The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-05-20
A PULLMAN CAR WRECKED.
Accident to the Portland Noon Ex-
press From Boston.
Saturdays 1890 Train DeraIIed at
Salem.

Train %, Hutchinson conductor, which
left Boston at 1890 Saturday noon for Port
land crowded with passengers, met with an
accident while nearing Salem depot at LOS.
The train was passing frog at point op
poSite Gardiner street when a journal on the
the Pullman car broke throwing the wheel
off the rail and letting the car down on the
track. The train was moving rapidly at the
time and the car was dragged upwards of
1000 feet before it was stopped.
The passengers in the Pullman car were
badly shaken up. Arthur Sewall president
of the Maine Central railroad was aboard.
Albert Goodwin who was standing on the
front platform Of the smoking car jumped
soon after the Pullman left the track, and,
striking the ground was injured internally.
Blood flowed freely from his mouth. He
was taken to the Salem hospital.
The Pullman car was badly damaged, the
motive gear being ruined, and the furniture
and mirror broken. The car as it dragged
along cut an ugly furrow in the track, break
ing the sleepers in twain. and when stopped
the forward end was plunged fully three
feet into the roadbed.
Pullman Franconia, baggage car, smoker
and three passenger coaches. None of the pas.
sengers on the train were injured, although
some were thrown from their seats by the
shock. 1t was narrow escape from fear
full horror.
The passengers on the train were forward.
| ed East soon after the accident. An i'm
mense crowd assembled near the ruins. The
wrecking train soon got to work and the
tracks were cleared so that by $50 p. III
trains were running as If nothing had hap.
pened.
Goodwin is lying unconscious at the Salem
hospital. The surgeon states that one of his
knee pans is fractured and it is feared that
his skull is also broken.
BAGGAGE MASTER RUssELI's STATEMENT
A PRESS reporter called upon Mr.. Her
man Russell, baggage master of the train
and learned from him the following story re-
garding the accident: ave had lust rounded
what Is known as Castle Hill. curve which il
three-qnarters Of mile beyond Salem, anG
were running at the time at the rate of % or
80 miles per hour. Albert johnson was en-.
gineer. Next to the engine was the express
car, then came the baggage car, the Pullman
and Tour passenger coaches. Suddenly,
WHEN we were ABOUT nall way between Cas-
tie Hill curve and Salem felt shock and
concluded the train had gone off the iron
When we had gone perhaps 400 feet farther
the engine, express and baggage care broke
away from the rest of the train and dashed
on. looked back through the baggage car
door but could see nothing but a cloud OF
dust ana concluded it was bad one. The
train was soon stopped and we went back
The Pullman car was badly damaged, the
running gear being totally destroyed and
more or less damaged inside. But one man
| was severely injured and within ten minutes
the Salem people had an ambulance on the
| spot and the injured man was on his way to
the hospital A big crowd soon assembled
| President Sewall of the Maine Central who
| was in the Pullman shouted when the acct
| dent occurred for the people to keep their
| seats If possible. sit was lucky that we es
| capped as we did," said he after the accident
Some of the other passengers screamed with
terror and many of the women did not gel
over their fright during the rest of the run t.
| Portland. Shifting engines from Salem
were soon on the spot and in 80 minutes from
the time the journal on the Pullman broke
the train, excepting the Pullman and the
| smoker, the passenger car that was next in
| the rear of the Pullman, was on its way
again."