The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-05-05
CREASED RAILS CAUSE
 OF FATAL COLLISION
MOtorman Loses Control and Trolley Dashes Into Carriage
 in Which Women Are Riding
NO CHANCE FOR ESCAPE
Each of the Victims Had Inheri. ted Million Dollars From Their Father Colonel
 D. P. Ely

South NorWalk, May 5-Mrs. Russell l Frost, wife of General Russell Frost,
 commander of the Connecticut Ma
 tional Guard, was instantly killed and
 her sister, Mrs. Dudline Ely Ray
 mond, received injuries from which
 she died two hours later. when the
 carriage in which they were riding was struck by a runaway trolley car | directly in front of the Frost resi-
 dence, in West avenue, last night. death of his wife. He had seen the
 carriage approaching the house and had started down the walk to assist his wife and her sister to alight When he was within six feet of the
 curb and while the coachman was turning his horses to bring the car
 riage to a stop, trolley car running
 at high speed and uncomfortable be-
 cause of the grease which had been
 spread on the rails, crashed into the vehicle.
 Coachntan Escaped. Mrs Frost and her sister were thrown through the glass in the door
 of the carriage and struck on their heads in the roadway. Mrs. Frost's skull was fractured. She died in stantly. Her sisters arms were broken and she received internal in juries from which she died two hours later.
 The car struck the carriage with such force that the carriage and the
 horse were hurled more than ninety feet. There the carriage landed up- side down in the gutter, a complete | wreck. John Pooley, the coachman, was caught between the carriage and
 the car Most of his clothing was 1o.z serious injury. The two fine horses
 which had drawn the carriage were badly hurt
 When the body of Mrs Frost was carried to the lawn of the Frost res idence. friends of General Frost used force to prevent him looking upon it | owing to the disfigurement. The con-
 ductor and the motorman of the troll ley car were at once arrested and l late were held in bonds charged with
 manslaughter.
 Several Fatalities There. The spot in West avenue where the accident occurred already had a tragic history. Within a few feet of the point where the collision occurred
 Martin Kellogg, Street Commissioner, was killed four years ago when he was struck by an automobile driven
 by Russell Frost, IT,, a son of Gen. eral FTOSt. one year ago John DOWd,
 we'll known resident, was run down
 by an automobile and killed near the same place, and last week Miss Helen
 May Smith, a nurse. was killed and l several others were injured in an au- tomobile accident not far from the
 scene of the present tragedy.
 Mrs. Frost and Mrs. Raymond, who
 was two years her senior, were lead
 CTS in the social life of this town and were known and esteemed throughout the State and in New York. They were the daughters of the late Col | onel D. P. Ely. at whose death each
 of them inherited more than $1, ,000, ,0OO
 The family of which General Frost is
 a member is one of the oldest and wealthiest in the State.
 Mrs. Frost was fifty-five years old.
 Her son, Russell Frost, Jr., is a stu-
 dent in the Yale Law School. Mrs. Raymond is survived by two sons, both of whom are students at Yale. Mrs. RaymOnds two sons arrived
 from New Haven about ten minutes
 before their mother died, but she was
 unconscious and did not recognize
 them. Russell Frost, IT,, arrived with
 his cousins.