Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1899-08-10
TAIR1Y.SIX KILLED IN
STREET RAILWAY WRECK
Loaded Trolley Car TumbIes From a
High TrestIe Near Bridge
port, Conn.
HARDLY A PASSENGER ESCAPES
Almost Every Person Aboard the
Car Either Killed or Injured
"A List of the Killed
and Wounded.

"tt IllSJ OF inc AlIlGu
and Wounded.
Bridgeport, Conn, Aug. s.-Nearly
forty persons were killed by an acct
dent on the Stratford extension of the
Shelton Street Railway company at 4
o'clock yesterday afternoon when a
loaded trolley car vent off the trestle
over Peck's mill pond at Oronoque,
about six miles north of Bridgeport,
and sank in the flats forty feet below.
Thus far thirty-siN people are known
to be dead and several more injured.
The identified dead are:
JOSEPH HOTClIKlSS, Bridgeport,
engineer first division.
HENRY c. COGSWllLL, Bridgeport,
aged 60, employee of the New York,
New Haven and Hartford railroad,
member of board of education.
ORLANDO B. WELLS, aged CO, shoe
maker.
SELECTMAN ELIAS L. BRADLEY
and wife, Milford.
WILLIAM OSBORNE, Stratford.
DANIEL CALVIN, Asonia.
CONDUCTOR JOHN CARROLL.
Bridgeport, Me.
$. BANKS, Shelton.
Mrs. M'DONALD, Bridgeport.
WlNTHON LITTEARN, motorman,
Bridgeport Traction company.
BESSIE TOOMEY, aged %, Bridge
port.
WILLIAM II. HARVEY, aged 81,
Bridgeport.
Mrs. j. IL. RUGG, stratford.
MRS. FRANK BLEW and two chill
dren, boy aged 3 and girl aged 5, STRAIT
| ford.
WILLIAM M'CULLOCH, Stratford.
Mrs. ARTHUR HOLMES, Bridge
port.
THOMAS M'NALLY, aged 30.
Bridgeport; Identification not posi-
tive.
PETER RING, aged 2s, Bridgeport.
PATRICK M'DERMOTT, aged so.
Bridgeport.
Mrs. PATRICK BRENNAN, aged
so, Bridgeport.
ALFRED PITT, aged 22, Bridge
port.
WILLIAM CoTTER, aged a5, Bridge
port; Identification not positive.
IRVING DOURUSE. aged 25. Bridge
port.
MRS. WILLIAM H. HARVEY,
Bridgeport.
Among the seriously injured at the
Bridgeport hospital are:
Margaret Brennan, scalp wound.
Mrs. Sidney A. Hit, Bridgeport,
right leg fractured twice.
Margaret Farrell, right leg ampu-
tated above knee; will probably die.
George Hamilton, scalp wound, in
jury to leg.
Frank Kraft. Bridgeport, injury
about head aud back.
Arthur Holmes, Bridgeport, con-
tusions about the body, left leg
crushed.
Fred Hillerus, scalp wound, bruised
about the body.
Matthew Ofvin, scalp wound. II
and bruised generally.
Margaret Farrell, New York.
William Kelly, Bridgeport, sprained
arm.
Mabel Rngg, aged 5. arm broken.
Charles Delaney, New York, stock
broker, injured internally.
Only two persons are known to have
escaped unframed. 1T is believed that
there were tifty-three passengers ON
the car, but the conductor was re-
moved by the conductor of another car
and spirited away, so that at present
it is impossible TO state accurately the
number aboard.
The scene of the accident Is midway
between Shelton and Bridgeport. The
car was northbound, running toward
Shelton. 1t was in charge of Conductor
John Carroll, of Bridgeport. who was
among the injured, and Motorman
Hamilton, of bridgeport, who escaped
by jumping.
The trcstle is 44o 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 car ran at a high rate of speed.
After it ran onto the trestle for about
ten feet the trucks left the rails and
then the car continued on the ties Tor.
about sevcnty-five feet, when it wen.
off the trestle and dropped into the
pond below, %ovcrturning completely
and Impending. Three physicians who
were passengers on a car a short dis
tance behind arrived Immediately on
the scene and rendered al possible as
sistance to the injured. Word was sent
to Bridgeport and three ambnlances
and a police wagon We're hurried to the
scene and the injured were taken to
the Bridgeport general hospital. A
morgue was %improvised in the main
room of the town hall at Stratford. and
in a very short time twcnty-threc bod
les were laid out awaiting identifica-
ton. The accident was witnessed by
Miss Frances Peck, who resides about
400 feet from the bridge. She was up
stairs at her home as the car wa pass
ng and she says that it was running
at an unusually fast rate. Frank Cra-
mer, who was bathing neal the bridge.
states that the passengers we're all
singing and in the most jovial mood as
they passed him.
The road. which IS practically con
trolled by the Bridgeport Traction
company, was opened for traffic last
Thursday.
All the persons killed sustained frac-
tured skulls. William Kelly. Of Bridge
port. who was in company with Miss
Farrell. escaped death by jumping
from the car as he felt it swaying to
the flats below. He sustained a severe
shock, but otherwise was uniniurcd.
He. stated last night that the cars were
not running unusually fast. but that
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