Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-03-01
CALAIS, Feb. 27.

SorI0nSlV
Injured.
CALAIS, Feb. 27
Inc prevailing storm is the most severe of
the season. Snow has drifted in places l2
feet deep. All trains on the New Brunswick
Railroad have been abandoned. The gale ia
raging.
RICHMOND, Feb. 27.
All the Maine Central trains in both direc-
tions are snow bound. The storm seriously
Injuries the ice business. The Boston mail
train is fast in drift at Cumberland.
BATH, Feb. 27.
The worst storm of the season has prevailed
for two days and still RACES. There have been
no trains over the Maine Central since FRI
day. The drifts in places are ten feet deep.
BATH, Feb 2s.
On the Bath and Lew ;ston branch of the
Maine Central the blockade was raised this
afternoon. Conductor Cobb's train which
left Lewiston at O'Clock this morning ar
rived at Bath station at 5 o'clock tonight,
hauled by two engines. The plow and the
engines left the iron ten times and was buried
once in drift ten feet high. The eastward
bound passengers were obliged to stop at
Bath tonight, no train being run over the
Knox & Lincoln road till tomorrow morning
Conductor Cobb says that during his fifteen
years of railroading the past two days has
been the worst he ever experienced.
portland, Feb, %.
On the Maine Central Railroad the storm
has occasioned the most trouble near this city
and the company has had thirteen engines
stalled within a radius of five miles of Cum
berland Junction. Those engines, however,
were gotten out of the drifts and back to
Cumberland at about o'clock this afternoon.
The train which left Portland for Bangor this
afternoon and which was stalled at Cumber-
land Junction was again started along for
Bangor at two o'clock this afternoon and the
train which left Bangor Saturday morning
will arrive at Portland about 2 p M. to-
morrow. This morning the general manager
dispatched wrecking train over the Maine
Central to aid the stalled trains at Cumber-
land Junction. The train consisted of two of
the largesl Boston & Maine engines, Dor
rowed for the occasion, platform car load
ed with coal for the stalled trains, and three
box cars with over a hundred workmen. They
proceeded all right until they reached Cobbs
Crossing, about mile beyond Westbrook
Junction, where the leading engine ran onto
ice, turned completely around, and made a
plunge down low embankment and turned
completely over. The cab was smashed and
engine badly wrecked On the engine were
two men, Engineer Charles Hamilton and
Fireman Harry Emery. The second engine
which was in charge of John Nichols was also
derailed The three men were thrown 20
feet and Hamilton was found laying on the
other side of fence, seriously injured in
ternaly and badly bruised about the head.
He was insensible for two hours. Emery
dislocated his elbow and BROKE the other arm
Nichols was bruised about the head and bad
ly shaken up.
All the cars with the workmen on board
were thrown from the track and down the
embankment. 1t is miracle that no more
Injuries were inflicted. Edward Jordan re-
ceived bad fracture of the leg, Patrick Da-
vice received a bad injury Of the knee JOINT
and A. H. Mattocks injured his leg. Many
others received bad bruises. Doctors Pat
terson and Ring were sent out to core tar
the injured.
Another train went out and brought in the
Messengers of the stalled train. just above
Cumberland junction, near Walnut hiii'
three engines we're off the irons at one time,
but about noon these were replaced on the
track. Today the branches have all been
badly blocked, but are gradually peins
cleared and it 10 expected that by tomorrow
forenoon they will be all right. This after
noon when Conductor Philbrook's train.
which had been showed in over Saturday
night rolled into this depot the passengers
who stepped upon the platform were happy
Iookinp set of people. They were greeted
with cheers by the friends who had gathered
to meet them.
The delayed trains on the Grand Trunk
hound for Portland were all COTTON into this
ci,v TODAY and Saturday. The passenger
train from Lewiston due Saturday afternoon
came in this afternoon. The through train
60, Moptreal which left here Saturday after
noon had not reached Island Pond at four
o'clock today.
On the ogdensburg, train will leave here
as usual tomorrow and hope to get through
Tho Portland & Rochester is now all right.
BANGOR, Feb. 28.
p.,,o- sax sun this afternoon for the first
time, but it is still cloudy and heavy wino
is prevailing. During the storm 10
inches to two feet of snow fell and this drifted
in an indescribable manner. Inc entrance
70 .ome houses of this city is effected through
the second story windows, the lower story
-. h,,-;ed under the snow. The, streets
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