Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-11
were believed to have been riding on this same locomotive.
 Fire Broke Quf.

Fire burst out almost immediately following the wreck, adding to the danger which the injured men were facing. Engineer Cook, who was driv- ing the forward locomotive of the double header freight, was thrown out of his cab and pinned. by one leg, under the wreckage Sauve and Rock wood were buried under scores of tons of wfeckage, all of the con1busti- ble parts Of which afterwards burned It was nearly ten o'clock beforex a cIfarred and blackened head of one of these men was found, after one of the wrecking cranes had hooked onto the giant locomotive, which lay on it's side. and lifted it so that members of the wrecking crews could make fur ther search for the bodies Of these two men, who lay in a bed of live coaIs.
 Engineer and Fireman Escape Death. Engineer Corsair of the second loco- motive in the double header freight had no opportunity to jump from his cab when the collision came but he. escaped without serious injury, re-, ceiving cut on the forehead and getting bruised about lthe face. His fireman, Edward H. Lloyd, East Hart ford, escaped with hardly a bruise,. being the most fortunate of the four men who were operating the big loco motives that were hauling the double header freight.
 Cersair and Lloyd crouehed under the roof of their cab while the falling wyeckage rai1ed upon it and then started to make their way out from beneath the mass of material that piled upon the big machine they had
 been piloting. All lights were extir- guished in the crash and clouds of
 steam added to their diff1culties in finding their way out of the wreck, but they managed to do so and irnfne- diately turned to give assistance to the other members of the train crews who had been less fortunate.
 Rescued Just in Time. Engineer Cook of the forward loco- motive on the double header freight is said to have been found with one leg pinned under the wreckage. Goals from the overturned Locomotives had set the wreckage afire and the blaze had approached so close to the pin- toned engineer that the legs of his overalls were beginning to blaze when ] assistance reached him.
 So precarious was his position that some. consideration was given to cut ting off his leg. in order to save him from burning to death. when 1t was found that he could be released and the task was accomplished so rapidly that he was gotten out with no more serious hurt than strained leg. Met Horrible Death.
 The bodies of Flagman O'F1aherty, who recently transferred from the passenger service, and Brakeman
 Johnson were the first recovered. The bodies were removed to ans undertak-
 CTS in Putnam. O'Flaherty's head
 was terribly crushed, exposing the brains. There were indications that
 Johnson lived for brief period after hclwas 'lft. He was found with d hand&.j ef wound around one hand and ieiG over his mouth, indicating that he was seeking relief from the scalding steam. escaping from one of | the overturned locomotives, that caused his death. The skin came off in strips from his face. arms, legs and hands.
 a One charred Head Found. Hour after hour passed as the Wrecking crews labored about the two l wrecked locomotives and searched in 1 the Wreckage and ashes beneath them, and without result, for the bodies of Redwood and Sauve. The head of
 
 be determined, so horribly mutilated and burned was it, was picked out from under the firebox end of the for ward locomotive which was lifted off it's side by one of the wrecking
 cranes and raised sufficiently to al-
 low the wreckers to dig in the ruins. The charred head was found deep
 down in a mass. of ashes and grain from cars that had been in one of the | treights, but close search of the inn
 mediate vicinity did not reveal the location of the remainder of this
 body.
 Three Wreckinq Crews at Work. |. The wreck blocked both the east bound and west-bound tracks of the road. Wrecking crews were sum- moned from East Hartford and Readeyille (Mass.) and these worked at each end of the wreck, the East Hartford crew clearing away the
 smashed cars at the lower end of the ldouble-header freight, the Readeville crew working at the overturned loco
 motives and other wreckage near them. Some of the cars that were near the smashed locomotives were
 completely consumed in the fire that broke out. In the afternoon a third wrecking outfit and crew arrived from
 Midway and aided materially in speed Ing up the work of clearing the wreck
 A Trying Task.
 A bowling gale. mixed with hail and rain, swept through the deep cut in which the wreck occurred, chilling the workers to the bone and making more dlfncult the work they had in hand Scores of automobiles brought sight seers to the point of the wreck from all of the surrounding towns and these viewed the operations from the preeipitious banks that flank each side of the cut in which the wreck was piled. General Superintendent C. N. Woodward of the New Haven sys- tenn arrived at the wreck during the forenoon and watched with interest the work of clearing it away.
 Freight Piled in Heaps.
 All along the long length of the double-header freight tons of coal and l a general assortment of merchandise that had made ups the contents of the | cars were piled in heaps. The work of salvaging as much of the freight | as was possible went on as, the crews labored to clear up the .wreckage in | sufficient degree to: open the lines, l Telephone and Telegraph communi.
 e.. cation.
 Communication by wire was. estab- l lished from the location of the wreck | by both telephone and telegra nh 1 Southern New England linemen of the Putnam division ran a pair of wires from lines in a highway several hun-> dred yards distant to pole opposite | to where the locomotives lay and this afforded the railroad officials their | first service in keeping in touch with their headquarters. Shortly after | wards the Western Union Telegrapl1 | company linemen had cut in on thei1, l