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d, with its bridge across the Mystic, had that peninsular district a direct outlet to Boston, and even then its growth was slow. In the second year of service, April 28, 1848, there were three accidents reported:— April 28 James Gregg, having laid down between the rails on a curve near Medford, was run over by an engine and killed instantly. May 5 Samuel Baldwin, in getting out of the cars at Medford after they had started, was struck by the baggage car and his arm was broken. November 4 James Pratt, Medford, legs broken by collision at Medford Junction. In 1853 Enos Ormsbee and Silas Bumpus of Charlestown, carpenters, walking on the track to Medford, were instantly killed by the 7 3/4 A. M. northern train, the So. Reading train passing at the same time. [This must have been below the junction and not on the branch.] And another, in which the Medford Branch figures:— June 28, 1854, L. G. Brown killed at Causeway street [Boston]. He was driving with two others when