The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-08-07
LOADED TROLLEY CAR DAsHED
FROM A TRESTLE AND DROP.
PED FIFTY FEET
BUT TWO ESCAPED ALIVE
THE PASSENGERS IN THE DEATn
TRAP CRUSHED UNDER THE
MOTOR AND TRUCKS
RUNNING AT A HIGH RATE

| 1cAuent on the Shelton
street. hallway Extension, Not
Far From Bridgeport. co
Number of Passengers in the C.r
Not Accurately Known. as the
d1catOr Was Spirited AWAY
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. Aup Nr,
Torty persons were killed bv an eco,da..
| on the Stratford extension of tbA cho1t1.N
street Railway company this afternoo,.
when loaded trolley car went ofe ~.
trestle over Pecks mill pond at Oronoo,,a
ABOUT SIX miles north or Bridgerort. and
sank IN the flats fifty ceet below. Thns
Tar thtrty-six people are known to he
ueao ana several more are injured.
IDENTIFIED DEAD.
g;nosI ;TOSEPH II HOTCHKISS Bridgeport, en-
HENRY c. COGSWELL Rrideanor+
Igeo sixty employe Of New York New
faST@n board q q Hartford railway, member Of
| three, shoemaker. 0AA'y-
ANb SNTbLEGTMAH WIITAI 1Sn,I ELIAS w. BRADLEY
XRTt1TAn XMRRTTHt11TAM E. =; OSBORNE. stratford.
DANIEL CALVIN, Ansonia.
| Bridgeport NNAhNh'OAA'
| S: BANKS, Shelton.
MRS. M'DONALD, Bridegroom
WINTON LANTHEAR motornan
6Tp5qqSgsesp0rt Traction company -''--'
port gt'0lE IOoMEY' twenty-five Bridge
Rrid MidthLIAM deIaLdz1 H. HARVEY, thirty-seven.
MRS. J. H. RUGG, stratford.
| WILLIAM MCCULLOUGH Stratford
MRS; MRS; ARTHUR HOLMES, BHLro Bridgeport
THOMAS MNALLY, thirty. Bridsenort
| QqD94nt1ncat1on not positive)
FEIER RING, twenty-eight, Bridge
PATRICK M'DERMoTr. fifty, Bridge
FRANK KRAFT, twenty-five, Bridge
p1ld MRs; PATRICK BRENNAN. fifty.
ALFRED PITT, twenty-two Bridge
WILLIAM CoTrER tusntuaro
Bridgeport identification not neHifyrnVe' nesityYvn1
pIiEvING D0RESUS, twenty-three.
MARGARET FkRRtEIT' F2If"% New yor,
arm, mliiiam Kelly. Bridgeport, sprained
SERIOUSLY INJURED
MAJ M1argaret s,, Brennan, scalp wound
leg fractured tey twice A pitt' Birds port, right
q abditGg bmi.agaret ftr Farrell right leg amputated
ap3Ne knee; will probably die ia 'eo
to leg ecdlp wound, injury
head Fan6 a6d Kraft Pat Bridgeport injuries about
Arthur Holmes ErIa
aI1ut T the body, left leg crUsbed Gii' uslon
obcr dTed Hillercus, scalp wcnnd nHIeui hr,,,.o,
| bruised generally wound and
NbaEia NMba6gl Rqggi aged 5. arm broken.
broker, injured internally. STOCK
BUT TWO EscAPED
only two persons are known to have
tt,sal tSe@peu uiiilar1ned. 1t is believed that
we're forty-three passengers on the
o"I' out the indicator was removed bv
conductor of another car and spirtted
81 'iiat at present it is impossible
s'dte accurately the number on board
me scene OF the accident is midway
oe1"eeh eheiton and Bridgeport The
car was pOrth-bound, running +o1yard
qhei'on 1t was in charge of Conductor
John Carroll, of Bridgeport. who was
among the killed, and Motorman 9an,iI0
ton' OF Bridgeport, who escaped by tlImn-
| ing. ~ Iuiiip-
The trestle is 44O feet long, made of
ron' with stone foundations, and was
! not protected by guard rails. South of
| the trestle is an incline down which the
car ran at high rate of speed. II ran
on to the trestle for about ten feet, when
the trucks left the rails and then the
car continued on the ties for about sew
| enty-hve feet, when it went off the
trestle and dropped into the shallow
pond below, overturning completely and
up-ending.
CAR CRUSHED.
When the car struck the four-ton motor
| and the heavy trucks crushed into it.
| instantly killing many or the passen-
gers. Three physicians who were pas
| sengerS on a car a short distance behind
arrived quickly on tho scene and rem
dered all possible assistance to the in
| jured.
Word was sent to Bridgeport and three
| ambulances and a police wagon were
| hurried to the scene and the injured were
! taken to Bridgeport general hospital. A
morgue was improvised in the main room
of the town hall at Stratford and in a
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
| saws 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. the roao'
which is practically controlled by the
| bridgeport Traction company, was opened
fer traffic last Thursday.
FEW ESCAPED DEATH.
Nearly the entire medical force OF
Bridgeport responded to the telephone
calls sent in, but when the doctors ar
rived they were unable to render mucn
assistance. as so few passengers escaped
instant death.
The car, after upending, soon settled
| over on its side, and there was little
| difficulty in removing the bodies of the
| dead. as we'll as assisting the wounded.
Motorman Hamilton is suffering from
such a severe shock that 1t was impossi-
Bile to learn anything from him tonight.
ACCIDENT A MYSTERY.
President Andrew Radell, of the rail-
way company, stated that 1t was impos-
sible for him to account for the acci-
dent Immediately after his arrival at
the scene he made thorough inspec-
ton of the track and trestle, and could
see nothing wrong, and cars were run
ming over the track and trestle soon after
| fou+snua5 ~, ETour@E, paDo