Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-04-09
the VICTIMS
OF the Massachusetts Railroad
Horror.
TEN MORE BODIES FOUND.
Only Three Persons Known to Have Es-
capped Injuy---Taking Out the
COrpses.

GREESPIELD, Mass, April Sit
thought that twenty persons have been sc
riously injured and seven killed with seve
raj others more or less injured. Two NOR
bodies, the last to be extricated from th,
wreck, have been identified as C. S. Tenn
pie, of Wakefield, Mass, and Charles H
Duryes, of Boston. Two young girls, whost
names are unknown, are reported to b,
among the killed. b.
A wrecking train sent from Shelburua
Falls and a relief train from Greenfield
did much to alleviate The
sufe,iog. 0nly three persons are
known to have escaped uninjurei. Fire
man Richardson lost part Of one of his
hands. He rsu to West Deerfeld. how.
ever. and telegrapbed the notice of the
wreck. The east track is torn up for dis.
tsnce of twenty rods. The western track
is clear, and trains for the East will prob
ably use it in passing the scene OF the
wreck.
Merritt Seey, Superintendent! of the
National Express Company, who was in
jured last evening in the accident died
this morning. Brakeman Spencer
was the one whose body was found
in the wreck last evenins with the bodies
of two unknown commercial travellers.
Engineer Litlleiohn cauuot live till night.
Two bodies were brought here this morn.
ing by wreckiDg train. One was identi.
fed as Z. Z Hayden The other man was
about 65 or 10 years old and was identi.
fed as j. R Gould, Of Arlington, Conn.
Nicholas Gargsn. of Greenfield, agent of
the Fieischmsnn Yeast Company, had his
shoulder fractured and was Injured inter
nsliy, W. H. Wilcox living near Syracuse,
N T., was injured slightly. c. P. Bell,
OF Nashua, says there were several persons
in the water blow him, but be saw none
Of them get ashore and believes they were
Drowned. The s,arch tor bodies is still
p progressing. Tnirty-6ve passengers
and ten train hands were
ou board. John Crowley, Of North Adams,
was on the train and is wildly insane
These bodies have been found and are at
Shellburne Falls: +. j. Whitehouse, Of
Boston, Mark Spencer, brakeman, Chas
Temple.
The body of Mr.. Whitehouse was found
n the river under car. A body Just
ound at the wreck is believed to be that
of Agent Whitehouse, of the New England
md Boston line. The body OF Chas. Dur
Sin, of Boston, has also been recovered.
Right Bodies Recovered,
SPRINGFIELD, Mass, April 8.-Eight
bodies from The wreck ct Bardwell's Ferry
nave been brought here up to 2 o'clock
his morning.
Ten Bodies Recovered
greenfield, Mass, April 8.-Superin.
endent Adams F3ached the scene of the
.tceut DeerGeld disaster at o'clock in
he morning. Throughout the night train.
men worked removing the wreck and are
IT'LL engaged 10 the task. L p to noon 10
bodies, . Of which were removed from be
heath the sEbmorged wreck, others from
he car in which the victim had been burn
ID to death had been found. Nearly as
,an be arcertained thirty persons were
wounded. Engineer Littleiohn died this
Conductor Foster, not badly
lurt as reported, escaping with lew &C.
'ere cuts. Impossible to obtain names Of
'ome of the sufferers, physicians prohibit
ng any question:,
TIE INJURED.
Charles Dugan, not Dnrkin, or Durgin,
IS in previous dispatches, whose body was
ound in the wreck lsst night, travelled for
Fielder, Moldner Il Co., Of Boston, and
lived in South Boston.
Charles Temple, another drummer who
was killed, resi4ed id Ealthsm and trav-
sled for the successors Of A. 7. Stewart &
Co., Of New York Another travelling
agent a. c, Harvey, Of Boston, left for
home this morning. He had twenty-five
cu's about his head, which we're dressed
AMI be eft town in quite a comfortable
Ed. Whitehouse probably never knew
what killed him. The wound over his eye
was terrible one AMI must have produced
unconsciousness. When the car struck
The water be was buried under its weight,
and his body was found in SIX feet o!
water.
L. Z. Haydeh must have died in fright
ful a yony, when found his right arm was
,sised above his teId ss though he had at.
tempted to clutch some support. The
fingers OF this hand we're burnt TO
A crisp and the top of
his head vas literally roasted.
dis mouth vas opsu as though he had
been shrieking with agony. Merritt Seely's
body was taken to Great Darlington this
afternoon. Since last night not less than
10 coo persons have visited the spot, some
of them walking ak to ten miles 10 view
the wreck.
AS VIEWED By DAYLIGHT
the scene is 'sr worse than reported last
night. 1t is considered marvellous that
any one escaped alive. The descent is l3O
feet By actual measurement Crowds Of
people kQgeEea Gbo4t the pFecipice
today, and hundreds descended to the
river by means of strong cables which the
wrecking crew stretched to the river bank.
Four cars we're thrown into the river,
among which was Q sleeper.
Frank Lane, OF Boston, was standing on
the platform Of the rear car at the time oi
the accident. He said be was startled By
the humping Of the cars along the ties
he knew they had left the track aud
Jumped juss as the train went whirling
down the awful ehasm. twas
Az AWFUL NIGHT,
Not q star waS 10 be seen and 60 light Of
the moon illuminated the fearfol black.
ness over the scene. To sdd 10 the misery
of the situation snoW commenced to fsll, and
in the fullest sense it was q night oi
terror. The shrieks Of the wounded rent
the sir, end their cfies and gToans we're
terrible The wailirs of q mother over the
death Of her little slrl vss heart rending
Pending in the wreck unable to efect
her escspe and expecting eseh moment tt
be crushed BY falling boulders o, debrii
from the wreck, she passed an hour @
fearful agony. Mr.. Lane stood rooted Il
the spot, his blood fairly chilled in hi
veins. Far below in the rush Of the vhirl
ing food be cold hear shr eks for help. bu