On April 27, 1887 the report of the Railroad Commissioners regarding the Bussey Bridge train disaster on the Boston & Providence Railroad was presented to the United States Senate.
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By the accident yesterday [March 14, 1887] on the Boston & Providence Railroad thirty-eight souls were buried into eternity and some forty persons were more or less injured. It was by all odds the most serious of any accident of a like nature that has happened in this State for many years.
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The following explanation, prepared by a gentleman who has made a special study of the cause of the disaster at Bussey Bridge, will make clearer the statement written for the Engineering News and published in the Globe Thursday morning. The statement in the Engineering News refers to the defective character of two hangers which were found to have been seriously rusted along the welds at the lower ends.
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