The evening world. Newspaper, July 11, 1911, Page 2

F —o PROT MEIN SS % ¥ = me ae anlwe Woe SDAN, J ULY poe VIEWS OF THE DREADFUL WRECK OF THE MILE-A-MINUTE FEDERAL EXPRESS NEAR BRIDGEPORT 1911, (SPECIALLY PHOTOGRAPHED BY AN EVENING WORLD STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER.) prompted him to approach that short crossover with his throttle wide open | and his exhaust working like the long roll of a drum, Railroad men say that Curtis, from his long experience with the, Cannon Ball freight, momentarily forgot that he was pulling a passenger train and assumed that he was going right through Bridgeport on the inside | eastbound track. At any rate, although the signals were set showing | that the switch was thrown for the crossover, Curtis did not slow down. The great locomotive hit the switch with a lurch that almost overturned {t. The terrified tower operator saw a burst of steam from the dome| of the boiler and heard the scream of protesting running gear that signals | the application of the alr brake. The two baggage cars, careening Itke | sailing vessels in a strong wind, swung across to the outside track, Then | came the day coach and five sleepers | The outside track on the trestle ylelded under the resistless sidow!se | crunch of the ponderous locomotive drive wheels as they left the curve of | the crossover and aligned along the rail on the track that led straight to the station, a mile away. LEAPED FROM TRACKS Something gave way LIKE LIVE, THING. It may have been a spike that had none too Strong a grip in a tie. It may have been a plate holding the matched ends of two rails. Slight as the ylelding may have been, it offered an opening for ton upon tons of metal, instantaneously changed from an orderly, con- trolled medium of transportation into a wild instrument of destruction, he} outside track gave way, the locomotive and tender struck the stout, solldly- riveted stee] guard-ra{l and shot across the trestle or viaduct on the ties. As the pilot wheels etruck the soft cinders of the embankment, the locomotive leaped out into space like a thing alive, dragging the tender after It, The coupling between the tender and the locomotive was . iapped| off and the litter of afr and steam and water pipes and hose ripped asunder. The tender, with !ts load of coal and water, toppled over down the embank- * ment into the right of wav alongside the big, neat grounds of Mrs. James Horan, whese flower and vegetable gardeng skirt the track at the » of the The locomotive ploughed ahead fully one hundred feet from the tender and dropped heavily on its side. The engineer and fireman, crushed and mangled, lay lifeless underneath the wreckage of the stee! monster that had deen subservient to their will but a few seconds before. | In the meantime the rest of the train had piled itself up much as chil-| dren are piled in the game of “crack the whip.” The car next to the wre locomotive, a combination bi : GIBBS, MISS HELDN, bina uggage and express, followed the embankment GLOSSMAN, MRS, MARY, Sweet Creok, with the wheels off the rails to a point opposite the wreck of the locomo- | tive, where it slid down the slope, dug its forward platform into the cinders | Gi and sand, reared up behind and Mtevally fell into itself. Right on top of the forward car piled the second baggage car, with its sides bulging and| spilling trunks and valises COACHED LEAPED LIKE A MAN DIVING. The day coach, which was coupled behind the two baggage cars, re- mained on the embankment unttl it reached the point where the locomo- tive and tender had shot from the right of way. Apparently at this spot | the day coach had completely detached itself from the rest of tho train. When it left the embankment {t was acaded south of east. It leaped off §n the manner of a man taking @ dive from a height. Striking head on into the turf of the sloping lawn of the Horan homestead, it stopped with such terrific force that seats and racks inside the car were torn from their fastenings and hurled to the forward end. This car rested on its side. Right in the middle of it, half through an opening where a window had been and partially embedded in the ground, was @ big stone of about 4 ton weight, This stone had formed part of the embankment of the via- duct. How it was dislodged and thrown, as from @ catapult, into the day coach, thirty fe ay, is @ feature of the wreck that cannot be explained, ‘This stone, according to some who were early on the scene, rested on} the leg of @ Wonon vietiia for half an hour before frantically struggling reecucre cold revove It Seven of the dead were taken from the day coach, The car het | the day conch was the Pullman sleeper Altreus, It Jod.cl safely, ran half way past where the day coach jumped | 1 tien toppled over, landing with the roof on the ground and | p the The wheels of tie Altreus were about on the level | Wilh the top ihe cumbaskment. Next bel Altreus was the sleeper Mandarin. Seemingly those two sleepers went down together, but the Mandarin turned only half over, janding on Its right side parallel with the right of way and about twenty feet from bonkment. The roof of the Mandarin rested against the fenee around the front lawn of the Moran homestead. CAR HURLED TIVFTY FEET; NOBODY HURT. cromied the nd the Looking at the wreckage of the Mandarin convinced observers. that | the day of mirack ed » was a heavy ¢ with nearly pcre bere oc led nearly ifiy feet through space onto a gently } boing bill one of tbe passengers, so far as is known, was weriously Injured Those posseugers who had berths on the right hand, or southerly, stde of the car found themselves covered with the fioihing and curtains of the other side, | UNIDENTIFIBD MAN. CORNING, MISS MATTIE, "| CZALOBRO, CZALOBRO, seats and berths and bed- | "| Dead, Dying and Injured in Federal Express Wrec THE DEAD. phia. HOYT, FRANK A., Boston. CHRISTIE, GC. W., Ne. 21 Rittenhouss | JOYCE, MRS. JAMES B,, Weabingten, street, Philadelphia. sixty-two; back injured, condition ROGERS, RS. GEORGE, andé infant serious. Wrauiinntoh, D.C KING, W. A., Kansas City; suffering son, UNIDENTIFIED YOUNG WOMAN. UNIDENTIFIED BOY, three years of age. | UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN, about fifty- eight years old. ENGINEER L. A, CURTIS. FIREMAN W. A. RYAN, NEGRO passenger, about thirty years of age. GEORGE W. SAUNDERS, trainman. TWO UNIDENTIFIED CHILDREN. from shock. KISSNER, DAVID, No. 304 Wis ave- nue, New York, brakeman; fracture left leg, internal injuries. Will prob- ably die. M'CANN, MRS. MARY, Walton street, Phitadelphia. M'CONNOR, MRS. —- Chestnut Hills, Philadelphia; ribs broken. MBESERVY, M198 LUCILE, ton. Washing- MICKENS, JESS!) Y, THE INJURED. Sreaiieatene oe BOPHM, MISS BESSIE, Woodstock, Vo. | MONROE, BURCHA, Ciiftondale, |CHRISTMAN, HENRY, Middleton, Pa. ‘Mass.; right arm fractured, spine CLARK, MRS. SARAH, Washington. injured. Serious. CLEPHO>S MRS. W. B. Cherry| MURDOCK, —, No. m4 Broadway, Creek, Md.; bruises. CLEPHONE, JOHN, Cherry Creck, Md. Philadel- Somerville, Mass. NOTE, LUCY, No. 222 Washington ave- nue, Washington, internal injuries; condition eritical. ROGERS, FRANK, Washington, D. 0, Badly hurt. ROGERS, G. E., member United Coast Artillery. SAUNDERS, W. H., New (London; burned about hands. SAUNDERS, MR8. W. H., New Lon don; leg fractured. SISSON, JOSEPH P., New Haven. BOLSKY, MRS, MARY 2, Philadet- ph phia. CZALOBRO, ANTONY, eight years; in- ternal injuries; may die. ISTIE, five head and body brulse juries; condition critica: SARAH, No 981 South | street, Philadelpha; head badly yeare; internal in- | pe Washington, FRAZER, CARL, Havre de Grace, Md. IRENHOLM, W, D., Cary's Creek, M4, a body crushed. | SWEENEY, MARY, Phillipsburg, N. J., FUREY, MICHAEL, New Rochelle, con- | ftering from shock; seriou’ ductor of train; fractured skull; in-| VON PFEIFER, JOHN F., McDonald ternal injuries; will die, at skull; WALKHR, WALKER, MRS. MARY, Readville, condition ert M ; fractured hington. al JOSHPHINE, Philadelphia, fo. 115 Eleve shock and foot crushed. UWARD M., Huntington, Pa, » MRS. ADA, No. 2% Camden Boston; brulses, enth atret, Washington brutses, WALLACE, HENRY A., Milbridge, Va, GR str GRIMKE, MIS3 ANGELINE, Wash-| WILSON, ELEANOR, eleven years, ington, 2221 Bears street, Philadelphia HARRIS, MARY E,, Philadelphia. UNKNOWN WOMAN, — Slavonian; HAR’ MRS. MARY, Philadel- leg broken. pila. UNKNOWN WOMAN, face terribly HOLMDS, MRS. CARRIP, Puiladel-| bruised, leg fractured, steam from the engine ahead deafening. This soon died down, and then we heard the shouts and screams and moans of the injured men and!| women, With the exception of the members of the train crew, everybody around the wreck was in partial undress. One man, attired only in an un- dershirt, worked like a wild person for half an hour in the task of rescue until the errival of Mghts betrayed his lack of apparel. “To add to the terror of the situation, the wreck had pulled down a mass of live trolley, telegraph and telephone wires. Many of these wires were stretched across the wrecks of the Mandarin and Altrus and made the work of rescue very dangerous, Mr. Braun’s watch was found in the wreckage and returned to him by Capt. Redgate of the Bridgeport police. A basketful of valuables was turned over to the police by the wreckers, One item was a pair of corsets, to which was fastened twenty-three dollars in bills and a small gold watch. AUTOS PRESSED INTO USE AS AMBULANCES. The third sleeper to leave the tra was the Soriano. This car jumped off the viaduct and landed, right side up, on all {ts wheels, directly across Fairfield avenue and between the railroad tracks and the wreck of the Mandarin, The forward trucks of the first of the two sleepers which re- | mained on the track rosted on the root of the Soriano, but did not go through. ‘The work of rescue and relief was under way soon after the accident, As a uw » of getting properly equipped aid to the scene, a fire alarm was turned in, This brought not only firemen, but police reserves. Ag the extent of the disaster grew upon the minor railroad officials, they sent for the big men in authority, and before daylight the whole system | Hartford was in action, | Bridgeport has only one ambulance. This, of course, was {nadequate. Mitchell's garage was called upon for cars, and othor garages were en- sted later, Touring cars were used for the removal of the least seriously | hurt to St. Vincent's Hospital and Bridgeport Hospital. The ambulance was reserved for the desperate cases. which had dropped upon them. To A cue the passengers thus imprisoned it was necessary for the firemen to chop # hole in the roof of the car, Pavgengers on the opposite side of the car climbed out through the Windows, Among them was R. A. Braun of Newark, N. J., who had the last berth on the ieft hand side of the car, | “I was awakened from a sound sleep,” crash, and found myself covered with wrec interior of the car was black. Through a window I could see a flicker ot | Nght from the tower station, I wor iy way Uirough the window, aban: | doning my clothes, watch and grip, and found myself in an inferno. “It was pitch dark, except for the tower lights, The scream of escaping sald Mr. Braun, “by a stunning age and almost sioihered, Tho oe ‘aial , = te: ‘0 eltod en, |PANIC IN BOSTON SeCIEE L COET I ce ET | STATION AMONG __ | hore, & largo number of persons were {tin y of h 0 | WAITING FRIENDS. | ring ‘nad chore relatives and’ deat friends on the train, A notice was post | (Special to The Brening World.) jed that the train was four hours late, | BOSTON, July 1.—There was @ pan- | At once the unusual delay excited sus- loky flurry in the South Station to-day pieton, Numbers of persons rushed to \ whe n the news came to waiting friends th ara oe ' “4 ero ne troud # that the Federal Express | “Win the truth made known | Learlas passengers whom they had) number of women fainted. Others b come to meet, had been wrecked. It! cane wildly hysterical, George J. Gl: was only with extreme difculty that the | @ director of the Baltimore and Ohlo just ¢rom employees of the road quieted the hys-| Railroad, had of wreckage reilef of this division of the New York, New Haven and| ier's office to ascertain tho | Europe and was waiting for his fam- fly to take its members to Manchester- by-the-Sea for the summer. Mr. Gill got in communication with Bridgeport and learned that nis relatives had not been injured. WRECK’S VICTIMS PROMINENT PERSONS IN WASHINGTON, WASHINGTON, July 11—The wreck of the Federal Express caused a shock at the WHMte House to-day, and it 1s Ukely that when the President next! g0es to Boston or Beverly a pilot en-| ine will precede the train to which | hia car 1s attached. Such @ request undoubtedly will be made by the White House officials to safeguard the Ute of the President. Among the more prominent Wash: ingtonians in the list of injured are Mre, Walter C, Clephane of Chevy Chase, Md., the wife of a woll-known local attorney; Mrs. Logan W. Page, | wife of the director of the office of public roads in the Department ot | Agriculture, and Mrs. James B./ Royce, of the Maury Apartment House, | wite of a clerk in the War Depart: | ment, GITTINS IN FINAL MOVE TO PASS HIS RACE TRACK BILL Hopes Soon to Have Measure Lifting Ban on Course Owners Up for a Vote. ALBANY, Jul notice in the future date he 11.—Senator Gittins gave nate to-day that at some ould move for the dis- charge of the Codes Committee from consideration of his bill relieving race track associations of personal Mability for betting within thelr premises unless \it can be shown that they have knowl- edge of the same. ‘The matter may be called up to-mor- row and ve placed on the order of final passage If twenty-six votes can be pro- cured for It. The friends of the meas. ure now are hopeful that it will receive @ majority. HELD “SPOTLIGHT” ON BOAT. Little Etta Maas, the eleve old @aughter of Louls Mass of 17) West One Hundred and Thirty-seventh street, held the spotlight during the half hour before sailing time on the North Ger- man Lloyd liner Kalser Wilhelm IT. this morning. A number of the little one's playmates and relatives were KroupAl around her on the promenade deck, and An orchestra vigorously playing natlopal tunes, attracted many of the outgoing 6 and friends, who were there off, to the scene, It developed that the tiny was setting off ¢ on a visit to rela- tives in Bonn, Germany, study music for a tim teacher in this city, Charles Ucsinder, had arranged the musical prosramme as a surprise for his favorite pupil It Is @ safe prediction that Miss Etta will be popular and well cared for on | the passage across | This Arm Rocker, Strong and isn" HXYY Comfortable, . im Only T-<3 $1.90 White Mountain Refrigerators, some of show White atonecas low as R403 Call and examine our White el Bedroom Set of T large worth $00, for this week Write for our furniture booklet. GRAND RAPIDS FURNITURE At Factory Prices, Lennon & Company 161-1368 EB, 234 St, or. Lexington Av | were burned as the fire communicated traveller |? Of Close Escapes BRIDGEPORT, July 11.—W. H. Saunders of New London, who was in the day coach of the wrecked Federat Express—his wife was dezing at the time of the crash—awoke to find; himself in darkness, The wreck took fire near him and he managed to craw! to safety, although his arms and hands to his clothing. Mrs, Saunders was pinned under the wreckage and had to be released by the firemen, who, after putting out the fire, cut away the elde of the car. Across the alsie was a negro who wai killed. One of the remarkable incidents was when the firemen cut @ dole in the roof of a coach which was lying on its side and a man crawled out, drag- ging his suit caso, He said he had not even had a acratch. He dropped the dress sult case and immediate! assisted in saving victims. J. W. Armbruster of Springfield, Ill., and B. F. Griscom of Philadelphia were in the coach which left the r: last. They escaped with @ shaking up. They said there were eighteen passen- , and had another car followed {t they probably would have all been killed, ‘The body of Mrs. Whalen of Philadel- phia was taken from the coach. Un the woman was the body of her little child, Mrs. L. W. Page of No, 2228 Massa- chusetts avenue, Washiigton, was in @ front stateroom of one of the Pullmans with her maid and child. The child was not hurt and the mother merely gt wrenched back, although she wae in the full Ine of wreck action. Tn one of the cars a policeman, grop- ing for the injured, heard the crying of hild, He searched the car and on a seat found a young babe not more than a year old. The child was not hurt. It had become separa 4 from its mother, Mrs. W. ¥. Clephane of Sherry Creek, Md., and its aunt, Miss Beatrice Clep- both of Whom escaped with scalp Col. C. 8. Rogers of Washington and an officer of the Coart Artillery was among the rescued. lle sald that h wife and two children had been killed in the wreck. 1t was stated that the engineer and fireman of the train were beth among the killed. ST. LOUIS BALLPLAYERS CAN'T TELL HOW THEY ESCAPED. “I was in the next ty the last car, said Roger Bresnahan, the St. Lou! team’s manager. “I was smoking at the time the spill came and I grabbed som thing and held on. I got out all right. Not one of our en Was hurt, but of course our baggage is goue for good. We were on our way to Boston, where we are scheduled for a game with the Ros. ton Nationals to-day.” Rube Ellis of the St. Louis team, “T was in bed at the time of the wreck, I grabbed hold of a bar and held on for I got @ good bump on the head but I thank God that our boys but I life. that was all. oft safe, people." feel for the other One of the th tral lam B, foes at N oA a lives at Bridgepor e crash, like # sound of a hundred | ‘om Bridgeport was Wille | mney with ot- | » this city, and Special for Tuesday, the 11th Risks? Con pet IND BOX 10c}* SERGE TTR ees Box 25¢ Park Row and Co | our ator Women and Children, These flowers of human kind must be protected against inferior ingredi- in the foods that they like, Loft's candies are the acme of purity and every plece an Insurance policy of health and nourishment, en tor pen over evening untll I1 o'clock, oat AiEhay evening antl LL ulclocks Survivors of Wreck Tell Stories From Among Dead # smashing into timber, awakened | Me about 4 o'clock this morning.” said | 'r. Duncan. I lay awake, listening, | wondering what had oscurrel. Thoa |Cmme the sound of ambulances roughing about the streets, all in one direction. |A moment later I heard the first « paratus roll by my house. I jumped up, dressed and hurried out to seo whut had happened. “The ambulances had muffled thet: | whistles and the fire engines scurried to the scene of the wreck without sound- ing thelr gongs, trying to keep from arousing the steeping town. But the eound of the falling cara could be heard two miles and the people awakened and | many hastened to the wrecked train. | ENGINE LEAPED CLEAR ACROSS STREET INTO YARD. “When I reached the spot the engine was buried deep in the yard of Jamcs Horan, florist, clear across the roa: from the tracks. The engine had leape: into the street from the trestle above the Connecticut Railroad Company's trolley tracks and, without becoming detached from the cars, formed with | them a chain from the bridge to Horan’* yard. Then a fire started. “By the time I reached there the en- i care were suspended from the engine to the trestle and three more were on the tracks. There they remained until the fire gained headway when, in some | manner, the fifth car broke loose and crashed to the ground, putting the trol- ley tracks out of commission. The throe \ last cars were pulled back to Bridgeport before I left for New York. ‘The others lay in a heap on the grc ‘When I passed the wr here Horan’s yard was @ pitiful sii I saw fifteen bodies | ed with blankets. ‘Ti injured apparently, the accident, some dazed by filled with the “injured. “a Side Wiped by Cover of a Wagon as It Backed / Trolley. A dozen passcnge day from the running were brushed tos boaml of a crowded trolley car bound for Coney Isi- and. As it passed No, 782 Coney Island avenue a wagon from which projected a huge boamd cover. backed inst the car, Three of the dozen brushed tou the car were badly cut and bruised, The trolley car was going about halt \epoed and Motorman } ik Beatty of No, 733 Frank!in avenue, Brooklyn, was confident that there was plenty of rocia to clear the wagon that carried the big board cover jutting out fre rear, The vehicle belonged to 0’ Bros. Iron workers, and John O'Neill driving. ell] had his back to the approach ing car and backed out into the thor- oughfare when the car was less than one hundred feet away. None of the men on the ruantng board could get out of the way and they were brushed off in a heap. o jnue, Frederick W, Schoenhut, a fire- |man attached to Engine Company No. M1, and Thomas J. Morton of Mount Vernon, were #0 badly hurt that they |required medical attention. Their out were dressed by Surgeon Duff of the Kings County Hospital and they went ho None of the other pasesngers \{ho car suffered uny damage save « few scratches, ‘Trade murd. Special for Wednesday, the 12th SBere’ TATE 2 NUT AND 10c rrgempgonnan died 0 29¢ || POUND BOX 54, BARCLAY ST 29 CORTLANDT st PARK’ RoW NASSAU ‘0 off 206 BROAD! OADWaAY oF Fulton war Hassel, gr tin each instance 59 GATES GROWS WORS, HIS CONDITION CRITICAL. 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