Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-08-20
Fifteen Killed -Twenty-three Serious.
ly and Others Badly Injured.

tUt OF the UiNtt iledsutus
accidents that ever occurred in the vicinity
of Boston, occurred shortly after o'clock
this afternoon ON the Old Colony railroad.
Fifteen persons were killed, twelve instant
ly. Twenty three were seriously injured
and three fatally. Several more sustained
slight Injuries.
The Woods Hollis express which left
Woods iIoll at 10. 30 4, M. due in Boston
at lilo +. NJ, consisted of locomotive No.
l22 manned BY Engineer Charles Bsbcock
AMI Fireman John Ryan, baggage car.
smoker, the pullman car Puritan, and four
ordinary coaches, tl heavily l0sded.
The fireman was Instantly killed and
buried under the engine. The engineer,
who jumped, was slightly hurt. Pullmao
car conductor b. I. Benson had the side
of his face cut and right ear nearly cut of
by being thrown out of 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.
The train passed Quincy station at II 81
7. NJ, running about ten miles All hour
just beyond President's bridge, about an
eighth Of a mile towards Boston. the engine
Il fl the tack. from some cause al present
undetermined, AMI plunged iiagonally into
an emba1kment IL feet high and turned
upon one side. The tender, baggage car,
smoker and Pullman passed by the cngine
and stretched along for a distance of 100
feet beside the track The foremost pas
senger coach, No. 2SG, left the rails, and
the foremost truck s~etycd 10 the left and
plunged diagonsliy through the car floor
The ear fell uyon its ii le upon the engine.
The lower foreward PORTION was smashed
many Of the passengers within some fifty in
numb,r were thrown into the rear corner.
from which eleven dead bodies were after
wards taken, tic escaping steam and smoke
from the cnsine instantly tilln4 it. Those
within could see nothing. The forward
cars were forced over upon the out ward
bound track completely blocking traffic,
and mp I, s.45 z. NJ No train had pas sod
the wreck in either direction. ONLY three
persons Cn the train ahead of car 23G, w,re
iejucd.
The dead, when taken from the wreck
weIc: Mrs. otcut Allen, lsielrhii,
Penn. Mrs Mary T. Fennelly. aged 70,
LCui-yillc, Ky; +. j. johnson, NoDtpel-
ier, Vt John Ryan. fireman, South Bos
ton; four women, two men sni two child
ren. un Identified; died during the after
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