Meriden, Connecticut, USA
1890 - A Train Goes Over a High Bank

MERIDEN, Conn., Nov. 21. - Train No. 2 on the Meriden, Waterbury and Connecticut railroad met with a serious accident at the Southington road trestle, six miles west of here, this morning. The train was a freight, and when midway on the trestle the brake beam of one of the coal cars dropped to the track, and the cars were derailed just after leaving the bridge. An embankment, 300 feet long and 40 feet high, extends on either side of the bridge, and down went two of the cars, dragging with them James McDermott and William Hart. The former was fatally injured and the latter seriously.

Reading Times
Reading, Pennsylvania
November 22, 1890

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