Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-08-28
Norwich Man
In Train Wreck
DAVID DUNN IN HOSPITAL WITH
MINOR INJURIES.
SIXTY HURT SUNDAY
Valley Division Train Went Off EN-
bankment Near rMiddletown--At High
Rate of speed-Four Seriously Hurt.

Middletown, Conn.,, Aug. 27.-Sixty,
people were injured, four of them at
least seriously, tonight when an ex-
press train on the valleye division of
the New York, New Haven and Hart
ford railroad left the rails three and
half miles below this city.
The Injured.
Edward J. HiIIiard, baggageman.
Hartford, nose broken.
n. Leavitt, brakeman, Hartford, con-
cussion of the brain.
The two above are being cared for
at the state hospital for the insane.
Those taken to the Middlesex hos
pital are:
r. A. Mathes, engineer, Hartford, dis
looted hip.
Erwin Sullivan, cut about the head
and bruised.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. Lawretrce Colt, New
from shock.
Abraham Brown, Hartford, suffering
from shock.
D. 8. Field, Hartford, back and one
leg injured.
Laban Drehan, Springfield, Mass j,
minor injuries.
Carl Holt, Hartford, minor injuries.
David Dunn, Norwich, minor injur-
les.
Philip Lee cremier, Moodus, minor
a. p. Brown, Hartford, internally in
jured.
A. H. Gardner, Hartford, cut about
the head.
Il. b. Lawler. Moodus. scalp wounds.
J. D. Lawler, Windsor Locks, scalp
W. B. German, Hartford, right arm
injured.
Charles Golf, East Hampton, scalp
c. A. Hawkes., Hartford, both legs
HI. Reader, Hartford, cuts on face
and head.
Harold King, Middletown. scalp
wound.
W. S. Todd, Hartford, cut on face
and head.
PASSENGERS from Shore Resorts.
The train which was wrecked is one
which runs down from Hartford sun
day mornings to accommodate those,
who wish TO speaid the day at the diff
as far as New London. and returning
at night. The train is due at Middle
town at S.O4, and was fifteen minutes
behind time and running at a high rate
of speed, it is said, to make up for the
lost time.
Forty Foot Drop on Ono Side.
It had passed the Maromas station
and gone about a mile and a half when
it left the tracks at a place which
makes the escape from loss OF life
little less than miraculous. At the
place where the wreck occurred there
is a steep bank which runs down for
ty feet or more to the bank OF the
Connecticut river, on the right OF q
northbound track. On the other side
there is an embankment which rises
ten or twelve feet to the highway. In
one spot on the right bank there is a
bank of sand which rises perhaps ten
feet and extends for twenty feet or
more along the tracks.
Chopped Engineer Out.
When the train lefh the tracks the
engine and its tender plunged headhrst
into this pile of sand, pinning the en-
gineer in his cab SO that he had to be
chopped out. The fireman managed to
crawl out without aid. The two bag
gage cars on the train went down the
embankment, the first car remaining
upright, being stopped from going into
the river by a clunlp of trees into
which it fell. T he second car turned
over on its side when it struck the
trees.
Eight Coaches Left the Rails.
The first passenger coach when the
baggage cars left the rails continued
on its way until it crashed in to the
tender. tearing the top almost off and
splitting it into pieces. 1t was in this
car that most of the passengers who
were injured were riding. The second
passenger coach was also badly
smashed; the other six coaches left
the rails and were buried to the tops
of the trucks in the sand. The win
dows in all the cars were smashed AMI
seats broken, in many Instances by
passengers being hurled against them
by the sudden stopping of the train.
Help from MiddIetown.
AS soon as the wreck was known an
ambulance was sent from this city and
an engine and car from the local sta
ton. Physicians from the hospital for
the insane left for the wreck and all
these were aided by passengers of
local which followed the express, ar
irving on the scene a half hour later.
Hartford and DR.. James Murphy of
this city. AS soon as they could they
gave aid to the wounded, but they
we're without appliances for their work
and used such bandages as could be
made from the wearing apparel of the
passengers On the arrival of the
physicians from here with medical sup
plies, the wounded were speedily cared
for temporarily.
As soon as possible after the arrival
of the car from this city % of the
injured were placed on board and
ceiving what treatment was necessary
continued on their journey by electric
cars or in automobiles which they
hired. Others Of the injured and those
Of the uninjured who desired to were
taken on board the local train and
taken back to Saybrook, where the
traiE was sent over the Shore Line to
New Haven and transferred to the
All Line and 50 on to this city again.
About 500 Walked to City.
Others, there were about 500 alto
gether, climbed the bank leading up
to the roadway and walking through
the mud of a country road, wet by
three days rain came to this city
carrying. dress suit cases and grips,
arriving here mud-spattered and wet,
where they, too, proceeded on their
way in automobiles and trolley cars.
There was no one in charge of the
rescuing of the injured and only those
who were taken to hospitals gave their
names.
Rats Supposed to Have Spread.
The cause of the>wreck is not def
nicely known. but is supposed to have
tccn caused by the spreading of the
rails. Men, it is Understood, were
working on the tracks as late as
o'clcck In the afteruoen. The place is
ono that Il alEa1 >6scted BY heavy
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