The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-08-18
TWO TRAINS COLLIDED.
4 WILD ENGINE The CAUSE.
1Dns Life Was Lost and six Were Badly Tn
jursd ~ = Hesd-End Collision Near
1Gontserrat-No Blame Attaches to the
Engineer Of the "Dude."

BxvnLY, Mass, Aug. ia "wild"
ungins and single track, sharp curve
ond bslated passenger train, two engines
gushing head on, regardless OF danger,
-oombined to make one OF the most se-
pivus accidents and ugliest wrecks that
she Gloucester branch OF the Boston
Maine has known for many years. Six
men are lying more or less seriously
wounded at the Salem Hospital, and one
vvss carried TO the eundertakers-dead.
n Train No. 112 In charge OF Engineer
Fred Rhan and Conductor Thomas +.
Robbins, left Gloucester on time at o.OI
last night. The train was drawn by the
engine Salem, 60-ton locomotive, and
consisted OF baggage, smoker and two
The shifting engine 1os, the Lynnfield,
An charge OF Engineer Edward Jones, had
proceeded from Gloucester to Beverly to
pick car containing four blooded
horses bound for Pigeon Cove, Rockport,
eonsiGned to summer resident. The
horses were in charge of a colored groom,
Fred Holland OF New York.
Holland received orders to bring tho
horses at once to Pigeon Cove, and tele-
graphed to Gloucester for the shifter.
The regular conductor was i'll, and Brake
man Macomber was In charge.
M Heaney proceeded to Beverly. His
train crew included Engineer Edward
Jones and his fireman and brakeman
Frederick Macomber. He picked mp two
box cars at Beverly, one containing the
horses and one light. The train left Bev-
<;orly under train order at 5.37, the very
hour at which the passenger train for
Boston was due at Monsterrat. Heaney's
<soyder combined explicit instructions for
him to run wild from Rockport to Bev-
tesly and return and look out for all regu-
ne had . side track open to him at
uontserrat. The regular train was three
minutes overdue when he reached that
ustation. He was just so much on ito
tims.
From ali the evidence Station Agent
Foster signalled the shifter to stop re-
peatedIy, but no attention was paid to
Him. There was long stretch OF straight
track before the curve was reached ut
Paradise Road crossing, q mile below
Woutserrat station, very nearly down to
Pride's. The shifter jumped along good
- miles IN hour. 1t had just entered up
on the curve when 1t came full upon the
x,nsine OF the up train speeding at about
- miles an hour.
Fred Rhan has run the Flying Dude and
y he's = reputation az q runner. He was
kDoning fast--three minutes behind time.
Chsro was no time for anything. The
Drash came almost before 1t was possible
throw the lever o-er. The fireman
!; hmped. The two engines reared against
XacA other. and tine Salem rode directly
ever the little shifter and ground 1t to
atoms.
The iores was 30 great that the passen-
Gur engine was left almost at right an
< Gles with the track, the baggage car OF
the passenger train shot clear of the
bnnline, came crashing down through an
apple tree into Joseph e. Fosters orchard.
a big limb was snapped OF like pipe
baggage Master Charles Talbot was in
that car with four other men, all OF
whom were badly wrenched aud bruised,
but none were seriously hurt, except
James Whalen, section man, who was
caught when ths baggage car broke right
1n half. He was jammed in the break and
81 ~ him ' out. n The sy root i % the car .', was
Gtxipped on and left In the tree. The drop
WAS about eight feet down the banking.
Whalen's left leg was broken In three
places and HIS arm was fractured.
Engineer Rhan crawled out. He had
bloody scalp wound and complained of
was simply miraculous. He pulled him.
eelf out from underneath the pile of
broken iron above him. His injuries
4 were serious.
The box car containing the horses is a
complete wreck, and all four animals
we're killed outright.
Holland landed on his head, going out
she side OF the car. He was not much
hurt except about the legs. Frank Col
lins, passenger in the baggage car, has
knee wrenched. Fred Macomber, the
brakeman, is injured about the head.
w. G. Pearson of South Berwick, Me-,
was slightly hurt.
Heaney, the young conductor, was
killed outright and terribly mangled be-
tween the freight cars.
The accident appears to have been due
TO Macomber's carelessness in leaving
Beverly Mt all until train No. 112, which
creased train No. 81, there, had arrived
and gone.