The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-04-09
A NIGHT OF TERROR!
The Cries and GrOans of the
Wounded
IN THE RAILWAY ACCIDENT.
Fire Fiend's Breath Until Re
lieyed by Death.
The Greenfield Casualty.

The Greenfield Casualty.
greenfield, Mass, April SIT is
thought that twenty persons have be en-
seriously injured and seven killed, with
a score OF others more or less injured.
Two more bodies. the last to be ex-
tracted from the wreck, have been iden-
tilted as q. L. Temple, OF Wakefield,
Mass, and Charles a. Durgin, of Bos-
ton. Two young girls, whose names
are unknown, are reported TO be among
the killed.
Merritt Seeley, Superintendent of the
National Express Company, injured
last night in the accident, died this
morning. Brakeman Spencer, whose
body was found last night with the
bodies of Two unknown travellers,
anu Engineer LiltlejOhn cannot live
AL night. Two bodies were brought
here this morning by a wrecking tram.
One vas +. K. Hyden; the other man
was about Is or 20 years old, and was
identined as J.. X Goslof. Abingdon.
conn. John Crowley, OF North Adams,
was on the train and insane. These
oocies have been found ana are at Shell
burne Falls: Viola LittleJOhn, l.. r.
Whltehouse OF Boston. Mark Spencer
/ j.
body of WhitehOuse was found in the
river under q car. The body Just found
ut the wreck IS believed 10 Ue that oil
Agent Whitehouse, OF the New England
X Boston line. The body of Charles
Durkin, OF Boston, has also been re-
GOV red.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. April Sight
bodies from the wreck at Bardweil's
Ferry has been brought here up &c 10
o'clock this morning.
Ed WnitehOuse probably never knew
what killed him. The wound over his
eve was u terrible one and must have
produced utter Inconsistencies. When
the car struck the water he was
buried under its weight, and his body
was found in six feet Of water. +. Z.
HAYDEN must have died in frightful
agony. When found his right arm
was raised above his head as
though he had attempted to clutch
some support. The fingers of his hand
were burned to a crisp and the top
of his head was literally roasted.
His mouth was open as though
he had been shriek:ng with agony.
Since last night not less than
1000 persons have visited the spot,
some of them walking from six
10 ten miles TO view the wreck.
AS viewed by daylight. the scene Is
far worse than reported last night. Ii
Is considered marvellous that any one
escaped alive The descent is $50 feet
by actual measurement. Crowds of peo-
pie lowered about the precipice to day
and hundreds descended TO The
river by means OF strong cables which
the wrecking crew had stretched
TO the river bank. Four cars were
thrown into the river, among which
was the sleeper. The tender was thrown
to tue very bottom of the Lrecipice-a
miss of twisted and broken iron and
s:eel, robbed OF all sembiance of
their former shape. Frank Lane, OF
Boston, was standing on the platform
of the rear car at the time of the acct
dent. He said he was startled BIZ
the cars humping along the ties. He
knew they had left the track and
Jumped just as the train went whirlinc
down the awful chaSm. IL was an awful
night. Not a star was to be seen and
no light of the moon illuminated
the fearful blsckness over the scene.
To add to the misery of the situation
snow soon commenced to fall, and In
the fullest senSeit was night Of terror.
| The shrieks OF the wounded rent the
air, and their cries and groans were ter
rible. The waiting of 4 mother over the
death OF her little girl was heartrending.
Penned in the wreck. unable to effect
her escape, and expecting each moment
to be crushed BY falling boulders or deb
ris from the track. she passed an hour
OF fearful agony. Mr.. Lane stood rooted
to the spot; his blood fairly chilled i'm
his veins. Far below in the rush Of the
whirling flood he could hear the shrieks
for help, but he was powerless to re
spond. Then a red flame shot I'D
-. q l.
with startling rapidity and the shrieks |
imprisoned passengers faced the /
fire fiend's breath, and one
cry was heard above the rest. 1
one shrek of agony and piteous plead I
ing for help as K. G. Hayden, held fast /
BY a mass of debris, felt the scorching 1
flames upon his face and he sank into /
the insensibiiity of death. A. X.
Warmers cries of agony brought |
Landlord Hager. ofiGreenfield, TO his
side. Tenderly he took the wounded
man upon his lap and loudly shouted
for help, but the knocking echoes of the
nelghboring hills were, for nearly half
evoked. 1t was a night of heroism.
conductor Forster. though badly
wounded himself, was to-day so con-
cerned at the deaths and sufferings of i
the others that he was mildly insane.
He did all in his power to recover the
dead and rescue the living. Hundreds
OF excited persons crowded around the
depot, some OF whom were anxious for
the safety Of friends who were on the
lated train, and when the bodies were
brought in for Identification hundreds
thronged around. dreading TO look
at the dead, fearing TO recognize
among them the bodies of friends.
Every possible means have been taken
TO clear away the wreck. aid the suffer
ing and recover the dead