Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-08-20
RAILROAD ACCIDENT.
Several Persons Killed and Many seri-
Ously Injured.

ously Injured.
BosToN, August 19lh.-A serious acci-
dent happened to the Cape Cod and Wood
shell train, on the Old Colony road, at
Quincy this morning. 1t is learned that
the first passenger coach fell on the engine,
the latter having toppled over. The engine
set fire to the train. The fireman was in
stantly killed and the engineer fatally in
jured. As far as can be learned, eight pas
sengers were killed and about twenty in
jured. The latter are for the greater part
injured by escaping steam. having been
frightfully scalded. The Quincy fire de-
partment was called to the scene as quickly
as possible, and shortly afterward the fire
was extinguished The dead and injured
were removed from the scene. the latter
being taken into private houses and to the
Quincy Hospital.
LATER ACCOUNT.
BosToN, August 19th.-One of the most
disastrous railroad accidents which has
ever occurred in the vicinity of Boston,
and one that rivals the famous Wollaston
disaster of October 5, 1878. occurred this
afternoon on the same road, the Old
Colony, and very near the same locality.
In the Wolastou disaster fifteen persons
were killed and nearly $50 injured. To-
day fifteen persons were killed, twenty
three seriously injured, three fatally, and
several more sustaining slight injuries.
The train wrecked to-day was the Woods
Holl express which is due at Boston at
1:50 P. NJ. 1t consisted of a locomotive,
baggsge-c car, smoker, Pullman car and
four ordinary coaches heavily loaded.
The train had passed Quincy station,
running ten miles an hour, and just beyond
Prest's bridge the engine left the track,
from cause at present undetermined,
and plunged into an embankment twelve
feet high The tender, baggage-car, smoker
and Pullman passed by the engine, and
were scattered along for distance of one
hundred feet beside the track. The fore
most passenger coach left the rails and fell
upon its left side upon the engine. The
lower forward 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 out. The
escaping steam and smoke from the engine
instantly filled the car.
The forward cars were forced up over
on the outward bound track, completely
blocking traffic all day and night. Only
three prsons on the train, ahead of the
passenger coach, were injured. These were
the fireman, who was instantly killed and
burned under the engine; the engineer, and
Pullman-car conductor Benson, who were
both badly injured. In the three rear pas
senger-coacbes the occupants received no
worse injury than slight shaking up.
The first passenger coach was the princi-
pal scene of death and agony. and the ex-
perience of the unlucky persons were prob
ably never exceeded in horror and suffer-
ing in any railroad wreck of recent years
The Goals of the engine set fire to the
coach, but it was soon extinguished A
number of physicians were summoned to
the spot, and as soon as possible those hv-
ing were taken from their position of peril
and those most seriously hurt taken TO the
hospital. The dead were laid on the grass
beneath the trees until the undertakers ar.
rived. All that human skill could do was
done to soothe the last hours of the dying
and quiet the pain of those suffering from
burns and wounds.