Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-09-12


BosToN. MASS, September 1.-THE
horror OF the great Quincy accident was
recalled last night when through
freight express train, west bound, on
the Fitchburg Railroad, ran into a pas
senger train standing on che outbound
track at West Cambridge Junction, tee-
scoping the rear car, killing eight per-
sons outright and injuring nearly thirty
others, three OF whom are reported TO
have since died.
Passenger train No. 131, due TO leave
Boston at 1915 p. M, started on time.
When West Cambridge Junction was
reached, the engineer found it necessa-
ry, owing to the dense fog, to run close
to the cross-overs in order TO see II he
had the right of way from the signal
tower. which is located close by. The
passenger train was said to be five min
utes late, and about the same hour the
local passenger train from Waltham,
scheduled TO leave there at 1920 o'clock,
was due at the West Cambridge juno
Jion, also.
The west-bound train, which left Bos-
ton, came TO full stop in order that
the east bound train from Waltham,
which had the right of way, could pass
that point before 1t crossed over TO the
| Watertown branch.
While standing near the cross-oyer,
the express train, which was bound
west,
CAME LAUNDERING ALONG,
and Just as the passenger train started
to cross to the Watertown branch the
| freight train crashed into the rear car
of the passenger train, with the result
above described.
The passenger train engine aud the
forward trnck Of the smoking car, No.
72, had crossed over on the branch
track, which left passenger cars 80 and
1873 on the cross-over, and 3s, the fatal
car, standing on the main west-bound
track.
Engine 200, to which the freight
train was attached, was q powerful
eight-drive- wheeler of the Mogul pat
tern. When the engine struck the rear
car It entered IL like a wedge, splitting
IL I'm two parts, each OF which fell out
ward upon the track, while the roof OF
the car lodged on top Of the locomotive.
The recoil from the collision drove the
heavily loaded freight cars backward,
and although the two cars nearest the
engine, which were q refrigerator car
and Burton stock car, were not In
iured, the ten or twelve cars behind
them were smashed into kndling wood.
Several OF these were loaded with lnm-
Der. and this was strewn all along the
track. The cars were piled upon one
another In indescribable confusion,
completely blockadlng both tracks for
fully 100 yards.
As soon as the accident occurred
word was sent by telephone to the vari-
Gus police stations in Boston. Somer-
Vile and Cambridge asking them TO
send surgeons TO the scene. Among
those who quickly responded were Drs.
Mccarthy and Dwyer, OF Cambridge.
The train dispatcher's Office In Boston
was notified at once. Snpt. Adams was
quickly on hand and gave instructlo MS
to have
ALL THE MEDICAL ASSISTANCE AVAIL
ABLE SENT
by special train.
DIR. w. A. Dunn and DR.. Collins, both
OF the North End, went out on the
special train which left at 1855 p. IN.
Fifteen minutes later the wrecking
train was sent out, but owing 10 the
fact that a man was forced 70 run on
foot In advance to do flag duty, the re-
lief and wrecking trains were slow In
reaching their destination,
On arriving at the scene they found
that six OF the bodies had been removed
from the debris and were laid out In
the West Cambridge passenger station.
These bodies were moved TO the under
taking rooms OF A. Z. Long, Cambridge.
as were the bodies Of two others recov-
cred later. BY one o'clock this morn
ing all visible bodies had been removed
from the wreck, and the wounded had
been cared for by willing hands.
The pilot and cylinder boxes OF the
freight engine were pOked underneath
the forward truck OF the rear passenger
car which made 1t almost impossible for
any human being 10 escape without In
Jury who occupied seats Ia the car. On
the rear end of the Ill-iated car, mans
legs were dangling, the trunk being
found quarter Of mile down the
track. The prevailing impression was
that it was a tramp stealing q ride on
the pilot of the freight engine or tucked
away on the rear truck oi.the passenger
car.
The rear brakeman OF the passenger
train, who, shortly after the accident,
was sent back about six hundred feet 70
notify the engineer OF the freight train
of danger ahead, states that he went
back as directed and signalIed the
freight train. and his signal was an
swered by two whistles. which Is the
usual answer that all signals have been
seen and noted.
THE REASON FOR THE COLLISION,
he feels sure, was that the engineer OF
the freight train could not control his
train, which was Of thirty cars, the
greater part Of them containing lumber,
al very heavy.
Engineer Goodwin. OF the freight
train, Is 10 the Cambridge hospital sur
fering from bad shaking up bnt Is not