On Monday, August 7th, 1899, The Bridgeport Post summarized the August 6th trolley disaster with these words, "It was a terrible Sunday - one that this generation will never forget and which will be marked down in the history of the city as its blackest day."

• Bridgeport Herald, August 6th, 1899

• Bridgeport Evening Post, August 7th, 1899

• St. Albans Daily Messenger, August 7th, 1899

• The Boston Globe, August 7th, 1899

• The Day, New London, August 7th, 1899

• The Hartford Courant, August 7th, 1899

• The Meriden Daily Journal, August 7th, 1899

• The New York Times August 7th, 1899

• The Waterbury Evening Democrat, August 7, 1899

• The York Daily, August 7th, 1899

• Bridgeport Evening Post August 8th, 1899

• Bridgeport Evening Post August 9th, 1899 

• Bridgeport Evening Post August 10th, 1899

• Bridgeport Evening Post August 11th, 1899

• The Newtown Bee, August 11th, 1899

• Bridgeport Evening Post August 12th, 1899

• Bridgeport Herald August 13th, 1899

• Bridgeport Evening Post August 14th, 1899

• Bridgeport Evening Post August 15th, 1899

• Bridgeport Evening Post August 16th, 1899

• Bridgeport Evening Post August 17th, 1899

• Harper's Weekly August 19th, 1899

• Scientific American Magazine, August 19th, 1899

• Bridgeport Herald August 20th, 1899

• The Stratford News, March 8th, 1935

• The Stratford News, July 6, 1961

• The Stratford News, May 6, 1971

• The Stratford Star, August 5th, 1999

• The Stratford Star, November 30, 2000

• Stratford Historical Society September 1999