Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1894-05-31
4 DEADLY COLLISION
Three Men Perish on the
Consolidated Road.
PAWTUCKET MAN INJURED.
Miraculous Escape Of the Engineer Of
the Tiain and Others.

BOSTON, May yl.-A collision occurred
early yesterday morning. near the Sharon
heights station Of the Providence division
of the Old Colony system Of the New
York, New Haven aud Hartford railroad.
Three men were killed, one was
wounded, an engine was wrecked and
four freight cars were broken into kind
ling wood.
Two of the men were attaches of the
berry train, the forward brakeman, Ben
jamin McLeod. and the fireman, Il. +.
Goodwin.
Mcleod was about 90 years of age and
lived at 10 Moon street, Boston, with his
young wife, to whom he had been but a
few months married.
Goodwin, SO far as was known yester-
day, had no friends in the city, but
boarded at ~ Williams street, Boston.
The third man killed was named Fred
eric X. Lawrence OF Boston, and was only
about Is years of age. He, with a COM
panion named Christopher Murray of
Pawtucket X. l., who was also Injured,
were seated on the break beams, stealing
a ride from Providence
The berry train of is cars was In charge
OF Conductor p. Il. Rourke of Boston and
Engineer Mathew Chapman of Wsltham.
A Close Call.
The latter Is the subject of one of those
miraculous escapes which often distin-
guish railroad smash-up. He was in
the centre of the cab of the engine, with
Mcleod and Goodwin standing on either
side VI him. When the pitch-in occurred.
the throttle was torn from his grasp, the
bench on which he was sitting ripped
from under him and the roof of the cab
lifted from above his head. But he es-
capped with slight hurt to his back.
The other train left Boston shortly after
8 o'clock last Friday night, bound south.
1t was in charge of Conductor Davenport
and Engineer Saunders.
At Sharon heights, one mile from
Sharon station, the train stopped and was
run in on the north bound" track to per-
NIT the express from New York to pass.
This done. the engine took one or two OF
the cars down to load with ice at the
house on Massapoag lake, which is con-
nected with the main line by branch
about mile in length. Then 1t went to
work at some shunting.
The Cause of the Trouble.
The heavy train left Providence at
11:80 and was due in Boston at lis 1t
WAS bOWilnB alonK at lne rate Oh ABOUT 30
miles an hour on the same track on which
the cars of the ice train were situated. 1t
was not to stop at the heights. 1t doesn't
stop between Pawtucket and Boston. 1t
Is called an EXTRA" and was hauled by
one Of the big mogul engines, No. 7S5.
This train, with the two young men
perchsd between two Of the cars, rushed
along at Sharon Heights about 1890
o'clock. Its crew says that the signals
were not right. The ice train people say
they were. Another story IL that a red
lantern was on the track and that the
heavy berry train ran over 1t, which, II
true, would indicate that the fagman of
the ice train was assisting In the shunt-
ing.
Murray VIII 1--we.
Christopher f. Murray, the young man
who was injured in the railroad accident
at Sharon, was brought home yesterday.
He arrived about noontime and WAS taken
In the ambulance To his parents residence,
17S High street. One foot is badly crushed
and he is otherwise injured, but not IA
tally.