The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-08-07
LANDS IN DRY RIVER BED.
The Scene Of The Disaster Near Strait
ford, Conn,

Mad Taken to Strntford Town Hall
IN. Man Jumped and Landed Safe in
Soft Mud-Mother Killed with Child I'm
butt in HerArms-No Guard Rail.
Rn-pGrPonr Conn. Aug. GA trolley car
on the shelton Street Railway filled with pas
seneers Jumped the track near the south end
NJ the long high bridge over Peck's stream
about a mile and a half beyond Stratford.
about O'Clock this afternoon. 1t ran along
the heavy pIankinG on the bridge for seventy
five feet and then toppled of the east tide and
fell fifty feet to the valley below. The car
turned completely over in its descent and the
heavy motors on the bottom drove the floor
against the top and crushed many passen-
gers As near as can be ascertaned there
we're forty-hve passengers on the car. Thirty
are dead and four fatally hurt. None es-
cared injury
This is partial list OF the killed:
BANKS. S. SHELTON
BLEW, Mrs FRANK. Stratford.
BLEw. MAUD. aged years.
BLEW. MELVIN. aged ; years.
BRApLEY. ELIAS. Milford. selec tman
BRADLEY, Mrs. ELIAS.
BRENNAN. Mrs. MARGARET, Ogden street
Bridgeport
CARROLL. JOIN. Bridgeport.
CARROLL. JoHS. conductor. Bridgeport
CooswELI. HENRY c.. Bridgeport. manager.
Western FREIGHT Depar tment Consolidated r.
r.. ex member Bridgeport Board OF Education.
aged 80 years
DoRrs. IRVING. Bridgeport. aged 10.
FARRELL. MARGARET. New York City.
flynn, JOHN F.. Bridgeport.
GALLvAS. DANIEL. Ansonia
Bridgeport.
HARVEY. Mrs. WILLIAM.
HOLMES. Mrs. ARTHUR Bridgerort
lIoTcHKIss, JOSEPH. Ex-Fire Marshal. Bridge
port.
LAMrHEAR wINToS. Bridgeport.
McDERMoTT, PATRICK Bridgeport.
MDoNALD, Mrs. Bridgeport.
McNALLY THOMAS Bridgeport
PITT. S. A.. stenoGrapher for r. G. Dun 4
Co . Bridgeport.
RINt PETER, contractor. Bridgeport, aged 55.
RuGG, Mrs, J. H.. Strattord.
RuGG, ETHEL aged II. injured and reported
to be dead
TooMERY, Bessie. Revere Street, Bridgeport.
agcd22
WELLS. o, B., bridgeport. agod so.
Charles Delaney, son-n-law OF II. c. CoRs-
well. alb roker in New York. was with Cogswell
and was injured internally He is at the home
OF CogsweII in this cily and his recovery is
vi certain
The Shelton Street Railway is new line con-
meeting Derby, Shelton and Ansonia with
bridgeport. twas opened last Thursday 1t
connects with the Bridgeport Traction Com
1any at Paradise Green. Stratford From there
on II runs along the banks OF the Housatonic
River One Of the features OF the trip is the
rl'e across the iron bridge over 400 feet long
ana 90 ieet high, spanning Peck's stream.
Ihefe IS no water in the stream it having been
drhIncd when III" bridge was built. The car
which tclI left this city this afternoon at . 80
O'Clock 1t was t,lod with people from this city
gong for troIIy ride and residents OF Ansona
anu other places along the line returning
nome John Carroll was the conductor and a
man named Hamilton the motormnn.
Inc run TO the top Of the slight incline Just
oeior" the bridge was reached consumed forty.
nNe minutes. Frederick Kramer. who was or
'he road short distance away saws that those
On BOARD were Iaug hing and singing. He coulC
not see III" car but heard IL mound along tn,
TIES on N" bridge Then all was quiet for
'o'oHd' ana the next he heard was a series o
Streams lie hurried to the top Of the hill ant
'''Nei uown INTO the valley. The car wa
N'''ue Gown and the passengers were strug
k"hR 10 get out. When the car reached tn,
e'u'h emo of the bridge, as examination shows
!, iah on the rails Tor about ten feet Their
'he front wheel Of the forward truck on tn,
vest SIDE lett the track For fully seventy
u'' 'e"t the car ran along partly oil
,'' "'' and rarity on heavy plank. Beior
w ".'ofman could reverse the power the ca
e" To the east and went of the bridge.
- ~" minutes after the ear fell one from
pethS' also crowded. approached the opposit,
'"H OF N" bridge. Before that time severa
"''AG 70 the ncighhorhood had arrived
".' Nrr" hart at work trying to extricate tn
r"'S"nHerS rlniore1 under the ear The
SI'' a. I'n', however. except to assist thos
""' hol Jumped as the car left the bridge AM
~ p"'Sa", a. the heavy motors were too niue
for them :, .t
"".n'pf'"! hy tho men from the Derby ca
"'' '"''' who arrived from Bridgeport o
'''7, 'h'F Ida"ed ropes around the axle
~. "'' ""l ear and dragged it over. TIL
h'S"' l''o.rl was a terrible one.
''n D''ur 'lfrru was on the rear platforr
N.'' al rushed and bleeding across seat
"'''. 'h"' mOcr, OF the car. lay twenty
me-" women aud children.
.'' me 'rdt' whcr" tho stream Is drnine
w '"v'e ''!t back mud and here and Their