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THE FARMER -S g WEATHER FORECAST E Fair, cooler tonight and H j 5r tomorrow. - S can be obtained by NEWS BOYS, 3 'mmiuuiimmiumimmutz VOL. 47. NO. 164 BRIDGEPORT, CONN., THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1911 PRICE 0N CENT o'clock evenings, at the Herald News ST Stand, 140 FAIRFIELD AVENUE. iters unite Cdnnnnnnn Expre Authorities at Washington Move to Enquire in to Bridgeport Horror Bodies of Dead Identified and -Remains of Most Shipped to Friends or Relatives Impression Growing that Cause of Disaster Was In herent In Method of Op- eration Crossing 1 Was Dangerous, and Rules May Have Been Habit ually Violated. All the identifications of the 14 victims of the Federal Express wreck, several of which were tin certain have been verified. . The following Is the authentic list of victims of the worst railroad disaster in the history of the New Haven road for the last half cen tury: " , . ' - Sylvester Bennett, Soldiers - Home, Washington, D. C. C W. Christie, 2021 Rittennouse St., Philadelphia, Penn. - A. M. Curtis, engineer, Tin ton , avenue, Bronx, New York. Arthur Dunnigan, colored, West 'Chester, Pa. - ' Edmund J. Goff, freight flag . man, 55, 254 Lloyd street,' Fair Haven.' Conn. -- George Hubert Hartman, aged eon if Mrs. Lois Brf Hartman, XewfleM, "N". J, mother in Bridge port hospital. y Mrs. Stella G. 3Ioriey, Bar Har ' bor. Me. -Mrs. Virginia Palmer, 61, Rich mond, Va, : Gwendolyn P. , wife of Sergeant CL E. Rogers, U- 8. A Dunkirk, O. , Louise, one month, three days, , ' daughter Sergeant -Kogers. W. A. Ryan, fireman, aged 27, ?3S E. 154th atreet. .- ' George R. Saunders, 55, ' . New Ixmdon, Conn, - V A. Sciarra, laborer, employed Milford. N. IL, home, 11S5 Pierce street, Philadelphia. . Helena B. Walcott, wife of Dr. ' Charles D. Walcott, Washington, y r. o. . ' Not until today were all the iden--,nIcatIons verified. The last one to be made was that of Stella G. Morley. whose husband arrived before .day break from Bar Harbor, Me., seeking his wife. He knew she was- on the Federal Express, and when she did not appear and he had no word, from timr. he concluded that she must be t a man r - the .unidentified dead. A glance at her features, which i were not badly mutilated, sufficed to i convince him that his suspicions were i well founded. He was too much ov i ercome to wait at the morgue, but . wandered out into the early morning, t promising to return by . noon to make t arrangements for the disposition of ' the remains. Morley said his wife had a trunk and bag somewhere. He I was going to meet the train when he heard the news of the wreck, and af- ter scrutinising dispatches in many 1 papers for her name among the in jured, h decided that she .must have been 'killed and hurried here, f Th two bodies taken out of the .wreck yesterday for 'there were' but lof victims 14 instead of 15 as was j Reported late yesterday were quickly identified. ! Flaeman Edmund B. Goff of Fair 1 Haven, whose body the railroad men i -were certain was buried in the wreck- late met instant death in a most hor- lrible manner. One of the massive ? stones torn from the viaduct by the j plunging cars crashed -through the debris and burled Goff's head and f shoulders into the earth. Goff was a passenger In the day coach. He was ? keeping cool with coat and hat laid ' off when the crash came. The coat I with his railroad pass was found early Tuesday. Mrs. Goff did not see the I body at the morgue. Friends thought I it wise that she should not. The identification was made positive .'through belongings of the dead flag- f man found in Ms ciotmng. ! The second of the two bodies locat ed yesterday could not be taken out much before $ o'clock though it was i definitely located just after 3 o'ciock. i The bodies of both Goff and the oth t er man, later Identified as Bennett, 5 were in such condition that it was ! apparent death came instantly to both t of them. Nothing was found in the .wreckage either yesterday, or today, to give rise to the belief that anyone : wa burled alive beneath the wreck- age more than 2 hours after the crash. Relatives have responded to mes sages relative to C. W. Christie of Philadelphia, who was traced through tan identification card found on the bodr. Gradually the number of bodies at ", the morgue is dwindling. The bodies 1 of Mrs. Rogers and her babe were 1 shinned this noon to Dunkirk, O Against the advice of physicians in attendance, Sergeant Rogers, the sol Idler widower, left St. Vincent's hos , pital, this noon, and accompanied the two caskets on the 1:16 train. With 'Rogers waa his 3 years old son, who escaped the wreck. Still another child survives at Dunkirk, their former home. Rogers is still very weak. His left shoulder was dislocated, his left hand lacerated and his whole body badly bruised. He Is suffering from rreat nervous shock and grief. Fear was expressed that the stricken man would be unable to complete his jour ney, without collapse. He was deter mined not to allow the remains to go unaccompanied, however. , Before he left he was in conference with rep resentatives of the railroad company. He feared that if litigation for dam ages arose, he would be unable to so arrange matters with the govern ment service that he could get to court and he pressed his willingness to make a settlement upon terms that otherwise he would not consider. A brother of Engineer A. M. Curtis, .whose body lay unclaimed at the -morgue up to a late ' hour, yesterday, last night effected arrangements for shipping the body to" Arnold Mills, R. Mrs. Curtlr Uvea in New. york. x ne family recently underwent a siege of sickness. The body of Fire maii Ryan was shipped to the bereav ed home in the 'Bronx, yesterday. The widow, barely more than a child; be came Mrs. Ryan only 19 months ago. She is bearing up bravely under her loss. The body of Mrs. Palmer was shipped on the Washington express at 12:35 a. m. The body of Mrs. Walcott was. taken to Washington yesterday afternoon. With the mother still . in serious condition at the Bridgeport hospital the body, of three years old lieorge Hubert Hartman. son of a letter "carrier at Newfield, N. J., was sent away late last "night for -burial at the family plot. Relatives of George R Saunders who came' to the mortuary parlors of Henry E. Bishop, where his body has lain since the wreck, were surprised when they learned that Saunders' through ticket to his home would not carry his corpse. They had the body shipped to New London on. the 2:23 train, yesterday. Saunders ; was re turning to his home from the funeral of a relative. ' ' . . Confirmation ' of the identification of Walter Dunnigan, the negro, has come to Rourke & Rourke's morgue through dispatches from f his home, West Chester, Pa. No arrangements for the care of the body have been made. , The body of C. W. Christie will .be shipped to Philadelphia, to morrow, and that of Flagman Goff tp Fair Haven also will be sent tomor row, i ' : " This morning the morgue received a despatch from Tony Sciarro of 661 Oak street, South Bethlehem. Pa- asking if a body which he described was in the morgue. It was ' that of his brother, A. Sciarra, a quarryman of M135 Pierce street. Philadelphia. jbuc . Derore nis dispatch came., a juicnael vtrone, a fellow laborer in Milford, N. H., had arrived here and identified the body: y The. widow is now coming here to arrange for the funeral. Up . to this noon no . word came from .the Soldiers -Home- in Washington, as to the man identified as Sylvester Bennett of that -institu tion. Identification was made through a Dank book and letters1. - . Much interest centers at St. Yin- cent's hospital upon Miss Bertha Munroe, the gifted young ' school teacher, of Cliftondale avenue. -Bos ton,' -Mass., instructor in a Rhode Is land seminary. Miss Munroe is an4 accomplished linguist. Several mem bers of the faculty of the Rhode Is land Institution have called uoon her.' Her : left: arm is so badly mangled that , it may have to be amputated. The surgeons are doing all they can to save the- member, and their efforts are rewarded' by remarkable fortitude on the part of the sufferer.. Though she. passed, a restless night she was apparently stronger today. Several are still in a critical con dition at St. "Vincent's. Conductor Michael Fureys passed a fairly com- ortable night, but his condition is still regarded as critical. v Mrs. Sarah Calabra whose three children are with her at St. Vincent's, remains In a serious condition. . Mrs. Mary Walker of 1125 11th street, Washington, is also dangerously hurt, suffering from shocks -and bruises. Sarah. O'Connor and Emily Wilson, who were in a party of four maids bound from Chestnut, Hill, Philadel phia, to Massachusetts, ' have been placed in a private ward at St. Vin cent's by orders of their, employer who has directed that every atten-? tion be given them. v The condition of John T-. Von Pfeiffer,. "of Readville, Mass., regard ed as critical, yesterday, was improv ed today. Mrs. Mary McCann ' of 3316 ' Walton street, . Philadelphia, passed a restless night. . She is nerv ous, from worrying over the condition of her neice, Loretta McCrohan, ' one of the most badly , injured of the vic tims at the Bridgeport hospital. An other neice, ' Eleanor, is not so badly nurt. in one or the patients at St. Vincent's except t Sergeant Rogers and his little son, can leave for several days. A daughter of Mrs. Joseph Rovce or Washington has shared the respon- siDility or caring for. her mother with nurses at St. Vincent's. ' Miss Royce arrived here yesterday responding to telegrams sent by railroad men, in forming her of her mother's injuries, Mrs. Royce spent a comfortable night. She has severe lacerations of the left hand and her back is injured. Six of the 25 victims taken to the Bridgeport hospital have been dis cnargea. jrour or tnese lert on Thursday and two. more went today, me iour wno .were able to con tinue after .their injuries had been dressed, Tuesday, were- Hemy Chris man, ;of Middletown, Va., a Ciyll war veteran. 67 years old. on his vr&r to a reunion at Providence. R. I.; Henry A. wauace or ; Milbrldge, Me., whose left hand was cut and whose left side and face were bruised;Frank A. Hoyt, the baggagemaster of Boston, whose legs were bruised and who suffered shock; and Edward M. Greene of Huntington, Pa., whose chest was badly bruised. Today Robert . Henderson, a janitor of Philadelphia. Pa.. 5S ' years old. was able to leave the . hoapital and ride to the train. Both shoulders wera bruised, his back injjred and ne is sunering from shock The second victim to leave the Bridgeport hospital today vas Stella uorsey. a negress, maid for Mrs Cranford, of Washington, who has been stopping at the Stratfleld since the wreck. Mrs. Cranford escaped wreck, but the maid was shaken and bruised so badly that she1 was taken to the Bridgeport! hosDital The hospital gave out a statement today that one of the victims is in a critical condition. There are five whose conditions are still serious. They are Loretta McCrohan. the 16 years old Philadelphia girl; Mrs. Lois ts. Hartman, of Newfield, N.J., whose injuries are coupled 'with shock and grief over the death of her little son: Joseph B. Sisson, New Haven, whose right arm was tbrn open with the severing of blood vessels, by an iron rod; Mrs. Mary Schloske. suffering from shock; and Mrs. Sarah Clark, a negress or Washington who is suffer ing from shock and bruises. The remains of Sylvester Bennett, the old soldier, were claimed late in the afternoon by relatives in ' Wash ington, to whom the body will be shipped, this evening. Emma Eames Has Religious Marriage In St. Pierre Church Paris, July 13 Following: their civil marriage, yesterday, Emma Eames, the prima donna, and Emilio De Go- gorza were married today according to religious rites in the Church, of St. Plerra JlffillSSlKOil n rr m n n (Special to The Fanner) - Washington, July 13. -The Interstate Com merce Commission has ordered a full inquiry into the wreck" of the Federal Express at Bridgeport, Conn, The reports of the agents of the Interstate Commerce Commission of their investigations are usually held for the statistical purposes of the commission. But the Interstate Commerce Commission may, when it deem, it to the public interest, make reports of investigations, stating the cause of the accident, to gether with such recommendations as the commis sion deems proper. In view of the nearness of the wreck to the un usual freight wreck of June 6, both in locality and time, it is believed that the commission may make a report upon both wrecks with strong recommenda tions. : . ' ' That the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad has ignored the recent order of the Interstate Commerce Commission, requiring carriers promptly to report wrecks, and has not yet notified the commis sion of the Bridgeport catastrophe, was the state ment, today, of Commissioner Caleb McChord. , . y The commission has already sent inspectors to view the wreck. RAILROAD MAN OF YEARS ON DUMMY Sayfe That Crossover Was Put in Dangerous Place Because it Was Cheaper Officials Cause Half the Wrecks Editor of The Farmer, Sir: Regardless of what happens, .not only on the TT. Y., N. H. & H. Rail road but on any other, where life and property is lost, the officials always say, "Engineer is the cause of wreck" or "the brakeman or operator etc, as the' case may.be. I In all the years since railroads have been in exist ence, it is not on record that ever a railroad official has said, in case of accident, "XJrnciais ox tne uo., caus ed the wreck," and yet it is a fact that' can hardly be successfully con tradicted, that many more than half the railroad accidents are caused by the officials of the Company. The appalling accident that has hap pened right in our midst and sent so many to an untimely grave, and crip pled so " many others, should not be put upon the dead Engineer, and the officials should not be allowed to shirk the responsibility, by saying that there was a rule on the time table1 that trains should take the cross over at that point at fifteen miles per hour. , The writer of this article was a rail road man for twenty years, . and serv ed in several capacities, from tele graph operator to Division Superinten dent and Is well aware of the fact that rules like the one mentioned are put in the time table, not for the pur pose of having them obeyed, but for a" loop hole for the officials to get out of in case of accident. 1 Engineers are supposed to make their time", and especially so on these first class trains, and if they ; come In late they are "called" and must show every Place at which they were f delayed and give a good reason for it, and If an Engineer on that Congres sional Express continued to lose time on his run for a month, you may be sure he would be pulled off and put on an inferior train, and if he con tinued to lose time he would eventu ally be discharged. Any railroad man knows that if the Engineers of these fast trains were to slow down to fifteen miles per hour at the points mentioned on the time cards,. and to follow to the let ter, all the rules on the time card, TAFT EXCORIATED IN BITTER INVECTIVE BY SENATOR LA FOLLETTE In His Scathing Denunciation of Canadian Reciprocity the Insurgent Leader Accuses the President of Breaking Promises and Betraying His Party's Trust (Special from United Press.) Washington, July 13 Caustic criti cism of President Taft for "not keep ing his promises." ."adding betrayal to betrayal" during his administra tion, and "sacrificing progressive pol icies to Aldrichism and the reaction aries," with a bitter denunciation of the Canadian reciprocity . agreement, was made to the Senate, today, by Senator X,aFollette, (Rep., Wis.) The speech bristled with invective and satire. Canadian reciprocity, LaFollett as serted, violated every principle of rec iprocity heretofore expressed in Re publican platforms and violated every tariff pledge in the platform " upon OF EXPERIENCE RULES they never could make their time, and they know if they do not make it, their discharge is sure. There are rules never to., make a flying switch, and yet how long would a yard master hold his. position . if he did not do it? There are rules that a train shall not v receive a clear sig nal so long as another is in the block, and yet It is broken every day. The Engineer of the ill fated train was of course going too fast, but he was behind time, and it would be to his credit with the officials of the company to make up all he could, and the 1 same officials who now put the blame in him1 (because he is dead and can not speak for himself) would have congratulated him on his ability to "make up time, had . there been ' no accident. The fact of the matter is, that through the greed of the gigantic cor porations of this country, and railroads are not the only ones, the ; ordinary laborer has not the slightest show for anything. He does not get for a month's labor the money that it would take to keep some of the officials one day, and in case of accident, he takes all the blame. : A month from now, when the ter rible shock of this affair has passed away, let any man take his watch and go to the Fairfield viaduct, and time the first class trains as they pass there, and he will not find one that shows down to fifteen miles per hour, and the Engineer who would have the temerity to obey this and other dummy rules on the time card, would lose his position in thirty days, ' In order to 'save a few dollars this cross over was . placed In about - as dangerous a place as could be found It could just as well have been fur ther, west where there was no bridge, and ' the disaster would probably not have been as bad. v The American people are long suf fering and patient, and they don't mind being butchered and having their families butchered, but they hate to have the blame for the butchery shouldered on to the dead Engineer who was only doing what It was nec essary for him to do that . he might hold his position. AMERICAN. which Taft was elected President. "It promises to reduces duties for the benefit of the people," he said, "it reduces duties, the effect of which can never reach the people, but It does reduce them for the. millers, the packers, Standard Oil, the brewers, coal companies and in some measure for the already grossly over protected interests. "It is nothing that it pretends to be and professes to be nothing that it is. It is a little brother to the Payne Aldrich bill, the greatest legislative wrong inflicted upon the American people in half a century." As a basis and Justification for his views, LaFollette ; gave a history ' of the tariff situation for the past 10 years, asserting that -the "'trust crea- AUTO PIRATES, CAUGHT HERE, MUCH WANTED Long List of Warrants For Quartette Under Arrest in Bridgeport Young Men Have Bad Police Records Sought by Authori ties in Many Towns . . ' . ' ; Warrants for burglary were , receiv ed from the Boston police, today for two of the four young auto thieves arrested In this city on June 30th while en route from Roxbury, Mass., to New York in a stolen car. With the' warants came a complete descrip tion of the four, showing that they are an 'accomplished quartette of young criminals, all with well established po lice reputations. ' The boys left a chain of bursrlaries behind them at various garages on the line of march, until they were appre hended by the Bridgeport police. The names, given by them to the - Bridge port police, together with their right names as disclosed by the Boston of ficials, are as follows: George Weeks, aged 16, (gave correct name), chauffeur Wanted for bur glary in Somerville, Mass. Thomas Doolan, 17. metal caster, right name James Glennon, wanted , by Boston polioe for burglary. ' ' William Johnson, 19, carpenter, right name William E. O'Brien, wanted In Boston for breaking and entering. James Timithy, 17, shoemaker, right name James Keegan, , has bad police record. . All four are now held' in bonds of $300 for the Superior court .here for burglary. Apparently they have a long, hard row to hoe, for when they are through with the local authorities, which bids fair to be some time,1 all four most answer charges of burglary in Stratford. Bast , Hartford and Rox bury, Mass., and two of them, O'Brien and! Glennon, must answer burglary charges in Boston. ' . The . warrants from Boston are - in the hands of the local police and prob ably will be served on the pair as soon as they get out of Jail locally. The others will probably be turned over to the small town authorities.' ; ; The four started out on a career, of automobile piracy. They stole an au tomobile bearing the Massachusetts li cense number 1699 from a' garage in CBpxbury, and! then started for New York, with 1 Weeks, the chauffeur, at the wheel. . They burglarized a gtarago In IDast Hartford, , stole- e set of tiros, an solV them in Wiaterbury: They !then pro ceeded1 down the Naugatook .valley. puncturing a couple of their own tires on the way down. ' They burglarized a garage in Stratford' and another In Bridgeport, and were trying to fit stolen tires to their stolen machine when apprehended In Bridgeport. Apparently they planned to be motor pirates. . When arrested here, a. large revolver was found in their possession, nut they disclaim ed knowledge of it. : i v HUGE BONFIRE FUNERAL PYRE OF 14 VICTIMS A huge bonfire which shot flames many feet into1 the air in ' a vacant lot alongside the railroad , tracks at Burr Road1, was the funeral pyre of the Federal Express and its 14 vic tims.' , ' ; . : ' . Ths bonfire was built by the wreck ing crews today of , the remains of the train which met with such terrible dls aster. ' . . ; , . "; :, At the spot where the wreck occur red, practically nothing a remains but the roof of the sleeping car Atreus When this is lifted other bodies may be found. Iron workers in the wrecking gang are engaged in dismantling the loco motive this afternoon, . and the big cranes are lifting ft up and cartingi it away. piecemeal. - v Poor people in search of wood were 'turned loose" on the wreckasre last night and carted away every available stick and .splinter. The wrecking trains moved the remaining heavy pieces away this morning and) built a bonfire of them. tor" the Dingley bill, which, he said, increased the cost of living from 40 to 60, 70 and 80 per cent, created an inevitable demand for tariff revision. In his campaign, LaFollette said Taft promised a downward revision. The President, the Wisconsin pro gressive cnarged, worked with Aid rich and other standpatters to kill the income tax feature of the tariff bill offered by progressives. . by an alleged tax on corporations. "Tnose standpat Senators knew what Aldrich and the President knew," he continued, "that every cor poration would add the corporation tax to the fixed charges of the busi ness and exact from the people, through increased rates and prices, every dollar paid as a tax to the gov ernment." i Summing up his Indictment aealnst the President, LaFollette asserted the Executive had attempted to secure enactment of an interstate commerce law favorable to the railroads, had thrown open Controller Bay, Alaska, the key to the coal fields, to the cor poration interests; removed "honest and efficient James R. Garfield" from the head of the Interior Department, and replaced him with Ballinger, to whom the Senator paid his respects in forceful language; and that his course "had been vacillating and without definite policy because, ap parently, there had been, throughout his administration, no deep convic tion other than what the hour makes it appear expedient." Rebuked at the polls In the elec tion of .1910." LaFollette continued. "the President foolishly tried to buy back with postoffice appointments the support of progressives which he had lost when he abandoned progres sive policies. "This bill," he asserted, "Is cruelly unjust to 33,000,000 people. Thev are fighting for' simple justice with their backs to the wall. It is the fight between the plain people and the confederated privi-! leges." i CENTRAL LABOR UNION DEMANDS' THAT CORONER HOLD AN OPEN COURT Protests Against Secret Investigation Federal Express Wreck , In a set of resolutions accompanied by powerful reasons, the Central La bor Union of Bridgeport at its meet ing last night called upon Coroner Clifford B. Wilson to hold open court In his investigation of the terrible Federal Express disaster inthis city, instead of conducting a secret inves tigation, as he has publicly announced his intention of doing. The resolutions, which will be sent not only to .Coroner Wilson but to the judges, who appointed him and who may remove him if they see fit, were as ionows: Whereas, the wreck of the Federal Express, July 11, caused- the loss of 14 lives and Injury to manv 'others. and whereas said wreck was preceded by the wreck Of four frehrht trains june t,'in the same neighborhood and wnereas, these wrecks have been pre ceded by many others potentially of the same nature and whereas there are involved in these disasters the in terest of the public of the railroad em ployees,, and of the railroad corpor ations - which operated the trains, Therefore Be It Resolved: That we, the Central Labor Union of Bridgeport do request and demand as an organization of citizens anl electors of Connecticut a : full and OPEN investigation of the wreck of the Federal Express so conducted as to demonstrate -and bring to public attention the general causes of the wreck, the manner In which said rail road was actually operating; the pos sibility of ' any. defects In the sys tem of operating the blocks from the signal towers; o show the actual custom or practice t of the railroad in operating trains, as distinguished from the book "rules" of the company; to show the nature of the equipment at the point where the wreck occurred; , to, 'find the number of hours the en gineer of said train had been em ployed just prior to the wreck; as to whether or not the morale of the em APPALLING DEATH ailOREltV: LOSS IN MILLIONS.: , BY RAGING FOREST FIRES :;'r; . .y. '"VV- ' ; r ' The known . dead at .West Dome ' 25 foreigners .crushed1 and smoth- . ered to d5eath . in the West Dome Mining Company's shaft; ' Assayer :v Angus Biiit and wife; Manager A. . Weiss, wife and ' 3-year-old daugh ter; Chief Carpenter James McQue " and wife; Captain. Jack Hamilton. At United Porcupine Mine Fore-" . man and three .workmen. - At. the Philadelphia Mine Cap tain George Dunbar, and four oth ers. ' vy v . At the Dome Mine 30 laborers cut off in shaft and! smothered. Drowned in Porcupine ' Lake : Nathan Haas, Andrew Larme, Marvin Strain, William A'. Moore and Ry P.1 Mondue, all of Spokane, Wash. ' ' .V The latest estimate of dead in the , Porcupine Mining district -Is 200. A majority of these are foreigners. In addition, upwards of 200 set tlers, their wives and families who had small clearings in the section . swept by the fire, are missing and it is certain the death list thece Is very great. ; - . Mines reported '. completely or ' partly destroyed: ' ' Dome, . 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P 12 b o TO RENT. Second floor, six rooms, all improvements, 193 Catherine St. P 3 tfo STORE FOR RENT. Store and liv ing rooms at 1776 Main St. Cen tral location. Only $ 2 2. J. F. Sel leck Jr. Co., 1094 Main St., Room No. 1. D 15 tf. o ENGRAVED WEDDING Invitations, 100 with two sets of envelopes com plete $6.50. Engraved on copper plate. Southworth's, 10 Arcade. D.16 tf. o LOST. On July 4th, Boston bull, brindle, white neck and breast, liberal reward. Return to Dr. O'Hara ,361 Barnum Ave. P 13 b . o FOR SALE. The Warterbury Cafe. Apply 433 Water ap Owner must sell. St. "Classified" ads on Inside page of this paper. of! ployees of the railroad and their dis 4 cipiineUs seriously disturbed by rea son of too much being required of them because of economies occasional by an effort to pay dividend uoon vast aggregations of capitalization' not actually employed in said rn-5 road. Resolved, that these resolutions T i accompanied by a statement of rea-! sons as follows: ! That as between the people of Connecticut and the railroad corpora- tion concerned in this case thi general, impression exists that the corporation S by reason of its operations in politics I and its influence upon public appoint-: ments has been unusually free during I many years from the restraining J fluences of a government exercised In J ' the interests of the public? That this state of public , opinion, j soundly , based, makes it unw!s tbatf further investigations by the public i authorities into the responsibility tor railroi wrecks in this county should f be secret. That a sound public policy demands a public investigation of th wreck of the Federal Express so that the Investigating authority may have the advantage of that Information likely to be presented where the In quiry Is public, and so that th pub lic may have direct and detailed knowledge of the factors which enter ed into and caused the disaster. Fur thermore, that the conducting of a secret court is : against the recognized policy of the administration of 'jus tice in the State of Connecticut. sfs a bad precedent and tends to arou suspicion and distrust in the minds -of the people. Furthermore, be it resolved, that at pflnir nf'thojo T-ponltiHivna h unf f Coroner C B. Wilson and to the sv-j eral persons , who are by law given i power of the apopintment and remov- ( al of the croner In Fairfield county, CENTRAL LABOR UXION ' OF BRIDGEPORT. Adopted July 1, 1911. LIST AND Dome, Preston East Dome, Vipend, Foley -O'Brien, Philadelphia, Unit ed Porcupine, Standard Imperial, West Dome, Success, Eldorado Porcupine. " (Special from. United Press. 3 Cobalt, Jiily 13 With the death list already exceeding the 300 mark and the property damage reaching Into the millions, the fire in the Porcupine dl-J trict of the north Ontario' country J still raging. The flames, fanned by heated winds, are rushing like light ning through the thousands of acres of heavily timbered lands that stretch northward and westward from Porcu pine Lake. - It will be several days before the death list and property loss can be learned with any degree of accuracy, but indications today are that the holocaust is the greatest in the his tory of the Dominion. Employed; in the Dome mines were 300 workmen. When the fire reached the scene the entire vicinity was en veloped so quickly that the only means of escape was down the shafts. - The outside shaft was fully timbered and (Continued on Page Two.1 WANTED. Girl of 14-16 to helj general housework, good home, German : speaking girl preferred. Write to Kimmig, Brookfleld, Conn. a p FOR SALE. New cottage, 2 family house, Barnum Terrace, Small 'payment down, balance monthly. Lamson, 2889 Fairfield Ave. P 13 u po TO-RENT Five room fiat with all : conveniences at 585 Union avenue. I D. R. Whitney, 1025 Main street. 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