The Portland daily press., 1882-01-03


wrist.
7. Caffery, Ballardsville, cut ON right hand.
s. A. Roberts, Lawrence, slightly injured in
ternally
I'll. S. French, Brockton, leg jammed.
George w. Lane, Leeds, head badly injured.
John jackson, Norway, arm bruised.
Thomas P. Hilton, Wells, Wells, injured in
ternally.
Several others were injured more or less Sc
verely whose names were not learned.
Soon after the accident one of the engines
ran down to the Kennebunk station with the
news and the doctors in the immediate vicinity
being collected together with nurses, brought
them to the scene of the accident, where they
were soon busy attempting to alleviate the
sufferlngs of the victims.
INCIDENTS OF THE DISASTER
Some Of the injured ones bore their pain he
roically without any outward expression of
pain, while others could not repress an occa-
sonal groan or sigh. One young man in par
ticular took in the situation very philosoph-
ically, ana with badly bruised leg and nose
broken, and his head tied up, he sat propped
up in two chairs by the kitchen stove, and
pulled away at cigar, more like an old vet
eran Of the war than the victim of railroad
accident.
There were several ludicrous incidents con-
nected with the accident that aroused a smile
even in the midst of the horrible scenes One
man after he had escaped from the car on col
Letting his scattered senses missed his umbrel-
la and rushed back towards the blazing car ex-
claiming that his umbrella was in the car, and
he must save his umbrella, but the flames
deferred him, and no one else volunteering his
umbrella will never be stolen. Another man
had some pickerel with him In the car and
rushed out without them, but remembering
them soon after went back, and after paving
around for short time succeeded in recover
ing one fish. Another man, with his head tied
up and stained with blood, walked about car
ing in his hand the jaws of an old yalise with
the remnant of a newspaper sticking in them,
the body of the valise having been torn off,.
As soon as the news reached Portland
wrecking train was made up by Mr.. Stevens,
the efficient Superintendent of this section, in
about twenty minutes, and all the doctors that
could be reachedIby telephone were summoned
and Drs. Weeks, Pendleton, Ring, Webster
and several others responded, and upon their
arrival the train started carrying also the
PRESS reporter. A quick run was made to
Saco, where a stop was made and, despite the
exertions of tho train hands, a perfect mob
boarded the train. After short stop at Bidde-
ford, where four more doctors were taken on
quick run wes made to Kennebunk and
there the quickness stopped.
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day and most effectually was it obeyed. The
| wires were said to be down as telegraph pole
was burned, and not another move could
be made until orders from Boston, and they
waited for orders from Boston for one tedious
hour, within three miles of the accident and
straight track, with the smoke of the burning
embers in plain 81 ght
Finally orders came to move and the train
was soon run down to the scene of the acct
dent, and such scene as was presented to
viewl One of the engines still remained near
the scene, the baggage car down over the en-
bankment right side up, but minus trucks, the
parlor car fiat on the track, minus trucks,
front platform entirely gone, with its rear end
nearly even with the edge of the abutment
and down in the chasm a mass of smoking en-
bers and bent and twisted iron, big rods twist
ed into fantastic shapes, and on the further
side the smoking embers of the mail car.
How in the world any one, to say nothing of
so many, escaped instant death is mystery.
It is an instance of the inscrutable dealings of
Providence About % rods from the track
were the houses where the victims were Ie
moved, and gathered about them peeping into
the windows was crowd Of curious gazers
morbidly bent upon seeing the spectacle of suf-
ferilg humanity.
UNwARRANTABLE DELAY.
The doctors were soon at work and prepara-
lions were made to take those whe were able
to be moved to the Maine General Hospital in
Portland Doors and chairs were again uti-
lized and the sufferers were carried to the
train and made as comfortable as such accom-
modations would allow. 1t was then about
half-past five, and then began or rather it was
a continuation of most outrageous and indie
cent delay. For instead of giving Mr.. Stevens
the right to keep all trains from the track and
run direct to Portland with his load of human
ity, the train was kept waiting to take what
few passengers might come on the IL. 80 o'clock
train from Boston, transferring them round
the wreck, but no passengers came and only
some baggage. Not till then was astart made for
Kennebunk station. Once there it was sup
posed tina. the train would start immediately
for Portland and the hospital; but no, the train
must wait for orders from Boston, and it did
wait at that cold station another hour, and
when it finally started the whole mob of on
lockers completely filed the trains, not only the
cars being given up to them but the one SCI
apart for the sufferers, deling the air belonging
to the sick and raising stencil that sufficed to
nauseate the well persons on the train Not
until a quarter past o'clock did that train
finally leave Kennebunk, seven long hours
after the accident.
Go the Associated Press)
KENNEBUNK, Jan. 2.-As the $50 train from
Boston on the Boston & Maine Railroad, Wey-
mouth, conductor, with two engines crossed
the iron bridge at Coles Corner, Wells Maine,
the abridge gave away, after the engines,
baggage and parlor car had crossed, precipitat-
ing the other four cars down an embankment,
and they Immediately caught fire, and were
totally destroyed. There we're about one hum
bred passengers on board the train. One man
whose name is unknown was killed: a bill
found on his person to Hodgdon Bros, Hayer-
hill, was all could be found. j. HenrylDownes
of Berwick, Maine, is probably injured fatal;
conductor Weymouth and James Nolan, brake
emen, are badly wounded; Leland and James
Carney, Pittsfeld, Maine, badly injured; Will
liam Purdy OF Old Orchard, wound in eye; I.
D. Parish, Salem, N. H., slightly hurt; Oliver
VIM, York, Me-, broken arm, and other i'm