Morning journal and courier., 1890-08-20
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ACCIDENT ON THE OLD COLONY.

ACCIDENT ON THE OLD COLONY. One of the Most Disastrous wrecks
 in the History of the Road-Fifteen
 Persons Killed and About Thirty
 Injured-How the Accident Occul.
 red-StOry of a Passemger-Lfst of
 the Dead and Injured.
 BOSTON, Aug. 19.-One of the most dis astrous accidents which ever occurred in the vicinity of Boston, and one which rivals the famous Wollaston disaster of October ,, 1878, occurred shortly after 1 o'clock this afternoon on the same road, the Old Colony, and very near the same locality. In the Wollaston disaster fifteen were killed and nearly one hundred and fifty injured. To-day fifteen persons were killed, twelve instantly, twenty-three seri- .iously injured, three fstally, while several more sustained slight injuries. The train wrecked to-day vas the Woods Hon ex
 press, which left Woods Hol at 1O:5O am. and was due in Boston at 1:10 p.m It consisted of locomotive No. 122, manned by Eengineer Babcock and Fireman John Ryan, a baggage car, smoker, the Pullman car Puritan and four ordinary coaches heav- | fly loaded. The train had passed Quincy sta tion at 12:57 p. m., running at about ten miles an hour and just beyond the Presi- dents bridge, about an eighth of a mile toward Boston, the engine left the track from some cause at present undetermined and plunged diagonally into an embark ment twelve feet high and was turned up oneside. The train was in charge,of Con | ductor F. 0. Stedman The tender, bag gage, smoker and Pullman passed by the engine and were stretched along for dis | tance of one hundred feet. The foremost l passenger coach, No. 236, left the track, | it's foremost trucks swerved to the left and l plunged diagonally through the car floor. | the engine. The lower forward portion was torn to pieces, and the passengers within, some fifty in number, were many l of them thrown into the rear corner, from | which eleven bodies were afterwards taken out. Escaping steam and smoke from the ] engine instantly filled the car so that those within could see nothing. The forward l cars had been forced over upon the out ward bound track, completely blocking traffic, and up to 8:45 p. m. no train had passed the wreck in either direction, all being sent via the Grand branch, between 1 Atlantic and Braintree, while shuttle trains l piled between the scene of the wreck and l Atlantic as fast as other trains arrived. | Only three persons on the train ahead of car 236 were injured. These were the fire man, who was instantly killed and carried under the engine; the engineer, who jumped from his machine and was only slightly hurt; and the Pullman conductor, B. F. Robinson, who had the side of his face cut and his right ear nearly cut off by being thrown out of the window of his car. The three rear passenger coaches did not leave the track, and the occupants received no worse injury than slight shaking up. Car No 236 was the scene of death and agony, and the experiences of the unlucky occupants were probably never exceeded in horror and suffering in any railroad wreck in recent years.
 LIST OF THE DEAD.
 The following were dead when taken from the wreck: Mrs. Orcutt Allen of | Philadelphia; Mrs. Mary E. Fenneley, ,aged seventy, of Louisville, Ky.; F. J. Johnston of Montpelier, Vt.; John Ryan of South l Boston, fireman of the train, and four women, two men and two children, one boy of fourteen, unidentified; total, twelve.
 The following died during the afternoon and evening: Alice and >Catharine, .daugh- ters of Mrs. Oscar Fennelly of Louisville, Ky; Mrs. A. 0. Hills of Hartford, Conn. ; daughter of L. Welch of Waterville, Conn.,
 The following are critically injured: Mrs. Oscar Fennelly, wife of the cashier of the Citizens National bank of Louisville. scalded over her whole body; 0. H. Copp of Cleveland, scalded over whole body, not expected to live till morning; E. c. Bailey of Dorchester, formerly proprietor of the Boston Herald, scalded in face and hands. The following are seriously but not fatally head of the Santa Rosa Female seminary, Santa Rosa, Cal, face and left arm burned; Rev F. M: Dinmick of Los Angeles, Cal, face, arm and hip scalded; his wife, sister of Mrs. Chase, face and hands scalded and com minuted fracture of both bones of left leg; Mrs. George P. Welch of Cleveland, ,scalded head, arms and neck, condition critical; her son, Henry James Welch, face, arms and neck scalded; Mrs. T. A. Wilson of room No. F, City hotel Chelsea, face and arms burned; Mrs Andrew Tower of No. 3S Sullivan street, Charlestown, spine in jured and back scalded; her daughter, Mrs. George M Snow of Winterhill, face and hands scalded; Mrs. Mary F. Snow of Mys- tic street, Charlestown, face andthands badly scalded and internal injuries; Mrs. Abbie R. Abbott of Louisville, Ky, face and hands scalded and compound fracture of left thigh, condition critical; Captain w R. Abbott of Louisville, hands scalded; | J. V. ly scalded in hands and face; B. F. Benson conductor of the Pullman, right side of face cut, ear nearly torn off; R. w. Edwards, judge in chancery of Louisville, Ky, wrist cut; General Nat Wales of Bos- ton, Mass, finger broken; Elizabeth Fen nely, aged six, daughter of Mrs. Oscar Fennely of Louisville, Ky, hands, arms and legs burned; Jessie McAllister of Fort | Wayne, Ind, face, side and hands burned; | p,,fh L1,nr cf tn
 sion of left leg and severe shock to the system; Mrs. M. A. Halle of Fort Wayne, Ind, grandmother of Miss McAllister, com pound fracture of nose and sprained knee; Lucy -, negro maid of the Fennaly family, badly burned; Engi .neer Babcook, wrist broken and head and legs lacerated; R. T. Need
 ham of Lawrence, Mass, slight
 injuries; Mrs. J. l. Needham of Lawrence
 body badly bruised; Mrs. J. o. Brown of
 Lawrence, slightly injured; Mrs. S. F. Stowe of Somerville, leg burned; Dr. F. B
 Warner of Canandaigua, N. Y., hand bruised; Margaret Hall of Franklin, badly
 scalded about face; Miss Minnie Hubbard
 and Miss Rose Tucker of Lexington, slight , ly injured; Mrs. Eva Bullard of Nashville
 N. C., face injured. It is reported tha the name of one of the unidentified dead ii , w. H. Grady, and that two others ar
 
 boy It Is also reported that a niece O l Mrs. A. s. Hills of Hartford, Conn.,, i among the unidentified dead.
 FIRE ADDS TO THE HORROR.
 The coals of the engine set fire to ca
 No. 236, but the fire was not serious an,
 was soon extinguished. The Quincy fir . department and all the surgeons of tha city were summoned to the spot, and a !, soon as possible those still living were tak 7 en from their positions of peril and thos | most seriously hurt were taken to the resi- = dence of man named Carr, living near by = and were subsequently, werO taken to tn
 Quincy. hospital, some in carts and som /, later in an ambulance which arrived fror e Boston, The dead were laid on the gras e beneath a large tree until undertakers al V rived News of the disaster reached Bo ton in very few minutes and Generi ', :, Manager J. H. Kendrick of the Old Colon . road at once sent clerk in search of SUI Q geons, telephoned the City hospital am 2 Massachusetts general hospital for all tn Q surgeons that could be spared and ha if special train made up to tal ,- them to the scene, and also a wrecking train, which started for tf h wreck at 1:20 p. m., not over twenty-tw re minutes after the calamity occurred, an
 reached the scene of the accident at 1:3t
 Superintendent of Police Burrill ordere
 his orders added to Manager Kendrick
 call for help, instructing every station e- possible. At least twenty-five skilled SUI
 roa,anpdad tn fhaaa calls and in fl