Morning journal and courier., 1888-01-11
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. THROWN FROM THE TRACK, A Boston Express Jumps
 The Rails. NINE KILLED AND MANY HURT. A Terrible Scene At The
 Wreck. READING CARRIES NO COAL. Damages For Breach
 Of Promise.
A TERRIFIC RAILROAD SMASH.

A TERRIFIC RAILROAD SMASH.
 A Flying Express Leaps She Track Near
 Haverhill-The Wrecked Cars Piled
 Up i'm a Frightful Tangle-NIne Per-
 sons Killed and a Mum ber of others
 Injured.
 HAvERHILL, Mass, Jan. 10.-A frightful accident occurred to the Portland express
 train which left Boston at one o'clock this afternoon, the scene of the disaster being near the Haverhill bridge which spans the Merr1- mac river between Bradford and Haverhill The train consisted of eight cars, drawn by the engine Norris, Engineer Thomas French, and in charge of Conductor Weymouth. This train does not stop at Bradford and was going at great speed. The Georgetown branch train was standing on the track near the water tank house at the Bradford end of the bridge waiting for the express to pass over to Haverhill. As the express rounded the curve two cars left the rails and went crashing into and demolishing the water tank house. In this house number of section hands were eating dinner. MT. J. O'Brien, a retired merchant of Bradford, was talking with the section hands and was killed to- gether with Mir. Taylor, one of the 1aborers The car that crushed into the tank house knocked the foundation out, letting the heavy tank down upon the car, crushing through the top of the car and doing fearful work within. The next car behind tele- scoped the one ahead of it, adding to the fearful havoc. The killed and wounded were mostly in these two cars. The cars behind these two ran down alongside the Georgetown train, barely escaping a collision with the en- zine of that train. The peoplein the smoker had fearful experience. One of the wheels on the front truck broke and the car bumped against the edge of the bridge, causing it to careen and run upon the bridge for some dis tance upon the sleepers, then careened the other way and leaned against the iron work of the side of the bridge The passengers, of whom there were about thirty, found themselves at the top of the car. They managed to crawl out, none being very seriously hurt. AS soon as they reached terra frma such as were able rushed back and helped those who were imprisoned in the wrecked cars. The entire force of physicians was summoned by telephone and was quickly at hand and the wounded were cared for as soon as released.
 The list of killed foots up nine as follows: Clarence Hazlewood, residence unknown; John O Brien, of Bradford; c. P. Goodman, wife and child of Kennebunk, Me; William Taylor, section hand; A. L. Walker of Har- rison, Me; Charles Thurlow, Newton Junc- tion, N. H., and Josephus Shaw, of Boston. The following is a list of the wounded, some of whom are at private houses, some st the hospital and others at the Eagle Hotel: At City hospital-George B. Wentworth, Dover, N. H., scalp wounds, shoulder blade broken, comfortable; Rebecca Mckay of Somerville, N. H., has daughter residing in Lowell, compound fracture of the leg; Fred Mo Keown of Somerville, newsboy, scalp wound, severe head contusions; Niles Bolin, of Broekton, head and arm injured; Hugo Slit tingren, of Brockton, injured in the back and leg-these last two men were en route fer Pennington, N. H., to work in shoe w. F. Kimball, of Kimball Bros., Sudbury street, Boston, fracture of leg; John Madden of Bradford, compound fracture of the right leg; MT. Hart of Portland, bruised arm and bad scalp wounds; Dennis Shannon of Bradford, feet and leg badly crushed and scalp wounds, probably fatal; an unknown woman apparently thirty-fve years old with dark hair, breastpin marked "J., injured on the head and internally, probably fatal; Mrs John P. Felt, of Waltham, not seriously injured. At the residence of William Smith at Bradford-Miss Etta Owen, right leg and hand badly bruised. At the resi- dence of Richard Dwyer at Bradford John Kellogg of Boston, en route for Ports- mouth several scalp wounds, but were so slight that he continued his journey. large number of the slightly wounded con tinued to their destination and their names cannot be learned. The name of the man reported unknown is Josephus Shaw of Bos- ton. Conductor Weymouth escaped injury. Ernest Hatch, fireman, got hurt by the cor ner of the building falling upon him, will recover. The people of Haverhill are doing everything possible for the wounded.
 The accident is supposed to have been oc- casioned by switch rod breaking after the anoipo opd the thraa foruard cars had npaa- ed over the switch. A careful examination was made by General Manager Furber, as- sisted by several other well known railroad officials, to see if any of the wheels on the coaches were broken, but they were found to be all right. The journals on the wrecked car were also carefully examined, but found to be perfect. The switch and it's connections were so badly broken that it is impossible to ascertain the exact truth. The train was one of the finest equipped trains on the road and consisted of one of the company's largest locomotives which was attached to eight cars arranged in the following order: Mail car, ,lbaggage car, parlor, smoke and four new monitor top passenger cars with the Westinghouse air brakes. The train was running, according to the engineers story, at about eighteen miles an hour, and after the smoking car had broken apart from the rear portion of the train and bounded forward the air brake on LQ6 CAT was duLOuIdIlCdl1J dPPllC0 anu the car was thrown on it's side. It is probable that but for this brake the car would have fallen into the ice-bound Merrimac one hundred feet be- low. The hard pine stringers of the bridge were badly splintered, but the bridge, which is of iron, withstood the strain and was in no way injured.
 There were about forty passengers in the smoking car as near as can be learned, but all escaped without severe injuries although nearly all of them were badly shaken up and a number of them had their clothing torn from their bodies. All the cars were equipped with the Babcock steam heater and no portion of the cars caught fire. The two passenger cars are completely wrecked, but the smoking ear, though badly damaged, can
 be repaired at 8 small expense. The loss to the road upon rolling stock will not reach over SEQ, 900. The inward track was cleared at o'clock and trains for Boston were start ed as usual, although throughout the after noon passengers on through trains were transferred over the bridge by special local train.
 The first passenger car, which ran into the
 water tank and section house, was ground al
 most to atoms, the heavy tank crashing
 through the monitor top, crushing 1t like an
 sggshell. In this car there were six killed
 and nearly all the passengers received in-
 iuries, mostly of severe nature. The pas sengers in the car next to this received bad shaking and several were thrown over the back of the seats, but ss far as can be learn- ed none of them received serious injuries. The two rear coacLes jumped the track and ran about one hundred feet when they were stopped by the automatic brakes. All ot the passengers in these cars escaped without l injuries, although they were badly shaker up by the cars running over the sleeper All the male passengers in these cars as soor as possible rushed to the rescue of those ir 1 the forward cars and helped them out. Thost | in the smoker were mostly taken out througf the windows. Some of the occupants
 crawled out, some presenting pitiful sight
 being badly cut by the glass. One man wal l dragged out of the window with broker l leg and suffered much pain.
 l General Manager Furber, Road Maste John Bailey and two wrecking trains with
 large force of men were early on the seen
 clearing away the debris. A number wh'
 received injuries of trifing nature wer transferred to special train on the opposit
 side of the bridge and left for their destins | tons. The conductor in charge of the trai
 was one of the oldest passenger conductor en the road. He was in one ot the req
 coaches and escaYed unhurt. Frank Bowke and --- Collins of nalden were in one Q