Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-05-19

spoons and crockery ware ratified Many
people id the vicinity were scared almost out
of their wits.
The appearance of the wreck after the col
lision was fearful. The freight train consist
ed Of . cars, Is of which were wrecked. The
car next to the engine was loaded with gravel
and, crashing forward, forced itself beneath
the tender, which rested on top of the car.
The wheels of the tender were stripped off.
The first four cars, which were loaded, kept
tfietrack. but the next fifteen being light
were heaped up one above the other, in one
place four Deep What is quite singular is
the fact that the wheels remained on hardly
q one of these Is cars, nearly all being torn
| OF. One car, minus running gear, lay BY
the side of the track turned upside down.
The car wheels which had been stripped off
were nearly all in one pile on the track One
locomotive was so badly injured as to be use
less, and the other, though badly damaged.
will probably be repaired. The loss is esti-
mated at s25, 900.
Shortly before three o'clock the dead
bodies of the two engineers and the fireman,
George Esterbrook, who was still alive, were
placed aboard the Augusta wrecking train
which started for this city at three o'clock,
arriving here in about a half an hour. Mr.
Esterbrook died at 3. so o'clock, just as the
train reached the other end of the bridge
which crosses the river. Upon arrival in this
city the bodies were transferred to the shop
of kDowlton the undertaken,
Coroner Libby being called, impaneled
jury consisting of the following gentlemen ::
H. W. True, C. H. White, H. NJ. Sprague,
G. w. Hunt, Z. G. Storer, Daniel Sullivan.
and DIR. Wallace Bolan. After consultation
the jury adjourned to meet again to-day,
when in answer to summons, railroad en-
ployes and perhaps others will be present and
testify.
The two engineers belonged in this city.
Mr.. Albert kilgore was man about IS years
of age and had been in the employ of the
company some 20 years. He had the reputa-
Of being good engineer. He leaves wife
"hN OhS uooSnici SHdTits oIuaii WAS
"a years of age and was well known in this
city. He had been in the employ of the company
for quite number Of years. commencing as
fireman. Afterwards he was given an en-
gineers berth, having charge of the shifting
engine in this yard for several years. He
leaves wife and two children to mourn his
loss. George Esterbrook, the fireman who
was killed, was.a resident of Bangor and had
a wife and several children.
The collision was caused, according to
present appearances, by lack of Judgment on
the part of Mr.. Kilgore, engineer of the
wildcat train. Mr.. Kilgores engine ar
rived here at ll.55, A. NJ. The freight was
due in Augusta at 1906, ten minutes after
wards. Had he crossed the river with his
engine and stopped on siding until the
freight arrived all would have been well.
But instead of that he pushed on at rapid
rate to REACH Riverside before the freight
got along. The result was the collision. 1t
seems that Mr.. Kilgore had not had much
experience running wild, almost always
having been an engineer on a regular train,
and having a clear road.
EFT CETERA.
A spur track was laid around one side of the
wreck in season for the four o'clock train to
pass.
FLYING debris from the exploding boilers
the accident cutting them short off and stop
ping communication by the line.
A wrecking train with large force of men
came down from Waterville, arriving at $50
p. NJ. These men in conjunction with the
Augusta crew, cleared the main track so that
the Pullman from Bangor was enabled to
pass without using the spur track.
DR.. Sam. Thayer of Waterville, was pres
ent at the scene of the disaster,
coming down on the wrecking train.
Last evening the accident was the chief
talk on the street, and many people drove
up to the landing to view the wrecked cars
and locomotives.
Mr.. K. f. Furlong, brakeman on the
freight, Immediately following the collision
ran to Riverside and teIegraphed to Water
vile for help.
Mr.. Lawrence, the fireman who saved his
life by jumping from the engine, said that
had he been sitting down when he first saw
the approaching locomotive he would not have
had time to save himself. He is also of the
opinion that Mr.. Small attempted to reverse
his engine.
Mr.. George Standish was conductor of the
freight.