New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-09-01
AN EXPRESS TRAIN WRECKED
FOURTEEN LIVES SACRIFICED.
SERIOUS DISASTER ON THE BOSTON AND
ALBANY ROAD
WAGNxR CARS GO THROUGH 4 BIZ DGE.

| ALBANY ROAD.
WAGNxR CARS GO THROUGH BG DGE.
SMASHED TO KINDLING WOOD on THE
ROCKS.
woRKMEN WE'RE REPAIRING THE BRIDGE OVER
| wEsTrIELD RIVER AND HAD WEAKENED IT
| HUMAN BEINGS GROUND 70 DEATH
IN THE wRECK-MANY RECEIVED
| SERIOUS AND PERHAPS FATAL
| INJuRIEs-NAMEs Of THE
| IDENTIFIED DEAD
STORIES OF THE
| SURVIVORS.
Springfield. Mass, Aug. 3l.-Thc Chicago Lin
| tied Express train for Boston broke through a
frail iron bridge on the Boston and Albany Rail
road, one and a half miles east of Chester, about
| IL 80 to-day and four Wagner cars were crushed,
killing at least thirteen persons, fatally injuring
| several others, while at least score are badly
| hurt The wreck is the worst over known on the
| road. The bridge was being strengthened Tor
| heavy locomotives and the wor<nemen who were
putting on the plates were at dinner when the
| crash came The locomotive passed over the
structure, but was smashed, t9e water tank being
| thrown a long distance. The buffet, two slccpcrs
| and dinng-car were smashed 10 kindllng whel
| they struck the stream twenty feet below nut
| two day coaches and smoker in the rear did not
| leave the track. There had tccn thirteen dead
| bodies taken out at o'clock and twelve of them
| had been identified. II is believed that there are
| two more bodies in the ruins. The list of known
| dead is as follows:
BIsPHAM, Mrs. C. D., Of Philadelphia
CoTTING Miss Susie. Of Boston.
DEWITT j. f.. OF Portland Me- president OF the Union
.1utual Life Insurance Company
DELERTY. Miss Emma. Of Columbus. Ohio.
HITCHCOCK, L. C.. Of Bellows Folls. VI
| IVES. II. c.. OF Chicago.
KELLY. r. X. Of Boston.
McMAsTERs. John. OF Springfield. Mass express mos
MURRAY. J. H.. @ Grccnbush. n Y. brakeman.
MORSE George w, of Boston. baggage master
sEDGEwICK. Frank. of Palmer Mass.
STACKPOLE, j. c.. OF Hartford conductor OF Wagner car
Tie train was seven minutes late at Chester
and the railroad hands say that it going at the
rate of twenty miles an hour when it struck the
! first Of the two spans across the Westield River
Ihe locomotive seemed to leap acres the bridge,
- the trnsscs collapsed and fell ~ the
south The conductor taking tickets in a
day coach. and although thrown violently down
escaped serious injury.
\ driving by gave the alarm through IN"
village street. In q few minutes hundreds were
on the scene. The shricks Of the imprisoned people
wor. most terrible and scores looked on completely
unnervcd. The heroes of the hour were DIR.
George H. Wood. of Collinsville, who went to
.hu train meet his wife, and the colorcd porters
nd walters in the dining ear, who, although their
faces were bruised and cut and covered with
blood, did splendid work The village
people soon recovered from the shock
nd were hard at work The hos
pi,a was group of apple trees in an al
Joining orchard, where taken
ONtcams arrived with loads Of straw cushions.
bedding and food. The wound" were soon re-
moved 10 in. houses of y 4 IIarwood Washing
Ton Moore and j &. Crockcr. and all that Ic
mancd on the applc-Sircwn ground were thirteen
bodies covered with rcd blankets from an alioln
ing stable Tn" dead were many of them horribly
mutilatcd. heads crushed n limbs torn. and often
only rccognizabl" from the clothing. Mr. Scull.
Of ihiaoclphia was with his sister. Mrs. Bisphan,
IN a Wagner ear. Nh" WAS instantly kl'd,
and he was pinned down, but finally cXtri"atcd,
When her body laid ont wrong name was
affixed 20 the breast, and the officials called him
to see the mutilatcd face, which he hal
avoided
Are YOU sure she is your sister," the officials
asked.
| MY God. il is. it is" he exclaimed. wlilo the
bystandcrs turned away and wiped their eyes.
The body Of Miss SusIc Cottng, of Boston was
identified by Miss Andrews, daughter Of Edward
Andrews, president of the security safe Deposit
Company, of Bcston. Mr. Andrews was unable
| to get seat IN t.:" Waencr carr, and 80 went
into a day coach with hi, daughter ard Miss Bcal,
| Of Boston They were not injured.
J. +. Dewitt, of Portland. Me, president of The
| (nion Mutual Life Insurance Company, was read
ing a magazine ". w Kirk, of Chicago, started
| 10 sit with him, but seeing that NE wa absorbed,
excused himself and went into the rear ear ami
was saved.
Mrs John J. Howard. of Boston, whose stage
| name is Hattie Blanchard, one of the five
saved in the sleeper next in front OF the dining
ear which was the worst wrecked. Nh" l"it
Albany where the John l.. Sullivan company had
appeared the night before. Sh" say, that she felt
the ear going down and reached for her hat in the
-at i'm front In an instant she was pinned
down by II beam across her waist \ chandelier
had crashed down over her head. >h" cNtri'at"d
hcrscIf and turned to Mrs. Bishpam. who was
crying for hclp Her head was wcdg"l under
ear seat arm When she saw that it was I'M
possible TO c\nicatc the woman. the poor
victim squeezed her hand with Il God bless
you, good-by." She pulled ear
sat on man ana then ''5ru"
out. She stumbled over cook. pinned down
near the kitchen, and, mounting the ruins OF
the next ear. taken OF safely.
l.. II. Talbot. of Ncw-lork. for fifteen years
Editor of The Iron Age" was on a day coicli
Hi, clothes were torn, and ~ was badly bruse'i,
but he did splendid work in taking out the dea
and injured. He said they came ont 81 fast II
did seem a. if passengers would never stop conihI
pu: of Windows
Til" wounded are follows. TIL" vii" OF the
Rev. DR. Iewcllin Pratt, Of Norwich, conn
rs spriin"I: Robert turk,on. ol Boston, Wds-
ncr ear porter badly Scad"i: Murray iIaVrS'
of Eoson, fracture Of right tgh and broken Tore
arm; Ethel CaisOn Oi Dalton, 'lipIl"'r Npf'n' -