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Show j FIRST PHOTO OF FRIGHTFUL TRAIN WRECK AT BRIDGE? ORT, CONNv; 21 KILLED, 70 HURT BRIDGEPORT, Conn, July jl4. Twenty-one persons were Icilled and seventy Injured when the federal ex press, a fast train over the New Haven Ha-ven railroad, bound from Washington for Boston, left the viaduct passing through this city and plunged to the street below Engine and cars were smashed in an appalling fashion and wreckage was scattered 200 or more feet from the track side. The wreck was due to the engineer taking a cross-over at a speed estimated at sixty six-ty miles an hour, when the time card called for a speed not exceeding fifteen fif-teen miles an hour, according to officials offi-cials of the rallioad. A great mass' of debr.s was piled up on the streets beside the viaduct in an instant Fire started in this, but the Bridgeport de IMI.....U II. .-. . I -71 partment quickly put this out, and the men lent assistance to rescue those whose cries of agony filled the ar. The passengers on the train Included the members of, the St. Louis National league baseball team, who were on their way to Boston for a series of games. The ball players -were in the last Pullman and escaped injury, going on to Boston in a special train |