 Many doctors were travelling on the train, returning from the Sixth Annual Meeting of the American Medical Association in New York; seven of them were killed.Amongst the unhurt was Dr. Gurdon Wadsworth Russell, who wrote an account of the accident for the "Hartford Courant" in which he says that the dead "presented all the symptoms of asphyxia from drowning, and were probably drowned at once, being confined and pressed by broken cars.Oh, what a melancholy scene that!"