The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-09-06

Boston & Albany railroad one-hah mile
east of Chester about 1880 o'clock today
and four Wagner cars were crushed,
killing at least thirteen persons. fatally
a score are badly hurt. 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 loco
motive passed over the structure, but
was smashed. the water tank being
thrown a long distance. The buffet, two
sleepers and a dining car We're smashed
to kindling when they struck the stream,
twenty feet below, but two day coaches
and a smoker in the rear did not leave
the track. There had been thirteen dead
bodies taken out at o'clock and twelve
Of them had been identified. 1t is be-
Heved that there are two more bodies in
the ruins. The list of the identified dead
is as follows:
]. E. DEWITT of Portland, Me, presi-
dent of the Union Mutual life insurance
company.
T. X. KELLY. Boston.
Miss SUSIE COTTING of Boston.
Mrs. c. B. ISHAM Of Philadelphia.
Miss EMMA DELERTY of Column
bus. Q.
H. c. IVES of Chicago.
FRANK SEDGEWICK Of Palmer.
Express Messenger JOHN M'MAS-
TIERS of Springfield
Brakeman J. H. MURRAY of Green
bush. n. Y.
Baggage Master GEORGE w MORSE
of Boston.
Wagner Car Conductor ]. C. STACK
POLE of Hartford. Conn.
R. c. HITCHCOCK of Bellows Falls,
VT.
The Rev. DR.. Llewellyn Pratt Of Nor
witch. Conn. cut hand, right thigh
sprained.
Robert Cuckson Of Boston, fracture of
right thigh and broken forearm.
Ethel Carson of Dalton, shoulder
sprained.
John D. Carson of Dalton, bruised.
Louis Buchanan of Boston, badly
bruised.
Rose stephane of Springfield. italian,
fractured ribs.
Mary Sadie of Springfield. italian.
bruised.
John Platte of Riverton. N J., bruised.
Mrs. John Platte of Riverton, N. J.,
bruised.
Mrs. DR.. Alice Litten of Brooklyn. bad
scalp wound.
Mrs. James T. Eldridge Of Boston.
broken hip, fractured shoulder.
Mrs. H. E. Whitney of Cleveland, O.,
badly bruised and scalp wound.
Mrs. J. N. Winchester of West Rox-
bury. bruised.
Sumner Cummings of Worcester,
bruised and sprained knee
Mrs. Sumner Cummings of Worcester,
compound fracture of leg and bruised.
Wellely Porter, buffet porter, of Bos-
ton, fractured thigh.
Arthur williams of Lenox, bad scalp
wound.
Frank Lang of Chicago. bruised chest
and back.
Winthrop Wade of Boston, fracture
Of left thigh.
Mrs. Helen Rice of PittsfeId, cut face
Walter Hawkins of Pittsfield, cut
face.
Lewis Mitchell of Albany, badly
bruised and fractured ribs.
William Horton Of Albany, locomo-
tive engineer. badly bruised, left hip
broken and internal injuries feared.
]. waldron johnson of Boston, porter,
bad scalp wound.
John Emerson, brakeman Of Boston,
left eye badly bruised.
F. B. Adams of Holyoke, head bruised.
Mrs. Avery of Holyoze. hip injured.
The bridge looks as though it had
been trown from its abutements rather
than broken down. 1t has fallen to the
right of the track and the locomotive
also lies off to the right. These facts
suggest the theory that the blow of the
locomotive as it struck the bridge from
the curve sent it bounding off its foun-
dation into the river. The railroad Of
ficials say they find no marks on the
bridge such as would be made by de-
rallied train. They have no theories to
offer to account for the fall, but
promise a complete investigation.
Scene of the Wreck.
The train was seven minutes late at
Chester and the railroad hands say 1t
was going at the rate of twenty miles an
hour when it struck the first OF the two
spans across the Westfeld river. The
locomotive seemed to leap across the