Plainville, CT Train Wreck, Mar 1900
FOUR ARE KILLED IN WRECK
New York & New Haven Train Dashes Into a Washout, Causing Death
Plainville, Conn., March 1.---A passenger train, southbound on the Northampton division of the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad, due in this city from Shelburne Falls, Mass., at 6:55, went through a washout about nine miles north of here and four persons were killed and seven more or less injured.
The dead:
STEPHEN SEARLES, engineer, New Haven.
EDWARD BARROWS, baggagemaster, New Haven.
TWO UNKNOWN PASSENGERS.
The body of one of the passenger killed has been recovered, but the other is still in the wreck.
Injured:
Jacob Corpre, fireman, New Haven, (probably fatal).
C. W. Phelps, express messenger, New Haven, injured about the head.
William Seymour, mail clerk, New Haven, right leg hurt.
George H. Merrill, Bristol, Internal injuries.
J. T. Newton, ice dealer, New Haven, right arm and left leg injured.
Charles Hills, Hartford, cut about head and right arm injured.
Charles Neale, conductor, New Haven, slight injuries:
The injured were taken to the Hartford hospital.
The wrecked train was made up of engine, baggage and mail car, combination car, passenger car and the pay car in the rear. The train was nearly one and a half hours late and was proceeding cautiously when it struck the washout. The two unknown passengers killed were in the smoker. There were no women aboard the train.
The scene of the wreck is ordinarily a small rivulet, the waters of which flow through a spacious culvert. Today, however, the water assumed greater proportions, owing to the heavy rains. There are about 150 mail pouches in the wrecked car, and but five have been accounted for.
Morning World-Herald, Omaha, NE 2 Mar 1900
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Yesterday was a big day for Plainville which was visited by thousands. It is estimated that more than 100 went from here to Plainville and the scene of the wreck. Plainville saloon-keepers never did such a business, many "running short" early in the day, owing to the demands made by the visitors.
New Haven Evening Register, New Haven, CT 3 Mar 1900
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