The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-17
Four Meet Death As
 Train Was Wrecked
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into the water and stood upright: q smoker fell on its side in the wa ter; a coach was caught between 6 clump of trees and the road bed and partially submerged. Another coach and a pullman were derailed but remained standing.
 The engine and tender, which tore up 200 yards of main line trackage, turned on their sides but did not go into the river.
 Names of Victims
 The Gead were A. R. Wcigel, of Alliance, O., the engineer; an in- fant believed to bc the child of Mrs. Elizabeth NSeDonald, Altoona, Pa; a woman syed about 35 be- lieved to be Mrs. JagielsSi, of Pittsburgh; and Harry c. Kennedy, clerk In the accounting department of the Pennsylvania railroad, Pitts burgh.
 There were approximately 100 passengers on the train, No. 3l6 which had left Cleveland ct 6:15 D. m. (EST) and was due at Pitts burgh at 9:30. The wreck was at 9:l5. The coach passengers were stirring around in the aisles, col- lecting their luggage as they neared the end of their journey, and many of the Pullman passengers had set- tied down for the night, since their car was to have been attached to New York train at Pittsburgh when the engine hit the loose rail ploughed up the tracks and rum bled down the embankmellt.
 A preliminary inves tiga u on showed that all 48 spikes had been removed from one rail and the rail had been showed in the length oi the bond wire that carried the elec- trio signal current. The bond wire was not broken. If 1t had been warning signals would have flashed automatically. Bolts also had been removed from 6 splice bar connect. ing the rail. A new claw bar was found at the scene.
 An official statement by E. W Smith, vice president of the rail- road, said that definite evidences of sabotage were discovered"
 "That the train was wrecked de- liberately was established upon in. spection of the track" Smith said "All spikes on both sides had beer pulled from the outer rail, next te the river. One end of the rail, the end facing the oncoming locomo. tive, was moved in 22 inches. The bolts had been removed from tht splice bars which spliced this sec' ton of rail to the adjoining rails. Deliberate Sabotage
 "That the derailment was the result of deliberate action was fur ther indicated by the fact that tht end of the section of rail involved had been moved only 9 inches from its normal position. or tho length of the bond wire, which con- meets the rail sections and carries the electric track current operating the signals.
 "The bond wire itself was no disturbed, and the railroad sigma system was unaffected. The fac that the bond wire was undisturbet definitely indicates that 1t was in tended that the train should ge clear signal and run ino the re- moved rail. If the bond wire hat been broken, the train would hay, been stopped by signal before run ming over the damaged section"
 Fortunately, the lights in ever. car, with the exception of a fev in the pullman. which had beer turned out for the night, remained on. serving both as a guide to res cuers and in aiding the trapped passengers to leave the coaches.
 The bodies of the man and wom an and child all were found in tn coach nearest the locomotive, tn railroad reported.
 Big Disaster Averted
 It was believed that major dis aster was narrowly averted. HaS the fast Manhattan Limited or thu i0.car New Yorker, which passed the scene an hour earlier, beer hurled into the river. the death tol undoubtedly would have been heavy officials said.
 Most of No. 3i6's 100 passenger were hurt, some seriously. They. es caped from the half-fiooded cars b! breaking the windows. climbed back up the embankment and hud dled under blankets and overcoat in e binding snow storm, awaitinl rescue.
 A train from Erie following fev minutes behind No. l36. was switch ed to the undamageu side Of tn double tracks and sent to pittsburgl with most of the injured.