Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-08-20
HORRIBLE ACCIDENT
Seventeen Lives Lost on the
 Old Colony Railroad.
THIRTY PASSENGERS INJURED.
The Dead and Dying Dragged from the
 Wrecked Cars.

many Scalueo to Do0lh bY the HO,
 Steam-Ths Wrecked Cars on Fire.
 HsartrendinR Cries of Imprisoned Pas
 senRsrs--sevsraI Doctors Sent from Bos-
 tOn-List Of the Killed and Injured.
 BOSTON, Aug. BOA terrible accident occurred on the Old Colony Railroad, near the Quincy station, whereby sev- eral lives were lost and many persons were injured. The Woodsho1l express was laundering past the station when the engine jumped the rail and three cars followed it. The engine was smashed and lay across the track, the fourth car remained on the rail and crushed into the locomotive.
 Then a terrible scene was enacted. The car was tossed several feet in the air, and turning on its side fell upon the engine from which the steam was escaping in huge volumes.
 Awful Suffering by steam.
 There wore 75 passengers in the car, and as the windows were nearly all closed they were imprisoned like rats in a trap. The car was completely filled with steam and the agonized cries of ings caused. Those in the other cars who escaped injury at once hurried to the assistance of those less fortunate.
 Windows were broken and the dead and dying were dragged from within. The hot steam had done its terrible work, and from many the flesh actually hung in shreds. It was a horrible task
 Word was at once telephoned to Bos- ton, and a special train bearing about 30 doctors was quickly sent to the scene of the disaster.
 Heroic Efforts.
 The Quincy fire department and all the surgeons in the city were summoned to the spot and the lawns on each side of the railroad were covered with killed and injured. Heroic efforts were made by the train hands and passengers to rescue some af the passengers, and they succeeded in removing twen9y or more who were only slightly injured. There were 991 passengers in the train, 100 being from Brocton.
 The KIlad.
 The following were dead when taken from the wreck: Mrs. Orcutt Allen, PhiIadelphia; Mrs. Mary E. Fennelly, aged 70, Louisville, Ky; F. J. Johnson, ton, fireman of the train, and four women, two men and two children, one @ boy of IA, not identifed; Mrs. A. c. (-lls, Hartford, Conn.,, daughter of H. L. Welch of. .Waterville, Conn; Alice and Catherine, daughters of Mrs. Oscar Fennelly of Louisville, Ky.
 List of the Injured.
 The names of the badly injured are: Mrs. G. F. Stowe, Somerville, burned; Mrs. Andrew Tower, Some-ville, badly injured internally; Mrs. A. G. Welch, Cleveland. O., badly burned; Henry A. Welch. Cleveland, burned; E. c. Bailey, d. HoI Cleveland, O., whole body terribly scalded; Mrs. Oscar Fenley, Louisville, Ky, terribly scalded; Dr. F. B. Warner, Canandaigua, N. Y., hand burned; Mrs. F. w. Welch, J. c. Brown, Mrs. Brown, Mrs. J. $. Needham, R. T. Needham, Judge J. w. Edwards, Louisville, Ky. 1; Captain w. R. Abbott and Mrs. Abbott, Chelsea. Jacob Helibron of Boston. Terrible scenes Among the bead. A curious fact incidental to the &C., | cident is that of all those on the train not killed outright there is but one with broken bones. Some of the scenes after the accident were shocking. At Browns undertaking establishment, which was forced to become a morgue, more than one awful sight met the eyes | of the volunteer attendants. The corpse of woman, terribly mangled, was brought into the room and placed upon | the table. Knives in the hands of the undertaker's assistants quickly ripped her clothes apart. In the crash of the cara the neck had been severed. With groans of horror every one in the room | turned from the sight. Afterwards the | body of the unfortunate woman was l prckc ed piecemeal into n box, and later | identified as Miss Allen, of Phila' G,li hia.
 l II has been ascertained that theaaooi- | dent was probably the result of care- le>encss on the part lof the N,orEmen who were repairing the tracks. It isa understood now that [ | jack was left lying across the rail wher the workmen stepped aside to av oit was immediately thrown from thu | track.