Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1893-09-23
The Particulars.

KINGsBUIY, Id, Sept - - by the
criminal thou htlc suess Of freight
brakeman, Herbert Thompson, terrible
wreck occurred on the Wabash. and II
people were killed. There was freight
on the siding headed east, and the first
section Of the Toronto and Montreal ex-
press had Just gone by,
This brakeman proceeded down To the
switch, and opened it, without first get
ting orders from his conductor, with the
intention OF letting his train out Just as
he did so, the second section of the ex-
press came tsaring up. and, before he
could close IL, the heavily loaded train
dashed into the siding and crashed head
on to the freight.
The express was going j5 miles an hour,
and the engineer had no time To apply the
brakes when lac saw the open switch
There were a dozen cars completely
wrecked, and the debris was spread for
yards around
The Death List.
j. ii. McKenna, Hyde Park, Mass.
Harry French, l3, member Of orphan
bell ringers, London.
Charles Berbo. san Francisco
Miss Alice H. Reed, East Boston,
Miss Nellie l.. Tucker, Newton, Mass.
Conductor James Coulter of the pas
senger train.
Engineer John Green of the passenger
train.
Warren g. RYDER. PheniX, Ari.
p ID. Zcll, Berlin.
Baggagemaster Lyons, passenger train.
James ID. Roundy, Lamoille, la.
The list Of injured consists ol 20 namas,
seven of whom will die.
The Masonic hail here was turned into
a morgue, and drays aud farming wagons
were kept busy for two hours hauling the
dead and wounded to the village. a mile
| distant from the depot, where medical
help and nurses were summoned.
There were two sleepers on the train,
the Marion and the Kansas City. The
former escaped injury, but the front halt
Of the Kansas City was converted into
kindling wood by the day coacn, which
smashed into It, Two bodies were taken
from the sleaper-those of Harry French
of London and Charles Berbo of san
| Francisco
| Wreck Was Complete.
The smoking car was twisted into a
mass OF spllnters, and few of the passen-
| gers escaped death or injury The day
coach which followed was also entirely
wrecked by being hurled against the
sleeper Kansas City
| Division Superintendent Gould admitted
that The freight brakeman, Herbert
| Thompson, was To blame tor the accident.
| He turned the switch ia the face of the ex-
| press al let 1t go on the side track where
| the freight train was standing.
| Conductor Parks was in charge of the
freight train, and was in the caboose. lie
was not harmed. The engineer Of the
| passenger train, John Green, met an aw-
fnl death. lie had no time t. jump and
was thrown from his cab forward clear
over the freight engine, a distance of sew
eral car lengths.
His conductor, James Coulter. WAS taken
from beneath the wrecked smoking cal
with his spine broken. lie died As soon a,
he was ,aken into the depot.
| James Is. Wookly aud Henry Aaron
with "A company of boys from DR.. Ber
nardo's orphsnage in London, were aboard
the train bound for Chicago. One Of the
lads Harry French, was killed, and
| several others were badly injured
| 1t 10 the worst wreck the Wabash road
has ever had. To add TO the horror. OF the
terrible collision the boiler OF the passen
ger locomotive blew up, scattering thing,
| Ia all directions
Physicians aud surgeons came from al
| directions In response To the summons o.
the railway officials.
A special train came In from Peru anC
carried 10 OF the injured persons e
Chicago