The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-09-12
Six Persons Killed Outright and About
Forty Hurt in Railway Collision.
Three of the Wounded So Seriously Injured
that They Died Soon After the Accident
or at Hospitals Yesterday.
Details of the Frightful Collision on the
Fitchburg Road Saturday Night
Thick Fog at the Time, Which Prevented the
Engineer of the Freight Seeing the Sig
mails in Time to Check His Train.
THE FIrCHBURG ACCIDENT.


THE FITCHBURG ACCIDENT
Nine of the Victims Dead-Neariy Forty Pas
sengers More or Less Injured
Boston. Sept. 1.-THE horror of the
great Quincy accident was recalled last
night when q through-freight express
train, west-bound. on the Fitchburg rail.
road. ran into q passenger train standing
on the out t-bound track at West Cambridge
Junction, telescoping the rear car, killing
six persons outright and injuring nearly
forty others Three Of the injured have
slnoe died.
The Inst of killed as far ss known fol.
lows:
broker of No. IL Norman street. Boston.
LEON o. RAYMOND. Of Winchendon, brake
man nan on on the freight train; w...,
leaves q widow and eight children.
JAMES LANE, of East Watertown.
JOHN II. BARNES, of Newton.
MISS RETTA FRYLER, of waltham.
BENJAMIN TUCK, an old man, of Waltham,
died on way to Cambridge Hospital
MISS MARGERIE ADAMS, of Waltham, q
watch factory employe, died to-day at the hos
n II. MERRIFIELD. of watertown, died to-
day at his home.
The injured are:
broken in several places and severe injuries;
probably fatally.
and arm; not serious but painful.
FRANK MILLS, OF Watertown, very bad scalp
wound and hands cut
ANDREW DOYLE. OF Watertown, bad fracture
of the leg and severely scalded on the side and
hip with bad scalp wounds.
EDMOND DOYLE, son OF above, scalp wound
and cut over right eve.
G.. NJ. SPEAR, of WaItham, fractured ribs and
bruises.
THOMAS o'CoNNELI, of waltham. scalp wound
FRED wARREN of waltham. slight face wounds
and badly shaken up.
ROBERT ORR, OF Newton, fractured collar bone
and painful scalp wound.
THOMAS HINDs, of waltham. scalp wound and
badly injured.
HERBERT p. GOODWIN, engineer of the collid-
ing freight train; probably cracked rib; final
diagnosis not made, but injuries are not serious
MARY DARDIs, of Watertown, slightly bruised
and cut.
ELEANOR OHERN, head injured and burned.
FLORENCE f. PARK, No. 1873 Worcester street.
Boston; legs and feet injured; also shock.
KATE WHITE, Cambridge, slightly cut and
burned.
9. s. MURPHY. waltham. cut on the head and
WILLIAM o'HERN, of watertown, cut On the
head and slight facial injuries.
PETER WHITSEY. of Watertown, hip injured
john MCPHEE, of watertown. side and head
injured.
Thomas E. BERRY. head cut and bodily inju
ries
GEORGE GOOD, ribs broken.
MRS. FAHEY, slight injuries.
JAMES SMITH, slight injuries.
c. s. HALL, of Waltham, head cut.
MRS. GEORGE WRIGHT, OF Cambridge slight in
Mrs. MARY ANN ELLIOT, of Newton, badly
bruised and cut.
THOMAS CANE, of Wattertown, painful bodily
injuries
bruises.
JOHN MULLIN, Of watertown, slight injuries.
MICHAEL MULLIN, of Watertown, badly hurt.
MRS. STEVENS, painful injuries.
MRS. WEIGH, OF Watert0wn, back injured.
RICHARD HOLLIS, OF Watertown, side aud chest
hurt.
Passenger train No. 13i. due to leave
Boston at 1918 p. NJ, started on
time When West Cambridge junction
was reached the engineer found 1t neces-
sary. owing TO the dense fog, to run close
to the cross-overs In order to see If he had
the right of way from the signal-tower,
which Is located close by. The passenger
train said to be five minutes
late, and about the same hour
the local passenger train from
Waltham, scheduled to leave there at
1890 o'clock, was due at West Cambridge
Junction also. The west bound train
which left Boston had come to full stop
in order that the east-bound train from
Wsltham, which had the right of way.
could pass that point before it crossed over
to the Watertown branch.
While standing near the cross-over, the
express freight train, which was bound
west, came laundering along, and just az
the passenger train started to cross to the
Watertown branch, the freight train
ahnd tvf <ba &c - A.a
train with the result above described. The
passenger train. engine and the forward
truck OF smoking-car No. 72 had crossed
over on the branch track. which left pas
senger cars SO and $50 on the cross-over.
and IS, the fatal car, standing on the main
west-bound track.
Engine 200, to which the freight train
was attached, was o powerful eight-drive
wheeler of the mogul pattern. When the
engine struck the rear car it entered 1t like
q wedge. splitting it into two parts, each
of which fell outward upon the tracks,
while the roof of the car lodged on top OF
the locomotive. The recoii from the col.
lision drove the heavily loaded freight cars
back ward, and. although the two cars near
est the engine, which were q refrlgeratoi
car and Burton stock car. were not In.
1urcO, the ten or Twelve CARS Dculnu tDem
were smashed into kInding wood. Several
of these were loaded with lumber and this
was strewn all along the track. The cara
were piled up on one another IN indescrib-
able confusion. blocking both tracks for
fully one hundred yards.
THE WORK OF RESCUE.
As soon as the accident occurred word
was dispatched by telephone to the vari-
ous police-stations In Boston, Somerville
and Cambridge. asking them to send sur
gcons TO the scene. The summons was
promptly obeyed, and the physicians as
sisted in caring for the wounded. By 1
o'clock this morning all visible bodies had
been removed from the wreck end the in
jured had been properly cared for. The
pilot and cylinder of the freight en-.
gine were poked underneath the forward
truck Of the rear passenger car, which made
il almost i'm possible for any human being
to escape without injury who occupied
seats in that ear. On the rear end
of the ill-fated car a mans legs were
of q mile down the track. The prevailing
ing O ride on the pilot of the freight engine
or tucked away on the rear truck of the
passenger car. The passenger cars. other
than the reor one. were rot very much in
iured, but the shock TO their occupants
was only little less severe than that sus-
tnined by those IN the last car. 1t Is be-
lieved that, had all the cars on the freight
been as soiidly constructed as the two for
ward opes the locomotive of the freight