Train wreck in Bridgeport kills 11 and injures many
Survivors recount horror as a Federal express derails on a viaduct near Bridgeport. The St Louis baseball team helped rescue victims while engineer Curtis and fireman Ryan were killed. Coroner Wilson leads the inquiry while 49 remain under care at Bridgeport and St Vincent hospitals.
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St. Louis
A. M. Curtis
Curtis
Federal Express
New York, New Haven and Hartford
Woodward
Bridgeport
George R. Sanders
Henry Bishop
Bridgeport Hospital
St. Vincent's Hospital
Clifford B. Wilson
Wilson
Trains misrouted missed orders near Bridgeport
The report suggests Curtis forgot orders to stop at Bridgeport and, used to the straight track, did not slow. He passed Fairfield over three miles west of Fairfield crossing at 3 29. The train hit the Fairfield avenue switch at 4 00 with a speed over a mile a minute. He should have reached Bridgeport at 2 19.
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Curtis
Bridgeport
Fairfield
Fairfield Crossing
Fairfield Avenue
Dog Barks for Help in Wreck of Baggage Car
W. D. Snow, a survivor at the Parker House, recalls a night crash that tore open a baggage car. He describes climactic efforts to free passengers, including pulling a man from a broken window wrapped in bedclothes and feared dead until uncovered.
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W. D. Snow
Parker House
Hyde Park Victim Has Broken Skull In Wreck
J. Frank Von Pfeiffer, 23, Hyde Park, son of Mrs E Katherine Von Pfeiffer of 34 McDonald street, was injured in the wreck with a fractured skull and is in a dangerous condition. He had just returned from a three weeks vacation in Pennsylvania and was known in Hyde Park for his former roles with Abcorn English Opera Company and as a valet for ex Governor Draper and for Lord Duncan of Scotland.
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J. Frank von Pfeiffer
E.katherine von Pfeiffer
McDonald Street
Hyde Park
von Pfeiffer
Pennsylvania
Abcorn English Opera Company
Draper
Lord Duncan
Scotland
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U. S. Fish Commission
Stamford
Washington
Clarence Hemingway
Hemingway
New Haven
W. A. Ryan
Ryan
Roger Bresnahan
Bresnahan
James Horan
Daniel Thompson
Fire Department of
Phillips Blensfield
John Prouty
James C. Horan
Conn
John Francis von Pfeiffer
Riker-Jaynes
Houghton & Dutton
West 25Th Street
New York City
Boston
Jordan Marsh Company
Poulite Leoal
Jamas
Hanover
Portland
New York
Seymour
West 45Th Street
Grand Central Station
Fifth Avenue
Anderson & Price CO
Frederick
Hall
Mgr
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