The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-16
Thrown From Track Near the
Greenwich, Conn.,, Depot.
ONE WOMAN KILLED,
Tried to Get Out of Window
and Car Fell on Her.
so Persons Injured and Four
Parl0r Cars Upset.

Greenwich, Conn, July 16.-The
White Mountain Express over the New
York, New Haven & Hartford rail-
road leaving New York at S:45 this
morning and due to go through here
at a rate of about SO miles an hour,
at 9:20 was derailed and almost COM
pletely wrecked on the bridge over
Greenwich avenue in this town. One
woman passenger was almost instant
ly killed. one other woman was very
badly injured and at least a dozen
other passengers were more or less
seriously hurt, so that they had to be
taken to the local hospitals.
The passenger who was killed was
Miss Marguerite Armstrong of Wayne,
Pa, an occupant of one of the Pull
man coaches. 1t appears that Miss
Armstrong had attempted to get out
of the window and the coach toppled
over and she was crushed to death.
The train was made up of nine
coaches of which five were Pullmans.
Outside of the derailment the day
coaches suffered practically no harm,
while the Pullmans were all overturn-
ed. The train was drawn by two cleo
trio locomotives and after the coaches
were derailed these took three of the
forward coaches and hauled them
fully 500 feet ahead before they could
be stopped after the engineers had
noticed that the train. had broken
apart.
The cause of the accident is not yet
fixed. but inspection of the bridge
shows that the iron was ground in
picces and one girder rail on the en-
bankment side alone prevented the
entire train from being ditched. The
derailment occurred about 500 feet
| east of Greenwich station. .
~ a in deSCrih hin q
| the accident. said that he first noticed
| the humping of the coaches on the
| ties, then a swaying from one side to
the other and finally the overturnine
of his own and other coaches.
The speed at which the train was
going is responsible for the distance
which cars ran before toppling over.
| There was a wild scene as the cars
became a. mass of wreckage. the
shrieks of the frightened passenger:
reaching the storessand residences or
| the nearby streets and bringing almost
| instantly hundreds of townspeople tc
| the rescue. The firemen and the am
balances from the hospitals and sur
| 1t was reported that one woman who
| had been taken out5-of the wreckage
had died on the way to the hospital
This. however. probably was an error
1t is. thought that of the more thar
100 passengers in the Pullmans. about
/
jured, although the serious cases may
not number more than dozen.
The injured passengers include Mrs
Elizabeth Gibbefson. Brooklyn, lee
! broken and otherwise hurt.
| Sc Whittemore, Newport, N H.
knee injured and arm wrenched.
Mrs. c. NJ. Crandall, New York
wounds in head.
| The Greenwich hospital reports thai
only two injured persons were brought
! there, one a woman and the other g
/ man. Their names are withheld
| Neither is said to be. badly hurt.
An Only Child.
| Philadelphia, July 16.-Miss Mar
guerite Armstrong of Wayne, Pa, wa:
liz years old and was en- route witt
her mother and a party of friend:
from Flatbush, L. l., to New Hamp
| shire summer resort. Miss Arm
| strong's father was the late DIR. Will
| liam c. Armstrong and she was al
only child.