The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-08-08
THE TROLLEY ACCIDENT
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could be done, but the few of US VINO
were unhurt did our. best"
THE PHYSICIANS.

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THE PHYSICIANS.
Drs. Elmer T. Sharpe and Louis ID.
LaBonte were the first Derby physl-
clans to learn of the accident and they
drove at high speed to the scene, arrlv-
ing there half an hour after being notl-
fed. Drs. Paul b. Kennedy Frank Net
Teton, +. NJ LOOMS, ID. A. Richard
son and Robert j. Barry quickly fol-
lowed.
The only Ansonia persons on the car
were William Mccullough, aged forty
five, one-legged railroad gate-tender;
Daniel Calvin, aged tWenty-four, ana
his brother, Michael Calvin, aged tWen-
| ty-tWo. Daniel Calvin was instantly
killed, being crushed almost beyond rec
ognition beneath the trucks of the car.
Michael Calvin is missing and is sup
posed to be among the unidentified dead
at Stratford. The Calvin brothers were
machinists and unmarried.
Mccullough was seriously crushed and
was removed to his home on Bridge
street, Ansonia, in weak condition.
His leg was broken and his head and
chest crushed. He has a wife and five
children.
| NJ yin OI AIN IL Il w lIlSIDG
Probably the only actual witness of
the accident was Miss Frances E. Peck,
maiden lady who lives near the
bridge. Her house is not oyer fifty feet
| from the tracks Miss Peck was dress
| ing in an upstairs roOm the back Win
dow of which is about on level with
| the track. She was sitting on chair
at the window brading her hair. She
saw the car approaching and noticed
it was running at a good speed, much
faster than the cars usually passed. The
car was rocking and also appeared to
be swaying from side to side. When
1t was just about opposite her window
1t tumbled from the bridge and turning
over disappeared into the river bed.
WELL KNOWN IN NEW HAVEN.
H. c. Cogswell, division freight agent
of the Consolidated road who was
killed in the accident is well known in
New Haven and has many friends
among the railroad men. Henry Clay
Cogswell was born May "a, 1881, at
Pittsfield Mass, entered railway SER
vice January 81, 1852, as clerk in the
railroad department of the Housatonic
railroad at Pittsfield. On November 3,
looo, cIlu W lcuu lie w as tdcllltl VI
freight in the office of the same road at
Bridgeport and also from 1854 to 1865
relief ticket agent and conductor. From
1855 to 1867 he was freight agent at
Bridgeport and in July, 1867, to Novem-
Der |, 1892, was general freight agent of
the same road and on the latter date
became division freight agent of the |
Consolidated railroad
PRESIDENT RADEL'S STATEMENT |
President Andrew Radel of the Shell
ton road, on which the disaster occur
red made the following statement:
II am shocked beyond the power Of |
words to express. l had thought that |
so substantial bridge would answer
all safeguards. Cars have been run
ming over it since Thursday at inter
walls of half an hour
anticipating a big patronage Sun
day, l placed several inspectors at the
bridge on either side and instructed
them to see that every car that passed
over the trestle did so at slow speed.
I even allowed the men half an hour
extra to take all the time they desired
to have the day pass without hitch Of
any kind.
L CdIilOl uIu6IEldllu llOW SuCu al
accident could occur, for even after the
car left the tracks the motorman had
ample time to easily bring it to stop.
This is the most distressing event
in my life, and / have been identified
with trolley roads the best part of it,"
ROAD DIRECTORS.
Allen W. Paigs is secretary of the
Shelton company, but has nothing to
10 with the Bridgeport road. Gottfried
Kruger of Newark, N. j.. is a director
IN both roads. The Shelton road'is own
I'd by Messrs. Radel, Paige, Kruger and
William Sheerer, and the latter is treas
lrer of the Bridgeport road. P H, Nc
Carter, Henry Doemus, e. Ward of
Newark, N. j., and D. F. Reed, Henry
Setter and T. L, Watson of Bridgeport
Ire directors of the Bridgeport Trac-
ion company. The people owning the
shelton road also own the Milford road
md the Westport and Saugatuck roads.
CLERGYMEN ON THE GROUND.
The Revs Father McElroy, Father
Tinn and Father Fogarty of st. Mary's
hurch, Derby, were apprised of the
ccident at an early hour, and hurried :
o the scene to render spiritual consola- =
ion to the injured Hundreds of Shell
on, Derby and Ansonia people aocked
o the scene, the cars being thronged
while the road was crowded with vehi- I
les of every description the whole \
angth Of the way from Shelton to
'eck's Mills and Stratford.
GOOD WORK OF RESCUERS.
Conductor Turcotts practical expert
nee stood him in good stead in the \
york If rescue. The first thing to do
yas to lift the floor off the people pin
ed underneath BY means of boards
nd planks the floor was lacked up suf- a
GENTLY high to allow of taking the peo- y
le out from beneath. As fast as the u
odies We're extricated they We're car z
ed up the embankment at that place
lirty or forty feet high, and laid out OH
lie grass. N
MOTORMAN ARRESTED.
George Hamilton, the motorman of til
Re Inflated car, was arrested on su
oroner's warrant charging him with NJ
and he will be arraigned 10
Y Justice Peck Of Stratfo The war TO
mt was served by Deputy Sheriff -
tagg. Hamilton as yet has not made
statement of his part IN the affair.
Upwards of $500 to $4,000 in cash and
Welrv which were taken from the Il