Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1893-09-02
WORST IS NOT KNOWN.
Nav Be More Bodies UD-
der Chester Wreck.
NO. LIGHT ON THE CAUSE,
Railroad Officials Have No Additional
News TO Give Out.

! SPRINGFIFID. Mass, Sept. Q. Fourteen
'ad, anolho: 'yng nearly 40 seriously
| jyrel snd CIV Kissing, is the sum total
I the Chestc horror as sscertained thus
Itis believed that there are several
| d:o,st. HID en- in the river, aud some
| ne wr;.n n who picked their way
| vir the distorted timbers told grewsome
les of the discovery Of uplifted arms and
] lastly heads, reflected in the pellucid
| ccsm.
Tea injured persons from the Chester
y,eck on the Boston and Albany railroad
cr.' brought TO the Springfield hospital
y sterday
They are; Winthrop Wade of Boston, a
lawyer; Wesley Porter, Jr,, Of Chicago, q
Wagner car porter, Ralph Deforest Of
Boston, cook on the dining car; Murray
iraves Of Boston, cook on the dining car;
Lewis Buchanau of Boston, a porter; Sum-
per CUMMINGS and wife Of Worcester,
Mrs. f. b. adams of Holyoke, NJ f..
I.eeok of Bould r, Colo.
| Almost all hose injured have broken
lhips or legs, exc pit Porter and Deforest,
who are severely scalded.
! During the night the search for bodies
't tho Chester wreck was prosecuted with
NJ success, and the slow work of remov-
! ~ the debris was carried on by gang Of
-rtion hands. Before ybreak scores of
peis sons weIe a = mOled at the scene OF the
lcatastrophe, and by noon this number
W was increased Dy thousands
! Some Patients Depart
| Early la tne forenoon the dismantled
lnRine was III ed from its bed of sand to
lthe ih..s and pushed down the side tracks
,-vcral hundreds of yards. II was stripped
,bafe, liNe - mauy OF the victims of the
Wreck, md it, usefulness Is impaired.
| The passeug rs on the incoming trains
ere transferred In carriages along the
luntinaton road TO the opposite side Of
\ ne stream an. no attempG was made to
pllow schedule time. Nearly every house
| long ihe Huntington road was converted
| 40 hospital and many of the victims
| 80 found refige at Wright's hotel Some
} or dozen Of the slightly injured pa
It,ents were permitted to depart for home
ltsr;y in the aly.
| The injuries TO Walter Il. Hawkins, the
laty solicitor oi Plttsfleld, were found to
be more serious than was thought at
first His wife arrived and took charge
sof him. Besides the gsshes In his fore
Ihead and lip, one wing Of his nose Is split
lopen.
| Ralph de Forrest of Boston, the cook
kvho was SO badly scalded, is falling rap
IDLY, and 1t Is feared his injuries will
prove fatal.
! Superintendent Gallup of the Boston
fand Albany railroad was seen by re-
porter, but he said that he could not give
knuch additional. .information to what had
kiready been given The railroad men
ave been KEEP. at work continually on
he temporary structure of trestle work,
and IL is expected To have the trains run
ming over II by this afternoon, or at the
latest Sunday.
Figuring on the Cause.
AS to the cause OF the wreck Mr. Gallup
said that he VS. ut a loss to know where
ito lay the blame. The civil engineer of the
road had been working on the matter, but
|as yet he has been unable to find any
cause why the bridge should 20 down He
said that the company would bear the ex-
Ipense Of caring for the injured at the hos
Ipital.
Trains from the east were running on
time yesterday as far as the wreck, but
|were from one to two hours late on pass
ling II. The trains from the west were less
fortunate, aud the train due in this city
|Rt 1880 did not arrive until $40, while the
tother trains We're correspondingly late
grhe mail for places west of Chester was
lsent around through Greenfield, or south,
Ito New Haven and then up the Honsa-
tonic division of the New York and Hart
ford road.
| Experts Are Reticent.
| Much interest has been aroused In this
Ecity as TO the cause Of the accident. The
question Is being freely discussed in rail-
road circles anu by the general public.
Was the engine too heavyf Did 1t leave
the track and so cause the bridge to give
twsyf Where was the weak spot in the
bridget Was the train going too fast
when II struck the bridget
These and similar questions the public
would like TO have answered, but all in-
lquiries on these points are met by guarded
statements from experts on bridge build
tng, who say they will wait for an investi-
cation.
HATHAWAY IS SILENT.