Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-10-23

OF Foreign News-Efc.
ESPECIAL TO TIE RECORD UsIoSl |
DOMESTIC NEWS.
Another Railroad Cafastrophe-A Carload |
OF Laborers Manned and scaIded.
NORTH ADAMS, October 2lst-There was
a terrible accident on the State road of the
Hoosac Tunnel line this morning, in which
twenty-seven men were injured, some fatally.
It appears that about 6:30 A. N. engineer
Charles Wells and fireman Joseph Bost,ey
left the North Adams depot on the engine
Daerfeld, pushing cahoose loaded with
thirty men, going to work at different places
on the road. The parties Ia the car included
q section gang of masons. john Q. Madden
foreman; a gang Of stone-cutters. Peter
Barry foreman; gang OF track-layers,
Thomas Q liaa foreman gang OF carpen-
tiers, j. j. Peckhsm, foreman. The engine
and cabooss had started for the tunnel, and
caboose, which was in front, collidsd with the
Troy and Boston engine. the caboose was
raised from the trucks and carried 10 the
cow-catcher Of the engine DserGeld. The
front Of the engine was smashed in, the steam
and hot water Fl Nv into the caboose, and the
men who were not hurt Ia the collision
were scalded badly. and few escaped
without injury. None Of them vonld=
have been seriously hurt but for the ex.
plosion Of the engine Deer6eld's boiler.
THE INJURED.
Three doctors arrived at the scene and
made an examination of the men injured.
The men are: Charles Wells, engineer OF the
Deer6eld, badly burned, condition precari-
Gus; Joseph Bostley, fireman of the Deer
field. scalded, bruised badly, will die; q. L.
Van Hosen, telegraph operator in the ca
boose, scsldsd, swallowed hot water and
steam. viii die Daniel Connell, laborsr,
arms aud legs sealded Charles Patterson,
John Flynn, fremen, and John c. Madden.
all scaidsd and cut; John Madden, scalded
and bruised Thomas Qainn, side pack aud
srns scalded; james Walls. Thomas Damp
seS, John Young, Charles Carpenter, Amasa
Campbell and James Crofts. all buried, some
seriously; Conductor Hsrwood, scalded about
the head; James Enwood, Thomas Connors
Thomas Flavin, scalded John Welch, legs
broken and scslded. The others injured
were: james Bolger. scalp wound, face cut
and scalded James Hall, Patrick Murray,
Kelly, Cornelius Shay, all injured. not seri.
ousiy. As John Hogan was crossing the
track to see the accident, he was struck by
the Pittsfsld and North Adams train, and
killed.
THE VICTIMS TERRIBLE SUFFERING.
iATER.-It il now certain that eight men
injured in the accident will not live. Peter
Barry, foreman of the lsborers, is suffering
terrible agony from Internal scalds and his
head being cut badly, the probability is that
he will die. G. b. Van Housen, of Valatia,
N. Y, aged 81. a telegraph operator, is also
internally scalded; he will not live. He sat
on the engine. Operator Haywood, who was
sitting with hin, escaped by jumping from
the engine Charles HOLMAN, Thos. Flavins,
Patrick Murray and Thomas Driscoll are
under the influence of morphine. Flavirs'
skin, on the front of his body, came off with
his clothes. Patrick Murray had his head
cut severely, and was scalded 30 badly that
he will not recover. Driscoll and Holihan,
young men, are both seriously hurt and they
probably will not recover. John Malloy,
aged 50, whose shoulder was broken and head
hurt, will probably die. Joseph Bostley and
Van Housen, the fireman and operator, are
is bed shap6l1 Bostley lost both eyes
A~sither ~. well.
THE CAUSE or THE F~PLosIoN.
l0P. N.-The doctors found thirty-three
injured, all scalded. and many with cuts and
broken bones. Joseph Bostley. the fireman
of the engine, Deer6eld, whose eyes were
burned out and whose face, arms and body
".
He leaves wife and three small children.
The explosion of the engine was caused by the
draw-bsr of the caboose bursting in the plate
of the cyliader of the engine Dserfeld, and
the steam blew open the door of the caboose
and filed the caboose. in which there were
thirty men crowded close together. Many
wore unable to reach the doors, and in the
stampeds many bones were broken. The
boiling water and steam saturated the mems
clothes in a moment, and the men were fear.
fully burned. Ali the injured were carried
~ the adjoining houses. and all the day doc.
% were crowded with anxious
friendg bsseechisg them to first attend their
injured. telegraph operator Haywood, who
sat in the engine cab, was thrown through
the window, but escaped without injury.
Manager Locke states that the accident was
caused by engine 20 becoming uucoupled from
its cars and coming back into the yard by the
eastern main track, thing which it should
not have done. 1t was very foggy, and the
engineers were unable TO see one another's
locomotives.
Dayenporfs Latest Discovery.
New YORK, October 21st-The Graphic
says: IL is whispered at the headquarters of
the State Republican Committee chat sssoa-
ishing developments have been brought to
light in regard to the Morey letter. 1t is
said that John |. Davenport has now in his
possession confession from Garvey of his
participation in the case. and, it is alleged,
duplicating w. III. Barnum, Chairman of the
National Democratic COMMITTEES. as one of
the chief couspirators in the No.ey letter
forgery.
Congressional Nominations.
CHICAGO, October 21st.-The Democrats of
the Fourth District, North Side this after.
noon nominated Judge Lambert Free for
Congress. The County Prohibition Conven.
tion placed full ticket in the field to-day.
CORNING IN. Y. October 2lst.-The Dem.
ocrats of tne Twenty ninth District have
nominated John Arnst for Congress.
FLUSHING IN. W, October 21st.-The
Democrats of the First Congressional Dis.
trics have nominated Perry Belmont.
ALBANY IN. w October 2lss.-The Re.
puSlicsns have nominated Theodore V, Van.
heisen for Congress.
New YoRK, October 21st.-Abram s. Hew.
its has been nominated by the Tenth District
Tammany Convention.
The scoviUe Insanity Case.
CHICAGO, October 21st.-Iu the Scoville in
sanity case, Fanny Scoville Harper, the
daughter. this morning testified that she
intercepted a note from George W. Earle to
Mrs. Scoville, the contents of which were
very improper, and she had seen her mother
kiss three men whom she had no right to
kl5e, uau noaru Oh many others she mad
kissed. sac ~tined to gives the Names
DR.. A. McFarlane. of jackson vile, ILL.,,
who was subpenael but did not testify in the
Guiteau murder trial, and who has been for
twenty-six years in hospitals for the insane in
New Hampzhire and Illinois. said that
eighteen years ago Luther w. Guiteau
brought to him an insane sister for treat.
ment. From Guiteau's talk, which was very
peculiar, he set him down as a crazy man.
The impression was very strong on the wit
ness, and he readily saw how Luther's SON
could get into state of mind necessary to
kill President Garfield. He met Mrs. SEQ
Vile in Washington las. winter. She had
quite convefssfion with John w. Gaieesu
about witness testimony. John declared
that nobody should testify that his father
was insane. Mrs. Scoville said he should ties.
tify, and that oil the family were predispossd
TO insanity. He believed Mrs. Scovilie's
fsintiug and epilepsy wers sure to produce
insanity. She being ehaste and loving wife
until recently. her sudden change was evi.
dence to him. He held, Ia short, that the
whole family. including John w, were of
rnsound mind and insane.
Res SaSd,s TSSII.
October 2lst.-In the
Ford, four citizens testi.
while ia the st. Joseph
. had killed Hite, that lie
down Hite, and so he
himself Two xp;t