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Show II THREE EMPLOYEES I ED RESPONSIBLE I Conductor, Engineer, Flag-1 Flag-1 man Blamed by Coroner 1 for New Haven Horror. I; XEW HAVEN, Conn.. Sept. 5 Three If employees of the New York, Now "J Haven fe Hartford railroad are held fl Toy Coroner Eli Mix to be criminally ! responsible for the disastrous wreck at North Haven on Septomber 2, when the m Whito Mountain express plunged Ifl through the second section of the standing Bar Harbor express, exacting j a toll of twonty-ono lives. N The coroner's finding was filed todU3', J after ho had conducted a " private " L inquest. , if Those held to be responsible nrc Augustus B. Millor, ougineer of the ij White Mountain express, and Bruce C. 5 Adams aud Charles H. Murray, con- M ductor and flagman, respectively, of : the Bar Harbor train. l The coroner neither blames nor ab- !,' solves the New Haven road. He finds a the signals were in perfect, working l order, "and whether the banjo signals are observable or not the accident $ would have been prevented if the com- f panv's ralcB had not been violated." Ill Makes Sorry Record. Ho declares the number of violations 11 of rules by employees "makes a sorry II record." I Engineer Millor was arrested on a Rf bench warrant this afternoon and if pleaded not guilty beforo the superior If court. Bench warrants have boon is l;L sued for Adams nnd Murray. It is said h they will be brought into court toll to-ll morrow, y In his finding the coroner says of it Engineer Miller: 1 "The lives of a large number of I people were in Lis care, and he was Ijjj in duty bound to take no chance and J'j incur no risks. Engineor Miller was I aware the late train was ahead and jj that it was imperative and his duty to $ have bad his train uuder perfect con-jj con-jj trol, ready to stop at a signal of j danger. Miller approachod the banjo I signal set at danger jUBt north of the f wreck at a reckless rate of speed." I Conductor's Duty. I Pogarding Conductor Bruce Adams of !j the Bar Harbor express, Coroner Mix I say 8: S "It was clearly his duty (after the g tram had been stopped) to get away fc from danger at once, and clearly his S duty to have left a competent flagman a behind and at once proceed." jj Of Flagman Murray of the Bar Har-V Har-V bor the coroner says: h "Tt is claimed that he did not "have f time to 0 back the required distanco fi before being called in by a signal eiven 5 by the engineer aud before he could & place his torpedoes aud light, his fuse. H From all the testimony T find directly 5 to the contrary. He did not go im- mediately out when the train came to fi a stop. He did not endeavor to go $ back tho required distance and he did 1 not set his torpedo or light, his .fuses." |