The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-11-30
MET DEATH ON A CROSSING.
BARaE CONTAINING 4 FOOTBALL
 TEAM STRUCK BY 4 TRAIN.

Two Instantly Killed, One Died This
 Morning and Othors Fatally and seri-
 ousiy InJured-Ths Accident Happened
 fin Dangerous Place.
 Southbridge. Mass, Nov. 29.-The 9:S5 passenger train on the New England road struck barge containing the Southbridge Purples. a football eleven, as 1t was crossing the tracks at Center street this morning on the way to the football field to play the Worcester Polytechnic eleven, and as result of the disaster two of the young men are dead, three others will probably die and eleven received serious injury.
 The dead are: Charles Gauthier, aged thirty, Southbrldge, farm hand, leaves a widow and two children; Joseph Cook, aged eighteen, son of Mrs. Fannie Cook, Southbridge. employed in the American Optical works
 Those who are probably fatally in- jured are: John Street, aged twenty two, Lee, Mass, quarter back on Will Hams college eleven, skull fractured, internal injuries: Andrew Taylor Southbridge, skull fractured, both eyes lost, internal injuries; Victor Nelson, aged twenty-three, Southbridge, skull fractured. leg broken, internal injuries; Alfred D. Hughes, aged nineteen, South bridge, skull fractured, internal inju- ries; Charles Simpson, aged seventeen, son of Andrew Simpson, Southbridge leg broken in two places and internal injuries.
 The others, injured are: James Fay Tor, aged nineteen, Southbridge, flesh wounds, head cut, internal injuries; Ja- cob Edwards, aged eighteen, South. bridge, scalp and face cut, body bruis- ed; Herbert Clement, aged twenty three, Southbridge, kneef injured, ear split, seriously injured; William Bur saw, physical instructor, s6uthhafdge Y. M. c. A., injured about head and back, badly cut and internal injuries Edward Durgin, aged eighteen, South. bridge, face badly cut; Elmer D. Cham. berlaine, aged twenty-three, South. bridge, hip broken, face and head cut Frank Morse, aged eighteen, rib brok. en, body bruised; Harry Rose, South bridge, head and face cut and possibly concussion of the brain; Lester New. ell, Southbridge, body bruises.
 The train for Worcester due to leave Southbridge at 9:45 a. m., was delayed at that station by an accident tt Brakeman F. B. Carlson, whose foo was crushed, and the train was run ming fast to make up time. The foot ball eleven of the Young Mems Chris
 tian association had. started from thei rooms to walk to the grounds ant meeting the barge that had carried their opponents, the Worcester Poly technic Institute eleven returning, they tumbled in and urged the driver tt hurry as they were late. The horses were on the tracks at the Centra street crossing when a sharp whistle from the engine, hidden by curve ant a high block on the left side of the street was the first warning to the sixteen occupants of the barge. Driver E. D. Chamberlaine lashed his horses, and the men on the seat by his side jumped. Both were too late. The engine struck the barge on the Jeff for 150 yards, crushing the barge an6 it's living contents into mass of broker splinters and of dead and dying human ity. The crowd on the football fiele could see the engine when 1t came to z standstill and dozens of people were soon at work searching for friends and relatives in the wreck.
 Charles Gauthier was found dea6 near the crossing, evidently killed by being dashed against a huge rock Further along were found Joseph Cook William J. Bursaw, Frank Morse, B Durgin, Andrew Taylor and his brother James Taylor, Leslie Newell, Henry Belknap, Jacob Edwards. Harry Rose and Driver E. D. Chamberlaine. bleed ing profusely and moaning piteously Pinned in the debris in front of the engine were John Street, quarter back of the Williams college eleven, who was visiting the Taylor boys, college friends, and was to help out on the southbridge eleven, Simpson, Nelson and Hughes, all terribly mangled.
 Joseph Cook died in twenty minutes at the electric light station, where the injured men were taken. Improvisec ambulances conveyed most of the mer to their homes, and Fiskedale, Stur' bridge, Webster and Worcester were called on for physicians. Everything possible was done for the injured men, but little hopes of re- covery are expressed for four or five of them. The Central street crossing has long been considered very dan gerous, but to-day's disaster completely surpasses anything the people o1 southbridge ever dreamed could hap pen. The Worcester freshmen tear returned to the city on the noon train completely unnerved by the accident.
 southbridge, Mass, Nov. 30-Street the victim of yesterdays accident, died at :5O this morning.
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