The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-09-01
A DISASTROUS WRLCK.
-Four Palace Cars Go Through a
Bridge at Chester, Mass.
THIRTE-T TrLIED, MANY HURT,

The Engine, which Was the Largest on
the Road, Drops First and the Cars
Were Piled Upon 1t, One Above An
other.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass, Sept 1.-The Chi |
| caro- limited express for Boston broke
through frail iron bridge on the Boston
and Albany railroad, one and half miles
east of Chester yesterday afternoon, and
! four Wagner cars were crushed, killing at
least thirteen persons and fatally injuring
several others, while at least a score are
badly hurt.
The list of identified dead are as follows;
J.E. Dewitt, Portland, Me-, president OF
the Union Mutual Life Insurance com
pany; 7. K Kelly, of Boston; Miss Susie
Coteinp, of Boston: Mrs. G. B. Isham, of
Philadeldhia; Miss Emma Delerty, of
Columbus, o.; H. c. Ives, of Chicago;
Frank Sedgwick Of Palmer; Express Mes
senger John McMasters, of Springfield;
Brakeman J. II. Murray, of Greenbush,
n. Y; Baggagemaster George W. Morse
of Boston, Wagner Car Conductor } Z.
Stackpole, of Hartford, Conn; r. Q. Hitch
cock. of Bellows Falls, Vt.
The wreck is the worst ever known on
the railroad The bridge was being
strengthened for the big locomotives, and
the workingmen who were putting on the
plates were at dinner when the crash
+ came The locomotive passed over the
: structure but was smashed, the water
It tank being thrown long distance, The
buffet. two sleepers and dining car were
smashed to pieces when the struck the
stream twenty feet below, but the day
coaches and a smoker in the rear did not
"a leave the track. 1t is believed that there
e are two more bodies in the ruins.
% The shrieks of the imprisoned were mosi
y terrible, and scores of people looked Oh
completely unneryed. The heroes of tho
hour were DR.. George L. Wood, Of Collins
vile, who went to the train TO meet IN
IN wife, and the colored porter and walters
u. in the dining car who, although bruised
SO and cut did splendid work. The villag
ii. people soon recovered from the shock ant
ad were hard at work. The hospital was
group of apple trees in an adJoinin
orchard, where scores were taken. y.
teams arrived with loads of straw, cush
re ions, bedding and food.
lie Mrs. John Howard, of Boston, who's
~ stage name is Hattie Blanchard, was on
Sc, of the five saved in the sleeper next
or front of the dining car, which was tn
id worst wrecked. She left Albany, wher
the John L. Sullivan company had al
peared the night before.
1e The injured are being cared for by I'll
JE people of Chester The train was runnin
- at an ordinary rate of speed as it, left A
bany on time, and nothing of danger WI
feared until the moment the bridge san
under the weight of the locomotive. III
river bed is some ten or twelve feet belo
the bridge. The engine went throul
first, and four palace cars were piled upc
IT, one above another.
Superintendent Cone, of Chester, wi
has charge of the Mountain division of T.
road took charge of the wreck, and wi
the assistance of the extra engines and ST
ton hands here did much toward clearil
away the wreck before the arrival of t
y wreckers from Springfield. The ply
Il clans of Huntington arrived on the see
n and did much to relieve the sutferlngs
y the injured. The scene of the accident
but "a short distance below Chester, and
just below the steep grade going up t
mountain.
The buffet oar and two sleepers arr
- total wreck The bridge was two sp
~ lattice structure, 22l feet long, and "
built in 1874.
Theill fated train was one of the fast
expresses on the road, stopping only
Pittsfield from Albany to Springfield.
IR carries the largest engine and best cars
any train running west of Springfield.