Morning journal and courier., 1890-08-20

thinks that six or seven persons were
 killed and that twenty-five were seriously
 injured. He is of the opinion that the &C.,
 cident was caused by the spreading of the
 rails
 MT. Fennell gives the following graphic
 account of his, experience in the wrecked
 car, where most of the dead and injured
 lay: "Thirty seconds after the car struck
 would have given S1 ,000for drink of any
 kind, from whisky to water. thought I
 should suffocate. The death-dealing steam
 entered the car in dense clouds from the | locomotive beneath us. It filled every
 crevice and nook, and almost suffocated
 those whom it did not burn to death. It
 caused all the deaths in my opinion. Seri-
 ous would have been the worst to report
 but for those deathly fumes. Men and | women were gasping about me as they tried to shriek and shout, and as they be-
 came weaker and weaker as the steam | filled their lungs could see them push l their hands or feet through the broken
 windows trying in vain to get breath of | fresh air.
 t'It seemed as though eight or ten died | right there. There were forty or fifty | passengers in the car, and all seemed
 wounded more or less, twenty-five at least seriously. saw them crying for help,
 and did what could. I saw the flesh burned from men and women as the cursed steam enveloped them, and I heard them groan and shf.ek in their death struggles | as the scalding fumes became hotter and | denser. The sights and sounds will never | fade from memory. Finally reached the | hole in the bottom of the car in some way
 and crawled out All about vas wreck,
 ruin and debris. The passengers from the
 other cars had then hardly saved them
 selves, and were not to be seen. But over
 on fence bordering the rail
 road track were ten or twenty men | scene of ruin and powerless from fright
 and astonishmeht to help us. I screamed, | shouted and swore at them, but they would
 not move, and the more cursed the more
 helpless they became. The men-I hate to
 call them men saw me rise from my per
 ilous position, saw me tear at the boards of
 the car bottom with all my might, saw me
 pull helpless women from the interior of the steaming car, saw me caught beneath | a falling bar of iron and unable to extri-
 cate myself to aid others, and they refused | to aid me. I do not know whether they | were fools or towards, but they received a sound and thorough cursing from me. 1 l got out of the car as best I could and did | what was able to assist others"
 | POLICE ON GUARD.
 Up to the time the special train arrived not 15O people in Quincy had heard of the accident, but soon after people began to arrive from all directions, and at about 5 o'clock, when gang of Boston policemen arrived under charge of Sergeant Thomas | of station No. 4, they found an enormous l crowd about the wreck, tearing the rem | nants of the cars to pieces and securing mementoes. The officers drove the entire | mn hQv ha oh fbo l,ar ,lr- ment, and kept them there with ropes and guard. This patrol remained on duty un- | til p.m., when Mayor Porter of Quincy announced that he had sufficient men to take charge, thanked the Boston contin- gent, served them with coffee and sent l them home. There are various theories as to the ] cause of the accident. For several feet back along the track there is a sort of fur | row, which seems to indicate that some I thing about the engine broke and plowed | into the soil for some distance, finally de- l derailing it. The general impression, how ever, seems to be that the engine was thrown from the track by spreading rails, and it is stated that workmen had been re- pairing that portion of the track and may have left some of their rails insufficiently | spiked. There was no switch near by on that track, so that the disaster could not have been caused by misplaced switch, as
 was at first rumored.
 When the work of rescue commenced the scene was strange one. The tender on the side of the embankment headed the train, the baggage, Pullman and smoking l cars were piled over both tracks and the fatal car No. 236 was crushed upon the engine and half covered with steam and
 smoke. A man lay breathing in agony in
 the midst of this burning mass and brandy was poured down his throat to keep him alive while willing hands tore away the | Instructions to reach him, but when at | last he was taken out mangled corpse | was all that was left.
 | THE SCENE AT THE HOSPITAL.
 The scene at the city hospital, where
 everything possible was done for the suf
 ferers, was a thrilling one. All through
 the building lay forms of men and women
 covered with sheets and with their faces and hands covered with cotton batting and
 linseed, while at the side of each sat Q quiet
 nurse flaming or answering his feeble calls 1 for water or inquiries about his friends.
 The husbands of two ladies paced an inner
 room With ill-eoncealed anxiety, although
 assured that their wives were safe and
 even allowed to speak to them. On one | side lay a woman, grooming, but uncon-
 scious. She was Mrs. A. 0. Hills of
 Hartford, who reused sufficiently to tell | one doctor her name and then lapsed again into unconsciousness, but grooming
 continually until shortly after 2 o'clock,
 when death relieved her sufferings. With
 this single exception the sufferers were
 very quiet, and only when there was a
 slight motion or feeble call for water
 could it be seen that anyone was alive.
 The whispers of doctors and nurses and
 the brief questions of reporters, who W ere
 gladly welcomed as a means of information
 to friends, were the only sounds which
 disturbed the silence. Now and then a
 nurse would beckon to a doctor, Q little
 woman's tender hand would close the lips
 and mouth of the occupant, and another
 would be added to the list of dead, which
 were carried to the undersaker's by the
 ambulance as soon as possible.
 The scene at the undertaker's rooms
 was still more impressive. Covered with
 merely a sheet, the awfully scalded and
 mangled bodies, with the skin and flesh
 dropping of, lay as the most ghastly evi
 dence of the disaster. Comparatively few
 were identified, and slowly and anxiously
 relatives and friends of the missing looked
 by the light of matches and candle, through the hastily arranged morgues fol the remains of their loved ones.
 WORKING BY THE AID OF LIGHTS: { Electric lights and gasoline lamps wer, , erected at the scene as soon as it began te
 grow dark. The crowds were kept bacl
 by police, not even those arriving of tn,
 trains which stopped there being allowed to pass, and the workmen rapidly threw l the switch track near the outward mail 3 track far enough out to allow a train t' f pass the wreck. At 10 P. In. this temper ary track being completed outward train were sent by the main line. It is expected to have two temporary tracks befor morning, but neither main track vii be used even then. A telegraph :, operator was sent to the scene of tn accident as soon as possible and tapping wire established communi T cation directly with the train dispatcher office in Boston, who was thus constant, : informed of the exact condition of affairs !, notwithstanding which there were man Il long delays on outgoing trains, both i y Boston and at Atlantic, where the Grafit branch leaves the main line. The httl round tent of the telegrapher was COT e spicuous object on the bank and, hghte at night by fiaring gasoline lamp, was 5 sort of center of operations, the wreckin a train standing beside it.
 Q THE FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS-.
 Further Discussion of the Tariff Bi Il "A Number of Amendments Rejec s ed-Passage of the Nat Mckay Rill n WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug 19.-The prs