The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-08-15

There was terrible tragedy of the
rail enacted yesterday afternoon In
the death of Mrs. Bridget Walsh,
Hospital street, and Mrs. Edward Kel-
ly, Scott street,
The women were run down on De-
vanneys bridge. Brooklyn street, by
passenger train No. 3, on the Ontario
and Western road, which is due in
Carbondale at 4.40. One, Mrs. Walsh,
was hurled to her death, and Mrs.
Kelly was ground to death under the
wheels of the flying train. Hers was
horrifying death. Her body was
fearfully mansled by the wheels. Her
head was cut off and knocked along
over the ties of the bridge. Both
legs were crushed and she was dis
emboweed.
Mrs. Walsh lived for about fifteen
minutes after being struck. She was
hit on the head and back, which would
indicate that she was trying TO get
out of harms way. She was thrown
on the sirders, but lived not more than
a quarter of an hour after being
struck.
The scene of the accident is known
as Devanneys bridge, which crosses
w
and Mrs. Kelly were on their way To
visit friends at the lower end Of
Brooklyn, and they chose the rail-
road tracks of the Ontario and West
ern because of the route being appre-
ciably shorter, tho road running with
in a stones throw of their homes.
They We're walking in the direction in
which the train was coming and were
not more than ter feet from the eX-
treme enn Of the bridge when the
train came flying round the curve
from Mayfield Yard. The end of the
curve is about a hundred feet from
the bridge, and the trainmcn are not
afforded full view of the bridge until
the train sweeps clear of the bridge.
The women, as stated before, had only
few feet to cover before being off
the bridge, and a merciful intcrven-
tinn of d few seconds would have pre-
served them from the awful fate
which visited them Behind them was
man, stranger who left immc-
d'atelv after the dreadful happening.
without disclosing his identity. He
was not with the women. hut was
walking in the same direction as they
were. In describing the accident, he
said that the train was all hut upon
them when he shouted To warn the
women. Mrs. Walsh who was some
what weakened from age, was slow in
getting off the tracks and was struck
partly on the side. When she was
pitched aside, she almost fell into the
arms of the man, who stood on the
bridge girders, paralyzed with fear
Mrs. Kelly, it appears. was either
fear-stricken or did not hear the
warning cry, for the engine bore dowr
on her before she could move to on,
side, In another instant the slight
form was being frightfully manelet
under the speeding train.
Engineer Peck who was at TN,
throttle, did not succeed in stoppins
the train until the last car had passed
over AIRS. kellyG form.
There was a sickening sight wher
thc trainmen came back. Mrs. Kelly
body was almost denuded and aIon,
the rails and about the ties blood an,
shreds of flesh were scattered.
The mangled body of Mrs. Kelr
was carried over the bridge and lai,
along the embankmen;, Mrs. Walsl
was yet alive, though her vitality wa
rapidly growing less. The hospita
ambulance was summoned also d,
Harper but before either arrived Mrs
Walsh passed away.
Funeral Director t.. j McHale too
charge of the remains and had then
conveyed to his morgue, where the
were ideatiheC.
Mrs, Walsh was a widow. ahout :
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