Morning journal and courier., 1889-07-01
THE wnEoxxp LIMITED.

Tho First Notable Acctdenein Hears on
 tho Consolidated Road-Tho smash
 Up Threc Miles From This City Three Killed and Six Iniured-The Death or Miss Brigham of fBrooklyn- Her Prominence and Useful Career Interviews with New Haveners on che Train-Correes Accounts of she Aaair-rhs quick Work of Repairs | Yesserday-Tho Damage Done to the Road.
 A sensation of horror was caused in this | city late Saturday afternoon by the report that the limited express on the Consolidated road which leaves Boston at II o'clock in the morning by way of the Boston and Albany road had been wrecked just this side of the Quinnipiac station and that several lives were lost, with much other personal injury. The sad news proved true and excited much at-
 tent.on, especially as accidents of serious character are of such infrequent occurrence in this part of the country, this being the first serious accident in long time on the Consolidated road.
 The accident occurred about half-past 3. The train was made up of three regular coaches. two drawing room cars, a dining car, @ smoking car and e baggage car. All II except the rear car were thrown from the | track like flash, and their living burden | mingled in 6 confused mass of wreckage.
 Three persons were killed outright and ssv-
 eral very seriously wounded. The cause of | tho terrible accident Is said to have been either the breaking of truck or portion of | the brake attachments on the baggage car or the breaking of a frog. The engine passed
 safely and the baggage car was first thrown from the track, all the others following ex- | cept the last.
 | The record of the accident stands:
 | KILLED.
 Edward Pfeifrer, New York city.
 Miss Mary E. brighsm, Brooklyn.
 | VII Lockwood, Hartford, wrist brcr<s
 Mrs 9. 0. Hutchns and ss. ss5s-w Worcester, scalp and %rs ssaS son, Springfield cut in face .SsEn McKeon. brakeman, New York, injured in
 '0e% Conductor Rodney Beers, Bridgeport arm brok- | en, cut about the face. ,,,..
 Ellis, conductor drawing room cars' face badly | internally injured.
 Mir. Pfeiffer belonged in New York, as stat
 ed below. MT. Mays was the baggage master
 and resided in Bridgeport. Miss Brigham was of Brooklyn. She has been for twenty six years associate principal of the Brooklyn Heiohts seminary with Dr. Charles E. West, | and was chosen in March president of Mount Holyoke seminary and college at South Had , ley. She accepted the call to the great satis- , faction of all friends of the seminary: She previous years, one of them being to the presidency of Wellesley college. She was a |, most successful teacher and woman of rare | tact and sweetness of nature. She was native of Westboro, Mass., and graduated at South Hadley in 1S4s. She taught there in 1S57-0. She afterward went to Ingham uni
 versity, Leroy, N. Y., and became it's presi- . dent. She went to Brooklyn Heights semi i, nary ia 1863. Her career there was remark ably successful, and she gained s great hold on the people of Brooklyn, so much so, that when she was called to Mount Holyoke the a leading men and women of the city protested
 against her leaving. She had, however, al-
 | ways been interested in the school founded . by Mary Lyon, and finally accepted the in
 vitation of her alma mater. The recent com f | menoement exerciues at Mount Holyoke were made especially interesting by this fact, and her death Is great loss to the institution } | Few women of the country were more widely known and respected.
 The circumstances attending Miss Brig
 hams death are given below. Quite throna of people viewed the transfer of her remains , from the relief train at the depot at o'clock | D. m Saturday to the undertakers' convey ance. Dr. F. E. West and Miss West arriv. ed from Brooklyn and identified the remains George H. Craig of Meridsn, aged twenty | | was brought to the hospital in this city, as
 was also Mir. w. H. Lockwood of Hartford Conductor Ellis went through to New Yorl on the next train. An account of his in juries is given below. Mrs. Hutchins ant , son came to this oity and are being cared fol
 at private house. There were six peopl'
 in MT. Lockwood's party. They were going | to short Beach. and after finding him fxet | Fo~t at,I ak ha h0anitAl t0 th s | beach.
 j.. FROM MIR. MANRosS.
 Mir. Robert E. Manross, the we'll knowl f bass singer of this city, was passenger ol - the ill-fatsd train. He was in the smoker 2 which was the next to the last car. An addi s tional car had been attached at Hartford , | making eight in all Mir. Manross says hi | first sensation was Q great jar and shock I
 | was so violent that those who were standing 3 | were thrown about. The people who wer 7 | seated were uninjured. Everyone rushed t,
 | get out of the car. E. s. Perry, who reside at the corner of Orange and Bishop streets 2 was also aboard the car. He was playin ' | whist with friend when the car left tn
 track. His friend was hurled against him and the latter's glasses went of. MT. Perr E Is large man and not nervous. He, indin | the car had stopped, remained in tn }, car to And his friend's glasses
 | There were also in the ca ? F. A. Hosmer, neighbor of both Messrs !. Manross and Perry on orapg [. street. MT. Charles T. Maltby }. | Fennsssy of Fenneesy, Armstrong & Go. C
 Springfield, 6 son-in-law of Philander Arm
 strong of this city, were also in the sam 'r car. Every car left the rails except the last It The car in which Mir. Manross was did nc I- tip over, but the car ahead was pitched ur | | ward on its forward end and well careene \ over. All the other cars were over on thei It did not leave the rails. The baggage ca o was on its side in the ditch. Here Baggage
 master May of Bridgeport was found dead TO He was thrown out of the car door and tn
 ce- Cal, on hirn. Conductor Beers told Nil
 . o.., 1s.. .l ..s..ss-S,Ss.. ...ssss--N ear e d Manroes that he was in the baggage ess Ter ', the time. The conductors arm was broAs..
 One of the most miraculous escapes was tha F of Superintendent Henney of this city, wh n was in the car. He escaped unhurt. The car if next behind were the two drawing room :, cars. In the first of these, which was owe a on its side in the ditch, was Miss Brigham D The passengers were taken from the window [ | of these cars by means of ladder which wa placed against the side. The occupant
 crawled out of the windows which wer q where the roofs should have been. A mum 0 Der of the chairs were displaced by the fore
 of the concussion. The dining car wa :, slightly careened over. With the other pas sengers, some three hundred and fifty, con tinued Mir. Manross, we remained about tn 6 place until the arrival of the relief train iron i. | New Haven.
 2, The accident occurred about 3:3O and tn
 passengers reached this city about 8:0C ny---~ T1-