The evening world. Newspaper, July 11, 1911, Page 1

‘WEATHER-—Showers to- Wednesday; cooler, PRICE ONE, ir RLS WHO SHOT STOKES ARE HELD rinta Facie Case of Attempte Murder, Decides Freschi After Hearing. me “LETTER Court Decides Sleuth Commit- ted No Crime in Taking ‘Them. BY MAGISTRATE ~ d INQUIRY OVER. ) NT. Copyright, A911, by Co, (The New The Pr York Wi ~ te bishing “NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JULY 11, 19 i 16 RAIN AT MILE-A-MINUTE PLUNGE FROM TRESTLE; 14 KILLED, 47 INJURED WHATHER-—Showers to-nitht or Wednesday; cooler, FINAL eoiro “PRIOR ONE CENT. PAGaS Terrible | Wreck of 60-Mile-an-Hour Federal Express | After It Rolled Down Railroad Bank Near Bridgeport SPECIALLY PHOTOGRAPHED BY AN EVENING WORLD STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER. ae RY Md hee FOR OTHER REMARKABLE PHOTOGRAPHS SEE PAGES 2 AND 3. Fe) litian Graham and t ad, thy two younk girls who v ming of June 7 shot W b. Wan a pattie that naa te y » of love letters ith a Lied were to-day anistrate! in the Tombs Court await| + n of the 1 of ¢ npted M rte fixed nid of $5.00 each ly de n 1 pla “GOURT DECIDES SLEUTH COM , MITTED NO CRIME Asas \ tra i cum - Amy here ARAN ney mt i vor € iM ore the Magia- ~, BYSERVIGE BOARD ‘Cram insists ~~, Trying Rate Now—Willcox Reassembling Information, rn | Lower | INC “hat Late This 4-ALARM BLAZE ORK FACTORY MIAKES BIG SMOKE eas Afternoon Fire Starts Is Fought From Sea and Land trate, wh At 10,90 o'clock to-! a. pine service Commi day, District-Attorney Whitman ie) ee vice Commission to-] Late this afte alarms wer Deputy I ner ition liy Indicated an Intent to reopen the] 4 ae cupled seats with tie M rate. ’ toh It : the d con y tot ef tl t l " a bly charges that we le tha n, Was not ory owned by L, Mundel & te 8 of th Dix and his. st jah Van Be 5 Bave to ' cant Cram, insists that) It was four fl pants as well detectly ‘ sd e should now be ordered and ¢ ‘ packet of letters joe Lilifan Graha , on. No lives were reported to have been ment has al gon] “I want to Coney five-cent fare |lost, Te ageinet the four * and Cum-| before I die,” declared Mr. Cram, | The fre gave forth a tremendous ming was au ppear before |not when all of the naw subwa |volume of smoke, giving the auto: Magistrate Freschi to-day and expiain| completed as arranged for in t to homewoors onthe hig part of the d | Aneny report. Wor the Ife of me Tcan- |iy.y 4 pay . E I not why the fare 18 not ord | STOKES SLEUTH APPEARS TO ROR Wiy 4 seen | 0 “n 1 AFFIRM STORY OF LETTER an tnt r pie id to | fourth wth was | o to the Long Islan eu ab When : t ters at the next stated mesting, whieh Bloom, of the| . Midna Apartment stana | Will be on Friday and testified at leng the face | mn crams. att Pon jiu that after the shooting Detective Me- ee A Bia formivk had fh athe yi man| sith Policeman ald nelt them took away any letters. ded that Detectives viynn and 1 ‘he a nd 8 and ¢ » these mate and two of them te enter a aie if 5 1 rn = mth k aispon from us fy kena caninany and tea Caan sin ee interview 4p tho Bvening World | 4" @ the latest information before yesterday. Bloom was asked If he had not tol that he the| Heputy Comm! axon te sioner Dilton 1 Cumn put ieite hie pocket; they we = im He s had n & Whereupon John 1 rinte ent of the Varuna Apartment stand and testified at (Continued on Fourth Page) APR Ee eet eneane ot} y took the length to the the members.” | ‘The commission also passed to-day the resolution restoring trans: upon the surface Ines of the city at bt points, which was announced yesterday © | phe companies have until Aug. 10 to re- store the transfers or make ready tu fight the commission. Three of the four surface Ines are in the hands of re cetveres and thelr representatives de- cleare they will fight the order of the commission to the highest court. SST eg MRS eh | PLA! | Vice-Pre: New York wai stay of Ni =| MOTOR SK} SCRAPER D FOR NEW YORK Announceme ng Owners’ ¢ tho building 1 to > GIANTS V8. PIRATES. Pittaburg .. TEMPERATURE RELIEF D Local Thunder Even Make It a Cooler T Storms Little Mi w| | There {# ome comfort for the swel- ring, broiling clty this afternoon in the thought that tt won't t » hot to- | r degrees. At least that ter Ke with a UP 10 94 lt TU-MORROW THE TEMPERATURE Yesterday. BX es #0 BRITON'S ATHLETES | BEAT AMERICANS INLONDON MEET Five Events to Four Result of Yale-Harvard and Oxford- Cambridge Contests. HOW EVENTS RESULTED. Sixteen-Pound Hammer Throw— Won by G. B. Putnam, Christ Church, Oxford, American Bhodes scholar to-morrow Is anothe nd from Bansas ‘ dee Baier Putnam's throw was 151 feet 5 Matha er inches; Child's of Yale, 140 feet 7 ie t ‘ f inches; Cable of Harvard, 137 fect 10 he h “ « Bower of Cambridge, 130 feet he } ‘ THE DEAD, 190-¥ard Migh Hurdies—Won by : “ |George A, Chisholm of ¥ale; J, B ; 1y |UACHIMAN, JOMN, sixty-nine years olf, Qummings of Harvard second. Time i » street, Brooklyn. | 15 2-6 seconds, new intervarsity record. - sie alti to-day, | 100-¥ard Dash—Won dy Duncan 1 al suffe ‘ yorine years of age, | Macmillan, ‘Trinity, Cambridge, Tine. Throop avenue, Brooklyn Fred A. Reilly of Yale ae ) st home and died, | + A, aged forty-two, of No, Bun — Won by B, M Bahk i ] y | place, overcome at No rd; Anderson, Oxford ; arabe f 2 Jar atreet; died In Votumteer| Marvard, tuird. % Total Ho ) 2 minute 671-5 seconds. s 10} JAIVPIN, aged forty, over-| Qnarter-Mile Run—Won by F. ©. ' for t vark tt had 0 nud died at residence, No. 488) gino, Pembroke, Cambridge; Duncan tt 1 « 1 aven | MacMillan, Trinity, Cambridge, sec- : Feet c HULTZ, ADOLIMIUS, forty-five years! ona; John ¥, Stewart jr, Yale, third; nunced Fe ‘ dy] old, vf No 10 West Forty-sixth | gerbers W, Kelley, Marvard, fourti, ; ie a fs ‘ Pi at vercome in front of of Ho- | mime, 494-6 seconds. 1 ‘ tel Knickerbocker ‘and died In New Broad Jump-—Won by John ‘ man 4+ avens | ork Hosnita 7 ff Yale, J, B, Kilpatrick of j ELLY, MAY, awed Atty, cond, Volden's mark wae predict a ied! ae reside ‘ inohes. Si , ; One Mile—Won by Philip John Ba iT TRVERING, t ie No. 107 yor, Kings, Cambridge; H. P. Lawlere « f e : ay Harta me yO OVO™ Of marvard, second, Time, 4.27 3-5, a | a “ ED RE. : Bunning High Jump-—Woa vy Woos- ge se nan |PNAy yeara of gh. welghing, inp t0F Canfield of Yale, whose mark w ‘ 4 We neve bd fs Tae hale (and (fa Gnha 6 feet 113-4 & i Albert D, Par ¢ ngs The OUR AT ET AR Pe MA ASUST og! avenne. |w cond, with 6 feet ! Ko BaD: WS) ee eee ane ote - 103-8 inches, Later Canfield made 6 SURGEONS AND POLICE TRY T KEEP DOWN DEATH LIST. front of the Knickerbocker (Continued on Third Page) paper inverted ° wn to the Bak | me room open day ‘Creralleve’ cheaks aod mosey orders. at “oe feet 3-9 inches Two-Mile Race-—Won by Z. Gowan Taylor, Pembroke, Oxford, ©. r ter, Brascnoue, Ox: mecond; Withington, Warvara Byan, Harvard, 100 89 1-08. Tine, 9m, LONDON, July U=-The Oxtord-Cums (Continued on Yourn Page.) ~ 9 HURLS EXPRESS. FROM VIADUCT RAILS INTO STREET OF GITY 7+ Fedéral’s Substitute Engineer Drives Delayed Train at Mile a Minute on [Switch Where 15 Miles Is Ordered Rate. RESCUERS FIGHT FLAMES TO TAKE OUT DEAD AND HURT six Cars Follow Engine in Wild Leap Into the Air From 25-Foot Trestle. (Special From a Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) BRIDGEPORT, Conn., July 11.—Fourteen persons were killed and forty-seven were so seriously injured as to require hospital treatment in the wreck here at 3.25 o'clock this morning of the Federal Express of he New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, bound from Washing- ton to Boston, Among the dead are the engineer and fireman of the train. Laie his afternoon five of the dead remained unidentified. Four of the injured will probably die. They are Daniel Kissner, head brakeman of the Wi renee train, whose home is at No. 104 Willis avenue, Bronx; John . Pfeitfer of Readville, Mass.; Mary McSweeney of Philadelphia and Na McCrokan of No. 3316 Wharton street, Philadelphia. The wreck was caused by the excessive speed at which the train took a switch, or crossover, from an Inner to the outer eastbound track m a viaduct at Fairfield avenue, a mile west of the railroad station in Bridgeport. The train consisted of two baggage cars, one loaded with tish spawn from the United States Fish Commission at Washington, a lay coach and six sleeping cars. Running at the rate of nearly sixty miles an hour, this train shot off a twenty-five-foot treatle and embankment into a city street and the lawn of a residence. Three of the Pullmana, the day coach and the two bagg@age ars followed the locomotive trom the rails and landed in a tumble of broken timbers, twisted steel and splintered glass, nearly two city blocks long and from twenty to fifty feet high, Two of the Pullmans remained on the embankment, one of them not leaving the rails. The Providence that looks after professional baseball playere assigned yne of these lucky Pullinane at New York last night to the St. Louls Na- ‘fonal Baseball Club. This team, twenty-five members etrong, bound for escaped unscathed. £ iNGIN. ER UNACCUSTOMED TO RUN. are divers ard contradictory stories concerning the cause of the One The train .e of the best on the New York, New Haven and Hart- ford system, was bound from Washington to Boston It was transferred around New York by water last night from Jersey City and started from Mott Haven nearly an hour late, Tho engineer for this {ll-fated run was a sub, A. L. Curtis, who took he place of the regular man, Fowler, Curtis, who was killed with hie fireman, was regularly the engineer of the Cannon Ball freight, a fast train over the svstem between New York and Boston. To the fact that Curtis bas been accustomed to driving a freight train at top speed over line may, perhaps, be attributed the wreck of to-day. The New New Haven @ Hartford 1s a four-track road along the sound. Generally speaking, the two outstde tracts are used for passenger rains and the two inside tracks for frelght. But the tnalde tracks are 1180 1 for the fast expresy trains, which do not atop except at divisional points. The Federal Express, away behind time, took, from Stamford, the track | next Inside the southerly or east-bound track, It was on thie inside track that Curtis was accustomed to pounding along, night after night, with his |Cannon Ball freight, with clear signals ahead and all awitches set for bis accommodation ‘The Federal Express {a scheduled to make a stop at Bridgeport to shift off one of the baggage cara and take on express. To make the sto» ft is necessary to switch the train from the second track to the outside track, This shift was made at a signal tower just went of the Fairfleld avenue viaduct, a steel bridge protected on each side by heavy solid steel rallings SECRET OF WRECK WITH DEAD ENGINEER. | ‘Phe viaduct crosses Falrfleld avenue, which thoroughfare accommo- datos a double track trolley line and many lines of telephone wires, The floor of the viaduct Is about twenty feet above the level of the street. On ach slde of the viaduct, stretching away to cast and west, fs un embank- the top of which ts from twe ve to thirty feet above the base. The tower te on the solld embankment, Just weet of the viaduct, The wwsover, or short track, ran from a switch In the inside track about one hundred feet west of the tower to a similar switch In the outside track, just where the rails run off the solld embankment upon the viaduct, \ Curtis {8 dead. His fireman ts dead, No living person ean say what Hoston, | che tracks of th Fest th “eo Sos