New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-08-31
The Revere Railroad Horror.

We copy from American Press Associa-
ton dispatches the following additional
| particulars of the horrible railroad
| catastrophe, at Revere, Massachusetts,:
Boston, August 26.-The occurrence took
I place about twenty minutes past eight
| O'clock, on the Eastern railroad. The trains
that came in contact being the us P NJ.
accommodation, to Beverly, and the p. M.
through train to Portland.
The intelligence of the disaster reached
the city about ten o'clock, since which time
the following particulars have been cleaned:
The accommodation train left the station
ON Causeway street, about three-quarters
of an hour behind time.
This was followed by the Portland and
Maine Central train, which started a few
minutes atterward, also behind time. The
accommodation train was drawn by two
locomotives, the Rockfort and Ironsides,
and consisted of six passenger cars. The
express train was propelled by the locomo.
tive Newburyport. and consisted of four
cars, among which was the Pullman palace
car. The accommodation was ahead, run
ming at moderate rate of speed, and as it
had but a few minutes start, at Washing
ton avenue bridge, in Chelsea, the trains
were only about a quarter of a mile apart.
One of the employees of the Eastern road
corporation, whose duty it is to care for the
crossing at Caryville, said the trains were
lat least half a mile apart when they passed
his station, and an employe who was sta
toned at Revere says the accommodation
stopped at his Station to allow some passen-
gers to alght, and while he was standing
there the express train came rapidly around
the bend in the road, and crushed into the
accommodation train. The last car on the
accommodation train was tunneled by the
locomotive Newburyport which ran nearly
through the coach. Two cars in front of
the last car were frightfully shaken. and
totally consumed.
1t appears that the accommodation train
for Beverly, under the charge of Conductor
Mason, was delayed half an hour by the
non-arrival of inward trains. Mason, not
wishing to wait longer started at 7:30, MAX
ing the usual stoppages until he came to
Revere. There the train halted, then started,
and for an unexplained reason halted again.
Suddenly Mason heard cry of danger.
On looking back he saw bright light COM.
ing round the curve, scarcely half a mile
from Revere Station. He at once signaled
the engineer to start, but it was too late.
A loud shrek of horror arose, and in a mo-
ment the engine of the Pullman express
train dashed into the rear of the accommo-
dation train, and completely telescoped the
rear car. Scalding water and steam from
tAO "OAC IuIOWA d1I ONCE OCCU-
pants, and in few moments the train was
on fire. The officials and hangers-on at the
station rushed to the scene and assisted the
sufferers.
The disaster is attributed to blunder of
the conductor of the accommodation train.
A Boston special to the Cincinnati Com-
nerciaL says:
Two clergymen were killed in the rear
car of the accommodation train, into which
the express engine plowed its way. The
most eminent was Rev. DR.. Ezra Stiles
Gannett, pastor of the Arlington street
Unitarian church, in thisI city. He was
seventy years of age, and was the oldest
settled minister in Boston, having been in
stalled over his late charge in 1924, as the
colleague of William Ellery Charming. Rev.
5, sumner T. r, Mason, of Cambridge, pastor of
also killed. While less widely known than
DR.. Gannett, he was one of the prominent |
men of his denomination in Massachusetts,