The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-07

| persons were killed by an accident on
the Stratford extension of the Shelton
Street Railway company at o'clock
| this afternoon when 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 40
feet below. Thus far 36 persons are
known to be dead and several more in
jured.
The identified dead are:
JOSEPH HOTCHKISS, Bridgeport,
engineer fire department.
HENRY c. COGSWELL, Bridgeport,
aged so, employe of New York, New
Haven & Hartford railroad; member
of board of education.
ORLANDO B. WELLS, aged 63,
shoemaker.
SELECTMAN ELIAS E. BRADLEY
AND WIFE, Milford.
WILLIAM OSBORN, Stra tford.
DANIEL CALVIN, Ansonia.
CONDUCTOR JOHN CARROLL,
Bridgeport.
S. BANKS, Shelton.
MRS. M'DONALD, Bridgeport
WILTON LANTHAR, motorman,
Bridgeport Traction company
BESSIE TOOMEY, %, Bridgeport.
WILLIAM H. HARVEY, 81, Bridge
port.
MRS. ]. H. RUGG, Stratford.
MRS. FRANK BLEW and two chill
dren, boy aged and girl aged 5,
Stratford.
WILLIAM MCCULLOUGH, STRAIT
ford.
MRS. ARTHUR D. HOLMES,
Bridgeport.
THOMAS M'NALLY, 80, Bridgeport,
identification not positive.
PETER RING, 2s, Bridgeport.
PATRICK M'DERMOTT, so, Bridge
port.
MRS. PATRICK BRENNAN, 50,
Bridgeport.
ALFRED PITT, 81, Bridgeport.
WILLIAM COTTER, %. Bridgeport.
IRVING DORUSE, 29, Bridgeport.
MRS. WILLIAM H. HARVEY,
Bridgeport.
JOHN CALVIN, %, Ansonia.
MARGARET FARRELL, New York.
Among the seriously injured at the
Bridgeport hospital are: Margaret
Brennan, scalp wound; Mrs Sydney
A. Hit, Bridgeport, right leg fractur-
ed twice; Margaret Farrell, right leg
amputated above the knee, will prob
ably die; George Hamilton, scalp
wound, injury to leg; Frank Kraft,
Bridgeport, injuries about the head and
A - fhptt- yNIr ID p,s
fusion about the breast, left leg
crushed; Fred Hillercus, scalp wound,
bruised about the body; Mathew Oil
win, scalp wound, cut and cruised gen.
orally.
William Kelley. Bridgeport, sprained
arm; Mabel Rugg, aged 5, arm broken;
Charles Delaney, New York, stock bro
ker, injured internally.
Only two persons are known to have
escaped unharmed. 1t Is believed that
there were 43 passengers on the car, but
the indicator was removed by a con-
ductor of another car and spirited
away, so that at present it is impossi-
BILE to state accurately the number
aboard.
The scene of the accident is midway
between Shelton and Bridgeport. The
car was north-bound, running toward
Shelton. 1t was in charge of Conductor
John Carroll of Bridgeport, who was
among the killed. and Motorman Ham
ilton of Bridgeport, who escaped by
jumping.
The trestle is 440 feet long, made of
iron, with stone foundations, and and
was not protected by guard rails. South
OF the trestle is an incline down which
the car ran at high rate of speed.
After it ran on the trestle for about 10
feet the trucks left the rails, then the
car continued on the ties about rs feet,
when 1t went off the trestle and drop
ped into the pond below, overturnlng
completely and upending.
When the car struck the four-ton mo-
tor and the heavy trucks crushed into
1t instantly, killing many of the pas
sengers. Three physicians, who were
passengers on car short distance be-
hind, arrived quickly on the scene and
rendered all possible assistance to the
injured.
Word was sent to Bridgeport and
three ambulances and a police wagon
were hurried to the scene and the in
jured were taken to the Bridgeport gem
eral hospital A morgue was improvised