Los Angeles herald., 1892-09-12
A TRAIN SPLIT IN TWAIN.
An Awful Accident on the
Fitchburg Road.
Horrors Of the Great Quincy
Disaster Recalled.
Nine People Killed and Upwards of
Thirty Injured.
The Roar Coach of Passenger Train
Telescoped by Fast Freight.
Passengers Terribly Crushed
and Burned.

By the Associated Press.
BosToN, Mass, Sept. 1.-THE horror
of the great Quincy accident was re-
peated last night, when through
freight express train, west bound, on
the Fitchburg railroad, ran into pas
senger train standing on the outbound
track, at West Cambridge Junction,
telescoping the rear car, killing six per-
sons outright and injuring nearly forty
others, three of whom have since died.
Passenger train No. 131, due to leave
Boston at :15 p. M, started on time.
When West Cambridge was reached, the
engineer found it necessary. owing to
the dense fog, to run close to the CROSS
over in order to see if he had the right
of way from the signal tower. While
standing near the cross-over, the express
freight train, bound west, came thunder
ing along, and just as the passenger
train started to cross to the Watertown
branch, the freight train crashed into
the rear of the passenger train, with the
result above described.
ENTERED LIKE WEDGE.
When the engine struck the rear car
it entered it like wedge, splitting it in
two parts, each of which fell outward
upon the track, the whole roof of the
| car lodging on top of heslocomotive. The
recoil from the collision drove the heav-
| lily loaded freight cars backward, and
although the two cars rsnearest the engine
were not injured, ten or twelve cars be-
hind them were mashed into kindling
wood. The cars were piled upon one
another in indescribable confusion,
completely blocking both tracks for fully
100 yards.
As soon as the accident occurred word
was dispatched to the various police
stations in Boston, Somerville and Cam
bridge, asking them to send surgeons to
| the scene.
The relief and wrecking trains, on ar
irving at the scene, found ak bodies re-
moved from the debris and laid out in
the West Cambridge passenger station.
They were removed to the undertaker's,
| as were the bodies of the two others re-
covered later. BY O'Clock this evening
all the visible bodies, are removed from
the wreck, and the wounded carried for
by willing hands.
In the rear end of the ill-fated car q
mans legs were dangling, the trunk be-
ing found a quarter Of mile down the
| track.
HOW THE DISASTER OCCURRED.
The rear brakeman of the passenger
train, who was, shortly before the acci-
dent, sent back to notify the engineer of
the freight train of danger ahead, states
that he went back as directed, and sig
nailed the freight train, and that his
signal was answered by two whistles,
which is the usual answer that all sig
mails have been seen and noted. The
reason for the collision, he feels sure,
was that the engineer of the freight train
could not control the train, which con-
sisted of thirty cars, the greater part
containing lumber. All were very heavy.
Engineer Goodwin, of the freight
train, is in the hospital, suffering from
bad shaking up, but not seriously in
| jured. He says: ''As soon as saw
| the signals on the rear of the passenger
| train, reversed the engine, but the
momentum OF the freight carried it into
the passenger train.'
HORRIBLE SCENES.
| The passenger cars, other than the
rear one, were not very much injured,
but the shock to the occupants was only
little less severe than that sustained
by those in the last car. AS soon as the
crash came, frantic men and women
rushed about in purposeless way,
shrieking and groaning. Flames soon
began to burst from the wrecked freight
cars. The fire department. soon put out
the flames. The work of rescue then
began. One by one bodies were brought
| in and placed upon the depot floor.
Mangled by the crash of timber, scalded
! by steam, and blackened by fire, they
presented sickening appearance. The
groans of the injured and the cries Of
those who were searching for missing
friends, added to the horrors of the
scene.
THE KILLED AND INJURED.
A complete list of the killed and in
jured, as far as known, is as follows:
Killed-S. j. Sullivan, Boston; Leon
G. Raymond, Winchendon, brakeman
on the freight train; John Hudson,
Watertown James Lane, East Water
town; John HI. Barnes, Newton; Miss
Retta Feyler, Waltham; Benjamin
Tuck, Waltham, died en- route TO the
hospital Miss Margerie Adams, Wal
than, died today H. H. Merrifeld,
Watertown, died today.
Injured Cornelius Doyle, Waltham,
probably fatally; John Reagan, Frank
Mills, Andrew Doyle. Watertown; Ed
mond Doyle, son of the above; G. M.
Speare, Thomas 'Connel, Fred Warren,
Waltham; Robert Orr, Newton Thomas
Waltham; Herbert P. Goodwin, en-
gineer of the freight; Mary Dardis,
Watertown; Eleanor O'Hern. Florence
F. Park, Boston; Kate White, Gam
bridge; L. s. Murphy, Waltham; Flor
ence Clark, Boston; William O'Hern,
Peter Whitney, John McPhee, Patrick
Oakes, Watertown; PATRICK Downey,
Thomas F. Berry, George Good, Mrs.
Fahey, James Smith, @. S. Hall, Wal
than Mrs. George Wright, Cambridge;
Mrs. Mary Ann Elliott, Newton;
Thomas Came, Thomas Lennox, John
Mullen, Mrs. Stevens, Mrs. Welch,
Richard Hellie, Watertown.
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