre-
carious position and one could not.
climb into it from one side. It was
damned against a steel coal car at the
other end. Finally all the injured
were taken out and laid in the snow.
The cries of the injured and scared
were terrible at first but later sub
sided.
II am sure that the freight train
was not moving when the collision
occurred. I would have seen it, as I
looked up, as it was near me-
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-02-23
NEWARK WOMAN AND CHILDREN
HAVE hIRACUL GUS ESCAPE AS
SEAT SMASHED BENEATH Them
Thrown Half the Length of Car With Flying
Her. Mrs. Harmon Has Terrible Experience-Boy' S
Hair Literally Filled With Pieces of Glass

Mrs. Charles H. Harmon of New
ark, N. J.. and her three children
were the first passengers from the
wrecked train to reach this city.
They took a, trolley car from Devon
and arrived at the local railroad sta
ton just as the 1:15 speciall train for
Harmon said she was so nervous that
and the children were assisted to the
station restaurant where refresh
nents were given them.
Mr.. Harmon had q miraculous eS-
cape from serious injury. She re-
ceived a bad cut in the chest and the
children were cut about the face and
head by fling glass. One of the chill
dren had a deep cut on the cheek and
it was found that another of the boys
had severe scalp wounds caused by
glass which was Embedded in the
flesh The boys hair was literally
filled with small pieces of glass;
"I don't know how 7 ever ecaped
being killed." aid Mrs. Harmon. IT
and the children boarded the train
at Hartford. where-we had been visit
were laughing among. ourselves. when
the crab came was thrown half
the length, of the car and the children
were hurled against the seats on the
opposite side of the car.
1.-THE surprise and shock Of the ac-
eident were so great that I felt sure
I was badly hurt. I could see the
blood on my waist but I decided to
ret the children before I thought
about myself. The boys were crying
5ut found that they were not badly
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-02-23
WORST WRECK ON new HAVEN
ROAD SINCE HOWARD ELLIOTT 5
BEGAN REHABILITATION PLAN

The wreck near Milford was the first
serious one on the New York, New
Haven & Hartford Railroad since
Howard Elliott took up the reins. OF
office. He was indeed met on the
very first day he assumed the presi-
dency of the railroad by the wreck
of the Bar Harbor express near North
Haven, Conn, but that took place in
the early hours of the morning while
he himself was actually travelling to
new new office.
For two years before Mr.. Elliott
became president on Sept. 2, 1913, the
New Haven had an unenviable record
for railroad disasters, which resulted
in seventy-one deaths. Here is the
list of them:
June 8, 1911-Four freight trains
colided near Fairfield, Conn; 4 kill
ed.
July II, 19f1-FederaI Express
wrecked at Bridgeport; IA killed.
Aug. IS, 1911-Sixty passengers in
jured near Middletown, caused by
spreading rails.
Oct rs, 1911-Two killed, 5 injur-
ed, when runaway freight cars crash
ed into rear end of train at Berlin
junction. Conn.
Jan ~, 1912-One killed, hurt in
collision at East FreetoNn. Mass en-
gineer could not see signals i'm a
storm.
june II, 1912-Eight injured when
a passenger train ran into an open
switch at high speed near Clinton.
Mass.
July is, 1912-Three killed, in
jured at Stonington junction, Conn
collision due to defective signals
Aug. 8, 1912-Train jumped track
at Dorchester, Mass; 5 killed, 10 in
jured.
Aug. 3, 1912-Seven killed and 40
injured as a passenger train was de-
rallied through defective track al
South Boston, Mass.
Oct. 3, 1912-BOston Express wreck
ed at Westpo1't; killed, SO injured.
Nov. IS, 1912-NIerchants Limited
Express deraiIed at Greens Farms
near Bridgeport; II injured
Nov. IL, 1O12-Rear-end collision
near Putnam, Conn; killed, . hurt
Nov. 80. 1S12-Passenger train ran
into a light engine at WiIimanttc
yards; 5 injured.
Feb. %, 1S1S-Engine ran into
standing coaches at Waterbury; Is
injured
june 12, 1G1s-F1ve killed and 20
injured xVheI4 a locomotive crashed
into the rear end of the Boston Elk
press at Stamford; ar brakes did not
work
june IS, f91s-Engine jumped track
near Merielen, Conn; passengers es-
capped injury, though badly scared. !.
Sept. 2, 191S-Bar HarDor Express
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rannIned by White Mountain Might
Express near North Haven, Conn; %
killed, so injured eI
Since Mr.. Elliott became president
there has been a considerable de-
crease in the number of accidents.
There have. however. been q. Few.
namely:
Oct. 10, 191s-one killed and III
injured in NTer1den trolley car, into
which a NEiddIetown train ran near
WestfieId, Conn.
Oct. 25, 191S-FTfteen injured when
a broken rail threw the Gilt Edge Ex-
press OFF the track near Westerly.
r. I.
April II, 1s14-one killed ana So
injured as a suburban train was de-
rallied near Clayton, Conn.
Within a few hours Of this last the
Green Mountain Express was derafl-
ed near Rye, N. Yss but none Of the
passengers was killed or seriously i'm
jured.
On Sept. 8, 1913, a week after the
North Haven disaster, Mr.. Elliott and
New Haven, issued together a state
ment to the employees of the company,
in which they pointed out that the
accident would not have occurred if
the rules had been observed, and
good judgment, born of experience,
naQ D0Sn 5Q1Sp1ay0O. F. certain new
rules, they announced, were to be
displayed, pertaining to examinations
for vision, color sense. hearing, and
in certain other physical require
ments. Then the officials added:
1--WE are fellow employees, our du-
ties and responsibilities only varying
in degrees. Each one of US has a
great responsibility to the public, to
his fellow-emplcyes and to the thou
sands of owners of securities. we
need your help, and we want to help
you. Each must help the other, il
the road is to be run safely
The success of Mr.. E1Iiott's ''safey-
first policy was pointed out only last
Wednesday by one of the ofhcials OF
the New Haven. He told how Mr.
Elliott had slowed down trains and
introduced rules, which had been ac-
copied by. the railroad employees, with
the result that from Sept. 2, 1918, to
Sept. 2, 1915 the New Haven carried
1913, 677,443 and the Central New
England 2,S79,S78 passengers, a. total
of 166, 056, 821, without q single pas
senger being. killed in a train acci-
dent. Since then, the official reckon
ed. another 100000 passengers had
been transported without fatality, so
that the New Haven had a clean re-
cord for 0o.0oo,Ooo passengers
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-02-23
| NO BRIDGEPORT
CLERGY MEN ON
WRECKED TRAIN

assistant at st. Patrick's R. @. church.
Hartford, and formerly assistant at st.
Patrick's church, this citys was cut
about the face and lips He was
given medical attention and sent to
his home in Hartford. His injuries
were not serious 49,
Johns S1ovak church, this city, and
Rev. Thomas T. O'Connor. Of North
arnpton, Mass, passengers on the
wrecked train, escaped injury. Both
priests gave valuable aid to the in
jured and administered the last rites
of the church to many of those Sc
yerely injured.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-02-23
QUIET SEMINARY TURNS
TO INFlRMARY AS NUNS
ASSIST WRECK VICTIMS
Pathetic at Lauraton Hall Where Dozen Injured
Received Haven-Aided Tearfully Bless Sisters Who
Give Comfort to Frightened Survivors.


Surrounded by groups Of sheltering
elm trees, enclosed within a tall and
sombre-loozing stone wall, the hand
some Seminary of Lauralton Hall d.
5rectfy north of the isolated railroad
station in the town Of Milford pre-
scented a picture shortly before 1880
Yesterday afternoon
Suddenly, as if by magic, the sol
emn seminary grounds took on the
appearance of the picture similar TO
the one describing the scenes of the
battle OF Shiloh in the late Civil War
days. Nuns were rushing to and fro
armed with bandages, Hniment and
restorattyea, while priests were SOL
emily administering the last rites OF
the Catholic church
Orderlies from the New Haven
General hospital and ST. RaphaeFs
hospital in New Haven. garbed In
white, were seen rushing in ana out
of the dorInitory building, carrying
with them white canvas stretchers
with which to transport the dead and
injured back to the railroad station
where they were put aboard a special
emergency hospital train. The
Bridgeport automobile ambulance,
police patrol, private ambuIances and
raany privately owned auton bibles, it
was expected, would meet the train
at the East End freight yards in this
city From there they would take
49,, =, 5,,rel4 = r, tho Y-id eeDort hospital
- 60 80 - I -...e,<,+
~, .. e $50. - - Nre,,, ~ c1,a1.ea ef
-s,.s 49, - aTi1fr,-,7 ,T,e5 &c.
- as,t,e
pec4alAy Z r.i1
tiet 41hse ISIS se1lAI, - 49,,
can ,a-,5li,,s
N Wllch liAsSy gpl = : ~.
OF almost scoIs 49, 80
were brought 10 the &aoloi4e All7eiee -
ton
The first fntimatfon Obtained by
the, Sisters that serious faltr9 gslo
wreck had occurred IN the Vlcinl.y'
was at 1880, -Whensthe operator N Inc .s
tower near the scene OF the WFecths
autographed to the railroad station 70
have arrangements made to mouse a
score of injured and dying. me
station agent teIephoned Mother Mary
Augustine Of the situation and within
Is minutes six inprovised cots had
been erected in the dormitory of the
seminary and Sisters, to the number
of 20. were hurried to the dormitory
and prepared to receive tho injured
ana DYING.
The FIRST victim to arrive was C.. e.
tx Ian 5f age So of Groton Conn. He
MAD been a passenger in the first coach
behind the engine the boiler of which
evnIo7e7 S He suffered internal in
5,5Ties and his face was scalded. He
go, 7,,7,l,,,, scio11s anon his arrival at
Il, - a. - fIs11v ssoothine lotions were
a,o7,lied r., his face and bandages were
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-02-23
Coroner Mix, Early
On. Scene, Reticent

Coroner Eli B. Mix, Of New Haven.
reached the scene about. $3.50 o'clock.
He was accompanied by a photog-
rapher and took several pictures OF
the wreck.
Coroner Mix was given valuable as
sistance by the railroad authorities,
but refused to comment on the wreck
further than to say that he would an
nounce his official coroner's inquest
later.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-02-23
SEND INJURED AWAY

The New Haven road was sending
away dozens of the injured who had
been treated in this city. Under the
direction of claim agent who was
busily at work settling damages. tic
kets to destination were furnished
and passengers put on the trains, US
ually in Pullman cars, reservations
wire,
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-02-23
sCENE on ACCIDENT.

The scene of the accident is nearly
directly opposite the home of Thomas
SkiIlings, who lives above GilIette's
corner, on the New Haven turnpike.
Ski1lings is saiE to have been in
his home at the time. He was not .
witness to the wreck.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-02-23

Total contributions to the jewish
Fund amount to $s,172,s17.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-02-23
MIL FORD CITIZENS and
SURVIVORS FIGHT FIRE
IN WRECK WITH SNOW

George S. Clark Only English Speaking Eye Witness,
Tells of What He Saw-Fleeing Passengers Made
Ashamed By Unknowns Cry, Rush Back To Aid Of
Injured.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-02-23

King George has now completely
recovered his health.
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GRAVES & VAN.

Phone 130. MIckeIson Building
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liGing you to become a Frenchman, yet you insist upon my becoming a German" Pouyer-Quertier remarked.
 How is that?" replied Bismarck. q do not understand you. Who talks of annexing Normandy"
 ''I am one of the principal owners Of the Villerupt rolling mills" re- joined the minister. You see clearly that you are making a German of me by insisting upon Villerupt."
 "Oh, very we'll" said Bismarck. q leave you Villerupt, but do not ask anything more of me, or I will take it back"
 That was practically all that France saved of its iron industry, as it ex- isted at the beginning of the Franco Prussian war. Frances production of steel and iron would still be insignifi- cant had not an obscure English clerk named Thomas, discovered a process of dephosporizing iron ore which he sold for $50 to man who realized three millions out of it.
 That discovery made available for
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the iron industry deposits of ore in the Briey basin that were previously considered useless. Prospecting in that regian began in 1882 and in 1913 there were 46 different mining con sessions in operation, producing a to- tai of fifteen million tons of iron ore per year. By doubling the intensity of production these mines could pro- duce thirty million tons per year for a period of at least eighty years, and probably 100 years. At the present rate of production, fifteen millions a year. added to the production of the part of Lorraine abandoned to Ger many after the war of 1870, would produce thirty-six million tons. which is seven million tons more than the total output of German owned mines at the outbreak of the | 'esent war.
 In addition to this zSt, the re- zion of Longwy proSSces two million seven hundred and fifty thousand tons, Nancy two million tons, making total in all of French Lorraine of twenty million tons, thus surpassing all told by four million tons the actual consumption of Germany, including seven million tons a year imported from the Luxembourg.
 The greater intensity of exploita- tion of the mines on the German side of the frontier leads to the supposi tiOn that their ultimate exhaustion is far nearer than that of the French owned mines.
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FRAN CE'S IRON ORE BONE OF
 CONTENTION

PARIS, Oct 2. - Iron ore, which was one of the stumbling blocks en- countered in the negotiation of peace between France and Germany in 1871, is likely to cause stout contention in the eventual settlement of accounts between the belligerents in this war.
 If Germany is not beaten into com plete submission, it is expected in France that her delegates will stand out stubbOrnly for the ambitions of those industrial representatives who recently demanded the establishment of military frontiers that will give Ger many the mining regions that are in dispensable for the development of the empire"
 The mining regions" referred to in this quotation from the resolutions of a German industrial committee, are the 1O5,0OO acres of French iron land of the Briey basin, adjoining the iron lands of annexed Lorraine just across the frontier. They produce fifteen million tons of ore per year - 80 per cent of Frances total production; they furnish a livelihood to 22O0O miners and steel and iron industries depend ing upon them give employment to 115.OOO iron workers Without them Frances industries would be para lyzed for years to come, if not per manently disabled.
 If the allies are able to dictate the terms, the French delegates will in sist upon the return to France of the part of Lorraine that was taken from her in 1871, with the iron lands from which in 1913 Germany took twenty one million tons of ore - more than 75 per cent of her total production and 60 per cent of her total consumption
 Lorraine, in the French point of view, no longer represents a mere sen timent; the sentiment exists, but along with it is the great object les son of the war Germany's forty five years of military preparation, in which the mines of Lorraine played a
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leading role.
 If France is today obliged to cry for more cannon, more ammunition" it is, in the estimation of French spe- cialists, because Germany took from France with Lorraine mineral resOur- ces to which she owes 50 per cent or more of the development of her iron and steel industries since 1871.
 Besides the ore bearing lands that were finally deeded to Germany, Bis marck demanded in exchange for an extension of the territory left around Belfort all of the iron ore region of Aumetz, Villerupt and Otange, be- tween Briey and Longwy. But Bis marck had to do in these negotiations with a clever Norman, Monsieur Aug ust Pouyer-Quertier, Thiers' minister of finance, who fought desperately and cleverly to save something of Frances future in the iron industry. The discussion finally came down to Villerupt.
 Prince, give you my word of honor that I never would think of ob-
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NOTICE.

Special meeting of Mt. Mckinley Lodge, No. 183, F. x A. NJ, Tuesday evening, October 8, 1916, 8 D. m. Visi tors welcome. Work in third degree.
 II. A. SLATER. w. NJ. Edward F. Medley Secretary.
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Change of program every Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday at Elm press Theatre.
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