Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-09-12
RUN DOWN IN A roc.

Rear End Collisi0u ON the Fitchburg Rail.
road ut West Cambridge Junction.
A through freight express train, west bound,
on the Fitchburg railroad ran into passenger
train standing on the outbound track at West
Cambridge junction, Mass., Saturday night.
telescoping the rear car, killing eight persons
outright and injuring nearly thirty others,
three OF whom are reported 10 have since died.
Passenger train No. 1a1, due TO leave Boston u
l0:l5 PM. started on time. When West Cam
bridge junction was reached the engineer found
1t necessary, owing to the dense fog, to run
close to the oross-overs in order to soc If he had
the right Of way from the signal tower, which
Is located close by.
The passenger train was said to be ave min
utes late, and about the same hour the local
passenger train from Waltham. scheduled to
leave there at 11:30 o'clock, was due at West
Cambridge junction also. The west-bound
train, which had left Boston, had come to q full
stop, In order that the east-bound train from
Waltham, which had the right Of way, could
pass that point before it crossed over to the
Watertown branch.
While standing near the cross-ovsr the ex-
press freight train. which was bound west.
came laundering along, and just rs the passen-
ger train started to cross to the Watertowu
branch the freight train crashed into the rear
VI tuo poescnBer train. Ine poshou8ef Train
engine and the forward truck Of the smoking
car. No. "a, had passed over on the branch
track, which left two passenger cars on the
cross-over, and one, the fatal car, standing on
the main west bound track
The engine to which the freight train was at
tsched was powerful eight-drive-wheeler Of
the Mogul pattern. When the engine struck
the rear car 1t entered it like wedge, splitting
1t into two parts, each Of which fell outward
upon the tracks, while the roof Of the car lodged
on the top Of the locomotive. The recoil of tho
locomotive drove the heavily loaded freight cars
backward, and although the two cars nearest
the engine, which were refrigerator and y
Burton stock car. were not injured, the ten or
twelve cars behind them were smashed into
kindling wood. Several Of these we're loaded
with lumber and this was strewn all along the
track. The cars were piled upon one another
in Undesirable confusion, completely block
ing both tracks for fully 100 yards. Az soon ~
the accident occurred word way dispatched by
telephone to the various police stations in Boz
ton, Somerville and Cambridge, asking them to
send surgeons to the scene. Among those who
quickly responded were Drs. Mccarthy and
Dwyer Of Cambridge. The train dispstcher's
Office in Boston was notified at once. Supt.
Adams was quickly hand and gave instruc-
tons to have all the medical assistance available
sent by special train.
A complete list OF the killed as far as known,
follows
s. J. Sullivan, aged fifty years, . pawnbroker
Of No. IL Norman street, Boston.
Loon c. Raymond Of Winchendon, brakeman
on the freight train.
John Hudson. aged ffty-one years, Of Water
town, leaves a widow and eight children.
James Lane of East Wutertown.
John u. Barnes, Maple street, Newton.
Miss Retta Files Of Waltham.
Benjamin Tuck, on old man Of Waltham, died
on the way to Cambridge Hospital
Miss MerRerie Adams of Wakham q watch
factory employe, died yesterday ut the hospital.
H. l. Merrifeld Of Watcrtown, died at his
home.
brakeman had been sent back to signal the
freight, but the fog hid him.