New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-10-09
A GREAT RAILWAY WRECK.
OFF THE TRACK NEAR BOSTON

hlliED AND WOUNDED.
An excursion train bearing 1,5OO people
! returning to Boston from a boat race ran off
the track last evening in the town of
Quincy. AT least ten and some accounts
say forty people were killed, and over
100 wounded Reagan the bOatman, the wife
of BlaIkie the boatbmlder, and the wife of
Faulkner the Oarsman, are among the killed.
Two sons of General Butler are hurt. The
accident took place at a switch.
THE FATAL END OF A DAYS PLEASURE.
THE TRAINS NOT RUNNING AT VERY GREAT SPEED
Two LOCOMOTIVES ASD SEVERAL COACHES
DOWN THE BANK.
[BY TELEGRAPH TO TRmUNE.l
BOsToN, Oct s.-The singe-scull race at Silver
Lake to-day between Patrick Reagan, of Boston,and
NJ. i. Davis, of Portland, Maine, over course Of
four miles. for purse of 81 000 was witnessed by
a crowd of about 1000 persons. 1t was a race
in which much interest was felt and the
crowd composed largely of people from this
city. The race took place at 4:30 p. M, being
by Davis, who crossed the line lengths ahead in
2s:69,.
On the return from the race, an excursion train,
consisting of nineteen passenger cars, an English
coach car, and freight car met with terrible
cdent a mile and half north of Quincy, Mass,
sengeTs.
The cause Of the accident is attributed to a car
jumping switch or jumping the track The three
forward cars, including the English coach, which
contained Reagan, the oarsman, and the reporters
and hackers of the bOatmen, were piled upon each
other. Reagan is reported to have been killed. and
Mr.. Kimball. of the Associated Press, slightly
bruised.
1t is impossible at the present time to give an es-
innate Of the killed and wounded. 1t was at first
rumored that fOrty-two were killed. A second dis
patch estimated the number at twenty. A dispatch
just received at Police Headquarters places the
number OF killed at ten, and of injured at $50.
THE LIST OF THE DEAD.
Ldtr.-The shocking disaster on the Old Colony
Railway to-day took place between Atlantic and
WOllasOn Stations. in the town of Quincy, about
seven miles from Boston. Both locomotives went
down the embanknent. The train was not running
at high speed 1t twas moving at the rate of twenty
miles an hour. About 1900 people were aboard.
Tue following is a list of the killed:
PATRICK REAGAN of Boston, the oarsman.
Mrs. GEoRGE FAULKNER, the wife of George Faulk-
nor the oarsmau.
Mrs. EIrIoTT BLAKE, the wife Of Elliott Blake,
the Cambridge bOat-builder.
MICHAEL CGAFFEY, living at the corner of Fleet and
Garden COuTt-sts., Boston.
CHARIFs H. MOEGAN Of Newton Upper Fas, son
ofAlbert Morgan. proprietorof The Boston Sdtar-
ddB EreHiHg krpTCSs.
JONI A. HAzEY, advertising agent of The Saturday
krIiHg Fyprc's.
JOHN DAY, Of Cambrdgeport.
| g. a. WHITE, of Ward Fourteen, Boston.
MORRIS GREEN, Pitts-st Boston.
PAUL CRowLtY switchman at the Old Colony Rail
road depot, Boston.
LIGHT on THE CAUSE or THE ACCIDENT.
As soon as the news Of the accident reached the
! city. large number Of cots and stretchers were
sent out by the city officials At mdniget no intel
I Hggnt account had been received but II Is known
that at least 100 persons wounded in greater
| or less degree.
1t is not vet positively known what caused the
accident, hut 1t is stated that freight train had
! jus; been switched OF to make way for the excur-
sion train aud az the accident occurred at tins
switch there is a reasonable suppostion that it had
not been properly locked Both engines jumped
! the track aud went over an embankment; they are
| total wrecks. The engineers and hremen escaped
! death, only one, as far known, being seriously
| hurt. At least five of the were wrecked, in
Guiding the baggage aud four passenger coaches
! Among the latter was the English coach in which
! were many Oarsnen aud newspaper men. These
cars were piled upon each other in huge mass, and
il il wonderful that the loss Of life is not greater.
| Patrick Reagan the loser Of the race to-day, was
| sitting with Mrs Faulkner, wife Of his old boating
! partner and both were killed.
! Among the injured are G.. Kimball, of the Assoc
ciated Press Walter Stafford, reporter of The Express
| Mike Mahoney % the Shawmut crcwand two of Gen
eral Buffers sons this il Doubtful who are re-
ported seriously hurt II is stated that James Flynn,
managerof the Silver Lake regatta, is fatally in
| jurcd.