The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-08-11
SANG A DEATH SONG
And Plunged into the Dark Valley
as Their Voices Rose
in Glee.
TERRIBLE STREET CAR DISASTER.
Thirty-One Persons Lose Their Lives
and Eight Are Severely
Hurt.

Bridgeport, Conn, Aug. 7.-Thirty-
one persons were killed by an acct
dent on the StratfOrd extension Of the
Shelton Street Railway company at
2. m. yesterday when loaded trolley
car went 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
one people are known to be dead and
eight slightly injured.
The identified dead are: Joseph
Hotchkiss, Bridgeport, engineer fire de-
partment; Henry G. Cogswell, Bridge
port, aged 60, member of the board OF
education; Orlando B. Wells, aged 63,
shoemaker; Selectman Elias E. Brad
ley and wife, Milford; William Osborne
and Arthur Holmes, Stratford; Daniel
Calvin, Ansonia; Conductor John Car
roll, Bridgeport: S. Banks, Shelton;
Mrs Mcdonald, Bridgeport; Winton
Lanthear, motorman; Bessie TOOmey
and William H. Harvey, Bridgeport;
Mrs. J. H. Rugg, Stratford; Mrs. Frank
Blew and two children, boy aged 3, and
girl aged 5, Stratford; Williams Nc
Cullough, Stratford; Mrs. Arthur
| Holmes, Bridgeport.
Those Seriously Injured.
Among the seriously injured are:
| Margaret Brennan, scalp wound; Mrs.
Sidney A. Hit, Bridgeport, right leg
fractured twice; Margaret Farrell,
right leg amputated above knee-will
probably die; George Hamilton, scalp
wound, injury to leg; Frank Kraft,
Bridgeport, injuries about head and
back; Arthur Holmes, Bridgeport con-
tusions about the body, left leg crushed;
Fred Hillercus, scalp wound, bruised
about the body; Matthew Olvin, scalp
wound, cut and bruised generally;
William Kelly, Bridgeport, sprained
arm; Mabel Rugg, aged 5, arm broken;
Charles Delaney, New York, stock
broker, injured internally.
Jumped OFF the TrestIe.
The scene of the awful accident is
midway between Shelton and Bridge
port. The car was north-bound, run
ming toward Shelton. 1t was in charge
of Conductor John Carroll, of Bridge
| port, 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 pro-
tected by guard rails. South of the
| trestle was an incline down which the
car ran at a high rate of speed. After
it had run on the trestle for about ten
feet the trucks left the rails and then
the car continued on the ties for about
seventy-ive feet when it went off the
| trestle and dropped into the pond be-
low, overtUrning completely and up
ending
Went Singing to Their Doom.
When the car struck the fOur-tOn
motor and the heavy trucks crushed
into it, instantly killing many of the
| passengers. A mOrgue was improvised
in the main room of the town hall at
| StratfOrd and in very short time
| twenty-three bodies were laid out
awaiting Identification. The accident
| was witnessed by Miss Frances Peck,
! who resides about 400 feet from the
bridge. She was upstairs at her home
as the car was passing, and she says
| that it was running at an unusually
| fast rate. Frank Cramer, who was
! bathing near the bridge, states that the
! passengers were all singing and in the
most joyful mood as they passed him
TWENTY BODIES RECOVERED
IN a Drowning Accident Whose Victims
May Number Thirty.
Bar Harbor, Me, Aug. 7-While a
crowd of excursionists was on it's way
to see the Warships a slip leading from
! the dock to the boat at Mount Desert
ferry broke, precipiating more than 100
into the water. Twenty bodies have
| been recovered.
Seventeen were drowned and three
died from the terrible experience of
immersion in the water and injuries
while struggling for life The dead
are: Mrs. William Murray, Brewer; r.
wing Bridges, West Hancock; Albert
! COlson, Levant; Mrs. Oliver P. Cakes,
| Bangor: Miss Grace Sumner, Bangor;
| Joseph Murphy, Old Town; Mrs. Hol-
lis w. Estey, Ellsworth; Clifford Cush-
man, Corinth; Miss Lizzie Ward, Ban
| gor; Charles w. Downs, Ellsworth; F.
E. Sweetser, travelling salesman, Port
| land; Ora n. Lark, Danforh; G. H
! Bennett and Mrs. G. H. Bennett, Brewer;
! Mrs. Charles Slower, Ellsworth; Mel
vim McCard, Corinth; Mrs. A. H. Bill
! ings and Mrs. George Derwent, Bangor,
and two others unknown at this writ
! ing.
/ ZONES Is to Run for Governor.
Toledo, O., Aug. Mayor Jones
stared yesterday that there is no doubt
but that enough names have been
signed to his petition to comply with
the law in order to place his name on
the ticket. He does not hold this suffi
cient to make the final announcement
that he will go into the field as a can
didate. His political headquarters have
| been busy since opening and more than
500 petitions are being sent out daily
to persons who desire to make a can
VasS.
To Erect Chapel of Peace.
The Hague, Aug. S.-The American
delegates to the peace conference,
which closed its session here a few
days ago, have announced that it is the
desire of the United States to erect
| chanel of peace near the little English