Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1890-08-20
SEVENTEEN DEAD.
A Frightful Wreck on the Old
Colony Railroad.
HEARTBREAKING SCENES.
Many Victims Scalded TO Death BY
Escaping Steam.

Many Victims Scalded TO Death by
Escaping Steam.
The Vlneland Express Hurled from tho
Track Near Presidents Bridge and
Three Score Passengers Killed or In-
jurod-The Unfortunates VINO We're Not
Crushed to Death Were Literally Cooked
by scaiding vapor from the Overturned
Englne-Thc Pitiful stories Of Those
Who Escaped Alive-The Scene strewn
with soalded and Battered Bodies-A
List Of the Dead and Injured.
BosToE. Aug. 20.--The first reports con
cerning the accident 70 the Vineland cx-
press on the Old Colony railroad near
Braintree, Mass, underestimated the loss
Of life II is now definitely known that
seventeen Of the passengers are dead.
Their bodies have all been removed from
the wreck Everything is in confusion,
and il is impossible to procure the names
Of all the passengers who lost their lives.
The work Of removing the dead aud in
jured from the wreck was extremely diff
cult and slow After removal this dead
were taken to the morgue and the injured
TO the Quincy hospital where the Boston
surgeons are located. The following is a
list of the killed and injured:
A List of the Dead.
Mrs. orcutt Allen Philadelphia.
Mrs. Mary T. Fennely, Louisville Ky. -
Alice Fennehy, Louisville, Ky.
Catherine Fennelly, Louisville, Ky.
Daughter Of II. L. Welch, Wateryille Conn
i. J. johnson. Montpelier VI.
John Ryan, fireman. South Boston.
Mrs. A. G, Wells Hartford Conn
-Four women, two men and two children un.
Identified
Il is reported that the name of one OF
the unidentified dead is w. II. Grady. and
that two others are Mrs. +. r. johnson
and her l5-year-old boy. Il is also reported
that the niece Of Mrs A. G. Wells, Of
Hartford, Conn.,, is among the unidenti-
fed dead.
The Injured.
The following are critically injured:
Mrs. Oscar Fennelly Of Louisville Ky. wife Of
the cashier Of the Citizens National bank Louis
vile, frightfully scalded. G, NJ. Copp, Cleveland,
o., scalded over whole body; not expected to
live. H. q Bailey OF Dorchester formerly nrn
prietor Of The Boston Herald. scaided on face ana
hands. Mrs George p. WEIGH, OF Cleveland. o
scaided head arms and neck; condition critical
The following were seriously injured:
Mrs Martha Chase, at the head of the Santa
Rosa Female seminary, Santa Rosa, Cal face and
left arm burned Rev T. NJ. Dmmlck, Los An.
gees Cal face arm and hip scalded His wife.
a sister Of Mrs. Chase, had her face and hands
scalded and suffered a compound fracture Of both
bones Of the left leg half way between the knee
aud ankle. Henry J. Welch, Cleveland, O face
arms and neck scalded Mrs r. A. Addison.
Chelsea; face and arms burned. Mrs Andrew
Tower Charlestown; spine injured. back scalded
/ Mrs George NJ Snow, Winter Hin, daughter OF
Mrs. Tower, face and hands scalded Mrs Mary
f. Snoy, Charlestown; face and hands scalded
| internal injuries Mrs Abbie r. Abbott Louis
/ vile, Ky; face and hands scalded, compound
fracture Of left thigh; condition critical Capt
/ W, Il Abbott louisville; hands scalded.
b. F. Benson, Pullman conductor; face and ear
cut. r W. Edwards, chanoery Judge, Louisville;
wrists cut Gen. Nat. Wales, Of Boston; finger
broken. Eliz beth Fennelly aged G. daughter Of
Mrs. Oscar Fennelly, Louisville; hands arms and
legs burned. Jessie McAllister, Fort Wayne. Ind /.
face, side and hands burned. Ruth Blackburn
Lowell; confusion OF left Lex and severe shock
Mrs. NJ. A. Halle, Fort Wayne. Ind nose broken
and knee sprained. Lucy -, negro, ward OF
the Fennelly's; badly burned. Engineer Bah
cock wrist broken and head and legs lacerated
Mrs, J. s, Needham, Lawrence. body badly
burned Mrs s. y. Stowe, somerville; leg burned
Moses farnham, OF Franklin; Meyer Hirschberg
OF S. Hirschberg Co., OF Boston; badly scalded
about the face. Mrs Eva Ballard OF Nashville
scalded about the head and face.
How the Accident Occurred.
The train, which was due in Boston at
l:l0 y. m. and consisting Of five or six par
Lon rnr nrtsffI g.. L..
side Of Presidents bridge and running at
the rate Of forty miles an hour, jumped the
track, the engine Immediately tooplinp
over and the first passenger coach on the
| top Of il, The engine set fire to the train.
The Passengers were for the m6-s mart in
lured by escaping steam, many being
irightfully scalded. The Quincy fire de-
partment was called 20 the scene as quickly
as possible, and shortly afterward the fire
was extinguished
The Fatal Fifth Car.
John Harrington, who was a passenger
in the sixth car was not injured. To re-
porter be said: 1T all happened SO quickly
that / can hardly account for it, but il
seems 70 me that the engine jumped the
track first, rolling over partly on the bank;
the first four cars passed by without very
--NNA NtAAAetaet bAt INC nun Lne To-
comotive squarely, or else the locomotive
toppled over on it.
The forward cars were derailed and over
turned and the passengers more or less
hurt, but the fifth car was terribly smashed.
and the occupants were nearly all either
killed or severely injured. The middle of
the car was mass of shattered timbers
and mangled human beings, the seats being
jammed together so quickly as to entrap
the passengers and press their lives out in
an instant. Then the steam from the loco
motive rushed in to the car and scalded
those persons who were not already badly
enough wounded. At least five or six were
killed outright and four or five times as
many were scalded and otherwise hurt.
The accident occurred between Quincy and
Wollaston, where they were mending
tracks.
scalded to Death.
S. A. Holbrook, of Brooklyn, also came
out Of the wreck without a scratch. He
said he was seated in the car back of the
smoker with a friend, w. L. Miner, and
near him sat Gen. Nat Wales, Of the First