The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1899-08-12
CAR RUNS OFF A TRESTLF.
Terrible Accident on a Trolley
Line at Bridgeport, Conn.
TWENTY-FIVE KILLED.
Car Jumps the Rails and Turns Over
Into a Pond-Many
Injured.

Bridgeport, Conn, Aug. IA trolley
car, running at a high rate of speed,
jumped the tracks and went over the
trestle to the bed of a millpond at Orc
nOque, and sank into the flats fifty feet
below. The Indicator was removed, so
that the number aboard is not definitely
known, but the number was more than
forty. Only two persons are known to
have escaped. Thus far twenty-nine peo-
PIE are known to be dead and several
more injured The identified dead are:
VICTOR ANDERSON, coachman, Bridge
port.
). BANKS. Shelton.
MRS. FRANK RALLOU AND TWO
CHILDREN. Stratford.
HOWARD BALDWIN, Stratford.
ELIAS L. BRADLEY AND WIFE, Mil
MRS. PATRICK BRENNAN, so years,
JOHN CARROLL. Conductor, Bridgeport.
HENRY {. CoGSWELL, 60 years, Bridge
WILLIAM CoTLER. % years, Bridge
port.
IRVING DORIS. . years Bridgeport
join \. FLYNN. Bridgeport.
JOHN CALVIN. An~onia
DANIEL CALVIN, An>ouia
". H. CARNEY AND WIFE. Bridgeport.
Mrs. ARTHUR HOLMES, Bridgeport.
JOSEPH HoTCHKIsS. engineer fire DC
FRANK Kraft. -. Bridgeport
NlAIoN LANTHEAR, motorman, Bridge
port Traction company
WILLIAM MCTLL0UGH. Stratford.
IATKIG " M'DEEMoTT. %. Bridgeport.
Mrs. MDEKMOTT. bridgeport
NES. NDDNALD. Bridgeport.
THOMAS M'NALI1. 30 Bridgeport.
WILLIS OSBORNE. stratford.
FETEE KING. 2S, Brid-cport.
Mrs. JOSEPH RTGGLES. Stratford.
ORLANDO Il. WELLS, aged g. shoemak-
CT. bridgeport.
TWO unidentified bodies at the morgue.
The injured are:
Margaret Brennan. scalp wound.
Mrs, sidney \. PITT, Bridgeport; right leg
fractured twice.
William Kelly. Bridgeport; sprained arm.
Charles Delaney. New York, stock broker,
injured Internally.
Margaret Farrell, right leg amputntcd
above knee. will probably die.
George Hamilton, scalp wound, injury TO
Frank Kraft, Bridgeport. injuries about
head and back.
about tho body, left leg crust. ed.
Fred HlllrrcuS, scalp wound, bruised about
the body.
Matthew olvin. scalp wound, cut and
bruised generally.
George CantieId. Derby. bruised
William Mccullough. AnS"nia, internally
John {. Root. nerl%. badly shaken up.
Bertha 1tu1E. aged q. arm broken.
Edwin RugG. aged !.
Motormau Hamilton probably will IL
arrested today.
The accident occurred at what is
known as Peck's mill stream. Over tni-
stream is built an iron bridge GO feet
long. The distance from the top Of tin
structure to the bed OF the stream Is fifty
feet. MI Of the water had been drawn
off a few months ago to permit the but
tro>scS for the bridge to be laid. The
lin" was opened to the public on Thurs
day last for tho first time.
Thc hrid-r has hut one track but the
construction Is If the regular steam traf-
fC kind. Below the bridge Is a yawnin&
chasm, filed with rocks and mar-Hy
swamp. About fifty feet east Of IA
structure there is a steep bank which In
clines 1T an angle Of about forty-five de
grecS 50 that directly beneath til" bridge
tn" bottom of the bank begins. All
about are trees and bushes Il was into
this gully that car No. , OF the Milford
Street Hallway line plunged with its
cargo Of human freight
IN Il short time hundreds Of volunteers
were at work. Farmers and their wives
and daughters came with blankets and
linens and all uf the physirianS in
Bridgeport and Stratford who were avail
ahl: were summoned
Three physicians who were passengers
on 4 car 4 short distance behind arrived
quickly IN the seem. and rendered all
possible assistance to the injured Word
was sent 10 Bridgeport and three alnhu-
lanc's and Il police wagon We're hurried
to The scene and the injured were taken
to bridgeport general hospital 4 murguc
was imp!Uvl>cd in the main room of the
town hall 1T Stratford and in Il very
Shor' time tWcnty-thrce bodies were laid
out waiting Identification.
Coroner Dotcn Is making arrangements
to conduct am immediate investigation
and Sheriff Dooau has been sent 10 en-
PAM 4 jury All kinds of theories a< Ia
the caus" Of the accident have been adj
yanccd and discussed.
Engineer w w Starr. who superin-
tended tho building Of the bridge. said
today that the bridge was perfectly safe
IN every respect In his opinion. after a
thorough examination. the motorman he
came hewildered as the car commence, 1
TO travel fast down the incline and find
ing himself in a dangerous situation lost
his head and turned the current on in
stead Of reducing it. The patients at the
hospital We're all reported in a favora bic
condition today and no more fatalities
are unprecedented