The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-09-23

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on the Wabash railroad at this place at
daylight this morning. IA revised list of
thesdead and injured is as follows:
The Dead.
j. .McKenney, butcher, Hyde Park,
Mass.
Harry French, aged IA, OF the London,
Eng, Charity school.
Charles Birbee, San Francisco.
Alice Reed, East Boston, Mass.
Miss Lille B. Tucker, Boston.
Warren G. Rider, Phoenix, Ariz.
ii. C. Seell, Germany.
I'D. Roundy, Lamoille, Iowa.
John Green, engineer of the passenger
train, Ashley, Iowa.
JIG. Collier, conductor of the passenger
train, Detroit.
W.N. Lyon, baggage master OF the pas
senger train, Detroit.
The Wounded
Frank P. Dow, Fairhaven, scalp
wound.
Miss M. A. Kelly, Brookline, Mass,
head cut and badly bruised.
Otto Huck, Hamburg, Germany, bruised
6. S. Hodson, Dover, N. H., chin gashed
and injuries to back.
Mrs. S. A. Seavy, Somersworth, N. H..
back injured, general confusion.
Mrs NJ W. Burbank, New Orleans, right
arm and both legs broken, condition
critical
Mrs. III. ". Rider, Phoenix, Ariz., face
and body cut, right leg broken:
: Simon Garfield, Ironwood, Mich, con-
fusion of limbs and body.
. Mrs. Garfield, wife of Simon Garfield,
left arm broken, confusion of head.
Mrs d. Dugan, Audenreid, Pa, slight
bruises
WI .Askins, residence unknown, left
leg fractured, internal injuries, un-l
conscious.
Edward Rush, London, Eng, a youth,
surface contusions
VIM. Evans, London, Eng, aged H.,
both legs broken.
Albert Molte, youth, London, Eng.
right arm injured.
Hattie Hutchins, child, Phoenix,
Ariz., internal injuries.
Mrs. ii. o. Hill, Some rsworth, n. H.,
left thigh broken.
Annie Hill, somersworth, N. H.,
slightly bruised.
Henry Volking, fireman on the freight
| train, scalds and contusions.
John Barber, fireman on the passenger
| train, scalds and contusions.
| The catastrophe was due to an instant
| of aaforgetfulness or absent mindedness
| on the part of brakeman who is given
| the best of regulations by the Wabash
| officers. Freight train Nod, east bound
! from Chicago, was due at this point at
4. 90 m. 1t was under orders to take the
siding and wait the arrival of the west
| bound passenger express No. 5, which
according to the schedule should hve
| passed Kingsbury depot at 4. 80. The ex-
press, however, was thirty mintes late
| and owing to the heavy travel growing
out of the Worlds Fair, it was divided
! into two sections, the second section
running twelve minutes behind the first.
| Both sections were made up at Buffalo,
the passengers including people from that
! city as we'll as from various lines center
! ing in it. With the knowledge that un-
| der the schedule he had twenty minutes
| to spare, Engineer Whitman of the
| freight train proceeded up the siding to
the main line to take water, the switch
being thrown open by Herbert Thompson,
| trackman of the freight.
| After the engine had taken water the
! freight was backed to the. siding and
| Thompson closed the switch. Regarding
| this fact there is no room for question,
| for at 5. 10 the first section swept past on
| the main track giving the usual signal,
| one long and two short whistles, to inti-
mate to the freight that the second
| section was following close behind. The
| movements of Brakeman Thompson in
| the next few moments remain to be
developed Certain it is that when,
| twelve minutes later, the second section
OF. the west bound express came thunder
| in9 along at a speed of forty miles an
| hour, the switch was open. In the early
| dawn, the red lights at the switch and
| the target were hardly disernable and it is
a question whether either the engineer
or fireman of the passenger train looked
| for them. so sure were they in their
| knowledge that week in and week out
| they had swept over the same ground
without hindrance. Like fash of
| tightening, therefore, the train took the
| siding, and almost before the engineer
and fireman realized that they had missed
| the main track, they had crashed into
| the waiting freight.
with shrieks, groans, means and piteous
| appeals for help and assistance. The
| passenger train consisted of baggage
| car. three ordinary coaches and two
sleepers and the force of the collision
was such that only the rear sleeper es-
capped injury. The locomotive of the
| frei,s.t train was driven half way into
the meat car in it's rear. The baggage
car of the passenger train was thrown to
one side while the passenger coaches par
TALLY telescoped each other and the third
Grand Trunk coach cut into the sleeping
car Kansas City," carrying away the
| smoking compartment and sections one
and three as clearly as though they had
been trimmed with sharp axe. The
two forward coaches were completely
wrecked Vn and the occupants buried in. the
debris
Awakened by the shock the sleepers in
the rear palace car poured out without
waiting to- don the clothing they had
discarded the night before and, aided by
trainmen and passengers who had escaped
the meantime, the residents of the farm
houses near by had been awakened and
men, women and children hurried to the
scene and lent what assistance they could.
Most of the dead and injured were In