Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-10-23

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BosToN, OFT. 22.-Anotber unfortunate dis
asier, involving the loss of lie and considerable
injury TO number OF persons, has occurred on
the Eastern railroad Early this morning q
passenger tram, while running AZ full speed
was diverted from its course by misplaced
switch at SeabrOok n H.. and plunged head
long INTO a freight tram Standing upon 4 side
track The collision was fearful, and both
trains were badly wrecked The particulars Of
the calamity are as follows
STATEMENT OF PASSENGERS.
Nearly everybody on board the train was
either browsing or sound asleep when the crash
came The shock was no sooner realized than
all were pitched from their seats In the Smok-
inn car visited but a few moments before by
one gentleman nearly every seat was occupied.
This car is now 4 ragged covering to the wreck
of the baggage car, which was teleScoped with
in. As the baggage ear came through, several
were pushed out upon the rOad-bed upon the
heavier parts of the seats, for the sides Of the
car were rent open IN many places as large as Il
small house door, and pieces Of the flooring,
with the seats, were thereby tipped out. But
the majority OF the passengers in the smoking
car We're not so fortunate. As soon as the mo-
menum ceased, those who were in the unn
Jured Pullman cars 1.-TWO cars went 10 the rescue
Of those whose screams told them that fellow
beings were suffering torture 1t was quite
dark, not then four O'Clock and it was by the
AID OF lights that the injured ones were seen.
The lamps in the broken baggage and Smok-
ing cars and upon the engine and on the con-
ductor's car of the freight train. were all cxtn-
guished by the concussiOn so that the addition
al terror of a cOutagration TO such a scene was
not suffered. The scene OF the wreck can be
best described by the remark OF one gentleman,
who said "The two sleeping cars are all right,
and they with the half of the partially injured
passenger car directly in front stand on the
main track, while tor space of ifty feet on the
siding are piled the wreck Of first an engine,
two freight cars tone the conductors and the
other an ale carl, a tender, baggage and matt,
and smoking cars and part Of inc only passcn
ger ear OF the Eastern road"
This gives one an idea Of the terrible mass of
broken, sand covered car work among which
were buried or imprisoned at least twenty.four
persons, all of whom were undergoing pain.
With railroad IRON they who were alive and
sound of limb took TO tie worl, of separating
the heavy tmbers from the main body of the
debris in order to cxtrcate the injured. But one
dead face was presented at the tine, and 1t was
that Of Capt. Norton, who had come west from
his home in Maine that night The report was
at once circulated that the engineer, Mr.. Putnam
NcwhalI, was killed outright, but the truth was
shown to be that he was alive and onlylnured
in the face, which Iaceration was received as he
jumped from the engine after the YESTERDAYS
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the proper signals given
The fireman was not fortunate in getting
place to Jump upon, and so stuck to the engine
il is said as il tore through the two cars of the
freight train.
Cant, Norton was in the forward part of the
smoking car when the collision occurred, and in
tue wreck was found his body, under the floor
ng of the baggage car. He was shocknglv
broken in limb, and must have been Immediate
" killed. Some Twelve persons were mingled
in the ruins all about him, and these were the
more terribly injured not one escaping without
some bone or bones broken. Not one in the
smoking car escaped. and some had very narrow
chances. One mans experience was. as he de.
scrihed if, "almost laughablc." We are told be
did Iou0h when rrcitinT. altbouuh his hand was
broken and shoulder had been dislocated He
said. 81 had inst awoke. when lelt myself Av-
inp ONT n window Mt rioht anules to the Old chr
side. when saw a solid looking niece of timber
comIno for me riuht STRAIGHT from the front of
The car Rut was the tastpst and had left the
car when that passed the pIace left. If Won
want to know more Of it / can't tell YER" was
the yankee story and reply.
One man said Ae felt as if the bottom of the
car had been let Out from under him, aud he
dropped in air, but the landing, he said, was
peculiarly removed from either In the baggage
and mail car there were but very few; there