The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-08-16
FIFTY YEARS AGO.
Murder Most Foul srE:RR1BIIE RAILROAD ACCIDENT seven Killed; 20 OF 30 Wounded FRIGHTFFUL WRECK.

terrible and frightfu1 accident occurred abo1t Il o'clock this morn ing on the Housatonic railroad, three miles and a half from the depot in this city, by which a. number of lives, were lost, and laTEe number of persons injured, some fatally, some others slightly
 Early this morning an extra train going up started on it's trip about s o' clock When near Trumbul1 the engine broke down, and as the pas senRer train which leaves this city at 1e.8O a. m, came up, the engine was hitched onto the rear of the freieIat train, and both trains were backfT1k down to this city there be- 'angno turnout short f5'the depot.
 When abont midway between the paper mill and the Pequonnock mills, with no precautions taken to prevent such an accident, no flag or signal out, and no man in advance Of the backing train, the rear car was run into tv a single sengine, the Fairfield, proceeding north at a high rate of speed, on sort of trial trip.
 The eI7gfnA cut straight into the car, tearing and rounding all before At. and stopping at the extreme for ward part Of it. One man, unknown, was irapaIed through the bowels on some poESion of the machinery, and -wedgeds so tightly in his terrible po- sition on the hot engine engine so as to make it impossible to remove hi1a- The escaping steam scalded nun Der of the passengers terribly. Of course the aforementfoned passenger was dead One man, three women. ia boy and a girl. were dead. at 12 ! 0 clock, when our reporter for The Farmer arrived on the scene. and sthere were three women who could mot live. so badly were they injured ffl Q names of the dead The only name that we could procure was that of kDdrs. Charlotte Cable, of Stockbridge. Her niece, Miss Florence Cable was .badIy injured
 Among the wounded ares
 Mrs. Louisa U Marshall wife of sRiehard Marshall, of this city, badly,
 Her daughter, Mrs, Hiram B. Taylor Injuries to head and breast.
 William Delaney, on the engine Fair field, slightly injured.
 Bridget Ryan, going to Great Bar .rington. slightly
 Michael Dunn a returned soldier, EFafIs Village, slightly.
 William Leonard, Philadelphia. go- ing to Great Harrington. slightly
 Timothy Farrell, Newtewn,} slightly in foot
 James Garry, New York, going to Great Harrington. slightly.
 Mrs Beneajah Mallory, slightly.
 James w ard, slightly.
 Charles B. Hunt, president of the railroad, hurt in face. He was stand ing on the platform of the car with } the conductor, both Of whom jumped off
 Maria Prentice. New York. leg brok- en-
 George W. Mansfield. Falls Village. badly hurt
 Edward Lyman was running the en- zine which ran into the train- He es- caped injury by jumping off
 zne scene at the place of slaughter is described as horrible. The car and engine were complete wreck, from which the woI1ded and dying were taken in helpless condition. The only house near by was small one owned by German. The wounded who could help themselves or be helped were taken to the shade of the woods close at hand.
 At about noon a wrecking train was despatched to the scene of the acci- dent, conveying Drs. Hubbard Ben nett, Nash and Burritt to attend to the injured
 We hope there will be a rigid exam nation into the cause Of this MUIR &AzaR fnr t is nothing else, and on the