Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-09-01
FIFTEEN BODIES ARE RECOVERED
The Chicago Express on the Boston and Albany Wrecked Near Springfield, Mass, and Perhaps Twenty Persons Killed. Thirty or More Injured.

when the crash came. The locomotive passed over the structure, but was smashed, the water tank being thrown long dis tance, The buffet. two sleepers and din ing car were smashed to kindling when they struck the stream 20 feet below, but two day coaches and a smoker in the rear did not leave the track
 There have been h dead bodies taken out, and the majority of them have been identi- fled.
 List of the Dead.
 The list of the dead is as follows:
 Miss Emma Delerty, Columbus, 0.
 II. C. Ives, Chicago.
 T. Everett Sedgcwck Palmer, express mes senGcr.
 James McMasterS, Springfield, brakeman. J. H. Murray. Grccnhush, \. I., baggage master.
 George H. Morse, Boston, Wagner car con- duClor.
 J. C. Stackpole, Hartford.
 R. C. Hitchcock. Bellows Falls Vt.
 J. E. Dewitt. Portland, Me. president of the Union Mutual Life Insurance company. Thomas Kelly, Boston. blanket manufac- turer
 Miss Susie Cotting. Boston.
 Mrs. C. Bishpam, Philadelphia.
 Mrs. J. s. Winchell, Oneida. N. Y.
 An unknown woman, plainly dressed. ap- parently about 25 years of age
 List of the Injured.
 The injured are:
 Mrs. Rev. Dr. Lewelline Pratt, Norwich, Conn; cut hand; right thigh sprained
 Robert Cuckson, Boston, Wagner car porter; badly scalded.
 Murray Graves, Boston; fracture of right thigh and broken forearm
 Ethel Carson. Dalton; shoulder sprained. John B. Carson. Dalton: bruised.
 Louis Buchanan. Boston; badly bruised.
 Rose Stephane, Springfield, Italian; fractured ribs.
 Mary Sadie, Springfield, Italian; bruised.
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 Mrs. John Platt, Riverton, N l.; bruised
 Mrs. Dr. Alice Littel, Brooklyn; bad scalp wound.
 M. F. Leach. Rainfall; fractured left thigh. fractured shoulder.
 Mrs. H. F. Whitney, Cleveland; badly bruised and scalp wound.
 Mrs. J. N. Winchester. West Roxbury: bruised.
 Sumner Cummings. Worcester; bruised and sprained knee.
 Mrs Sumner Cummings. Worcester: com pound fracture of the leg and bruised.
 Wellesley Porter, buffet porter. Boston; frac- tured thigh.
 Arthur Williams. Lcn"x: bad scalp wound.
 Frank Lang. Chicago: bruised chest and back
 Winthrop Wade, Boston; fracture of left thigh.
 Mrs Helen Rich. Pittsfcld; cut face.
 Walter Hawkins. Pittstield: had scalp wound and serious confusion of mouth and nose.
 Lewis Mitchell, Albany; badly bruised and fractured ribs.
 William Horton. Alhany locomotive cngi- neer: badly bruised left hip broken and inter nal injuries feared.
 !. Waldrnn Johnson. Boston. porter; had scalp wound.
 There were about n seriously injured ,t.al five or six may die The train was seven minutes late at Chester. and the railroad hands say it was going at the rate uf 2n miles an hour when il struck the first of the two spans across the We>ttield river The locomotive seemed to leap across the bridge. as the trusses l collapsed and fell over to the south The conductor was taking tickets in a day coach and although thrown violently | down escaped seric"s ipiIrr 4 man 5.iv ing by gave the alarm through the village street
 IT. : -eI- -n--u-es h,---'=.s 1-c.i Q. -he scene The sLr:eks ot the impr:so.a5 were | most terrible, and scores of people looked on completely unnerved. The heroes of | the hour were Dr. George l.. Wood of Col | linsville, who went to the train to meet his wife, and the colored porters and walters | i'll the dining car Although their faces were | bruised and cut and covered with blood they did splendid work. An Orchard Used as a NIorgue. The hospital was a group of apple trees | in an adjoining orchard, where scores were taken. OK teams arrived with loads oi | straw, cushions, bedding and food The wounded were soon removed to houses and l all that remained on the apple strewr | ground were IS bodies covered with red blankets from an adjoining stable The dead were many of them horribly mutilated-heads crushed in, limbs torr and often only recognizable from the cloth ing. Mir. Scull of Philadelphia was witt ! his sister, Mrs. Bishpam, in Wagner car | She was instantly killed, and he was pinned down, but finally extricated. | The body of Miss Susie Cotting of Bos | ton was identified by Miss Andrews dauRh ter of Edward Andrews, president of tn, Security Safe Deposit Company of Boston Mir. Andrews was unable to get seat il the Wagner cars and went into a day coach with his daughter and Miss Beal O Boston. They were not injured | Mrs. John J. Howard of Boston who's stage name is Hattie Blanchard, was on of the five saved in the sleeper next in iron of the dining car, which was the wors wrecked She left Albany, where the J oh1 L.Sullivan company had appeared the nigh before
 She says that she felt the car going dowl and reached for her hat in the seat in front In an instant she was pinned down by beam across her waist. She extricated her self and turned to Mrs. Bishpam who wa crying for help. Her head was wedged un der car seat arm. When she saw that i was impossible to extricate the woman, tn poor victim squeezed her hand with a Go, bless you! Goodby!"
 R. F. Hawkins, whose employees wer at work on the bridge, and the railroa. officials are confident that the bridge di not fall from weakness, and there is n evidence that any carelessness of the men such as leaving tools around, helped to dt rail the train.
 Mir Hawkins has tentative theory which agrees with the supposition that tn To. onutive, heavy six wheeled one, struc tnv bridge n harder blow than it coul bear. The bridge was built about 20 year ago by the Leighton Bridge company an had been rebuilt once or twice.