The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-04-10
RECOVERY OF TEN BODIES
fNOOF ITR' VI I'< COOTt-o
OF the Victims at Deeriield, Mass.-Story
Told by a Surviving Passenger.

OF the Victims at Deerheld, Mass.-Story
Told by a Surviving Passenger.
GREENFIELD, Mass, April 10.-Sincs
Wednesday night fully 10000 persons have
visited the spot where the ill-fated Fitch
burg express train was dashed from the cliff,
some of them walking from six to ten miles
to view the wrech As viewed by daylight
the scene is far worse than reported Wednes-
day night 1t is considered morvelous that
any one escaped alive. The descent is $50
feet by actual measurement Crowds of
people hovered around the precipi,e Thurs
day, and hundred descended to the river
by means Of the strong cables which the
wrecking crew had stretched to the river
bank. Four cars were thrown into tine
rive, among which was the sleeper. The
tender was thrown to the very bottom of
the precipice, mass of twisted and broken
iron and STEEL robbed of all sembiance of
its former shape.
Frank Lane, of Boston, was standing on
the platform of the rear car at the time of
the accident He said that he was startled
by the humping of the cars along the ties.
He knew they had left the track, and jumped
just as the train went whirling down the
star was to be seen, and no light of the
moon illuminated the fearful blackness over
the scene The shrieks of the wounded rent
the air, and their cries and groans were ter
rible. The wailing of mother over the
death of her little girl was heartrending
Fenned In the wreck, unable to effect
her escape, and expecting each mo-
ment to be crushed by falling bowld-
ers or debris from the track,
she passed an hour of fearful agony. Far
| below in the rush of the whirling flood he
| could hear shrieks for help but was power
less TO respond. Then red flame shot up
among the shattered mass and spread with
startling rapility, and the shrieks of agony
were redoubled as the imprisoned passengers
| saw the approach of the flames One cry
was heard above the rest, one shrek of
agony and piteous pleading for help, as f.
| t. Hayden, held fast by a mass of debris,
felt the scorching flames upon his face and
he sank into the insensibility of death
| A. h Warmers cries OF agony brought
Landlord Haser, Of Greenfield, to his side,
Tenderly he took the wounde1 man upon his
lap and loudly shouted for help, but the
mocking echoes of the neighboring hills were
for nearly half hour all the response his
cries evoked. 1t was night for heroism.
Conductor Foster, though badly wounded
himself, did all in his power to recover the
dead and rescue the dying
The following is complete list of the
killed as found: f. f. Hayden Blanford
Mass; Charles Temple, Waltham, Mass
Charles Durgan, South Boston; j. K. Gould
Millbury, Mass Viola Littlejohn, Norti
Adams; Oscar Little John, North Adams
Engineer Herbert Littlejohn, North Adams
Ed Whitehouse, Boston; Mark +. Spencer
Waltham, Mas; Merritt Seeley, Boston.
The list of in. ,ured numbers twenty sever
persons, some of whom will probably no
survive their hurts
c. NJ. Peckham, OF Orange, and F. +
French, of Boston, nre still missing In al
interview, Thursday night, the conductor o
the wrecked train said he was certain tina
other bodies would be found under the cars
1t is believed the body of woman is unde
one of the cars, as one woman is unaccounte'
for. The water in the river is too high t.
permit of thorough search