Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1899-08-10
PLUNGED TO DEATH
A LOADED TROLLEY CAR RUNS
OFF A TRESi LIE.
IN FORTY FEET OF WATER
There Were Probably Forty-three Per-
sons in the Car, Two Escaped and
Thirty-six Bodies Have Been Re-
coyered-The Car Leaves the Rails
While 1t Is Upon the Trestle.

Bridgeport, Conn, Aug. NEARLY
forty persons were killed by an acct
dent on the Stratford extension of the
Shelton Street Railway company at A
O'Clock Sunday afternoon, when a
loaded trolley car went off the trestle
over Peck's mill pond at Oronque,
about six miles north Of Bridgeport,
and sank in the fats forty feet below.
Thus far thirty-six persons are known
to be dead and several more injured.
The dead are:
Joseph Hotchkiss, Bridgeport, en-
gineer Fire department
Henry C. Cogswell, Bridgeport, aged
so, employee of New York, New Haven
& Hartford railroad, member of Board
of Education.
Orlando B. Wells, aged SO, shoe
maker.
selectman Elias E. Bradley and
wife, Milford.
William Osborne, Stratford.
Daniel Calvin, Ansonia.
Conductor John Carroll, Bridgeport.
S. Banks, Shelton.
Mrs. M'Donald, Bridgeport.
Winton Lanthear, motorman Bridge
port Traction company.
Bessie Toomey, %, Bridgeport.
William H. Harvey, 81, Bridgeport.
Mrs. J. H. Rugg, Stratford.
Mrs. Frank Blew and two children,
boy aged and girl aged 5, Stratford.
William Mccullough, Stratford.
Mrs. Arthur Holmes, Bridgeport.
Thomas McNally, aged 30, Bridge
port; identification not positive.
Peter Ring, aged %, Bridgeport.
Patrick McDermott, aged so, Bridge
port.
Frank Kraft, aged %, Bridgeport.
Mrs. Patrick Brennan, aged SO,
Bridgeport.
Alfred Pitt, aged %, Bridgeport.
William Cottel, aged %, Bridgeport;
Identification not positive.
Irving Doruse, aged 90, Bridgeport.
Mrs. William H. Harvey, Bridgeport.
John Calvin, aged %, Ansonia.
Margaret Farrell, New York.
Among the seriously injured at the
Bridgeport hospital are:
Margaret Brennan, scalp wound.
Mrs. Sidney A. Hit, Bridgeport;
right leg fractured twice.
William Kelly, Bridgeport, sprained
arm.
Mabel Rugg, aged 5, arm broken.
Charles Delaney, New York, stock
broker, injured internally.
Margaret Farrell, right leg amputat-
ed above knee, will probably die.
George Hamilton, scalp wound, in
iurey to leg.
Frank Kraft, Bridgeport, injuries
about head and back.
Arthur Holmes, Bridgeport, confu-
sion about the body, left leg crushed.
Fred Hillercus, scalp wound, bruised
about the body.
Matthew Olvln, scalp wound cut and
bruised generally.
Only two persons are known to have
escaped unframed, 1t is believed
there were forty-three passengers on
the car, but the indicator was removed
by a conductor of another car and car
ried away, so that at present it is i'm
possible to state accurately the num-
Der aboard
The scene of the accident is midway
between Shelton and Bridgeport. The
car was north bound, running toward
shelton. 1t was in charge of Con-
ductor John Carroll OF Bridgeport, who
was among the killed, and Motorman
Hamilton OF Bridgeport, who escaped
by jumping.
The trestle is 440 feet long, made of
iron with stone foundations and was
not protected by guard rails. South
of the trestle is an incline down which
the ear ran at a high rate of speed.
After it ran upon the trestle for about
ten feet the trucks left the rails and
then the car continued on the ties for
about seventy-five feet when it went
off the trestle and dropped into the
pond, overturning completely and up
ending.