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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 20., Medford Branch Railroad. (search)
onger distance to Boston. It was twenty years before the Wellington district began to increase materially in growth. To be sure, some ten years later, Editor Moody of the original Medford journal suggested a suspension bridge to the highlands of Somerville, but he was ahead of the times. Not until Middlesex avenue was opened, 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 Med