The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1890-08-29


che fireman were instantly killed. and
che engineer and twenty passengers in
jured, some fatally. The train. which
was the Vineyard express due in llos-
ton AZ ITO .. m, and consisted OF five
parior cars when within one hun
dred feet Of the other side Of
Presidents bridge. and while running
1t rate o. forty miles
an hour. jumped the track. the
engine Immediately toppling over and
che first passenger coach falling on top
Of it.
The fire from the engine set fire to
the train
The passengers were for the most part
injured by escaping steam. many being
frightfully scalded. The Quincy fire
department was called to the scene as
quickly As possible. and shortly after
wards the fire was extinguishcd.
The dead and injured were removed
from the scene. the latter being taken
into private houses and TO the Quincy
Hospital.
reporter who was on the train
says: The engine jumped the track
on the west side, plunging into the
steep bank adjoining the Adams estate
The nine cars attached to the engine
plunged after IT, The first three, bag
gage. a Pullman. and smoking car.
went past the engine. but the fourth car.
passenger coach. collidci with the
engine and was instantly filed with cs-
Gaping steam The next i've cars re-
manned on the track, but the occupants
we're badly shaken up. The Inflated
passenger car was completely wrecked
IL contained seventy-fve passengers,
men. women and children. The win
dows on the east side were all closed,
thereby preventing the steam from es-
Gaping The scenes about the car were
OF the widest description. Strong
hearted men tainted as the steamed
bodies. OF dozen women and children
we're being taken from the ruins.
Heroic efforts were made BY the train
hands and passengers to rescue some Of
the passengers. and they succeeded in
recovering twenty or thirty slightly in
jared- There were SOL passengers in
the train, hundred being from Brock
ton.
Fireman Ryan. in attempting to
save his life. was caught between the
passenger car and engine and killed.
Engineer Bullick. who jumped from
his CT tine (but not until no had done
al that was possible to avert the wreck)
was injured about the head and badly
scalded.
Among those on the train was E. c.
Bailey, formerly proprietor OF the Her.
AID. He was in the first smoker, and |
only received slight shaking up
The only reason given for the acct
dent Il that there Is . very bad curve
near the Presidents bridge. the scene
81 the accident and to this. together
with the fact that the road was under
going repairs. the accident Is attrib-
uted.
In the fourth car WIN Fennelly. a car
pentcr and house builder. was a pas
senger. II was there that the major
part Of the casualties occurred, and
nearly II not all Of those who lost their
ives were caught by beams and scaided
% death. He says:
Our car swept like lightning right
'ntc the engine and was forced on top
u 1t with terrific shock. We seemed
matched right up from the earth fifty
Get In the air. When we descended on
no engine IL had twirled over. and the
rounded passengers were thrown ruth
cssly about As the car struck on its
idc solidly. the bottom OF 1t was torn
way and thus an opportunity was
'iven us TO get out That was the only
hing that saved my life and those Of
lfty others Thirty seconds after the car
truck ! would have given $1,000 for .
rink Of any kind from whisky TO
rater. ] thought I should suffocate.
The dcath-dcaling steam entered the
ar in dense clouds from the locomo-
i've beneath "a, filling every crevice
md almost suffocating those whom 1t
lid not burn 10 death. 1t caused all
he deaths that occurred to-day. Ten
women were gasping about me as 4
ried TO shrek and shout and as they
'ecame weaker and weaker as the
team filled their lungs could see them
bush their hands or feet through the torn
windows trying to get . breath Of fresh
Iir. don't know how many saw die
thought saw eight or ten at the mo !
nenL but now don't think there were
moro than six or seven. There were
orty or fifty passengers in tho car. and
nearly all Of them were wounded more
y less ! do not consider myself in
urcd. though can hardly walk. and
here were perhaps ten or fifteen like
ne. but the rest, perhaps twenty
I've altogether. we're seriously injured.
saw them in the car crying out Tor
selp. and aid all / could. saw the
lcsh burned from men and women a.
hat cursed steam enveloped them. and
heard men grooming and shrieking in
heir death struggles as tho scalding
umcs became hotter and denser. I
hardly know how escaped. When the
bottom OF the car burst out Il left hole
ust large enough for my head. d.
'cctly over my head. and tho edges OF
hat reached in some way don't know
how. Then ] pulled myself up and I
ocked through the opening All about
sas wreck and ruin. The passengers
rom the other cars were not TO be seen. ,
but over on fence bordering the rail- |
road track we're ten or twenty mont .
seemed TO me one hundred watching |
The scene OF ruin and powcrless from .