The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-08-21
Nine Year Old Boy Only Survivor of Party Return ing From Visit to Relative in U. s. Field Hospital at Niantic-No Witness To Accident.
Fragments of Auto Scatter ed Along Track--Warning of Trains Approach Civ en by Gong, Declare Those Near Scene = All Bodies Identified.

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 Identified.
 Old Saybrook, Aug. 2i-A freight engine, running light over the Shore Line division of the New Haven road crashed into an automobile owned and driven by Robert H. Rohloff at the Fery crossing east of. the junction, shortly after last mid night, and eight persons lost their lives. The survivor is Louise w. Weyel, nine years old, who is suffering from shock but will recover, and is cared for at the Memorial hos pital in New London.
 The persons who were kill ed were:
 Robert H. Rohloff, 39 Win fhrop avenue, New Haven.
 Gustave WeyeI and his wife, 529 Qninnipiac avenue, New Haven.
 Mrs. Louis Asterino and her three children, aged four months, three and five years, b29 Quinnipiac avenue, New Haven.
 Mabel Wagner, 209 North Front street, New Haven. z
 The party had been to Mantle for the evening to see lwllnam. son ot Gustaye Weyei. who is a member ot the field hospital They had arrived at the camp ground about mid-even- Ing. and had left on the return about 1o:30 o'clock, crossing the Connecticut river by way of the bridge and then taking the road that leads toward the junction.
 The engine was bound from New Haven for New London. The crash zof the collision was heard by Ed mund Bird, tower man near the cross ing, which is not far from the ferry slip and the car barn of the Shore Line electric railway. In the dark ness there was no witness of the ac- cident-
 The. men on the engine, Engineer O'Dea, Foreman Horace Andrews and Flagrnan J. B. Champlin, all of New Haven, did not see the machine on the crossing. Fifteen minutes latel those who were there say the crossing gong was ringing, giving rise to tht nupposition that the engines approach was warned by the gong. The cross mz gates are not operated after D. m-
 Alter the crash Towernan Birt raIled watchnan Walter Buckley They found an automobile, C45,735 crushed. and fragments scattered alonl the track. u
 On the engine pilot were the bodies bf man and a baby. The man wa. Rohioff. A girl had been throwl clear of the wreckage. She was Louise Weyel A child of five was dead un der part of the machine. One mar and one woman were on track No. and two women and one child wer' Between tracks and 1.
 Five bodies were laid on the side O the tracks until pr. Grannis, the med teal examiner, came and gave permis sion for their removal to the under taking rooms of H. D. Robinson il Centerbrook Two women and on, man, who were alive, were placed il Automobiles and sent to New London The man, MT. Weyel, died a few min nteg after the start was made. and tn, two women succumbed on the way 8, that at the hospital only the girl wa. hdmftted. The bodies were taken t, an undertaking room in New London
 Some hours elapsed before identifi cations were definitely made. Assist ance was given by the New Have1 police During the morning Loui Astorino came here and claimed tn bodies of his wife and their thre, children. Mrs. Asterino was tn daughter of Mir. weyel
 Mir. Rohloffs Identification wa made by means of his drivers license He had obtained the machine iron c. E. Buck of s61 Blohm street, Yves Haven. and another card issued il 1914 was in the name of Charles M "A Costello, 222 Whaley avenue. Ney Haven.
 Rohloff was the driver of the ma chine, and 1t Is understood here tha he also had taken the party to Man tic on Sunday.
 Miss Wagner was a close persona friend of MT. WeyeTs son.
 The crossing at which the acciden occurred has been the scene of oth CTS, the most recent having bee : when an automobile truck from Ney Haven was demolished
 C..C. Elwell. member of the pub 2 lie utility commission, and J. H rrumbuli, engineer of the commis don, inspected the crossing this fore hsen.