Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-08-20
IRAN HORROR IN MASSACHUSETTS,
Nine Persons Killed and Twenty-O Odd
Injured.
Especial telegram to the Dispatch.

Injured.
Especial telegram TO the Dispatch.
BosToS. Mass. August ia curious ac-
cident happened TO the Cape Cod and
Woods HolI train on the Old Colony road
at Quincy at l o'clock tins after
noon. The train Jumped the track
100 feet from the Presidents bridge. The
first passenger-coach fell on the engine. the
latter having toppled over. The engine
set FIRE TO the train. The fireman was in
stantly killed and the engineer fatally in
jured, As far "a can be learned there
were eight passengers killed and about
twenty injured. The latter are for the
greater part injured by escaping steam,
having been frightfully scalded.
The Quincy fire department was called
90 the scene as quickly as possible. and
shortly afterwards the fire was extingush-
ed. The dead and injured were removed
from the scene, the latter being taken into
private houses and to the Quincy Hospital.
The scene of the accident x near the scene
Of the frightful Woolaston disaster Of a
few years ago. The train Is the VINEYARD
express, due in Boston at Ito and c0n-
sists of five or SIX parlor- and passenger
cars. usually fully loaded. 1t Is usually
running ut forty miles an hour near this
point
A PAssENGERs STATEMENT.
William Fennell, a house builder Of Bos-
ton, was passenger IN the fourth car OF
the train. II was in.this car, he says, that
most Of tho casualties occurred
The train was running through Quincy
~ the rate Of thirty miles an hour. When
near the Presidents bridge there was a
rumbling sound, followed by an awful
crash. The three forward cars lurched ana
left the track. The fourth kept the rails
and swept right along upon the broken To-
connective, which lay IN Its way. forcing
itself right on top OF IT, The shock was
terrible, and it seemed a. If the car jumped
up twenty feet in the air. When the car
descended on the engine il swirilled sud
denly over the occupants being thrown
violently about. Steam came into the car
and dense clouds from the locomotive be-
meath. scalding and almost suifOcatlng the
people penned inside.
SPREADING or TIE RAILS.
In the descent Of the car hole was torn
in the bottom Of 1t, through which many
of the forty or fifty people were taken out.
Fennell thinks six or seven persons We're
killed and twenty-five slightly injured.
He thinks the accident was caused by the
spreading Of the rails.
Fireman James Ryan, Of South Boston,
IS under the engine. while Engineer Bah
cock was thrown upon an embankmeut
and but slightly injured. Fcnnel thinks
steam caused all the deaths IN this car.
About forty passengers were IN the ear and
all suffered more or less injury.
ONLY THREE INJURED.
Only three persons on the tram ahead OF
Car 23G were Injured. These were u FIRE
man. who was instantly killed and buried
under the engine: the engineer, who
iumped and was only slightly hurt. and the
Pullman-car conductor. who had the side
If bis face cut and his right ear nearly cut
of 10y being thrown out OF window OF ms
car.
The three rear passenger dld not
leave the track and the occupants received
no more injury than a slight shaking-up.
Car 236 was the principal source Of dcatf
and agony. and the experiences OF the IN
lucky occupants were probably never eX
ceeded in horror and suffering in any rail
road wreck of recent years.
LIST or TIE KILLED.
The following were dead when taker
from the wreck:
Mrs. circuit Allen. Philadelphia.
Mrs. Mary L. Fennelly, aged seventy
Louisville, Ky.
FL. johnson. Montpelier. VI.
John RYAN. South Boston, fireman Of
the train, and four women, two men. anC
! two children one boy OF fOurteen) uu
identified total, -.
The following died during the afternoon
and evening
Mrs. A. c. Wells, Hartford, Conn.
TIE INJUEED.
The following are critically injured:
Mrs. Oscar Formally. Of Louisville. Ky.
wife Of the cashier OF the Citizens Nationa
Bank of Louisville. scalded over her Who'll,
body. and her daughters Alice and Cath
| crime.
c. NJ. Copp, Cleveland. o., scalded owe
whole body. not expected to live till morn
| inc.
L. c. Bailey, Of Dorchester, formerly pro
prietor of the Boston HTdd, scalded OF
| face and bands.
Rev. T. VI. Dimick, Los Angeles, Califor
mia. face. arm. and hip scalded. His wifi,
| had her face and hands scalded and sui
| fered a compound-fracture Of both bone
Of the left leg. halfway between the kne'
and ankle.
Mrs. George P. WEIGH, of Cleveland
Ohio, scalded head, arms. and neck; condi
| ton critical.
Mrs. Mary +. Snow, of Mystic street
| CharlestOwu, face and hands scalded an,
| internally injured.
Mrs. A. r. Abbott, Louisville. face an,
| hands scalded and compound-fracture o
| the left thigh condition critical.