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The Brattleboro Daily Reformer
Brattleboro, Windham County, Vermont
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Connecticut Public Utilities Commission blames deceased engineer W. R. Curtis for ignoring signals, causing February 22 rear-end train collision near Milford that killed 11; similar past wrecks at Bridgeport, Westport, Stamford, and North Haven also due to signal failures.
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Curtis Ran by Signals, Causing the Wreck at Milford, Conn.
Hartford, Conn., April 4. - The failure of Engineer W. R. Curtis to obey the signals set against him was the primary cause of the rear-end collision of passenger trains near Milford on the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad on February 22, according to the finding of the Connecticut public utilities commission, announced here yesterday.
Curtis was engineer of the special train which ran into the rear of the Connecticut river express, westbound, causing a loss of 11 lives. The express had been stalled by a broken airhose.
The finding refers to the wrecks at Bridgeport, Westport, Stamford, and North Haven, all within the last few years, as having been like the Milford wreck, largely if not entirely due to man-failures, the engineman having run by signals set against him.
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Milford, Conn.
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February 22
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loss of 11 lives
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The failure of Engineer W. R. Curtis to obey the signals set against him was the primary cause of the rear-end collision of passenger trains near Milford on the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad. The special train ran into the rear of the Connecticut river express, westbound, which had been stalled by a broken airhose.