Morning journal and courier., 1880-08-31
serious Railrnad, d,Aeci@ept.

A Freight Train Runs Into @n Exour-
 sion Train near Parlor Rock-AM Engf-
 neer KiIled.s asssa.s -.E ..4,ss4 szo
 The#up express freight train on the Housa- tonic road which left Bridgeport at II o'clock yesterday morning. ran into an excursion train short distance above Parlor hocK' The up train was run. by Engineer Mark Bar mum and the excursion train by Engineer Bristol, the latter losing one leg, 1t De1ng taken off near the hip and the other leg pao-' ly injured. Engineer Barnum was also paoly injured The particulars were brought 10 Bridgeport by boy who left the scene or the disaster immediately after it occurred special was immediately dispatched with sey- eral physicians, bedding, etc. Soon after gentleman who had just come from the scene of the wreck brought the report that 1t was doubtful if Engineer Bristol survived the day out There were but few passengers on the excursion train, which was on it's way to Par Tor Rock Both engines were badly wrecked,
 but were still on the track. One freight car was thrown on top of one of the engines
 The conductor of the excursion train, Mr. Emmons, escaped with 8 few scratches.
 There is something of curve at the point of the accident, which prevented the engl- | neers from seeing the danger. The excursion train was from Great Harrington with excur- sionists for Prof. Boyton's swimming exhlDl- l tion at Parlor Rock. The excursion tram was forty-two minutes behind time and had passed the up express at Hawleyville when | it should have passed at Stepney. The Bridgeport Farmer has the following:
 l ssThe engineer, however, had the right of | way. and the engine was running br1sk1y at l the rate, probably, of twenty miles an hour, 1 with the object of getting to the siding at the 1 Long Hill depot The freight train should | have stopped at Long Hill, but did not. It
 had only just left the depot and was gong slowly when it's engine, No. z, crashed agalnst 1 engine No 20, that was drawing the excur- sion train. A frightful wreck resulted. l Engineer Marcus Barnum and the fireman 1 of the freight train saved themselves oy 1 iunnpinp. Otherwise they must have been | killed as the cab was demolished: En- l pipeer William Bristol of the excursion en- 1 zine yhistled continuously from the time he | caught siehtSof the other train and stopped | to reverse the lever. He then made motion 1 to jump, but the engines crashed before he 1 could do it. The tender of his engine was 1 wrenched off and shot forward to the cab, | crushing both of Bristols legs. The unfor- ~-O~ | in about an hour and a half. Wm. Lucas the fireman of this engine, did not jump but ] was thrown out by the jar and landed safely l some distance away. Charles Grimm, 1 brakeman on Engineer Barnum's tram, wal
 somewhat bruised, but received no serious injury. There were only seven passenger
 on the excursion train, none of whom art hurt although all were badly shaken up. Ih' | personal casualties from the accident art l therefore slight beyond the death Of Engl 1 neer Bristol
 | s.James Burns young man who has charg of Parlor Rock grounds, was sent to th1s clt ? by Conductor Emmons to bring the news He ran most of the way, and made the e1gh
 miles in ffty-five minutes. Supt. Stillso happened to be at the depot, and had tral l at once made up to go to the scene of the acc l dent On board were Doctors Hubbard Lau F | der and Bill with surgical instruments and aI
 pliances for the care of the wounded. The
 found Engineer Bristol past human aid, how ever, and there was no one else requiring thel s services. Railroad men present said the wrec
 WAS the worst they ever saw. The excurslo
 l train fared the best outside the locomotive none of the cars being derailed. Thet,eenrgIn r : did not telescope or leave the fafis; and no l. | stand with their heads butted squarely aga1nl l each other The cabs, smoke stacks. an U l liobt iron work on each were wrenched O 0 and strewn about. The tender of the excu
 1 sion engine was also thrown up and forwa1 d upon the main portion. The freight car ', badly demoralized, four of the cars being d
 railed and all broken up. One car was throw @ in the air and the wreck of it lies partly ( .- the engine About midway of the train anoth g car was thrown bodily upon the roof of u
 one ahead and remained there. -- -' "A third was upset and thrown of upon u
 bank, and fourth was derailed and broke
 In the last was horse which escaped uni
 iured, although he had a shoe wrenched O 10 Several of the cars contained milk cans, al II these were thrown promiscuously about, u le whole making a scene of utter confusio ,e Conductor Emmons who was in charge - the excursion train, was slightly cut abo ,u the face It is agreed on all hands that ie train had the right of way: He could n D. telegraph the fact of his being late to Ste ia | ney or any station below Newtown, becau
 there are no operators at the other station
 1.-The passengers of the train due at 12:
 were brought down by the special train whi IF went up from this city shortly before t7 - and returned at 3:20. Probably the trac Ill will be cleared by tomorrow, and in t J. meantime passengers will be transferred is the wreck. ... ... --..- e'The deceased engineer is thirty-fve yes
 of age and lived in this city. He leave u wife and family"