The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-08-20
FRIGHpFUL DISASTER
On tho Old Colony Railroad
near Boston.
FIFTEEN PERSONS ARE KILLED
And Number Seriously InJurcd.
Tho Escaping Steam Scaids tho
Imprisoned Pnsscngcrs..AL List
ofthc Dead and Wounded.

BOSTON, MASS, August 10.-One oil the
most disastrous railroad accidents thai
ever occurred In tho vicinity Of Boston,
and one thnt rivals the famous Wollas.
ton disaster of October s, 1878, occurred
shortly after ono o'clock this afternoon
on the samo road, the Old Colony, and
very near the same locality.
In the Woloston disaster fifteen were
Killed and nearly i58 injured. To-day
fifteen were killed, twelve instantly,
twenty-three were seriously injured,
three fatally, and several more sustained
slight injuries. The train which was
wrecked to-day was the Woods Hall Ex.
press, which left Woods Hall 4. $50
and xns due at Boston at ! 10 p. ID. 1t
consisted Of locomotive, baggage car,
smoker and pullman car, and passenge
cars heavily loaded.
Just beyond Presidents bridge, about
an eighth OF a mile toward Boston, tho
engine left the truck from cause at
present undetermined and plunged into
an embankment 12 feet high and was
buried upon one side. The tender, bag.
gage car, smoker and Pullman passed BY |
the engine, and wer, stretched along
lor a distance OF 100 feet beside the track. !
The foremost truck, swerved to the
lett and plunged diagonally through the |
car floor. The car then felt upon It's left |
side upon the engine. The lower for.
ward portion was torn to pieces, and OF |
the Passengers in the car, some fifty in
number, many were thrown into the
rear corner from which eleven dead
bodies were afterward taken. The
escaping steam upd smoke from the
engine instantly filled the car so that
those within could see nothing.
THE DEAD AND INJURED.
The following dead were taken from
the wreck: Mrs. Orcutt Allen, Philadel.
phia; Mrs. Mary F. Fennelly, aged
seventy, Louisville, KY; +. J. Johnson,
Montpelier, VT; John Ryan, South
Boston, fireman of the train and four
women, two men and two children
one q boy OF fourteen-unidentiGel.
Total, IL. n
The following died during the after
noon and evening: Mrs. A. g. Wells,
Hartford, c.; daughter Of Il. L. Welch,
4 Wateryille, CT.
The following are critically injured:
Mrs. Oscar Fennelly, Louisville, Ky.,
,calded ovvr her Whole body. G. N.
Copp, Cleveland, o., scalded over whole
body, not expected to live till morn
ng. E. @. Bailey, of Dorchester,
formerly proprietor OF the Bos.
on Herald, scalded on face and
lands. Mrs. George p. We!ch, of
Chic, scalded head. arms and
neck; Mrs. Abbie K. Abbott, Louisville,
KY, face and bands scalded, compound
:racture Of left thigh; Mrs. Mary F.
SNOW, OF Charlestown, face and hands
BADLY scalded and internal injuries.
The following were seriously but not
fatally injured: Mrs. Martha Z. Chase,
Santa Rosa, CAL, face and left arm
slightly burned; Rev. 7. NJ. Dimick, Los
Angeles, CAL, face, arm and hip scalded;
Mrs, 7. A. Addison, Chelsea, face and
lrns and thighs bruised; Mrs. Andrew
Tower, Charlestowni spine injured and
pack scalded. l.
Mrs. George NJ. Snow, of Winter Hall,
ace and hands scalded. Capt. w. r,
Abbott, Of Louisville. Ky, hands scald-
ID. J. G. Browr, OF Lawrence, slightly
'calded. B. F. Benson, Pullman car
conductor, right side Of face cut and ear
nearly torn Off R. W. Edwards, OF Lon.
svlle, Ky. wrist cut, Elizabeth Fennel.
y, arms and legs burned. Jose McAilis.
ar, Ft. Wayne, Ind, face, side and
1ands burned; Ruth V. Blackburn.
Lowell, confusion on left leg aud severe
shock tosystem; Lucy, negro maid Of
.hs Fennellys, badly burned; Engineer
3abcock, wrist broken and head and
egs lacerated, and some ten or twelve
'thers who received slight bruises and
icsldines.
The fire department Of Quincy and
Ill available surgeons were cent to the
Icene at once, also surgeons and
,hysicians were ordered from Boston on
! special train. Meanwhile the injsred
we're as well cared for as possible, while
he ghastly dead were tenderly stretched
lnder a tree awaiting an undertaken.
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