The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-10-22
THE REPORT OF THE INDIAN COM
MISSIONER UPON LOS" CON-
DITION-A R0TToN AIMS
HOUSE RING.
WITHOUT DOUBT A CRAZY FAMILY
VARIOUS OTHER TELEGRAPHlC
NOTES OF THE DAYS
NEWS.
A Fearful Collision.

North Adams, Mass, Oct. 2l.-A
terrible accident to a caboose load of
workingmen belonging in the North
Adams freight yard occurred this morn
ing. Twenty-seven men were injur-
ed, several of them fatally. About
6:3O a. IN. Engineer Charles Wells and
fireman Jos. Bostley left the North
Adams depot on engine "Deerfeld,''
for the state road, pushing a caboose
loaded with thirty men going to work
at different places near Zoar and Charlie
letton.
The parties IN the lcar included a sec
tion gang of masons, John &. Madder
fore man; a gang OF stone cutters, Peter
Barry foreman; a gang of track layers,
Thos. Quinn foreman, and a gang of
carpenters, j. j. Peckhaur foreman.
The engine and caboose started for
the tunnel, and had gone about half
way there when the caboose, which was
in front, oollided with a Troy and Bos-
ton engine. The caboose was raised
from the track and carried to
the cow-catcher of the engine Deer
field" The front of the engine was
smashed in, and the steam and hot
water flew into the caboose. The men
who we're not hurt in the collision were
burned badly, and but few escaped
without injuries. None would have
been seriously hurt but for the explo-
sion of the engine 'Deerheld's" boiler.
James Wall, Tbos. Dempsey, John
Young, Chas. Carpenter, Amasa Camp
bell and Jas. Crafts were all burned,
some seriously. Conductor Haywood
was scalded about the head, Jas. En-
wood, Thomas Connors and Thomas
Flavin, scalded; John, WEIGH legs
broken and scalded. The others injur-
ed were Jas. Bulger, scalp wound, face
cut and scalded; Jas. Hall, Patrick
Murray, Thos. Driscall, Joseph Barre
ton, NJ. Kiely, Cornelius Shay. all in
jured, but not seriously. AS John Ho-
gan was crossing the railroad track to
see the accident he was struck by the
Pittsheld and North Adams train and
killed.
Three doctors arrived and made an
examination of the injured, who are
Chas. Wells, engineer of the ''Deer-
feld,' - badly burned; whose condition
is precarious, Jos. Bostley, fireman of
the "Deerfeld," scalded and bruised
badly. He will die. q. L. Vanhosen,
telegraph operator, in caboose, scalded,
swallowed hot water and steam. He
will die. Daniel Cornell, laborer, arms
aud legs scalded; Chas. Patterson,
John Flynn, foreman, and John G.
Madden, masons, all scaldcd and cut;
John Madden, scalded and bruised;
Tho. Quinn, side, back and arms
scalded.
1t is now cert ain that eight of the
men injured in the accident will not
live. Peter Aarry, foreman of the la
borers, is suffering terribly from inter
nal ~scalding, and his head is n badly.
He Will probably die. q. B. Vanhou-
sen, of Valatia, n. Y, aged 81, a tele-
graph operator, is also internally scald-
ed, and will not live. He sat in the
engine, and operator Haywood, who
was sitting with him, escaped by jump
ing from the engine. Charles Hooli-
han, Thomas Flavins, Patrick Murray
and Thomas Driscall are under the in
iuence of morphine. Flavins' skin on
the front part of his body came off
with his clothes. Patrick Marray had
his head cut severely, and was scalded
50 badly that he will not recover. Dris-
call and Hoolihan, two young men,
were seriously hurt, and probably will
not recover. John Malloy, aged As,
had his shoulder broken and his head
cut. His recovery is doubtful. Jos.
Bostley and Vanhousen, the fireman
and operator, are in II bad shape. Bost-
ley has lost both eyes. Neither of
them will get well.