The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-12-27
BODIES RECOVERED OF TWO WHO PERISHED IN
 WRECK ON DERBY LINE
Hoof Of Vestbule Chopped Through While Car Is Sus pended at End of Cables -Motorman and Conductor Caught Like Rats in Trap When Heavy Car Plunged Over 40 Foot Embankment Into River-Passenoers Escape Narrowly.

ed with a frantic grip the brass rod
 running along the side of the car near
 the top. With Mrs. Madison it was
 d1nerent- She was so weak she sank
 ti eMlce before her husband, releasing ms. grip on the window silly came to ner rescue and fought his way back | to safety.
 Help came a few minutes later and
 me Ine hve were dragged from their per lIous positions and taken to the horna
 of John Fritz nearby, where dry
 clothes were furnished them. Mr.
 Madison and the other male passen-
 gers, both of whom were Italians. were | little the worse from their experience
 but Mrs. Madison and Miss Peterso1
 were suffering severely from the Cold
 and the shock. Dr. E. w Davis of
 Seymour was called in and adminis-
 tered restroatives
 whose hand was cut by broken glass 1alnted in a Seymour drug store
 where she had been taken to have if
 oandaged. It was then decided that
 MT. and Mrs. Madison and Miss Peter
 son remained at the Windsor house all night
 The three had left Beacon Falls
 the day with MT. Madison's parents in West Haven Their arms were fill ca with Christmas presents and all these were lost. In addition MT. Madi- son lost new overcoat. a wallet con ta1ning $20 and Mrs Madison lost a new muff-
 When the passengers had been say ed, the rescuers made an attempt to, reach the imprisoned motorman and conductors, but soon realized their in, ability to render any aid. Word was snet to Naugatuck, Seymour and Der by for help and attempt was made to life the car with cables The work was slow At one time the car had fea xr-1,<, cable snapt and the car fell back to its former position
 The Derby division had no tackle strong enough to raise such a weight. ly Waterbury were called upon The Bridgeport service car was derailed and the New Haven crew was unable 70 light sts way through the driving snow storm The Waterbury service car left that city at 6 o'clock with a crew of six men in charge of Masta Mechanic C. E. Thomas and reach t4I the scene of the accitfeIt shortly af- steepness of the incline, the work was of unusual difficulty and at mid night the bodies of the two men had not been recovered
 The trolley car was not one from Waterbury, but belonged to the Derlhv division Beard and Donovan were two of the most popular men on the line Beard, aged thirty-fiye was a reallVe or New Milford, and had always had desire to work on a railroad. After selling tickets at the Derby rail- road station for several years, he en- tered the employ of the Connecticut Co, ten years ago. Several years ago he married the daughter of Shelton and was then trans ferred to the Derby division He and his wife frequently visited Waterbury in their automobile.
 Donovan was about thirty years old and was unmarried
 For the remainder of the day. pas- sengers were transferred at the point of the accident and crowds visited the ' spot and watched the efforts to raise the car. The news of the death of Beard and Donovan spread rapidly. Orders went out from headQuarters for the men to make no attempt to keep on schedule time but to go slow y and not bother about connections.
 A& the point where the trolley was 1erailed there is a turnout and then a :urve- This is nearly opposite what S known by the trolley employees as he duck farm Almost the entire distance from Beacon Falls to Sey- nour the trolley tracks are close to he river bank.
 The two Italians refused to give heir names. After they had been made comfortable they went to the -ailroad station and purchased tickets or Bridgeport One of them who ,ould talk little English, said he was lninjured and had got wet only to lis knees