New Haven, CT Train Wreck, Sept 1913 - Slept Only 4 Hours
Posted June 25th, 2008 by Jenni Lanham
DID TWO MEN’S WORK
Engineer Slept Only 4 Hours Before Fatal Crash.
New Haven, Conn., Sept. 6. – Engineer August B. Miller, of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, had been doing two men’s work for a week when he ran his train by a signal at North Haven last Tuesday morning and wrecked the Bar Harbor express at a cost of 21 lives. He so testified today at the resumption of the Federal hearing before Interstate Commerce Commissioner McChord. On the night before the wreck he slept only four hours, he said.
The Washington Post, Washington, DC 3 Sept 1913
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