The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-09-12
Ton Persons Arc Dead and Thirty
Eight Injured.


BosToN, Sept. 1.-THE horror of the
great Quincy accident was recalled last
night when the through freight express
train west-bound on the Fitchburg rail-
way ran into a passenger train standing
on the outbound track at West Cam
bridge Junction, telescoping the rear car,
killing eight persons outright and iniur-
ing thirty-eight others, two of whom
have since died.
Passenger train No. 131, due to leave
Boston at lO:l5 p. M, started on time.
When West Cambridge junction was
reached the engineer found it necessary,
owing to q 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 laundering
along, and just as the passenger tram
started to cross the Watertown branch
the freight train crashed into the
rear car of the passenger train with the re-
suit above described. When the engine
struck the rear car it entered it like a
wedge, splitting it in two parts. each Of
which fell outward upon the track. The
whole roof of the car lodged on top of the
locomotive, and the recoiI from the col
lision drove the heavily loaded freight
cars backward, and although the two cars
nearest the engine were not injured,
ten or twelve cars behind them were
smashed into kindling wood. The cars
were piled upon each other in indescrib-
able 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 Cambridge asking them to
send surgeons to the scene.
A complete list of the killed is as fol-
lows:
:. J. SULLIVAN. of Boston.
LEON C. RAYMOND. OF Wiuchendon.
BRAKEMAN on freight train.
JOHN HUDSON of Watertown.
JAMES LANE. of East Water;own.
J. II. BARNES. of Newton.
Miss RETA FEYLEs, of Walthan1.
BENJAMIN Tuck, Of Watertown, died en- route
to the hospital.
Miss MARGARIrE ADAMS, OF Walthar, died to-
day.
II. H. MERIFIgLp. OF Watertown, died today
Those injured, so far IS can be ascer
tanned, are as follows:
OF Wstham-Cornelius Doyle, probably ia
tally; G. NJ. Spear. Thomas O'CounelI. Fred
Warren, Thomas Kinds, l. ;. Murphy. Patrick
Downey, Thomas F. Berry. George Good, Mrs
Fahey, James smith ana c. Hall
OF Watertowa-John Reagan, Frank Mills.
Andrew Doyle aud son Edmund. Mary Dardis.
William OHern, Eleanor O'uern, Peter
Whitney. John McPhee. Patrick Oates.
Thomas Cane, Thomas Ienox, John
Mulliu, Mehae, Muilin, Mrs Stevens.
Mrs. Welsh, Richard Hollis and Herbert y
Goodwin, engineer of tr,aeht.
81 Newton Robert Orr, MIS-. Mary Ann Eli
OFT. Harry Elliott.
OF Camoridge-Kate White and Mrs. George
Wright
Of Boston Florence +. PARK
The relief and wrecklng trains on Ar
irving at the scene found six of the bodies
removed from the debris and laid out in
the West Cambridge passenger station.
They were removed by the undertakes ~
were the bodies OF two others recovered
later. by O'Clock this morning all the
visible bodies had been removed from the
wreck and the wounded cared for by will.
ing hands. On the rear end Of the in.
fated car mans legs were dangling. The
trunk was found quarter of mile down
ne track.
The passenger cars other than the rear.
one were not much injured, but the SHOCK
- the occupants was only little less Ga.
we're than that sustained by those in the
las! car As soon as the crash came fran.
tc men and women rushed about
In puEposeiess way, shriesing and
croanins. The flames soon began
10 burst from the wrecked freight cars
The ere department. soon put out the
flames The work of reseuing then began.
One by one the bodies were brought and
placed upon the depot floor. Man.led
by broken timeers, scalded by steam
and b!sekened by fire. they presented a
sicAening appearance. The groans Of
the Injured and the cries Of those ssa.eh.