Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-07-17
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IL Gave Up All Hope

" i'i"ks saiu ne, 'a1ter the accident, and |
had resigned myself to my fate But after
half an hour of sitting and pain he heard the |
men at work on the car above him, aAd shout |
ed again They heard him, and without |
delay extricated him. They had not had even |
a suspicion that he was beneath the car. Mr.. /
Sharp was gently carried across the track and |
placed beneath a tree. Later on he was
placed in saloon car and attended by DR.. |
Thayer, who came down on the conductors !
train. His body was very severely bruised, |
his eyes blackened and he was in considerable |
pain But it is quite certain that he will !
recover, although there may be some internal |
injuries. AT 2 80 p. NJ, he was taken TO |
Waterviile by special train.
Immediately after the accident
a WreckinR Train
sent down from Waterville and after the |
horses which survived had been taken care of
the work of clearing the track was carried on
and shortly after ii O'Clock the blockade was
raised. Forepaughs second train, which |
left the city at o'clock P. M. and remained
At Riverside during the operation of clearing
the rails. 1t was exceedingly fortunate that
this train was not the one wrecked, for had
1t been, there must have been a great loss of
life and valuable mensyerie animals.
A Broken Axle
was the PROBABLE cause of all this slaughter
OF eQuines. Ii was the one on the forward
part Of the first truck of the second car, and
could be seen after the disaster broken short
of about third the distance across from
one wheel. Mr.. Forepaugh claims that the
derailing was caused by the spreading of the
rails.
Visit to the Wreck,
yesterday noon, revealed q sickening sight.
The remains of the cars Law about where they
had been left in the morning. The cars were
all unusually long, being sixty feet in length.
One on the land side lay by the side Of the
track in the gutter, and nearly whole. Beneath
1t could be seen dead horse with his harness
on. At the upper end of this car were the
remnants of another car, and little further
on a dozen horses lay dead, some with glazing
eyeballs and others with mouths open and
protudlng tongues. Another pile of dead
horses was to be seen at the lower extremity
OF the first named car. On the river side of
the track proniscous mass of remnants of
cars, splintered wood and iron, intermixed
with dead horses, was to be seen on the bank
from the track to the brink OF the river.
Several dead horses were floating in the
water.
The Tain Consisted of
twenty three cars. Seven were stock cars
five being the ones derallt d, eleven flats, two
ed three hundred men. 1t was regarded as
one of the finest circus trains on the road Mr..
Forepaugh estimates his
Total Loss at $4,000.
The cars destroyed were worth 5000 each.
Forty sets of fine double harnesses. including
elegant ones for the band horses, were de-
stroyed in removing them, either by cutting
or otherwise. The wagons on the train were
much injured by banging against each other
and it will require much expense to repair
them. Mr. Forepaugh alleges that the rail
road is responsible for the loss.
No Afternoon show
was given in Waterville, owing to the delay,
but in the evening there was an exhibition
and the great tent was packed. There were
lots of disappointed people in the town during
the day and the receipts of the afternoon,
which would have been $1,000 if there had
been show, were not forthcoming
There was no insurance on any of the
property destroyed.
The locomotive and first car kept the track
all right.
Mr.. Forepsugh is quite sure that several
more of his horses will die.
The forward end of the seventh car from the
engine left the irons, but easily replaced.
Mr.. Edward Sharp, the injured circus en-
ploye, said that his real name was Edward S.
Shongley.
A large number of Augusta people visited
the scene of the accident yesterday, driving
up in carriages.
special operator was stationed at the
point of the accident for the purpose of for
warding and receiving train messages.
Had the train been running rapidly the
result must have been much more serious
that it was, and a much greater destruction
of property occurred.
General Manager Psyson Tucker and Mr..
Geo. Alden of Waterville, visited the wreck
at noon and inspected the remains. They
came on special train from Waterville
Mr.. Forepsugh telegraphed to ST. John,
yesterday, for the farmers to bring their
horses to the show when it exhibited there,
that he might buy some of them to replenish
his stock. One Augusta man went to Water
vile yesterday and made an unsuccessful
attempt TO sell him horses
A crew of Maine Central men began dig
ging trench in the forenoon on the upper
side of the track next the hill, in which to
bury the horses. They were to all have been
placed in the excavation made, and thirty
casks of lime placed en- them before covering
with earth. A farmer residing IN the neigh
borhood was afraid to have them buried there
as they would "creste bad SMELL"