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ee a the wreck and for half an hour jed in the work of dragging out the injured ab4 uiose imprisoned in the car which went down the bank. They then procured an automobile and hurried to Bridgeport where O'Brien's cute ‘Were bandaged by a physician at the Hote! Stratfield. Mrs. Charles H. Harmon of No. 26 Tracy Avenue, Newark, N. J., who her three sons in the rear car of the exoress said she could not bow she escaped unhurt with the children. They were ali out by glass. “We were joking and laughing together after the train stopped,” sho “when there came a shock that threw me out of my chair half the i i | He the car. In the excitement I thought I had been badiy hurt, but when I inetinetively scrambled after the children I found I had no bones broken. “We broke a window with our elbows, knocked out the glass and crawled out and dropped to the ground. The sight was sickening. There ‘were mon and women lying about everywhere with their arms and legs crushed. As soon as I found the boys were all right I burried away, I dant want to stay there a socond. I found a trolley line and took the firet car for Bridgeport.” Train No. 79 left Brattleboro, Vt, at 7 o'clock this morning. As far es Springfield, Mase, it was known as B, & M. No. 80, and No, 79 southward. It left Springfield at 9.05 and Now Haven at 10.39, being dus tm New York at 12.26. It was made up of one vestibuled baggage car and smoker, two vestibuled coaches and @ parlor car from Brattleboro and a sleeper from Levis and @ parlor car from Springfield. Train No. 5 left Boston at 6.17 this morning, reached New Haven at 10.49 and was due to arrive in this city at 1.13 P, M. It was composed of @n express car, a baggage car, & smoker, a mail and baggage car from New Lendon, a coach from Boston and three coaches from New Haven to New York. Eyewitness ‘ Tells on Phone How the Wreck Occurred George W. Clark, an eyewitness, told the story of the wreck over the long distance telephone to The Evening World: | “I saw the New York bound express stop suddenly and 1 walked down] | to the tracks to see what was the matter. having trouble with the air brakes, of the car. The childran were thrown against the oppdsite side of On the centre track was a milk train, | “The Now Haven accommodation very fast. the express train. cut right Into the rear of the expre “The first car of the New Haven injured and dead were in that car. then a slight fire started somewhere. “It burned for a few minutes. I the passengers. We put It out quick, badly injured. “Nobody at first seemed to know Official Report of Wreck Says The engine of the accommodation train struck tho rear end of “The rear car of the express train was hurled against the iron pillars supporting the overhead wire work, the engive of the accommodation train down the bank about twenty feet below. The | feet away when the engine struck and was killed. cars and the engine when the collision occurred and I think most of the “The car just bulged out and fell over against tho freight train and The engineer appeared to be The train was on the north track. train suddenly came into view going #8 and then turned over and foppled Ngineer was thrown fifty train was smashed between the rear turned to that first, as did otiers of ly and then turned to aid the injured, “1 counted six dead persons and there were about twenty-five others what bad happened, Jt was all over in @ few minutes and while I was still standing on the spot froin which § There Were Two Collisions, vines tne wreok 1 neard the cries of the injured and the men and women shouting for help, many of them burled under the cars. This was the official explanation given out this afternoon at the New Haven office in the Grand Central Terminal: “Train No, 79, which had been running on track No. 3, the outside one of the four tracks, was stopped three-quarters of a mile East of Mtl- ford by a break in the air hose between the engine and the first car. “While stopped there train No. 5, which was a special, made up to take the excess passengers who could not be accommodated on No. 79, came up and crashed into the rear of No. 79, “Both trains were partly wrecked, and the engino of No. 6 was over- turned. “The rear car of No. 79 was overthrown by the collfsion and struck a freight train which was running on track No, 1, This immediately blocked all the four tracks. Wife Faints When She Learns Husband Is Among the Victims Scores of persons gathered at the Grand Central Station to meet friends due on the Connecticut train. When news of the wreck arrived sevoral women almost fainted. Mra, Constance Coligndla of No, 1340 Avenue P, Flatbush, Brooklyn, was in the office of E. G. Riggs, publicity agent of the New Haven in the Grand Central Station, when announcement was made that her hueband had been identified among the victims of the wreck, Mrs. Colignola turned white, and her eight-year-old boy began to moan. “Don't lose courage, boy,” said Mrs. Colignola, “If you do, you'll have te carry me home.” ‘Then she fainted. She was taken to an emergency hospital, ‘Whether Colignole, who was a travelling ealesman for a jewelry house om his monthly tour of New England States, is dead or merely injured, could not be learned. He had telegraphed his wife that he was coming home on No. 79, the train which was wrecked. She had come to the station with her boy to meet him, and there learned of the accident. FORTY WOMEN SPEAK AGAINST PREPAREDNES: Women's Peace Party Conducts Meetings in Five Boroughs in Opposition to President's Plans, Carrying banne-s inscribed, “America is safe; preparedness means war; work against it,” eight automo- biles bearing forty speakers trained at the headquarters of the Woman's Peace Party, No, 70 Fifth Avenue, left there at 2 o'clock this afternoon and paraded up Fifth Avenue to Fifty- ninth Street. They scattered at that point, and the sp rs were taken to forty gathering places in the five boroughs, where addresses were made in oppo- sition to any preparedness for na- tional defense. Miss Crystal Fast- man, Chairman of the New York Branch of the Woman's Peace Party, was in charge of the demonstration, Alkali in Soap Bad For the Hair Soap should be used very carefully if ‘i want to keep your bair looking its oot Most soaps and prepared sham- contain too much alkali. 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We he train, and as fast as we got the injured out we carried them into one of the undamaged cars, where they were treated.” RICH WEST POINTER WINS WAR CROSSES IN FOREIGN LEGION Lieut. Sweeny, Here to Recup- erate From Wound, Has Distinguished Record. Charile Sweeny, wealthy soldier of fortune, came back to New York to- day after seven years absence, on leave from the Foreign Legion of the French army, wearing the War Cross, the Military Cross of the Legion of Honur and carrying the record of being the only American commissioned officer in the Foreign Legion. He is pale and weak from the effects of a German bullet which passed clear through him and punoc- tured his left lung, but he is going back to the front as soon as he re- covers his health, Lieut. Sweeny is a son of Charles Sweeny sr, formerly commodore of the Atlantio Yacht Club and Presl- dent of the Federal Smelting and Refining Company, which he sold out to the Guggenheims. The Sweeny family home is at Spokane, Wash., now and Charlie is bound in that direction. He came to New York on the French liner Lafayette from Bordeaux, Mr. Sweeny is a West Point gradu- ate, but be resigned from the army after short service and travelled through Central and South America and Africa, He settled in Paris seven years ago, married a Belgian girl and has two children, The wife and little ones are living in a suburb of Paris, At the outbreak of the war, Sweeny went to the military school at St. Cyr, the West Point of France, and took a course of study in Fi military tactics, the Legion ay a private and was soon in the thick of the fighting in the Champagne district, Because of training at West Point and at St. Cyr he was soon made a corporal and then a sergeant, While serving in the latter capacity he was promoted to @ lieutenancy because, ufter all the officers of his detachment had been killed or wounded in a charge on a German position, he took hold of the little command and held it together, On pept. 3%, 1915, he was in coms mand of a section of the line charg- ing the German trenches. Although shot early in the engagement, he stuck with his men, captured a sec- ton of trenches and held the position until reinforcements came. Then he colupsed and in time found himself in the American Ambulance Hospital at Neullly, where he was near death for woek He had the of The decorated with of the Legion ‘non-com.” been Cross de Guerre Honor while a Grippe Sufferers Will Appreciate LUDEN's MENTHOL CANDY COUGH DROPS: Give Quick Relief ench | Then he enlisted in| decoration of the Military Cross of the Legion of Honor, which is awarded rarely, reached him on Oct. 7, but he was close to death at the time and knew nothing about the honor for several weeks, WOMAN, “HUSBAND” OF WOMAN FOUR YEARS, TELLS SEX WN COUR Arrested Under ‘Lazy Husband’ Law, ‘Robert’ Gaffney Es- capes Because Not a Man. SEATTLE, Wash., Feb. —"Rob- ert” Gaffney was wearing woman's clothes to-day after living as a man for ten years, including four years as husband of Mrs. Margaret Gaffney, a widow, Prosecuted by the charity organt? zations after deserting Mrs, Gaffney and her three children, ‘Robert in- validated a “lazy husband” warrant by disclosing her sex, The prosecutor has woman who was a hu be decided the band could not prosecuted under any existing local law "Mr." Gaffney's real name has not been ascertained. She declares she married because she sympathized | with the widow and her children. “Robert” Gaffney worked for some time at a local department store and as janitor in an office building, Ce + Dabs i LINER LAFAYETTE HERE AFTER DODGING CRUISER THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1916 Three of the Rescued at the Fire | That Caused Loss of Five Lives wit ACTORS HEMED I BY FLAMES IN BROADWAY ROMING HOUSE IR (Continued from Hirst Page.) ran toward the kitchen. Tho Mamos They were joined by Genacus, who found the stairs on fire, The three ran out, leaving the} front door open and (hus furnishing | an additional draught for the flames | on the stairway, Phillp Matthews and iis wife Ethel had an early engagement day and had set their alurm « ring at quarter past seven, The waked Matthews and he found smoke | pouring in over the transom The fire already filled the hall outside. HOTEL GUESTS UNABLE TO! HELP, | to-| Matthews yelled “Fire!” twice into the hall, slammed tho door shut and dragged his wife from the bed to the window, from which he ited in tones that brought seor persons to the windows of the Hotel Claridg | opposite, the Hotel Astor and tho| Hotel Lenox. These spectators, who were in their nightélothes, were un- able to give ald or to do anything save to watch the rapid course of the following tragedy. The only passerby on tho sidewalk ran to a fire alarm box on the corner. Matthews let himself out of the win. dow and worked along a narrow cop- ing just below-the cornice and made his way to the window of the adjoin- ing house, No, 163. Perched there, he directed his wife in following him until he could grasp her outstretched wrist and swing her to safety | WAITER MISSED AND FELL TO HIS DEATH. The waiter, Antonius, in the upper floor front room was aroused by Matthews's shout. He made a flying leap to catch the upper supporting bar of the big perpendicular sign which rises from the front door to the third floor level. His hand missed the bar, but his body swerved so that his neck struck across the bar. He was all but decapitated and fell dead to the street. Christine Peterson, an actress, saw from the window of the next room what happened to Antonius, She had herself poised to jump, but drew back Screaming at the top of her voice. Policemen Leahy and O'Neill bad reached the house by this time, They | Vessel That Warned the Chicago of | German Warship in Bay of Bis cay Had Stormy Passage. } The French Bordeaux, liner Lafayette, from ched port to-day, cov- eved with ice and badly battered from ten days of combat with westerly gales and towering waves, There were M4 passengers aboard and many of jthem did not move out of their state- rooms throughout the trip. Some of the passengers said they were sure the Lafayette was chased by @ German privateer in tbe Bay of Biscay. Capt. Roch denied any- thing of the sort had occurred, “Soon after leaving Bordeaux," sald the captain, "the British author- ities at Malta warned me by wire- less there was a German privateer in the Bay of Biscay, I kept a sharp lookout, but failed to see him. Later when I got into touch with thé Chi- cago, bound from New York to Bor- deaux, I repeated the warning, have heard the Chicago was pursued by the German." —__—— — BATTLESHIP EXPLOSION KILLS NE OF THE CREW Salt Water Evaporator on Delaware | Blows Up While Vessel Is on Practice Trip Off Cuba, | WASHINGTON, Fob, 22—Bdward | McNulty Rebey of Syracuse, N. ¥ . a fireman on the battleship Delaware, was killed by an explosion on the salt water evaporator Sunday olght, while the Delaware was manoeuvring with the main portion of the Atigntic fleet near Guantanamo. Rebey was a fireman in charge of tho evaporator which distills fresh water from sea wator, ‘DEATH FOLLOWS Loss | OF HEART BALM SUIT PITTSBURGH, feb, Jacob, wealthy clubman, d | to-day following an attack of | monta, } His 22 R here pneu. illness began a Canton, O,, cour pay Mrs, Ellen Canine buoach of promise euiy recen| wh ordered him vo $10,500 in a scurried up the front door to the lower end of the electric sign and climbed it as if it were a ladder. Leahy went to the top, a few feet below the girl, and O'Neill braced himself below. Miss Peterson leaped into Leahy’s arms, He swayed and both were in danger of falling until O'Neill steauted them. Together they brought the girl, whe was clothed only In her nisrhtdress, to the street and carried her into the Cafe Bousquet next door, ACTRESSES MAKE WAY TO SAFETY. Meantime, divected by (the shouts of the crowd which had quickly gath- ered on the sidewalk, peth Mont- gomery, May Smith and Elizabeth Mason, actresses, who haa run into the room of the Matthews, followed tho same route to safety which had been used by Matthews and his wife. In the rear Metson had attempted to climb down the heavy ire: drain pipe from the eaves. Ho was frightfully burned on the right side passing the windows below and dropped to the yard from the first floor window. Constantin Keratsas, a brother of one of the proprietors, was the only man in the house who had prepared for flre emergency. He had « heavy rope tied to the steampipe In his reom and threw it out of the window. Te it out and slid down to the over the back door; the stoop flared into flame just as lie rea and scorched him. He dropped from the kitchen extension, landing in a heap, unhurt, in the yard. TWENTY IN ALL WERE IN THE i HOUSE. | There wera about twenty guests In the house, most of them in the second {and third floor rear rooms. ‘They {jumped to the roof of the one-story Kitchen extension and climbed tnto the upper windows of the Cafo Bousquet. All who could be saved were out of | the house when Deputy Chief Martin {and @ battalion of firemen arrived. hed it Martin at once sounded a second alarm and ordered his men up ladders {to the windows. None of them was able to enter it was nearly a n hour before fire- |luter Albert Gordon, a chauffeur, ran ——_! men could get in to recover the bodies of those who Dobie found, were Killed. Emily | and proprietor Keratsey were | suffocated, in the hall of the upper uoor, They occupied adjoining rooms and it was apparent that Keratsey had been trying to drag] the girl to the seuttic closet at the back of the hall from which a ladder led to the roof, The others, except Panay, were found on the stairs leading to th } top floor, He was found in his room| on the second floor, The Colonial was owned by Kerat- sas and Beckos, Jolin Beckos, the surviving partner, arrived to take charge of the restaurant a few min- utes after the fire started, He iden-| tifted all the dead \ Cliief Kenion, who went to the seeno | on the second alarm, has started an in tigation to learn how a fire in such a busy neighborhood could gatn | such terrifle headway before an alarm ; was sounded. Detectives Cooney and Deltach | learned that the first attempt to call firemen Was made by Max Hollender, a restaurant manager who was ope ing @ nearby cafe. He ran to the box om the corner, but in his excitement | did not pull down the lever sufficient- | ly to sound an alarm, Ten minutes to the same box and gave the alarm which brought the firemen. COLBY TOLD HIM OF MORGAN LETTER, | SAYS THOMPSON (Continued from First Page.) fire talking over the evidence about the third tracking contracts, I recall that Mr. Dawson, digeing Into a brief bag brought out what looked Ike a letter file and excitedly shook it, say- ing that it contained the Morgan letter to Shonts and that letter was important and sensational “That was only a short time ago. Mr, Dawson was then in the employ of the Legislative Committee. As| soon as le resigned, apparently, his mind was washed clean In so far as that Morgan letter to Shonts is.con- cerned, “Just as we were reaching a polat where the order of procedure was demanding the production of this Morgan letter which Mr. Colby had spoken about ten or a dozen times, and Mr. Dawson hud referred to as yensational and important, Mr. Colby and Mr, Dawson suddenly and with- out a warning send mo thely resig- nations, Ll am very much interested in whether Mr, Colby'’s memory wvulng to uel like Mr, Dawson's.” Mr. Colby, when seen at his home! and told of Senator Thompson's re-| marks, said: “IT can easily Thompson might assume that such a letter Was in existence, but as for my- self, 1 can say that I never saw it and never received any proof that it exists. “lL had received from Mr. Young Ube impression that Mr. Morgan had written such @ letter and that Mr. Shonts was displeased, The letttr does not appear in the Interborough files and | have been unable to find any trace of it. “I do believe that a ful. and free rrespondence file has been turned to us by Mr, Quackenbush, coun- is sel to the Interborough. The ‘Dear Andy" letter to Mr, Freedman from Mr, Shonts and a copy r. Shonte's report to Mr. Morgan after Mr. Shonts visited Mayor Gaynor tend to show that they gave us all they had.” In the seareh for Mr. Young, J. H. Garrety, manager of the Hotel’ Neth- erland, was subpoenaed by the com- mittee to-day, Mr, Gurrety issued an order to all employees of the hotel to aid the committee in every way, BN «AE bad EXTREMES, The Water Department of Phit adelphia has gone on the wagon. eer (BRITISH STEAMER SUNK; | ONLY ONE SURVIVOR Loss of the Dingle With Nearly All of Her Crew Is Reported to Owners in London. | LONDON, Feb, 22—The British | displacing 580 tons and steamer Dingle, registered at Liverpool, has been sunk loss of several lives, with the Advices to her owners to-day said there prob- ably was only one survivor, News of the sinking of three t fishing vessels w | opportunity to suggest a new scheme see how Senator | WHITMAN'S BUDGET PLAN 1S CALLED HUMBUG BY BROWN Idea It Would Necessarily Mean Economy, Worst He Ever Heard, Says Senator. ALBANY, Feb, Gov, Whitman's State budget bills were attacked in the Nenate thts afternoon by Majority Leader Elon BR. Brown, Minority ler Wagner (ook advantage of the for the adoption of general appropri- tion measures, The bills are the bi gest legislation asked by the G at the present session of the Legisla- ture “Of ajl the humbug I ever heard,” sald Senator Brown, “this idea that a State budget would necessarily mean a measure of economy is the worst.” Brown declared real economy de- pended upon the various State depart- ments “This plan for a State budget,” he aid, “is merely a minor step in the eilficieney of government.” Senator Wagner's plan, presented for the first time to the Legislature, is adopted from the system now in in England, It provides for the appointment of a permanent com- nitter the Senate to study the ‘ernor vogue | general appropriation bils. nate leaders of both parties ad- ainst requesting Gov. Whit+ man to appear before the Legislature explain his budget plan ey held that It w Ivisabie to make such a mally, until it had been Jearr manner that the Go make such an expl — BRITISH OFFICERS LOST IN WAR TOTAL 23,087 Of This Number 7,157 Were Killed or Died; 14,158 Were Wounded; 1,772 Are Missing. LONDON, Feb. 14.—(Correspond ence of the Associated Press).—Of- ficer casualty lists for the month of January show that the British army lost 310 officers killed during that month, 647 wounded and 40 missing— a total of 1,0: Taking a number from the missing and wounded totals which have been since included tn the killed, the casuaities in officers alone since the beginning of the war ag- gregate 23,087 of which 7,157 have been killed or died; 14,158 wounded and 1,772 missing. During January the losses were heavy among the regiments operating in the Persian and Balkan theatres of war. The Indian contingent lost 56 killed, 183 wounded, 6 mis Kents 9 killed, 22 wounder tralians, 12 killed, 17 wounde cashires, 10 killed, wounded; Black Watch, 6 ed, 17 wounded; Field Artillery, 11 killed, 37 wounded; in a lews ‘public rnor desired to Engineers, 12 killed, 27 wounded; Yorkshires, 11 killed, 20 wound Canadians, 9 killed, 23 wounded, The Royal Flying Corps casualties to- talled 42 during the month, 6 officers having been killed, 14 wounded and missing. Brig-Gen. ant-colonels were Fitton and six Heuten- killed and Brig- Gen. Harvey wounded. Mortimer Wins Racquet Honors, Stanley G. Mor- nis and Racquet Club to-day captured the National title in racquet singles from CI Pell or the same chib in the Is of the championship tournament at the Boston Sennis and Kacquet Club, Mortimer found the 1915 champion a@ trifle un+ steady, and speeding up his own game ran out t) In straight sets, The 15-2, 15-12, h this waved, 'The ci afiernoon ee Which eats HO? You have one guess ! DEFENSE SOE SOUNDS A CALL 1 ARNS AT MEETNG Military Training for Youth of Country Is Urged in Convention, All the weak points of the Army and Navy of the United States wehe bom~ bearded to-day at the convention of the American Defense Society, whieh chose Washington's Birthday as the most appropriate date for stirring — the conscience of the country in be- half of war preparedness. Pork-barrel legislation, pure wast of funds appropriated for all branches of the service, and above all, the Im- porative need for reasonable expam sion and greater efficiency im the Army and Navy wore pointed out by tho speakers of the society at meet- ings this morning and afternoon the Hotel Biltmore. The morning session, devoted prins cipally to military education, was presided over by Dr. C. Ward Crampe ton, who briefly outlined the purpose of the American Defense Soctety, He said the society concerned itself with military education for the youth of the country to begin at an early age, with the development of sound bod+ {es and alert minds, which would benefit the country as much in times of peace as in war, He said the girls of the nation should receive similar {raining, physically, to fit them for Red Cross service in case of need, The society, he said, favored the boy scout movement, business men's milie tary camps, the spreading of military book knowledge through the coun. try, and the encouragement of intels ligent legisiattc Brig. Gen. rge W. Wingate said |tho fallacy of preparedness with a | voluntary force picked up at the last | moment Was so emphasized in several | campaigns of the Civil War that the country hould never have forgotten the He said the vast troops of raw recruits opposing Lee in his invasion of Pennsylvania in 1863, be- fore the Battle of Gettysburg, were brushed aside like flies, Gen, Wingate iesson, dwelt on teaching boys how to shoot as the most necessary of military training The history of the citizen eamp movement was related by Grenville Clark and Adjt.-Gen, L. W, Stotes- bury, and Col. W. Irving Taylor of the New York National Guard to} of the extensive training now bein, given the militia troops. Edmund Lester Pearson of the New York Public Library pledged 'the ¢o- operation of the library in military Jueation, Dr. W. L. Rodman, Presi- dent of the American Medical Asno- ciation, read a paper praising the achievements of American surgeons in recent years and urging the need of enlarging the medical staff of the rmy and navy. he severest criticism of our mili- and al situation was voiced the afternoon session by Henry erdahl, an artist who has mede @ \l study of naval matters, nite of the millions spent we not ready for war,” said Mr, Reus “In a fleet action our ships sunk not because of lack of tary at are terdahl, will be bravery of our splendid personnal but se of lack of efficiency behind it, rations for war is an industry,, bravery but an incident in battle.” Mr. Reuterdahl quoted former See- retary of the Navy Whitney, whe ! that the country the navy, sald in 1885 spent .000,000 for which $70,000,000 was wasted. Mr. Ret. terdahl said the same waste had beew going on since. Dr. David Jayne Hill, ex-Ambasaas dor to Berlin, denounced the type of Americans who contend it is dangere Tes for the United States to be ong. 1 do not know what to say of people except God have meray their craven wouls,” he said, THE ONLY STEAM-COOKED OATMEAL