Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-10-24
Further Particulars of the X all
road Horror on the Eastern
Road

brook, in addition to those we gave yesterday,
only add to its horrors. The passengers most
injured were in the smoking car. and look
at the wrecked train would cause wonder hew
any could have escaped alive
Capt. Robert Norton OF Gardiner. who was
killed, was 60 years of age, and was the oney
person killed outright. lie was a much re-
specied citizen. He had an insurance on his
life of $1,000. He was in the forward part Of
the smoking car when the collision occurred,
aud in the wreck was found his body, under
the flooring of the baggage car He was
shockngly broken in limb, and must have
been Immediately killed. Some twelve per-
sons were ming led in the ruins all about him.
and these were The more terribly injured, not
one escaping without some bone or bones
broken. An inquest was held on the body OF
Capt Norton, and it was sent to Gardiner.
CASUALTIES.
We give the following list of casualties, in
addition to those we published yesterday
David f. Howard of Bangor, injured in
tcrnally, but it is thought not seriously.
Capt. James NJ. Blaisdell of Brunswick,
Me, not seriously.
Earnest flolbrook Of Portsmouth. left fact
badly iammed.
Charles Estes, The brakeman of the Pull
msn tain. is severely injured internally
and his recovery il c0n.idere,, iou5ttnl. He
belongs il Elliot BE.
A. B. iluwdlett, 1863 Washington street,
Boston, fracturcd claviclc, and slight inte--
nal injuries.
Elisha Seprill, Someryille, New Brnns-
wick, right hand badly .iammed.
". II. WAitenett, st. John, \. b., who
was formerly an usher az the Ii ward Thea
tire. hut slightly damned.
Iloratio Hail, Brunswick, Maine, slightly
injured.
A. NJ. Curtis, Bowdoinham, Maine. irac-
ture OF right leg and slight internal injuries.
Gen. Hayward of Bangor, slightly.
Horace Hall of Boston, received serious in
ternal injuries and had his head and face fear
fully mangled and distgured.
W. l.. Allard, of Boston, the express mes
senger was hurled violently over at the time
| of the collision, sustaining a severe scalp
wound, and bruisipg his face most horribly.
| His injuries on the surgeons list are set down
| as bad.
| Thomas Il. Cannon, baggage master,
bruised but not severely. The escape of the
latter was miraculous. He was sitting in the
! middle of the baggage car when the accident
| occurred, and was only conscious of being
| rapidly borne through mass of ruins until
u
ing car amid debris Of broken iron and spiint.
ers of wood.
Everett c. Holbrook. Portsmouth, foot
jjammed and leg scaded
One man injured seriously. about % years
OF age, Is deliTi0us and talks of George iiav-
ward, Minneapolis, and Randolf, Mass. He
cannot live.
INCIDENTS OF THE TERRIBLE AFFAIR.
Not one in the smoking car escaped, and
some had very narrow chances. One mans
experience was, as he described il, ''almost
Imaginable" We are told he did laugh when
reciting, although his hand was broken and
shoulder had been dislocated. He said II
had just awoke, when felt myself flying GU,
window at right angles to the old car side,
when saw Il solid looking piece of timber
coming for me, right straight from the front
OF the car. But was the fastest and had lett
the car when that passed the place / left. If
you want to know more OF it | can't tel! yer"
was the Yankee story and reply.
One man said he felt as if the bottom Of the
car had been let out from under him, and he
dropped in air, but the landing, he SAID, was
peculiarly removed from either In the bag
gage and mail car there were but few. All
the employees there belonging were at their
posts.
Nearly everybody on hoard the train was
either browsing or sound asleep when the
crash came. The shock was no sooner real
lied than all were pitched from their seats.
In the smoking car, visited but few mo-
ments before by one gentleman, nearly every
seat was occupied. This car Is now a ragged
covering to the wreck of the baggage car
which was telescoped within. As the bag.
gage car came through, several were pushed
out upon the roadbed upon the heavier parts
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open in many places as large as a 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 were not so fortunate. As soon as the
momentum ceased, those who were in the un-
injured Pullman cars 1.-TWO cars) went to the
rescue of those whose screams told them that
fellow beings were suffering torture. 1t was
| quite dark, not then four O'Clock, and il was
| by the aid of lights that the injured ones
were seen. The lamps in the broken bag
| gage and smoking ears and upon the engine,
| anil on the conductors car of the freight
train, were all ex,inguished by the concus.
| sion, so that the additional terror of confia-
| grafton to such u scence was not suffered.
| The scene of the wreck can be best described
| by the remark of one gentleman, who said :
The two sleeping cars all right, and they
with the half of the partially injured passen-
| ger car directly in front stood on the main
| track, while for space of fifty feet on the
| siding are piled the wreck of the first an en-
CINE, two freight cars zone the conductor
and The other an ale car a tender, baggage
ant mail, and smoking ears and part OF the
only passenger car 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 un-
dergoing pain.
1t is terrible thing to contemplate. The
accident to this train with its freight of hui
manty happened as it was speeding at the
rate of twenty-five miles an hour, and this
too with two tremendously heavy Pullman
cars at the rear end to make doubiy solid the
blow it might give all that opposed it. 1t
must be remembered, too, that the engineer
was carrying his train, as he should, at good
speed, and expected that his track was
straight and unobstructed, and that it was not
till the great light at the front of his iron