The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1899-08-12
THIRTY-SlX KILLED IN
STREET RAILWAY WRECK
Loaded Trolley Car Tumbles From a
High TrestIe Near Bridge
port, Conn.
HARDLY A PASSENGER ESCAPES
Almost Every Person Aboard the
Car Either Killed or Injured
"a List of the Killed
and Wounded.

Bridgeport, Conn.,, Aug. s.-Ncarly
forty persons We're killed by IN acci-
dent on the Stratford extension of the
Shelton Street Railway company at a
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 forty feet below.
Thus far thirty-six people are known
to be dead and several more injured.
The identified dead are:
JOSEPH HOTCHKISS, bridgeport.
engineer first division.
HENRY G. COGSWELL, Bridgeport,
aged GO, employc of the New York,
New Haven and Hartford railroad,
member of board of education.
ORLANDO B. WELLS, aged &C., shoe
maker.
sELECTMAN ELIAS Z. BRADLEY
and, wife, Milford.
WILLIAM osborne, Stratford.
DANIEL CALVIN, Asonia.
CONDUCTOR JOHN CARROLL.
Bridgeport, Me.
S. BANKS, Shelton.
MRS. MDONALD, Bridgeport.
WlNTHON LITHEARX, motorman,
Bridgeport Traction company.
BESSIE TOOMEY, aged %, Bridge.
port.
WILLIAM II. HARVEY, aged 81,
Bridgeport.
MRS. J. II. RUGG, Stratford.
MRS. FRANK BLEW and two chill.
dren, boy aged 3 and girl aged $, STRAIT
ford.
WILLIAM MCULLOCH, stratford.
MRS. ARTHUR HOLMES, Bridge
port.
THOMAS M'NALLY, aged 80,
Bridgeport; identification not posi-.
tive.
PETER RING, aged 2s, bridgeport.
PATRICK MDERMOTT, aged so,
Bridgeport.
MRS PATRICK BRENNAN, aged
so, Bridgeport.
ALFRED PITT, aged %, Bridge
port.
WILLIAM CoTTER, aged rs, Bridge
port; identification not positive.
IRVING DOURuSE, aged rs, Bridge
port.
MRS. WILLIAM II. HARVEY,
bridgeport.
Among the seriously injured at the
Bridgeport hospital are:
Margaret Brennan, scalp wound.
Mrs. Sidney. A. Hit, Bridgeport,
right leg fractured twice.
Margaret Farrell, right leg ampu.
tated above knee; will probably die.
George Hamilton, scalp wound, IN.
jury to leg.
Frank Kraft, bridgeport. injury
about head and back.
Arthur Holmes, Bridgeport, con
tnsions about the body, left leg
crushed.
Fred Hillerus, scalp woInd, bruised
about the body.
Matthew Olvin, scalp wound, cut
and bruised generally.
Margaret Farrell, New York.
William Kelly, Bridgeport, sprained
arm.
Mabel Rugg, aged 8, arm broken.
Charles Delaney, New York, stock
broker, injured internally.
Only two persons are known to have
escaped unframed. 1t is believed tina
there We're f%ifty-three passengers or
the car, but the conductor was re
moved by the conductor of another cal
and spirited away, sc that at presen'
1T Is impossible to state accurately thu
number aboard.
The scene OF the accident Is midwa,
between Shelton and Bridgeport. TIL
car was northbound, running to,varc
Shelton.It was in charge of Conductor
John Carroll, of Bridgeport, who wa.
among the injured, and Motormar
Hamilton, of Bridgeport, who escaped
by jumping.
The trestle is 44c feet long, made Q:
iron, with stone foundations and wa
not protected by guard rails. Sontl
of the trcstle is IN incline down which
the a ran at a high rate of speed
After it ran onto the trestlc for abou
ten feet the trucks left the rails arr
then the car continued on the ties TO,
about seventy-five feet, when it wen
off the %trestle and dropped into tn,
pond below, overturning completed,
aud Impending. Three physicians wlit
We're passengers OF a car a short dis
lance behind arrived immediately OF
the scene and rendered sil possible as
sistdnce to the injured. Word was sen
to Hridgeport and three ambulance!
and q police wagon were hurried to til,
scene and the injured were taken tt
the Bridgeport general hospital, 4
morgue was %improvised in the mali
room Of the town hall at Stratford. ant
in a very short time .twcnty-three bod
les were laid out awaiting identified
tion. The accident was witnessed b,
Miss Frances Peck, who resides abon'
400 feet from the bridge. She was up
stairs at her home as the car WINS pass
ing and she says thatsit was running
at nm unusually fast rate Frank Ora
mer, who was bathing near the bridge
states that the passengers were al
singing and in the most jovial mood ns
they passed him
The road, which y practically CON.
trolled by the bridgeport Traction,