Morning journal and courier., 1886-04-08
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. WRECKED BY WASHOUT. A Railroad Horror At Hoosac
 Tunnel. THE EXPRESS CATCHES FIRE After Leaping Down Two
 Hundred Feet. RI0TIhG AT EAST ST. LOUIS. Heavily Armed Marshals
 On The Scene.
RIOTING AT EAST ST. LOUIS.
Heav lily Armed NHarshals
 On The Scene.
DOWN A ROCKY EMBANKMENT.

DOWN A ROCKY BEREAVEMENT.
 Tunnel Line Plunges Two Hundred
 Feet Into the R1ver-SeveraI Cars
 Smashed and Three of Th em on Fire
 A Number of Passengers Killed and
 Injured-A FrIghtful Scene at the
 Wreck.
 GREENFIELD, Mass, April "A terrible accident occurred tonight on the Hoosac Tunnel line about seven miles west of Green
 field between Boardwell station and West Deerfeld. Passenger train No. 35 due in Greenfield at 6 o'clock, consisting of baggage car, smoker, mail, sleeper and two passen- ger cars, left the track owing to a. washout or landslide and was precipitated down 8 rocky embankment into the Deerfeld river The scene at that place is wild one. The distance from the track to the river is about two hundred feet. The train was run ming at the rate of about twenty miles an hour. The engine alone crossed the washout in safety. The tender and all the cars were thrown down the embankment,s ,sev- eral of them being literally smashed to pieces. Three of them took fire. The scene was ter rible one, the shrieks of the wounded filling the air. Owing to the steep declivity it was almost impossible to render much as- sistance. Those who were not badly hurt rendered all the aid possible and the injured were made as comfortable as could be. A special train with physicians started for the scene soon as the news was received. It is impossible to sayhow many passengers were aboard the train, but probably about forty. Three cars are burned and the others smashed to pieces. Frank Lane ot Boston, salesman for New York firm, jumped from the train and is believed to be the only man who saw the cars go down the embankment. He says there were three passengers in the drawing room car. Herbert Littlejohn, engineer, of North Adams, is probably fatally scalded; Merritt Seeleye, superintendent of the Ma tional Express company, 300 Washing ton street, Boston, is also proba- wound irf the temple and his thigh IS broken. H. G. Littlejohn wife and two children were all injured. One of the children is dead, the other is not expected to live, and it is thought their father is also fatally injured. Among the injured are A. D. Crandall, postal clerk, not seriously; Allen Lewis, E. B. Stone, A. Fowler and Anson K. Warner, chair man of the selectmen of Green Coquillard, probably fatally injured; F. W. Dunnell, of Waltham; Miss Darby, Mary Gowing, Miss Cornell, E. H. Arnold of North Adams; Aarion Lewis, colored porter, and c. Abri of Fredonia, N. Y; F. s. Hagar of Greenfield, slightly. c. R. Bell of Nashua, slightly; Nicholas Dorgan of Green. field, arm broken, ankle sprained and hurt internally.
 A report says that three bodies have just been removed from the wreck. Conductor Foster, who was reported missing, is at Shelburne Falls and is not badly injured. So far only five are known to be killed, but sev eral more will probably die. Up to midnight only four bodies had been taken from the wreck one being that of Brakeman Spencer. The other three have not been identified. There is no telegraph office near the scene of the disaster and reliable news is hard to get.
 1 a. m.-Frank Lane, the one pas senger who escaped before the train went down, says there were only three passengers in the drawing car. He saw the train go down the embankment partly sliding and partly rolling over and over. The wounded have been taken aboard two trains, part taken to Shelburne Falls and part to Greenfield. So far as is known now five were killed and twenty four wound ed, four of the latter probably fatally. As there were supposed to be forty passengers on board it is thought there must be at least eleven more bodies in the wreck.
 BOSTON, April "A special train with of fcers of the Fitchburg railroad and reporters left Boston for inc scene of the wreck at 10