Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-09-06
THIRTEEN MET DEATH.
Passenger Train Takes a Terrible Plunge
Through Bridge.

Through q Bridge.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass, Aug. 31.-A terri
BILE accident to the Western express No.
Is, Boston & Albany Railroad, due
at Springfield at Ills o'clock,
happened at the second railroad
bridge east of Chester this afternoon.
The bridge collapsed letting the lain
through into the river below. Thirteen
persons met instant death and many
were injured, several fatally.
The train consisted of buffet car,
dining car, three sleepers and two ordi-
nary coaches, and was in charge
of Conductor John Sough. The train
was running at the ordinary
rate of speed. The accident occurred
at the west branch of the Westfeld
River. The structure was apparently
sound and there was no warming Of the
approaching calamity. Suddenly there
was a cracking of timbers and crash,
and the engine plunged through the
wreckage of the bridge into the river
below.
The river bed is some ten or
twelve feet below the tracks crossing
the bridge, and the plunge of the loco
motive was of sufficient force to drag
the five cars Immediately following onto
the wreck of the locomotive in the
river below. Five palace cars were
next in the train after the engine, and
these it was that went into the river.
News of the accident was at once sent
to Springfield and two wrecking trains
accident. The injured are being
Inv of
Chester. The names Of the
dead cannot be learned at present, as
the bodies are buried in the wreckage
of cars and engine in the waters of the
river. Engineer Horton and Fireman
Mitchell, of East Albany, are known to
be among those who were killed.
THE KILLED.
Miss EMMA DELERrY, of Columbus, O.
III. G. IVES, of Chicago.
L. EVERETT SEDGEWICK, of Palmer, O.
JAMES MCMAsTERs, of Springfield, brake
man.
J. II. MURRAY, of Greenbush, n. Y, bag
gage-master.
GEORGE III. MORSE, of Boston, Wagner car
conductor
]. C. SrAKPoLE, of Hartford, Conn.
r. G. HITCHCOCK Of Bellows Falls, Vt.
j. E. DE WITT, of Portland Me.
THOMAS KELLY, of Boston.
Miss SUSIE COTTING, of Boston.
Mrs. G. B. IsHAM, of Philadelphia.
Mrs J. S. Winchell, of Oneida, n. Y.
AN UNKNOWN WOMAN, about % years old.
THE INJURED.
There were about fifteen seriously in
jured, and five or six may die. The
names of the wounded are as follows:
Miss DIR. ALICE LITrELL, of Brookline,
Mass, bad scalp wound
Mrs. REV. DR.. LEwELLIN PRATT of Nor
wich, Conn, cut hand and right thigh
sprained.
ROBERT CUCKsoN, of Boston, Wagner car
porter, badly scalded.
MURRAY GRAVES. of Boston, fracture of
right thigh and broken forearm.
ETHEL CARSON, Of Dalton, bruised.
LOUIS BUCHANAN, of Boston, badly
bruised
ROSE SrEPHANE, of Springfield, Italian,
fractured ribs
MARY SADIE, of Springfield, Italian,
bruised.
JOHN PLATr, of Riverton, n. J., bruised.
Mrs. JOHN PLAT, of Riverton, n. j.,
bruised.
NJ. F. LEACH, of Rain Fall, fractured left
thigh.
Mrs. JAMES 7. ELDREDGE, Of Boston, bro
ken hip fractured shoulder.
Mrs. H. e. WHITNEw, of Cleveland, bad
ly bruised apd scalp wound
Mrs; ]. n. WINCHESTER, of West Rox-
bury, bruised.
SUMNER CUMMINGS, of Worcester, bruised
and sprained knee.
Mrs. SUMNER CUMMINGS, of Worcester,
compound fracture of the leg and bruised.
WELLESLEY PORTER, buffet car, Of Boston,
fractured thigh.
ARTHUR WILLIAMS, Of Lenox, bad scalp
wound.
FRANK LANG, of Chicago, bruised chest
and back.
WINTHROP WADE, of Boston, fracture of
left thigh.
Mrs. HELEN RICE, of PittsfeId, face cut
WALTER HAWKINS, of Pittsfeld, face cut
LEWIS MITCHELL, of Albany, badly
bruised and fractured ribs
WILLIAM HORTON, of Albany, engineer
badly bruised, left hip broken and internal
injuries.
NJ. J. WALDREN JOHNSON, of Boston, bad
scalp wound
JOHN EMERSON, brakeman of Boston, left
eye badly bruised.
E. B. ADAMS, of HOlyOke, head bruised.
Mrs. AVERY, of Holyoke, hip injured.