The evening world. Newspaper, September 2, 1913, Page 2

fate ol the White Mountain Express—one of the unlucky “14” series [ Of @e New Haven sysiem—plougned through two sleeping cars, tele-| seoped a third and hit the rear of a fourth, grinding sleeping pas sengers} in their berths. | Willem White, a New Haven special policeman, and Peter Muelter, | ‘Whe fives In a farmhouse right at the scene of the accident, say that they tay the body of 2 man hanging on the telegraph wires alongside the track ( G4 not see a body hurled to the telegraph wires, hut admit that the shook | was severe enouch to have accomplished this, inasmuch as some of the dead were thrown forty feet from the right of way. Athough the locomotive of the White Mountain Express came ‘oa stop completely covered with the splintered wreckage of the sleeping cars it had demolished the debris did not catch fire. The wreck occurred at 6:55 o'clock in the morning in a dense fog bui it was noon before the | wreckers announced that the last of the bodies had been taken out. BNGINBER RAN PAST SIGNALS. The cause of the collision was one common on the New Haven sys tem—the stoppage of a train held up ky signals ahead and the disregard of signals behind the stalled train by the engineer of the next train ay proaching. It is agreed that signals were set against the White Mountain Express; that a flagman was sent back from the Bar Harbor Express with a flag and a lantern and that he placed torpedoes on the track, but despite all these precautions the White Mountain Express hit the Bar Harbor Express while running at the rate of forty miles an hour. The wreck was attended with all the horrors of a New York, New Haven and Hartford disaster. Six women, whose bodies were terribly crushed, are among the dead. Two boys returning from a summer camp in Maine were crushed by the locomotive as they were skylarking in their pajamas in the aisles and vestibules of one of the wrecked sleepers. A boy is in the New Haven Hospital with both his legs cut off at the hips. Some of the injured were so mangled that they begged the men who pulled: them out of the wreckage to put them out of their misery, There was a long delay in transporting the injured to New Haven and! « the heartbreaking interval a few doctors and volunteer nurses attended to the wounded in a field alongside the track that looked like a field of battle. The Bar Harbor Express was made up of eleven wooden Pullman sleeping cars and the usual complement of baggage and express car! The two rear sleeping cars were completely telescoped by the locomotive | + of the White Mountain Express and the third car trom the rear was not only tefeseoped<bul ‘tossed from the track. There was not-a steel sleeping car in either of tine trains in to-day’s} | | were equipping their line with steel-sleeping- cars as rapidly as possible. It is said in New Haven that owing to the great rush of travel marking the closing of the summer season much of the sleeping car equipment that tad’ been temporarily crowded out by new cars was taken from the’ shops and/ utilized: on fast, heavy trains, ° Teas car, named the Chisholm, was: almost entirely fecupied by a cdmping party of boys, about forty in number, returning from Maine. The party was in charge of H. R. Mooney of New York. The boys came from “Camp Cobbosseecontee,” at Monmouth, Me. The boys’ homes were in New York and Philadelphia and various parts of the South. Two Of these boys were killed. ENGINGER DIDN'T SEE SIGNAL, The collision occurred in a dense fog. A. B. Miller, engineer of the White Mountain Express, who has been placed under arrest by Coroner Mix of New Haven, says he didn’t see the signals which warned him that the Bar Harbor Express was occupying the block ahead of him. He and} his fireman saved their lives by jumping. Miller admits his train was tunning forty miles an hour. There are conflicting statements as to why the Bar Harbor Express stopped at the point of the collision, which is between North Haven and Wallingford, suburbs of New Haven. The crush of traffic resultant upon the desire of mountain and seashore visitors to get back to New York had disarranged train schedules, and at New Haven, where the a division and the Shore line connect, there was a glul of The railroad officials say that the second section of the Bar Harbor! Express, train No. 91, stopped to get a signal indicating that the road was clear into the New Haven yards, But J. D. Lynch of Woodside ‘Terrace, Springfield, Mass., who reached the scene of the wreck just aft the collision on his way from New Haven to his home, tells a different! | “The Conductor of the Bar Harbor Express told me,” said Mr. Lyncb ~ to an Evening World reporter, “that ne stapped his train because of hot box or hot journal on one of the old wooden sleepers. He insisted that he'had taken every Precaution to protect his train.” | “MANY VICTUMS IN SLEEPING-CARS. Dr. Arthur Clapp of Springfield, Mass,, who was a passenger cn| the Bar Harbor Express says he heard two torpedoes explode just before the White Mountain Express crashed into the train on which he was Owiding. It is admitted that the signals were set against the Waite Moun-| tain Express right at the scene of the wreck, but whether the engineer! was warned by danger signals farther up the line is not known. The Bar Harbor Express, after a short stop was just beginning to move and the flagman had climbed aboard when the White Mountain| + Express came along and climbed over the rear of the train ahead, The r locomottye ofthe White Mountain Express was one ot ihe new type of monster machines that figured in the Stamford wreck last June | r This ponderous mass of steel literally ripped apart the two rear! sleepers of the Bar Harbor Express—the Chancellor and the Kasola— which ‘started last night from Kineo, Me. The railroad figures show that there were twenty-two passengers in the Chancellor, the rear car, », and nineteen in the Kasota. Survivors say that both these cars were packed with passengers. Sliding along the rails, covered with the wreckage of the two rear _ Sleepers, the locomotive of the White Mountain Express collided with the| ‘teeper Chisholm, lifting its rear end upward above the level of the loco- | motive smokestack. From this position the Chisholm toppled over and | down the embankment, Mast of the fatalities occurred in the sleeping-cars Chancellor and| F CAlshoim. At least a dozen unconscious passengers suffering from injuries were taken from the ChisHdlm. Some of them were re- ‘moved to houses in Wallingford and North Haven, where they were at- tended by local surgeons. There was considerable delay in getting assist- “ance to wreck from New Haven, and for this reason the injured be- came scattered and reports as to their condition are conflicting. The two rear wooden sleeping cars of the Bar Harbor Express are by sarvivers to ha’ ly exploded when the locomotive of the Mountain Express ran into them, Mattresses, pillows, sheets, blan- bets end clothing billowed Out of the gaping rents in the cars, became ip the telegraph wires or were blown by the breeze to the flelds the right of way. Persons reaching the scene of the wreck righi | \ ee Se A ah tact alan a \w |All That Was Left of Pullman eenine | Car 14 @ few minutes after the accident. Others who were on the spot say they |eress Fi 4 \* collision. During the inquiry following the disastrous rear end collision) 2% at. Stantiford. last. June, New Haven Railroad officials stated that they f Ra the collision ve hed up shone and other articles of miata apparel | FIRST DAY OF MELLEN RETIREMENT. New Haven took good care of the survivors, beginning to clean up the Wreckage of the three sleeping cars, The road- Twenty-third street, scalp av way, He has been with the firm bed was not seriously Injured wounds. mashed ey sin the worta That part of the Bar Harbor Express second section which was not} RAWLAND, W. ©. Frankfort, Pa; WAS On) Hie locomotive. | switched around to another track, was run into New Haven, trains carried many of the injured, but only those burt seriously enough to require immediate hospital treatment remained in New Haven, others came on to New York AX, SEYTERSER 3; vey: SIGNALS AND TORPEDOES.» GNORED, SAYS MANAGE tome Pete Utilities Commission of Neuen Of the Wrecked ‘Bar Harbor Express Train Photographed Immediately After the Crash by F. A. Seidler, a Passenger in Car No. 16, Berth No. 1 of the Wrecked Train). FONE EERE Ee Oh EEO EEE DE DEI OEE 64.5606 4009 0200041 01400O% = NEW MAVEN, Sept. %.—General Manager C. L. Bardo of the New York, New Haven @ Hartford Railroad this afternoon issued this statement: “Train No. 91, firat section of the Bar Harbor Express, passed Wallingford at 6.85 A. M. Second No, 91, conalating of baggage car and ten sleepers, passed Wallingford at 6.43 A, M. First No, 95, consisting of baggage car, day coach and five sleepers, passed Wallingford at 6.51 | A. M,, all three trains running approxl-| gick mately at eight minutes apart. “Local train No. 821 was running ahead of first No. 91, whith stopped following trains at automatic signal Summer Complaints, Dysentery, Diarrhoop, — Cholera Morbus Redway's Roliet taken. inbrandt oars Reedy Retiet taken, inland. ty ott iy Toot yee! Paine in Cy My the ‘application of Radway’s Ready Relief.” about @ mile south of Wallingford, at | russia the exterewp end of a three mile tan. |e gent protected by automatic block | D Y ? it ae tne 0 sy ear | “Train second No. 9 was in charge ef Conductor Bi ©. Adams, who had been in the service nineteen years | nine months in freight serv ce as brake- man and flagman, ten years an freight conductor aad about five months in charge of passenger trains, | ‘Train firey No. % was in charge of | |Engineer August B. Miller, who has n in the service since Oct. 7, 18%, He | was promoted to engineer in 190%, and! | served ten years as an engineer, and is on this train, pped at the sign: Flagman Murray states that he w back at once with proper sis Put two torpedoes on the rai, end marker lights gation is now being beld by Vo 30U a 4 peor ow that ou wid, Tiffany style Ring; 50 ry ita’ s fg 4 Mfamond of "your" tue N. YN t. & H. STOCK TAKES A HEAVY DROP = Heavy peliing of the atock of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Rail- road a@ goon as trading opened on the e this morning resulted in @ decline of 27-8 points, bringing the | Price down to W1-4 a new low record. he news of the wreck at Wallingford known throughout the Amancial die- t for an hour or more before the BRB-3 Wb-0 6 LOST, FOUND AND REWARDS. Al le ott ae for. rat lathe ir ervet ont aaa ee LAWYERS UPHOLD WILSON. are | President's Treatm t of Mexican 4 Problem Approved. MONTREAL, Sept | nociation ut tc ; nual meeting he approving P jor the Mex i MICHABL. eg juaty Leltrios lon lent Wilson's treatinent n problem. From “Good Morning” to “Good Night” Pied eDOROes FEoEREEEES T @@re howe odegne heavy train, carrying several bageage and express ears behind the loee motive, | Coroner Mix, who fs the official for hte greater part * | of New Haven County, began an investigation into the wreck at 1¢ Mild beyond ey | o'clock, He ordered that the bodies which had been taken from the wreck | comparison with be brought into New Haven, The ratiroad company prepared a place for | thirteen bodies in the trolley car barns in James street, which tg close to} | the Cedar Hill station of the ratiroad, The track on which the wreck occurred to-day is protected by the so-| jealled “banjo signals,” which type of signals the Public Utilities Commis- | jsion had ordered changed. The New Haven road had begun the recon- ; struction, and the Hne from Hartford to Springfield had been chan, ed | over, It is understood that the “banjo signal” was still in use on ‘immediate section between New Haven and Hartford, although the chan, would soon have been made. ~ SOME OF THE INJURED $6660650 36s all cigars that are really good. The Invincible si: 10 cents. Box of New Haven Train Wrecks During Last Two Years Bridgeport, Conn, twelve killed, one hundred in- duly 12, 1911,-- Jured, Aug, 2% 1911 Oet. Liy 11 Middletown, Conn, sixty Injured. NA (will die.) Kerlin Junction, Conn, two killed, five Injured, fr Fox, whore name now appears in| June 1, 1912. Mass, clght Injured, Ue tin eee ein oe JM 1 . owe Anitials, were iM, Conn, three killed, four Injured, on tis ring and hia linen. He is & |, sixteen injured, killed, flity injured, arms, Conn, thirty-five injured, ity one killed, two Injured. Conn, twenty-one Injured, . rd, Couns five twenty injarea, Crozier Fox of Elkins Pag, Pa, His Parents, Mr. and Mra, cae Fox jr, are in oamp at Jackman, Me., and he had gone there on a visit to them, ie of ® stock brokerage f the best golf play- (Continued from Firat Page) Potnam, ¢ tured skull MYHAN, ROBERT, Philadeiphta, will provatly die. MAI “== | Philadelphia, ab RPUY, ers in the From W feation of Mise M. of that citys She pair of tan shoes had purchased in | leaving, with her fai tion in New Enxland Mary Jane ——~, forty years old, of Hartford, Conn, died in the New Ha- ven Hospital as she was trying to tell M.,, No. 4 Clinton street, . CHNen eteet the identi- Armatro: MISS MARGARET, No. ixty feet ire , for © vaca- ‘The railroad men recailed (iat Uils fs the second day of Howard Elliott's rm of office as President of the New York, New Hayen and Hartford, The Mellen “hoodoo” had not deserted the system, they said, with the retire- , baggage man, Tes enurn WN W., 611 Hourse igiguaie ment of Mr, Mellen, whose term of office ended at midnight Sunday, Consid- ~~ name, ga An s og ad- at a burest suger at ering the handicaps under which they worked, the New Haven officials ip recon: M 0, 91 South who was badly hurt 4 salesman in the em- n» & Goldman at No, 694 They had thirteen bodies wreck two and a half hours after the collision and were o out of the RAVPITCH, JOS! Mat Bast] ploy of Cone demolisied in the collision was Later on the arawn {nto White New Haven Hospital, SHANLEY, PRANK, New Haven, STODDART, MISA JEAN, No. 54 Kast Pifty-ninth street, No ¥ SWEENEY, CATHERINE, fagman He lives at No. ue aay) ie unmarried, state that he is in a very pre condition, ew Haven by the regular Mountain Express, which had been Hoth these ave OUTGOIN on! The RMAN, ROSE, street, N.Y, No. ay 1 FULTON ST., Place, Brooklyn An amazing feature of the wreck was the escape of the pi » the Whlte Mountalm Express from death or Injury, This was Corner Centre Street Cone RMT ia Martine, 0 Jrdat, Wotterdaan,