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Show SI w w o BfB Ef6fa Bpta "sa ti i w w a iH I - itIii1i ffiinniTifT fill iiiipd An haup I j ' ' ' '"'" ' i ' . ' - t - ' HI 1 - m HH Fortyfour Injured Are in the BospitalEn gineer Blamed Bridgeport. Conn., ( July 11. The Federal express onjtho New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad, carrying car-rying passengers without change from Washington to Boston, plunged down a 20-foot embankment here today, to-day, whlle running 60 miles an hour. Of' the 100 passengers that went went down in the first six cars scarcely one escaped death or Injury. In-jury. Sixteen bodies had been taken out of the twisted wreckage by noon, including the engineer and fireman, who were so mutljated that It is evident evi-dent they must have met instant death. This probably completes the death' list. Forty-four injured are in the hospitals and nearly a score more rccehed Injuries not severe enough to prevent them from continuing contin-uing their journey, A partial list of the -dead: Engineer A M Custis.- Fireman W A. Ryan. Mrs. Gwendolyn F.Rogers. iFour unknown women. v One-'unident'ified' ctjlld. Switch vfauped" Acc1dont. A cross-over -switch Installed on the viaduct caused the wreck, which occurred just outside the city. The train was late and the engineer was drhlng fast to make up time. When the heavy vestlbuled train of nine cars struck tho switch at full speed, the locomotive leaped, rocked and i.novnrl rlrnerorfnf sir nfirs rinwn the bank. The coupling, broke 'between the sixth and seventh cais, leaving three sleepers upright on the embankment, em-bankment, two of them still on the xaljs. The wreck occurred just before dawn, when 150 passengers occupied the berths and the one day coach Just behind the locomotive threo cars were piled, one above the other. At the bottom of the heap was the day coach, and most of the dead wero taken from this car. The wreckage did not catch fire. Many of the dead were so mutilated that Identification piogressed slowly. Two babies were found, one with its head severed and tho other impaled on a splinter. The positions of the hodies of the engine crew Indicated that both had jumped. Tho members of the SL Louis baseball team, after assisting the police and firemen in the rescue work, boarded a special train for Boston at 6 '30. About 50 passengers al6o continued their journey on tho special The Federal express ran with every berth and every seat full last night. G. S Rogers an electrician sergeant ser-geant in the United States coast artillery, ar-tillery, who had been transferred to Maine, was killed with his wife and two children. Bridgeport, Conn., July 11. Many lives, probably a score, were crush-1 crush-1 ed out In an Instant, and probably I three times as many persons were I frightfully hurt when, early today, the Federal express, running from Washington, D. C to Boston over tho New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad, was hurled over the viaduct hero by an open switch. Fire broke out in the wreckage, but tho Bridgeport Bridge-port fire department quickly put this out,' and the men lent assistance to rescue the Injured. Ambulances and doctors hastily summoned did their best to snve those who were under the debris The express left Harlem river an hour late It was going at high speed j when the open switch, a mile and a 1 half west of the Bridgeport station, was struck. The switch was near the tower at the junction of Fairfield avenue and State street. There was one tremendous crash, an instant of Intense silence, and then groans and shrieks of tho wounded. The wreck I was almost complete, five cars hav-I hav-I ing gone over and only three cars of the long train being left on the track. The engine, twisted into junk, was two hundred feet south of Fairfield avenue Behind were the mall and ba"gguge cars, while the Pullmans and I coaches were In a mass In Ihe rear. The day coach was entirely crush-ed crush-ed and in it the deaths were many, five bodies being removed at orfce. ' Three Pullmans -were almo3t completely com-pletely crumpled up, but appearances were that the passengers were In a I measure protected by the strepgth of the cars. With firemen, policemen: nnd doctois working as fast as possible, possi-ble, the dead and injured were laid : out on the lawn of Mrs. B. A. Hornn j in Fairfield avenue. j As fast as the ambulances arrived j '" Injured were sent to tho hospl- tals. -uj the wreckage of the engine was found a body thought to be that of the engineer, who had died at his post, A baby, about a year old, was found in one car. It was alive and had become separated from Its mother, moth-er, Mrs. W. V. Clephane of Cherry Creek, Maryland, and Its aunt. Miss Beatrice Clophane, both of whom escaped es-caped with minor Injuries. In another anoth-er coach Mrs. Whatoum of Philadelphia Philadel-phia was taken out' alive, but her child was dead under her. Mrs. L. W. Page of Washington, D. C, who was with her maid and child, escaped with minor hurts. The members of the SL Louis National Na-tional league baseball team, on their way to Boston, who wero in the last Pullman, all escaped Injury. Every one of the players -was thrown out of his berth when the crash came. Without waiting to dress completely the players hurried from their car, climbed down the, viaduct and spent a strenuous two hours helping railroad rail-road men, policemen and surgeons at their work In the wreckage. As a matter of fact, the mistake of a switching crew In tho New York yards probably saved the lives of most of the players When the team boarded the train out of Philadelphia they were in the fourth car from the engine, hut when the cars were taken tak-en off the ferry, after circling Manhattan Man-hattan island, the switchmen accidentally acci-dentally put their coach at the end of the train, All of the team's baggage, bag-gage, Including their uniforms, was lost in the wrecked baggage car. Among the seriously injured were Unknown woman, eye gouged out, face terribly bruised, leg fractured. Michael Furey. conductor of train, New Rochelle, N. Y.; fracture of skull David Klssner, New York, brake-man; brake-man; fracture of left leg, other injuries in-juries Mrs. James B. Joyce, Maury, a suburb su-burb of Washington, fracture of left wrist, back injured Sarah C. Czalabro, Philadelphia; head badly cut; condition serious. George Rogers, Washington, D. C; fractured arm, severe bruises. His jyoung son was killed and another son, Frank, badly hurt. Mrs. Rogers is thought to be one of the women dead. Charles Frazier, Navertree Green, Md.; scaldod and Internal injuries. Mrs. Emily Wilson, Philadelphia-,' fractured left rib and leg Miss Bertha Monroe. Cllftondalo, Mass, Injuries to spine. Mrs Mary McCann, Philadelphia, scalp wound, fracture of the arm. 00 |