Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-08-07
The Earlier Dispatches.

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six persons were killed by an accident
on the Stratford extension Of the Shell
ton Street Railway Company at 4
+, o'clock Sunday afternoon. when a load
ed trolley car went off the trestle over
Peck's millpond 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.
PERSONS DEAD OR INJURED.
The identified dead are:
s. Banks, Shelton.
Mrs. Frank Blew and two children,
boy aged 3 and girl aged 5, Stratford.
Elias Z. Bradley and wife, selectman,
Milford.
Mrs. Patrick Brennan, so. Bridgeport
John Carroll. conductor, Bridgeport.
Henry C. Cogsweli. Bridgeport, aged
60. employe of New York, New Haven
& Hartford railroad, member of board
OF education.
William Cotter. 25. Bridgeport; identi-
fication not positive.
Irving Doruse, %, Bridgeport.
Daniel Calvin. Ansonia.
William H. Harvey. 81. and wife,
Bridgeport.
Mrs Arthur Holmes. Bridgeport.
Joseph Hotchktss, engineer fire de-
partment. Bridgeport
Frank Kraft. 25 Bridgeport.
Winton Lanthear. motorman, Bridge
port Traction Company.
William Mccullough, Stratford,
Patrick McDermott. 55, Bridgeport.
Mrs. Mcdonald. Bridgeport.
Thomas McNally. 30, Bridgeport:
Identification not positive.
William Osborne, Stratford.
Alfred Pitt. %. Bridgeport.
Peter Ring. 2S. Bridgeport
Mrs. j. II. Rugg. Stratford
Bessie Toomey, %, Bridgeport.
Orlando B. Wells, aged 63, shoemaker.
The injured are:
Margaret Brennan. scalp wound
Margaret Farrell. right leg amputat-
ed above knee; will probably die.
George Hamilton, scalp wound, injury
TO leg.
Mrs. Sidney A. Hit. Bridgeport: right
leg fractured.
Fred Hillercus. scalp wound. bruised
about the body.
Arthur Holmes. Bridgeport: confusion
about the body. left leg crushed.
Matthew Olyin. scalp wound, cut and
bruised generally.
Only two persons are known to have
escaped unharmed. 1t Is believed that
there were forty-tllree passengers on
the car. but the Indicator was removed
by conductor of another car and car
ried away. so that at present it Is i'm
possible to state accurately the number
aboard.
When the car struck. the four-ton
motor and the heavy trucks crushed in
% 1t. instantly killing many of the pas
sengers.
Three physicians, who were passen-
gers on car a short distance behind.
gave all possible assistance to the in
jured.
Word was sent to Bridgeport and
three ambulances and police wagon
were sent and the injured were taken
to bridgeport general hospital
morgue was improvised in the main
room of the town hall at Stratford and
in short time twenty-three bodies
were awaiting identification.
The accident was witnessed by Miss
Frances Peck. who resides about 400
feet from the bridge She says the car
was running at an unusually fast rate.
Frank Cramer, who was batning near
the bridge. says that the passeners were
all singing and in the most joyful mood
as they passed him.
The road. which is practically con-
trolled by the Bridgeport Traction Com
pany, was opened for traffic last Thurs
day.
The disaster was caused by car on
the Shelton extension trolley road, run
ming between Shelton and Bridgeport,
dashing of a trestle at the Oronoque
bridge while running at high apeed It
turned completely over in its descent,
and was dashed into hundreds Of
Dlscss. The scene Of the disaster is 10.