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Show TRAIN WAS PUR- POSELY WRECKED Bad Accident at Mlddletown, Conn., Due to Removal of Spikes. Mlddletown, Conn., Aug. 28.. Of the sixty or more passengers who were hurt In tho wreck of the evening even-ing train over tho Vplln line of the Now York, New Haven & Hnrtford railroad last night, Abraham H. Brown of Hartford, who suffered an injury to his spine, died this triornlng. Tho d hospitals report that tho other pa- I tlonts are doing well. I Kjirly this morning Superintendent I Woodward of the Shcrt Lino division, w lip went to tho' scono of (ho dlsnstcr at Mammas, notified tho pollco there that he found on close inspection that the train had been purposely wreckod. "All the spikes of one mil, that nearest tho river, were pulled out and were lying around the track. They were- not damaged n bit by the wreck. Which would have been the natural re-.still re-.still ythey had been In their proper placrf at the time of the accident. Not ono was twisted or bent. "The spikes were pulled up from tho toll nearest tho bank or tho river and on both sides of thnt length of rail. My conclusion is that It was an attempt at-tempt to wreck tfo tialn. I cannot tell" whether the spikes or more thairono rull had been torn up, as the others I were covored with mud nnd debris." I Two baggage cars went down a thlr- I tj-root.embnnkmeiit and the first pas- . songer coach ran Into the derailed tender ten-der and was splintered, it was In this ' enr that most or the Injured were I found. J o |