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Show FtVt RILLED 11 FREIGHT WRECK ti CONNECTICUT Four Freight Trains Pile Together on the New Haven Road . L. " FBAUt FIELD, Conn., June T. One of th moat disastrous freight wrecks la tha history tf tha Maw Haven railroad occurred near her early today whea four freight train piled into each other, oth-er, killing five mea. In juring at least seven, two fatallr, and leaving two unaccounted un-accounted for. The dead: VV1LUAM LAUBIE, engineer; ttart ford, ( on a. ' KOBKKT OATES, fireman. London. ROBERT BEALHY, eagineer, Loa-don, Loa-don, " r- HOPTMAK, brakemaa. - Piremaa,- name aokaowa, acalded to death. Tha accident happeuer a few mla-utea mla-utea after midnight ta aa isolated spot. Tha trains in the wreck were three extras, ex-tras, aad tha -regular New York fast freight.. Oa of th extras jumped the oaatbound track and araahed into a second sec-ond train which waa passing oa tba westbound track. Trains running close behind eaeh of tba two fextrae eraahed into tha wreckage almost immediately. Crash followed crash. Two boilers exploded simultaneously aad th wreckage wreck-age caught fire. Aa ambulance aad a trainload of physicians, phy-sicians, nurses and police were sent from Bridgeport to care for th wounded, wound-ed, who, aa fast aa they were takea from beneath the care were lent to Bridgeport hoapitala., NEW HAVEN, Conn., Juno T. In a statement given out toilsy at the nrTice of the New York, New Haven A llrt ford railroad the- accident is attributed to the 'failure of u engineer to'Obwrve a rgnsl. ' J h iiiwm.rt, S'lda that the culm... a ei ' '''y is e'ij.' 1neea ali1 i i i r a-' - ' |