3 (its: nooIonn;I:o__nIIn‘EnIIIL.- The Trial Trip-ofthe New Brook— “IVIliéBostonI-Route' Results in a smaSII-LLD. Railroad Officials Receive a Shak— .- 53.58:: in: up- A bad “starter." . This expresses the result of the trial trip of the special train over the new line from Brooklyn to Boston, Satur- day. The special, consisting of engine No. 52, a palace car and dining room coach, left Brooklyn Saturday morning at 11 o’clock, for a trial run to Hawley- ville. On the train were President Sidney Starbuck, Vice President and General Manager William H. Steven- son, Supt. F. C. Payne, Road Master W. H. Clark and Ass’t Road Master John Kilcourse, all of the Housatoni‘c’ railroad; President Charles B. Ted—‘ castle, of the New England Terminal Company; I. D. Barton, General Su- perintendent, C. M. Pratt 1st Vice President, Benjamin Norton 2d Vice President, and H. M. Smith Traffic Manager, all of Long Island R. R. ; J. R. McCauley Managing Director, N. E. R. R., and A. R. Dodge, of the Standard Oil Company. Conductor Charles Vaughn had charge of the train and Walter Comstock was engi- neer. The train reached Oyster Bay about noon and was run onto the steamer Cape Charles and quickly ferried across the sound to Wilson Point,a dis- tance of 14 miles. Here the train was run onto the Hon- satonic line and the trip to Hawley- ville was made in 37 minutes, which is about 10 minutes faster than the Pitts- field express makes the run from South Norwalk to Hawleyville. A short stop was made here, during which time Supt. Payne left the pas- senger car and got into the engine cab, and then the train started on the return trip, to Brooklyn, with the intention of making a better run between Hawley- ville and Wilson Point,than the 37 min- utes, made on the up trip. Everything went well until the train reached Branchville, where the acci- dent occurred. ‘ Conductor Beeman’s mixed train, which leaves Norwalk at 2:28, and is due in Branchville at 3:02, had orders to pass the special at that place. It was a few minutes late, and was switching onto the siding, and all but the last two passenger cars were on, when the special came in sight. ' Engineer Comstock, of the special, saw the mixed train on the siding, with the two cars projecting over the main track and knew at once that an accident was inevitable. He instantly applied his air brakes, .but with a loud report they, as is so often the case, snapped between the engine and the first car,rendering them useless. He then reversed his engine and together with Supt. Payne, and his fireman, jumped, in order to save their lives. Neither, fortunately, were injured. ‘ The engine struck the passenger coach at an angle, near the forward end, and continued on to the tail end of the car, ripping a long strip the whole length out of its side. The force of the shock broke the con- nection with the last car, and threw 'the next to last car over onto its side, off the track, and the passengers on top of each other, into a mixed up mass on the under side, but strange to say, not one was seriously hurt, although several ladies fainted, and one man had his coat ripped up the back, it catching on the seat as he was shot over onto the side of the car. While the engine was ploughing the side of the cars, it was all the time run- ning into a wedge formed by the hori- zontal position of the passenger car and the main track, which caused the rails to spread, and throwing the en- gine off the track. A wrecking train was immediately telegraphed for from Danbury and in a short time it arrived and the work of clearing the track commenced. Gen- eral Manager Stevenson, himself, di- recting the work. It required the united efforts of three engines to pull the engine of the special train out of a bank of mud and sand into which it had plunged after leaving the track. The only damage done to the engine was a slight bending of the cow-catcher, and the scraping off of about all the paint on its forward parts. It was taken to South Norwalk during the night, and will be repaired at once. ' The passenger car was pulled over to the side of the track and lies there, up- side down. The work of clearing the track was pushed as fast as possible, but it was 8:30 o’clock before it was again in or- der, or nearly six hours after the acci- dent occurred. The first train down was the Pitts- field express, due at South N orwalk about 8 o’clock, which reaches that city at 9:50 p. m. Conductor Smith’s train, from Dan- bury, due. here at 4.09 p. m., did not arrive until 11:30 o’clock. Traffic was at a standstill for nearly six hours, trains being stalled at most of the stations either side. of Branch- ville. WEEKLY - NOR-WALK - GAZETTE. The up Pittsfield'express which leaves South Norwalk at 4.33 got as, far. as , Cannons. where it .staid'until 9:35. The 5:14'train from Norwalk was stalled at Wilton and did not move until 9:40 o’clock, and the 6.33 from Norwalk, did not leave until 12:39. . . It was wonderiul tliat none were killed, and miraculous that not even one was seriously injured, and the prompt reversal of his engine by En. gineer Walter Comstock,of the special, 5 was probably the one thing that pre- vented an apalling disaster. A DAILY GAZETTE reporter inter- viewed Vice President Stevenson Sat- urday night at South Norwalk, and in reply to the question as to who was to blame for the accident the Col. said: “It was no one’s fault; the air brakes on our train broke and the engine crashedinto the next to last bar of the mixed train. It was an accident, liable to occur at any place,and at any time.” A Double Track Imperative. The very narrow escape from a terri- lfle accident at Branchville, Saturday afternoon, emphasizes the imperative necessity of double tracking the Dan- ury branch of the Housatonic railroad. Its enormous present freight and pas- senger business, which is daily increas- ing in volume, renders this a need that cannot longer be postponed with prop- er regard for the safety of passengers and the enormous property values en- trusted to this corporation. Probably no railroad in Connecticut, if in all New England, has had such a sudden and tremendous increase of both pas- senger and freight transportation thrust upon it, enough to heavily tax the resources of a double tracked road, and yet by its extraordinarily skillful management, it has gotten on with it all without a hitch or break, until Sat- urday’s experience made plain the pos- sibilities and the liabilities of serious accident on a track so over-crowded. The new through line from Brooklyn} to Boston, inaugurated on Saturday, and of which so much is hoped and ex- pected, will only still more greatly crowd the single track of this road, and still more greatly enhance the liability to disaster. 2 Let then,a second track be put down at the earliest pos- sible moment. This is the concurrent demand. not of this Journal, but of many of the best patrons of the road and the general traveling and freight- ing public. Every possible effort was made Sat- urday evening by the officers of the road, who fortunately chanced to be on the derailed train, to get the cars on the track again and all the stalled trains in motion at the earliest possible mo- ment; nevertheless it took time and much inconvenience to passengers in- evitably resulted from the delay. The passengers out of New York on the 5:02 express were left at South Nor- walk, kicking and growling till late into the evening, while those leaving New York an hour earlier, were stalled on the track up the road. The down trains from Danbury shared the same fate and Mr. F. J. Mallory, who was on the down Danbury and halted at the scene of the accident for six mortal hours, says the chief complaint of the passen- gers on his train was that the dispatch- er at Danbury should have started their train out, when he presumably knew there was no chance of it getting through without a long delay. There were women with crying children, sleepy and hungry, as were most of the other passengers, who could have pro- cured food and been comfortable had they been kept at Danbury until the road was clear. Thena good deal of complaint, he says, was made by through New York passengers because they were not permitted to board ‘the through Lenox express at the point of the accident, and so reach the city that night, without paying asecond fare. But all these irritations were trivial, in the light of the one most joyous fact that’not a soul was killed or even in- jured. Had Lots of Money. Mrs. Elizabeth Jones, who died here suddenly on August 28th, and who had been for some years a town charge, is now found to have had $1,300 in the Southport Savings Bank, besides $200 more in cash in an old rag-bag. That Mrs. Jones’ Money. It transpires that the $1,300 deposited in the Southport Savings Bank to the credit of Mrs. Jones, was put there by her son Charley on his discharge from the navy, it being his prize money. The $200 found among the old lady’s effects here was no doubt from the in- terest of this deposit, which she was authorized to draw and fuse. Our selectmen have relinquished all claim to the bank deposit, and her son gives back to the town the $200. A set of old family relic silver teaspoons were also found,.and these her son greatly prizes. He, with his wife, will return to their home in Vermont as soon as Judge Austin can settle up the ordered administration. VA VA V¥ Catarrh in New England. ' Ely’s Cream Balm gives satisfaction to every one using it for catarrhal troubles. —G. K. IIellor, Druggist, Worcester, Mass. ,Ibelieve Ely’s Cream Balm is the best article for catarrh ever offered the public—Bush 8: Co., Druggists, Worcester, Mass. An article of real merit—C. P. Al- den, Druggist, Springfield, Mass. Those whouse it speak hi lily of it.— Geo. A. Hill, Druggist,» Springfield, Mass. Cream Balm has given satisfactory results—W. P. Draper, Druggist, Springfield, Mass. AIRAILROAD PRESIDENT AS- "“ ' SAULTED. President Tedcastle Insults a Drum— ‘ mer and Gets a Swollen Nose. As General Manager Stevenson was standin‘g on the platform at Branch? ville, Saturday evening, directing the work of removing the wreck of the two trains that collided at that place, a stranger approached him and asked him why he didn’t telegraph for an en- gine to come from Bridgeport via South N orwalk and make up a train and take the people waiting at Branchville, and delayed by the accident, to their desti- nation. Col. Stevenson replied that he was doing all in his power to get things straightened out, and traffic resumed. This did not seem to satisfy the man, who continued talking to the Colonel, and offering suggestions as to the best way to remove the wreck." At this point, Mr. Charles B. Tedcas- tle,§president of the N. E. Terminal Company, and one of the party of rail- road men who were aboard the special train which ran into the mixed train, stepped up and joined in the discus- sion. The man not knowing who Ted- castle was asked what he had to do with the matter, and the reply of the presi- dent, who was somewhat “ excited," would not look well in print. Just at this time the road was cleared and the Pittsfield express came along, and the man, who was going to South Norwalk, got aboard, first telling Mr. Tedcastle that he would “ see ” him aboard the train. A few minutes after the train pulled out from Branchville, Mr. T. walked through the smoking car, and the man seeing him, rose from his seat and shot out his right arm, and a moment later the somewhat “ excited” president of the N. E. T. Company, was stretched out over a seat. . ' Passengers here interfered, and the combatantswere separated, after which Mr. Tedcastle discovered that he had a badly swollen nose, the blood from which had spoiled his suit of light clothes, and a broken watch chain. The man was pointed out to Conduc- tor Comstock, who notified a brake- man to watch him' and prevent him leaving the ‘ car. . Hearing this conversation, and when the train was nearing the Electric Light sta- tion‘ he picked up his grip and umbrella and started for the front platform, in- tending to jump from the train. Con- ductor Comstock rushed after him, and with the assistance of the brakeman dragged him back into the car. As the train was running at a high rate of speed, the man, had he jumped, would, without doubt. have been killed. At South Norwalk he was turned over to two ofiicers- and taken to the police . station, where he gave his name as John Seaman, and his residence Bridgeport. He is well known in South Norwalk, and is a drummer for a picture frame house in New Haven. He was placed under $25 bonds to appear this morn- ing, Mr. Tedcastle having preferred a charge of assault against 'him. A gen. tleman named Allen, from Stamford, who was on the train, and who witness- ed the scene on the Branchville plat- form,and who also had no acquaintance with him, gave security for him. Seaman’s story, (and he is backed up by several witnesses), is that he was standing on the platform talking to 001. Stevenson, when Tedcastle, whom he did not know. stepped up and com- menced to abuse him. He asked him what right he had to join in the conver- sation, and received a lot of dirty names as a reply. The train came along~ and all got aboard, he first telling Ted- castle that he would attend to him on the train. He admitted that he did “at- tend” to him, and in the most approved ‘McAulifl‘e-Gibbons fashion, but 'claim- ed that he was justified in so doing by reason of having been, without cause, grossly insulted. _ From what the DAILY GAZETTE re- porter could learn from eye-witnesses, Mr. Tedcastle was excitedly and thoughtlessly in the wrong, but even that would not justify the severe pugil- istic punishment meted out to him. Curiously, this was the only personal in- jury to anyone resulting from the acci- dent to the ill-starred Special train. At the trial, Monday morning, Mr. Seaman plead guilty and paid a fine of $7 and costs. Double—track the Road. EDITOR GAZETTE : The collision on the Danbury and Norwalk railroad on Saturday after- noon last, shows, as you say, Mr. Ed- itor, the absolute necessity of double- tracking the road between Wilson Point and Bethel, especially in view of the increased train service required by the addition of the Oyster Bay route to the line. The mind can be double-tracked ex- cept at two points very cheaply, as they will not be compelled to buy addition- al right of way, enough having been purchased when the road was first built for two tracks. 'By all means let the double-tracking commence at once. . STOCK-HOLDER. I Was a Fool. Yes, they said I was a fool not to try Sulphur Bitters for Rheumatism, from whichI had suffered over two years; but I had tried so many doctors and medicines without getting relief that I was discouraged. am now on my fourth bottle and almost cured. I was a. fool that I didn’t try that won- derful remedy before—C. G. Pratt, Manchester, N. H. The Great Bicycle Ride. The cable news from Paris in Sun- - day’s Herald has this bit of interesting news for the wheelmen : Our thousands of bicycle riders have nearly gone wild over the long-distance ride from Paris to Brest and return, which. was won by Charles Terront, who did the distance, 747 miles, in sev- enty-one hours and a half. Terront never slept during the ride,and his onl refreshments were a few cups of boui - lon. It appears that on the way a pneu- matic tire burst, delaying him an hour and a half and permitting Leval to head him. But in spite of the mishap ‘he ar- rived first by over three hours. , Five hundred velocipedists went out to meet him at Versailles and to form a guard of honor. Ten thousand people awaited his arrival at Porte Maillot. When he arrived the report was that he was asleep on the machine. Indeed, he bent over so that it looked much like it, but he was roused by the cheers. It was seen that he was merely making a pace at the winning post. He jumped lightly from the machine and signed the register in a firm hand. The Thief Captured. ‘ For some time past some ferocious animal has been devouring pigeons an chickens in the neighborhood of nght and Brush streets. Any number of J ohnnies with their guns, have watch- ed for it but it‘remained for “Charley" Littleton to be the hero of the hour. Littleton constructed a trap and set it one night last week, and in making his semi-hourly rounds, Friday afternoon, discovered that he had the offender. It proved to be a weasel and measured a foot and a half from the end of his beak to the tip of his tail. Cards were out for a reception and “weasel feast ” at Littleton’s residence Tuesday eve- ning, and the Knight and Brush street pigeons again roost on the sidewalk. ‘F—HQ An Ex— Representative Shot. Hearinganoise in the room where his wife was, Frank 'Ide, of North Woodstock, went up stairs Friday night, and 'found ex-Representative John F. Hibbard. The men clinched and Ide was downed. His sons then rushed in, and supposing that a burg- lar was pounding their father one of them fired his double-barrelled shot gun at Hibbard. Both shots took ef- fect in Hibbard’s back. About a week ago Hibbard and his wife separated. At this hour Hibbard’s condition is improving. ' Nash Found Guilty. Charles J. Nash, of Black Rock, was fined 87 and costs in the Bridgeport City court Saturday afternoon. He was charged with taking oysters from the-beds of the American Oyster Co., and was found uilty by Judge Kelsey. Oystermen in t is vicinit were great y interested in the case. ttorney J ud- son defended Nash. An appeal was taken to the next session of the crimi— gal common pleas court under bonds of 75. A Director Elected. The board of directors of the Consol- idated road met in New York Saturday and elected J. PierpontMorO'an to sue- ceed the late Mr. Miller. l\ r. Morgan is the well known banker of the firm of Drexel, Morgan & Co. of New York. ‘k———-—- Prompt relief in sick headache,_ diz- ziness, nausea, constipation, pain in the side, guaranteed to those using Carter’s Little Liver Pills. One a dose. Small price. Small dose. Small pill. , ' nmows. 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