Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1899-08-10
SCORES ARE KILLED
BRIDGEPORT TROLLEY CAR JUMPS
FROM A HIGH TRESTLE.

FROM A HIGH TRES1LE.
The Line Was New and the Car Running
at a High Rate of Speed Was Derailed
and Plunged Forty Feet Into a Pond
Below.
BRIDGEPORT, Conn, Aug. 7.-Nearly
30 persons We're killed by an accident on
the Stratford extension of the Shelton
Street Railway company at 4 O'Clock
yesterday afternoon, when a 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 40 feet below. Thus far 20
people are known to be dead and several
more injured
The identified dead are:
JOSEPH HoTCHK1ss, Bridgeport, engi-
neer fire department..
HENRY c. CoGswELL, Bridgeport, mem
Der board of education.
ORLANDO B. WELLS shoemaker.
SELECTMAN ELIAS E. BRADLEY and
WIFE, Milford.
WILLIAM OSBORNE, Stratford
DANIEL CALVIN, Ansonia.
CONDUCTOR JOHN CARROLL, Bridgeport.
S. BANKS, Shelton.
MRS. MCDONALD Bridgeport.
WINToN LANTHEAR, motor1man.
BESSIE TooMEY, Bridgeport.
WILLIAM H. HARVEY, Bridgeport.
Mrs. j. II. RUGG, Stratford.
MRS. FRANK BLEW and TWO CHILDREN,
Strattord.
WILLIAM MCCULLOUGH, Stratford
THOMAS MCNALLY, Bridgeport (identi-
fication not positive).
PETER RING, Bridgeport.
PATRICK MCDERMoTT, Bridgeport.
Mrs. PATRICK BRENNAN, Bridgeport
ALFRED PITT, Bridgeport.
WILLIAM CoTTER, Bridgeport Cdentifi-
cation not positive).
IRVING DoRUsE, Bridgeport
Mrs. WILLIAM H. HARVEY, Bridgeport.
JOHN CALVIN, Ansonia.
MARGARET T FARRELL. New York.
Only Two Unhurt.
Only two persons are known to have
escaped unharmed.
The scene of the accident is midway
between Shelton and Bridgeport. The
car was northbound, running toward
Shelton. 1t was in charge of Conduc-
tor John Carroll Of Bridgeport, who wa.
among the killed, and Motorman Ham
ilton of Bridgeport, who escaped by
jumping.
The trestle is 44O feet long, made OF
iron, with stone foundations and was
not protectad by guards rails. Southpt
the trestleis an incline down which TIC
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 for about 70
feet, when it Went off the trestle and
dropped into the pond below, overturn-
ing completely and up ending.
When the car struck the four-ton
motor and the heavy trucks crashed into
it, instantly killing many of the pas
sengers. Three physicians who were
passengers on car a short distance be,
hind rendered all possible assistance to
the injured. Word was sent to Bridge
port and three ambulances and a police
wagon were hurried to the scene and
the injured We're taken to Bridgeport
general hospital. A morgue was i'm
provised in the main room of the town
hall OF Stratford and in very short
time 23 bodies were laid out awaiting
Identification
BRIDGEPORT, Aug. S.-Twenty-nine
persons were killed in the trolley acci-
dent at Orinoque yesterday Of the
dozen injured only three are seriously
hurt
George Hamilton, the motorman, has
been arrested, charged with man
slaughter. The generally accepted
theory is that the car was running rap
idly when it reached the trestle and was
swaying and that when it came upon
the nonelastic rails Of the bridge it
jumped the track The coroners Jury
has not yet concluded its investigation.