Rare 1908 Photo White Mountain Express Train Wreck Accident Derail Greenwich CT for Sale

Rare 1908 Photo White Mountain Express Train Wreck Accident Derail Greenwich CT For Sale

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Rare 1908 Photo White Mountain Express Train Wreck Accident Derail Greenwich CT:
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Rare 1908 Photo White Mountain Express Train Wreck Accident Derail Greenwich CT

Approximate size: 4.5 inches x 3.5 inches

This photo depicts the July 16th, 1908 White Mountain Express Train Wreck. This is a rare photo, as it shows the turned over train cars and onlookers to the accident.
The gong of the ambulances on Greenwich Avenue broadcasted one of the worst accidents on the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad. The White Mountain Express, which passed through Greenwich every morning at 9:20, had derailed.
The train, traveling at 50 miles per hour, went off the track 20 feet west of the bridge over Steamboat Road. The nine cars were dragged nearly 500 feet before they came to a halt. The parlor car turned over completely pinning an 18-year-old girl underneath. After 20 minutes, using several jack screws to raise the car and sawing and chopping out part of the side, rescuers finally removed the young girl; she died a few minutes later.
The stone cut where the train derailed soon filled with men, women, and children eager to catch a glimpse of anything that was happening on the track below. It was estimated that 10,000 curiosity seekers arrived to view the wreck.
Andrew Talbot, the acting Chief of Police, responded immediately and established police lines to keep back the crowds. Greenwich volunteer firefighters arrived with axes to help those trapped in the wreckage. Despite the instability of the wrecked cars, Officer James Nedley, later police chief; Benjamin F. Warford; Daniel Lent; and Samuel A. Mills were among the people who rushed to the scene. They evacuated passengers through the broken glass of the windows to places of safety. Survivors said that not one person from the railroad company helped.
The surgeons on the staff of Millbank and General Hospitals were called to treat the injuries. All available ambulances were summoned to the scene. Chauffeurs waiting at the station were sent to bring physicians, and private carriages were used to take the injured to the hospitals. The Chief of Police placed under arrest the motorman and conductor. They were interrogated by the local prosecuting attorney and released.The first reference photo is of a newspaper clipping in the Daily Kennebec Journal (Augusta, Me.), July 17, 1908.
The second reference photo is of a newspaper clipping in theThe Evening World (New York, N.Y.), July 23, 1908.
The third reference photo is of a newspaper clipping in theDaily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.), July 17, 1908.
The fourth reference photo is of a newspaper clipping from the Waterbury Evening Democrat on July 16th 1908. Here\'s what the article says about the event:\"ONE WOMAN KILLED. Greenwich. July 16. Spreading rails at a point one hundred feet west of the station on the New Haven road, sent four Pullman coaches of the White Mountain express, leaving New York at 8:40 into a heap of ruins, causing the death of one woman, Miss Margaret Armstrong, seventeen years of age of Wayne, Pennsylvania. She was traveling with her mother to theWhite Mountains. Twelve others were more or less severely hurt and a hundred or more passengers in the other coaches were badly shaken up.Miss Armstrong was the first passenger to die In a wreck on the New Haven road In seven years. The train was going at a great rate of speed through the town. There were nine coaches, four of them Pullman. The day coaches broke loose and were not Injured.The list of Injured is remarkable small for the character of the accident and the scene of the wreck. It was the bridge over the Greenwich road. The rails and the road bed were frightfully torn up by the wheels of the wrecked coaches. Coroner Doten and the railroad officials are making an investigation.\"

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(A120 inventory number)