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Forty Sixth Week, Thursday's "Medfield Historical Minute"
A little something to read and learn to give you a little break during this time of boredom during isolation due to the Coronavirus Crisis.
A Medfield Historical Minute...
This "Medfield Historical Minute" is brought to you by town historian Richard DeSorgher.
A little something to read and learn to give you a little break during this time of boredom during isolation due to the Coronavirus Crisis. A different "Medfield Historical Minute" will appear each day during the Crisis.
"On March 14, 1887 Sarah Ellis of Medfield was killed while riding on the Boston & Providence Railroad, when the train she was riding was crossing the Bussey Bridge near the Forest Hills section of Boston. With more than 200 passengers on board, the bridge collapsed while the train made its way across. The engine and three cars had passed safely over the bridge when the bridge gave way and the next car went down dragging all the remaining cars with it. Sarah never lived to know what happened. Thirty-eight people including Sarah died and 40 were seriously injured. The train wreck was the first railroad disaster in American history. Sarah Ellis was buried in Vine Lake Cemetery, one of the first to die in that unexpected disaster."