>1 ' Six killedIand a score or more
,linjured was the awful toll of the
I
pounding over the bridge on the Henry C. Sherer“, A. N Cllfk
Saug'atuck road loosened the Robert M. Wolfe. Charlen G Bo.
arrible wreck of the Springfieldfiewy masonry on the north side 111111111111 and other: from The Not-
express train, near the Westport
fond Saugatnck railroad statiori,
.,whioh occurred at about 4 :45
'Qicloclt this afternoon when thew
.11 simil- 11314. blew
lit the fewiW 311-1; cent: of
. the. 1111:1111 Station.
$11311th «momma oVER
‘ own-ton.
. 31.1
The tiain was going at terrific '
spobd When it struck the switch
The.en¢ine bounded over the
, 11" frog; but ‘the "tank of the 'tender
was thrown from the trucks and
crashed doW11 the embankment
The engine went on track three
for fully one hundred yards,
crossing the bridge where it was
thrown from the rails. tipping
over to the right and half way
doWn the embankment. The bag-
gage car, directly behind the en-
gine and one ‘~ passenger coach,
forged ahead of the telescoped en-
gine by the terrific” momentum
and sidcnwiped the engine an it
passed. Those cars remaintd on
the traclen. The nix remaining
cars were thrown from ' the
tracks, but did not turn over.
ENGINEER AND FIREMAN
' . KILLED.
When the engine was thrown
from tlie tracks on the went side
of the bridge the boiler exploded
killing the engineer nnd {iron-inn
oi the trnin and setting the car
j just behind the locomotiye nfire.
It was in thin car that thone killed
met their terrible death: In on
instant the coach binned up 11nd
it was fully 1 half an hour before
the (lumen could be controlled.
The only pernonn who met death
' ‘1 injured to
engineer or the ill-tam uproot.“
' and bent like so much wire. The
were mono who Worn too‘htlly ,
which canned that part support- walks rush‘ed *0 the scene and
ing track one,‘or the pencen¢er1dld Infill}? commendable “"1“
track going cunt. to collspne 111111
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1.. mbloimr “in?“ w’moobnu totlle 11mm
Gilt-m Wmfio «11¢l1e1! mas; rim .
oiwre‘clnge; on heavy nee! gird. 311211 111.111» TURNED 1N.
Se” breaki in main while the din noon on the wreck took
big rallroo rails wet}. twintedlphce me cool headed jpemm
turned in the fire alarm {It Walt-
abutment wan jnmmed way not
of plumb and several of thé big
stone blocks were thrown from
their cement beds to the road be
0W.
WINDOWS scintrrnnnn BY
EXPLOSION.
g1by Chief Louis Fanning. was
noon on the ncene. It was necen-
nary to lay n hone almost a quer—
ter of a mile to the nearest
hydrant. Chief Forming quickly
realized the terrible importance
5
—
ing the accident was one of ter- George W 3538””. of the
ror land so shocked the few eyefl South Norwnlk fire geputmcnt
witnesses that they could barely for annictance. Chief Bogurdus
tell 'oi it; The Vploelomoi the immediately ordered out the P111»
boiler on the locomotive was ten, nnm H°'° “Pill? W389“ and
”52' Window: ‘ Quarter of u w‘d‘hD’IV“ 31:13“? 1; Holman
r teeie ‘-nccom
mile away were Shattered and on t e neat.
debris was thrown for l great din- punind by Amount Chm” Hm‘
. «Chief A; 115'
tance. The terrific report could 'Y 3‘9““, J!" GK
be heard for a mile or more and 1 Winchester, Arthur Lindebnr',
Edward McGowan and nth.“
brought hundredn of people to
the ncene. When the noise £10m hey hurried to the scene m
the explosion had nubnlded the they certainly did yoomnn ”r”
air was pregnant with the ”M1 - ‘
screams and 31011111 of the injnr-I REMOVING THE DE”)
ed 11nd dying and nhontn of they mince the deed could be rm
frightened mod and nerenmn of moved from the“ burning Web
the terrified women. The 111-1 it we: necelsnry to extinguish
11111er all but tour inocuded in qunte facilities at hand 11nd Vi,
bodies were not recovered for boys arrived just in time
lolly an hour; clot in clamoring tll‘o deed
RELIEF BAND ORGANIZED.; ‘ dunno for 11111 11111111»...
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mangle in mtonn¢no1nn non: WW‘ 1111. ”M W“?
~ vi the Sentinel retort-1'
1:9”.
in gluing the injured first old.
,ungtbennnrrymgtlwmtntheir-'
’port and the department. headed
The scene immediately follow-10f speed and telephoned to Chief ‘
ntnrted immediately and fortn- the blue and with 1111 WG-1
1 ‘ rilitn do 111ml mm 11111111 over in the
getting out of the first coach in poor pron-lire on. it took fully I T
the rear of the locomotive. The hull hour. The South Nomglh’
an"
alter not all
soon 1y 1elepbono by The sentinel
and ntelod that up to 8: 30 o ’olock Cor-
011011 Phelu'n, of Bridgeport had not
yet him. The bodlon were burned
to ouch 1111 extent on to moire honed-
mamas
THE DEAD.
The engineer. name unknown.
The lie-mull. 111111111 nnknown.
‘- Minnow-1 11111111111111 dud tram insur-
Foul woolemmmed no budiy so 110 111. m ‘0; the “a.“ m ’1’,“
mm ldontlnonuomlmlmo lined 1111 an m not. or the Shit.
11. 1mm ~10: 11 «lineups or our 1 mile elder
Inplly. soother mm employee 1m - cram turned up on moiety
9 ullnugerwto'otn‘rlewoltbcmek.
""W‘ on», °’ w’m” m1, At shoot 1sz onlook one wrecker
001111,. (motored 1°“ osmc {111111 Bridgeport and unotber
11.1 0. Franklin! Bostoyeollur bone from Stanford und ‘mmw‘tely not to
Rectum. work to remove the mags,
Edward Benin, employee or tho Tnlno Del-yea. 1
11.111911311411111 out badly, tram Worces~ 11111111. or the trulnn from the out
our Mun. ‘ 1W5” delayed end 11101900111111; from
alolm Milvlu, colored, of Com- N" York were held up cl: m N?”
~ ‘ walk, whllo trains from the out come
brldxe, Mun; porter, ckull fractured: 1101111 on the “It bound traokn. Alter
Elliot Harrison. colored. o porter. the wreck. trulnn bound for Now” York
from New York not badly hurt.
were clapped and the passengers who
., Bernice! Cleaver. colored, a porter. were on the “Muted train end who
woro'bot injured were taken ubosrd
and their loos-m noubndzaorrowmlly.
Wines Dom communication In-
demoted.
Wines and telegraph poles m
molten down. end both 111011111111 end
telephone mainline woe later
A college Mont, 11m refuted. ruptod'lor hovel-cl 11mm (allowing the
' tone brown. wreck. 11mm from Walloon-t and
W South Nowell: moo cum out. in»
' ‘ ‘. “ I » medically and set to work to flour
bond. it bad been Invert!) from the » . ’
Ibody 111 the mint m m withered m. “m“ ”m Wt Wm" W
1111 by the intense host. ,1 took the
11;. ‘
from Brooklyn. N. Y., very bully hurt
on hind end No.1
willlm Wobbnr, or New Haven,
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51nd. 1.1.11.1. oanlllnxlord.l1stIly1'
hurt in teen and elicit.
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the outor world.
Tho «alumni. 111 Roi-we’ll: one
not Millennium to facilitate the South Not-unlit 1m 11114111116. The inn-
2:“: the victim in m, 1.11.1 been! or the nominal Wu 11mm
1. ed 111.111.1111 by exalted 111011 endgam-
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55 won. lbl
Stuntman into communication lvlth ‘
til. anemone flotilla!” till Noflvellr
Many Norwnlhcrn at Scene.
Frank 0. Booker, at Falrfleldwave.
nuo ruched to Baugntuck, live min
utes after the neoldent occurred. 1-19
mm that the rails broke at the
end the 1011;111:101, hnook'lng on the vol
follow. and noon the m prov-
ed no met 111111 the hollow blew up.
nodding tho neonatal-ion. the boiler
noon and 1111 other uppllnnoeo m the
lott for a icon three hundred yards.
Nomi: Meotaomntlim. Run Truth
He won worried over the wreck por-
homily, he eluted, an his cousin,
George anchor, atom-ton an engineer
on this truln. end he vino uncertain
whether he would be on it or 1101. Ad
11m took over run; any South Nor
wullears. As the train pulled into the
mile poet signal] loot out or the 81111-
ntueb nation, one could Inc the
biasing conohoa. tho thousands o! poo-
plo lined up on’both eldon or the
trnokn and the wnnokuzo. The thin
slowed down 11nd oil boom! for the
wreck hopped, on. To the- lolt won
the wreckage, the couch“ etlll 1111m-
lng, the ammo on the other nldo ply.
created the 'onlooknr. Deed bodice.
were token iron the touches nod preo-
ed in Wow other mm pod-
.1 were token by! union to
the W and Howell: 1111le
tule. ”mucouldbcknnm. no
mm. were lining bronchi: into the
Nowell: 119191111 by 111110..
The ”bloom unfinished. pieced
were 11.111111; tavern!“
and rullroud elm! wine in thrown
out or (111311 The min bnlwlu horn
bridge creeping at Buumtnck avenue ‘-
J The lender will V
i lei-bed otter and landed on the boilers.
lruins were late. The 11:15 train trom -
in: the Jlimo, Md 1mm of horror .
down in the Jumble, and til
911110810110! the engine
11.9.1.5. cur Turned
vulven 1111;114:1111: on
boiler burntlné. me ill
zine woe hurled for
"lemme: to the lot!» 1
grass for s. annulled m
blackened Wifit the w
The corn latched to the rip
named on the loft. Ti
11 was-«11y reported in»
twelve injured were bro
Norwulk 11111111111. ,1.
Phy‘nlcllns Called to
Every doctor in mm w‘
ed and u upeolnl car we
Stamford with u detachinon
goons sod doom-n. Brl ‘
lent uld.1 1 1 1
. ryoms‘oogllen to about
About 1:50 Obi!!! more»
due or theme «Went
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Norwalk Chronicler