The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-08-20
As a Crowded Train Keared the City
Of BsStOn.i
Twelve We're Instantly KILLED as Cars
We're Smashed.
Three Others Have Died and Many
More are Injured.


BOSTON, August 19.-One Of the most dis.
astrous railroad accidents that ever occurred
in the vicinity Of Boston happened shortly
after one this afternoon on the Old Colony
railroad. Fifteen persons were killed, 12
Instantly. Twenty-three were seriously In
jared, three fatally, and several more sus-
talned slight Injuries. The Woods HOll ex-
press, which left Woods Holl at 1880 a. m,
and was due In Boston at 1.10 p. M, consist
ed Of locomotive 122. manned by Engineer
Chas. Babcock and Fireman John Ryan, a
baggage car, smoker. the Pullman car Puri-
tan and four ordinary coaches, all heavily
loaded. The train passed Quincy station at
2.57 p. M, running about 10 miles an hour
just beyond Presidents bridge, about 80
miles towards Boston, the engine left the
track, from some cause at present undeter-
mined. and plunged diagonal,y into the em-
bankment II feet high and turned upon one
side. The tender, baggar car, smoker and
Pullman5 passed. by the engine and ran
along for distance Of one hundred fe, be-
side the track. The foremost passenger
coach, No. 236, left the rails and the first OF
the trucks swerved to the left and plunged
diagonally through the car floor. The car fell
upon its side upon the engine. The lower
forward portion was torn to pieces, and
many Of the passengers within, some fifty in
number, were thrown into the rear corner,
from which eleven dead bodies were after
wards taken. Escaping steam and smoke
from the engine instantly filed the car.
Those within could see nothing.
The forward cars twere forced over and
upon the outward bound track, completely
blocking traffic. and up to 8, As p. m. no train
had passed the wreck In either direction.
Only three persons on the train ahead Of car
236 were injured. The fireman was instantly
killed and buried Under the engine. The en-
gineer, who jumped, was sliphtly hurt Pull
man car conductor u. +. Benson had the side
of his face cut and his right ear cut Off by
being thrown out Of the window Of his car
The three rear passenger coaches did not
leave the track and the occupants received
no worse injury than a slight shaking I'D.
The dead, when taken from the wreck. were /:
Mrs. ORCUTT ALLEN, Of Philadelphia.
Mrs. MARY Il. FENNELY, aged 70, Louis
vile, KY.
JOHN RYAN, the fireman. South Boston.
-Four women, two men and two children,
unidentified.
In addition. during the afternoon and
evening, these died:
ALICE and CATHERINE, daughters Of Mrs.
OSCAR FENNELY, Louisville, KY.
Mrs. A. Q. HILL, Hartford, Conn.
The critically injured are:
Mrs. OSCAR FENNELY, wife Of the cashier
Of the Citizens National Bank, Louisville,
KY, scalded over the whole body.
G. MCCoPP, Cleveland. Ohio, scalded over
the whole body and not expected to live un-
til morning
L. Q. BAILY, Dorchester, formerly propri-
etor Of the Boston Herald, sealded on hls
Those seriously but not fatally injured
are:
Mrs. MARTHA E. CHASE, head Of Saasa
Rosa Female Seminary. Santa Rosa, Gal.
Rev. +. Al. DIMMIcK, Los Angeles, Gala,
and his wife.
Mrs. GEo. P. WEIGH. Cleveland. o.
HENRY j. WEIGH.
Mrs. L. A. ADDISON.
Mrs. ANDREW TOWER, CharlestOwn, and
daughter.
Mrs. GEO. NJ. Snow, Winter Hin.
Mrs. MARY +. Snow. Charlestown.
Mrs. ABBIE X. ABBOTT, Louisville, Ky.
Capt. W. Il. ABBOTT, Louisville, Ky.
J. G. Brown, Lawrence.
b. +. BENSON, conductor Of the Pullman
4. W. EDWARDS. Judge in chancery,
Louisville.
Gen. Nat WALES, Boston.
ELIZABETH FENNELY, aged 16, daughter
Of Mrs. Oscar Fennely, Louisville, Ky.
JESSIE MCALLIsTER, Fort Wayne.
RUTH BLACKBURN, Lowell.
Miss Nj. A. HAIL, Fort Wayne.
Lucy, the negro maid Of the Fennelys.
Engineer BABCoCK.
X. L. NEEDHAM, Lawrence.
Mrs. j. S. NEEDHANf, Lawrence.
Mrs. j. Q. BROWN, Lawrence.
Mrs, 5. +. STONE, Somerville.
4. b. WARNER, yarnandaigua, N. Y.
MOSES FARNHAM, Franklin.
MEYER HIRsHBERG, Of ). Hirshberg Il
Co., Boston.
Miss MINNIE HUBBARD.
Miss ROSE TUCKER, Lexington.
Miss EVA BALLARD, Nashville, N. @.
1t is reported that W. Ii. Grady, Mrs. L
p. johnson and her 15-year-old boy, and
niece Of Mrs. A. @. Wells of Hartford, Ct,
are among the unidentified dead.
The Goals Of the engine set fire to car 236,
but the fire was not serious and was soon ex-
tinguished. The Quincy fire department
and all the surgeons Of that city were sum
moned to the spot. The most seriously hurt
were taken to the Quincy Hospital. The
dead were removed TO the undertaking es-
tabllshment OF Hall Il Brown. News OF the
disaster reached Boston IN yerv few min
utes. General Manager j. ii. Kendrick Of
the Old Colony road at once sent clerk In
search of surgeons and teleph0ned the Bos-
eral Hospital for all the surgeons who could
be spared. He had a special train made up
to take them to the scene. A wrecktng train
reached the scene of the accident at 1 IS.
Deputy Superintendent Of Police Burrell In
structed every station In his department
to send all the physicians possible. AT least
% skilled surgeons responded TO these calls
and In about 10 minutes after the wrecking
train, started the special train which arrived
less than an hour after the accident occurred.
At about five o'clock when ten Boston
policemen arrived they found an enormous
crowd about the wreck tearing the. remn ants
OF the cars to pieces, securing mementos.
The officers drove the entire mob beyond the
fences above the embankment and kept
them there with ropes as guard. This
patrol remained on duty until D. m. when
Mayor Porter Of Quincy. announced that he
had sufficient men to take charge.
Ihere are various theories as to the cause
back along the track there is a furrow
which seems to indicate that some
thing about the engine broke and plOughed
into the soil for some distance, finally derall-
ing the engine. The general impression Is
that the engine was thrown from the track
by the spreading Of the rails. 1t Is stated
that workmen have been repairing that por-
tion of the track and may have left some
rails insuffieiently spiked. No switch was
near by on that track, and the disaster could
not have been caused by misplaced sWltcn.
The friends Of Mrs. Geo. Z. Hazet0n OF
Washington, ID. c., wife OF eX congressman
HazeltOn, and her son, John III, aged l9. are
anxious in regard to them, although the in
dications are that they are sate' III Is thought
they took the Pullman.
Later-A track jack left on the rails by
section men probably caused the accident.
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