The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-20
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broken, their wheels torn of or !oosened, but otherwise these did not appear severely damaged. Five Coaches-all pullmans except one behind them remained upright on the tracks. The last coach was day coach which contained 36 Chinese prisoners of the immigration service en route to San Francisco for depor- tation.
 Engineer, Fireman Killed
 The engineer and his fireman were killed. The two mail clerks were be- lieved to have been killed. The re- mainder of the dead were from the first two pullman coaches. Bodies were removed from the locomotive cab and the coaches by workmen using acetylene torches. Many were horribly rlangled. Many were women in night dresses and men i'll pa- jaraas who had been smashed to death while sleeping in their berths.
 From these first two pullman coaches, came only a few living and they were seriously injured. One died in the Little Falls Hospital 8 few hours after the wreck.
 Ehe other injured, approximately 50, came from the third and fourth pullman coaches, and only few of them were seriously hurt. In the following coaches there were per- haps 75 passengers who required first aid for slight bruises and cuts and a number who were treated for shock.
 The roar of the boiler explosion, the screech of escaping steam, the crunching of metal against metal, awakened this town and within five minutes townsmen and towns women with overcoats drawn over their night clothes were at the scene, trying to succor the injured.
 But the surviving trainmen had the situation in hand. A pullman conductor, blood on his face, was screaming orders to the white coated porters and another conductor was marShalling the uninjured male passengers. Blankets and seat cush- ions were pulled out of the upright pullman and laid in row on the side of the right-of-way. The por- ters and the passengers pulled out the injured and carried them to this row of pallets where they were re- quired to lie down.
 Medical Aid On Hand
 Little Falls doctors and nurses had been quickly assembled and they quickly and efficiently minis- tered to the injured. At first private cars were communicated to take the seriously hurt to the local hospital, but soon ambulances were at the scene from Herkimer, Utica, and other nearby towns.
 Pullman porterS had produced sheets from their cars and were tearing them into long strips for bandages. Other porters had made coffee and poured it for the shocked but unhurt passengers.
 Meanwhile, railroad men had ar- rived from the Little Falls yards and were laboring to force an en- trance into the first two pullman coaches and the locomotive cab. They knew there was life in the cab because they could hear groanS. Within IS minutes, acetylene torch es had arrived and plate was cut out of the cab so the rescuers could get in. The engineer, J. H. Earle, of Albany, his legs horribly mangled, was still alive. He died on the way to the hospital. His fireman was dead.
 AcetyIene Torches Used
 Other torches were at work on the first pullman coach, smashed down on top of the telescoped mail coach. Rescuers finally crawled into the holes in the crimped steel they cut and came out with a few men and women who seemed barely alive. A few minutes were enough to account for all the living. They then began carrying out the dead.
 To get into the second pullman took almost two hours. Both ends had been smashed by the cars in