The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-07
Nix, New York City - who died later-told reScuerS:

NIX, New York City - who died later-told reScuers:
 "There are nothing but dead bodies all around me. "
 Surgeons, working in the eerie light of acetylene torches, amputated many limbs in an effort to save the lives of the injured. They also administered blood plas- ma, furnished by the Red cross and other agencies. After the railroad crews cleared a path through the twisted pile of steel in which many of the victims were trapped.
 A loudspeaker system directed the rescue crews and surgeons in their work as the Navy. railroad officials and city police played a battery oi 20 highpowered searchlightS over the three most badly wrecked cars the old-type coach, a streamlined coach and new streamlined Puli- man. All the dead were removed from the two coaches-the seventh and eighth cars of the limited.
 Shortly after 8 a. m. about 60 of the repair men narrowly escaped inc jury or death when an overloaded crane, lifting one end of the dining car, slipped a chain and the car crashed to the roadbed. A warning shout sent the men hurrying for safety.
 Overloaded Journal
 Railroad officials said hot journal in the front truck of the seventh car caused the wreck. W. c Higginbottor, eastern general man. ager of the railroad, said the heat apparently caused the axle to snap dropping the car on the spinning wheels. A split-second later the coach twisted on its side and plunged into the upright girder. Its top was sheared of. All its ocu- pants either were killed or knocked unconscious.
 Lillian Risett, 27, (646 E. l8l St. Bronx, N. r., said from her bed al northeastern hospital:
 T felt a sudden tearing lurch My mother went spinning across the aisle. A man fell right or her face Then a huge chunk of metal fell or the man-and I tainted"
 Her mother, Julia, 58, was in a critical condition in another room at the hospital.
 Among the known dead were 1C railroad workers who were felled by flying ties and steel as they were walking along the right-of-way on their way home from work at 6:0S p. m.
 The first six cars of the train the first section of the limited which was expressing from Washington tc New York-continued a half-mile up the track with the rear truck of the sixth car bouncing over the ties. Some were injured in that section but none seriously.
 Escaped Injury
 Among the persons who escaped injury in the trains first half were Mrs. Myron c. Taylor, wife oi President Roosevelt's special repre- sentative to the Vatican: Roy w Howard. editor of the New York World Telegram: Mrs. Howard, and Lin Yutang, Chinese writer.
 The railroad said the Labor Day train carried 54i passengers, 4i0 in the day coaches and isi in the Pull. mans. Two of the coaches and one of the trains two dining cars were squeezed into a tight " shape across all four Of the main tracks.
 Traf1e between Washington and New York was blocked for several hours until reroutlng sent through trains over Reading Railroad tracks and the PennsylYania's Chestnut Hiil line. Four wreeking cTanei tugged ct the mangled steel foi hours before acetylene torches freed t enonugh to be pulled apart. More than 10000 persons gaths cred ct the scene. tanning the tracks for more than q mile and impeding the rescue work aa huas drede Of city police, railroad police, detectives. Army M. p.b. Coast unaFdamen, Civilian pafense yol' unteegS and ftrelnen sought e clear them from the Fight-ofsWay.
 Army and Navy injured were ros moved lo the Naval ho1pilal ln phlladelphia and Identification wn1 withheld unin neliaeation of nexl