Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-07-16
PULLMANs ALL OVERTURNED
Drawn by Electric Locomotives
Which Could Not be Read
lily Stopped.
Wreck Occurred on New Haven &
Hartford and That Cars Were
Not Ditched n Miracle.

-reenvich Conn, July l6.-The White
/ Mountain Express over the New York.
New Haven and Hartford railroad leav-
ing New York at S:45 this morning and
due to go through here at a rate of
about so miles an hour at $50. was de-
rallied and almost completely wrecked
on the bridge over Greenwich avenue
I'm this town. one woman passenger
was almost instantly 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 Pullman coaches. II would APP
pear that, Miss Armstrong had at
tempted 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.
lOutside of the iernlment the day
coaches suffered practically no harm
while the Pullmans were all overturned.
The train wa drawn by two electric
locomotives and after the coaches were
derailed these took three of the for
ward coaches and hauled them fully 500
feet ahead before they could be stopped
after the engineers had noticed that
the train had broken apart
CAUSE OF ACCIDENT.
fixed. but inspection of the bridge
shows that the iron was ground to
pieces and one girder rail on the en-
bankment side alone prevented the
entire train from being ditched The
detrailment occurred about 500 yards
east of Greenwich station.
One of the passengers in describing
the accident said that he first noticed
the humping on the ties and then
swaying and then the oyerturning of
his own coach and other coaches.
The speed at which the train was
going is responsible for the distance
which the cars ran before topping
over.
A WILD SCENE.
There was a wild scene as the cars
became mass OF wreckage. and
the shrieks of the frightened pas
sengers reaching the stores and resi-
dences on the nearby streets and
bringing almost instantly hundreds of
townspeoplo to the rescue. The fire.
men and the ambulances from the hos
pitfalls and surgeons in town were at
once summoned. 1t was reported that
one woman who had been taken out of
the wreckage had died on the way to
the hospital. This, however, probably
was an error.
There We're more than 100 passengers
IN the Pullman and about half that
number are more or less injured, al
though the serious cases may not num-
her more than a dozen.
1t was necessary for the wreckins
rrew to jack up the ruins of these
coaches in order to eXtricate the body
Of Miss Armstrong.
At first the number of injured was
thought to be large but later the list
of hospital cases had shrunk to less
than dozen.
THE VICTIMS.
Philadelphia. July l6,-Miss Marguer-
lite Armstrong of Wayne, Pa, was II
years old, and was enroute with her
mother and a party of friends from
Flatbush, L. l., to a New Hampshire
summer resort. Miss Armstrong; faith
err was the late DR.. William G. Arm
strong. and she was an only child.