Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-09-02
RAvING FOR HER MOTHER.

| Miss Rita Sumner, One of the Vic.
! Tins OF the Chester Wreck on the
| Boston and Albany Road, Says Her
Mother Was with Her-Searchfns
For More Bodies.
| SPRINGFIKLD. Mass, Sept. 1.-Durine
the night the search for the bodies was
prosecuted without success, and the slow
work of removing the debris was carried
on by gang of section hands. Before
dsybreak scores of persons were assem-
bleA at the soene of the catastrophe, and
by noon this number was increased to
thousands.
Early in the forenoon the dismantled en-
CINE was lifted from Its bed of sand to
the rails, and pushed down the side track
several hundreds of yarde 1t was
stripped bare like 30 many of the victims
of the wreck, and its usefulness is i'm
paired.
The passengers on the incoming trains
were transferred in carriages along the
Huntington road to the opposite side of
the stream, and no attempt was made to
follow schedule time.
Nearly every house along the Hunting
ton road was converted into hospital
during the night, and many of the victims
found refuge at Wright's hotel.
Some ten or dozen of the slightly in
jured were permitted to depart for home
early in the day.
The injuries to Walter T. Hawkins, the
city solicitor of Pittsfeld, were found to
be more serious than was thought at first.
His wife arrived this morning and took
charge of him. Beside the gashes In his
forehead and lip, one wing of his nose is
split open.
Among others who were injured are:
John Platt, London, slight injuries; Mrs
John Platt, slight Injuries; Mrs. ]. ]. How
ard, Boston, slight scalp wound; Miss Dora
Eldredge, Boston, hands and arms bruised;
Miss Bessie Eldredge, hip and arm broken;
Master Winchell, Boston, slightly bruised.
Miss Rita Sumner of Boston, who is |
suffering from internal injuries, at the |
home of James O. Crocker, is rnvins for |
unknown. Rita says she and her mother |
were occupying seat together when the |
shock came. She was knocked uncon-
scious and when she came to found herself |
on the bank of the stream. She has not |
seen her mother since, and no person /
the description of Mrs. Sumner
Is at any of the home hospitals.
Ralph DeForest of Boston, the cook,
who was 30 Badly ssalded, is failing rapidly
and it is feared his injuries will prove
fatal.
Superintendent Gallup of the Boston
and Albany railroad was seen this morn
Dg by reporter but he said that he could
1ot give much additional information to
what had already been given. The rail-
'oad men have been kept at work con-
inually on the temporary structure of
restle work, and 1t is expected to have
he trains running over it by tomorrow
afternoon, or at the latest Sunday.
As to the cause of the wreck, Mr.. Gal
up said that he was at q loss to know
where to lay the blame. The civil engineer
# the road had been working on the mat
or, but as yet he has been unable to find
ny cause why the bridge should 60 down.
Ie said that the company would bear the
Expense of caring for the injured at the
hospital.
Trains from the east were running ON
ime this morning as far as the wreck, but
we're from one to two hours late on passing
B. The trains from the west were less
ortunate, and the train due in this city at
80 did not arrive until $40, while the
ther trains were correspondingly late
he mail for places west of Chester was
emit around through Greenfield, or south
0 New Haven and then up the Housatonic
vision of the New York, New Haven and
Hartford railroad.
Ten of the injured persons from the
hester wreck on the Boston and Albany
abroad were brought to the Springfield
ospital to-day. They were Winthrop
Wade of Boston; Wesley Porter, jr., a
Wagner car porter; Ralph DeForest of
oston, cook on the dining car; Murray
raves of Boston, cook on the dining car;
,swis Buchanan of Boston, a porter; Sum
or Cummings and wife of Worcester,
IRE. E. B. Adams of Holyoke, N. F. Leeck
Boulder, Col. All those injured have
roken hips or legs except Porter and De
crest, who are severely scslded.