The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-10-25

| less bruised, occurred directly in front
Of the Hyde Park station OF the Provi-
dence Division OF the New York, New
Haven and Hartford Railroad about 5:3C
D. III. to-day
The passenger train which leaves
! Sharon was trifie late, and was stand
ing at the Hyde Park station taking on
and discharging passengers, being di-
rectly on the time OF the passenger train
which LEFT Providence at 4:l5. The latter
train came steamlng down the line and
crashed Into the stationary train.
The engine of the Providence train was
forced through nearly half the length OF
the rear car, which was filled with pas
sengers. and practically all the injured
were occupants OF that car.
Alter the accident occurred all the
physicians in town were summoned as
quickly as possible TO reach them, and
! the depot was temporarily converted
| into a hospital and everything done TO
relieve the sutferings of the injured and
make them as comfortable as possib ble.
TWO persons, one q brakeman on the
Sharon train, the other a woman, were
| found TO be probably fatally hurt, being
terribly injured about the head and body.
! Their names are at present unknown.
! No other train hands, SO far as known,
were injured. The passengers were
mostly men, and their injuries for the
most part were in the nature of contu-
sions or br uises.caused by being thrown
10 the floor or against the seats by the
| force of the collision.
The trains were not derailed, and after
| the injured had been removed from the
wreck it took but a comparatively short
time TO clear the tracks. 1t is believed
that the recent change III running trains
on the right-hand track instead of the
left may have something 10 do with the
accident.
ID. q. Willis of Rox bury and H. c.
! Merrill We're the engineer and fireman,
respectively, OF the waiting train, while
Jonn Brumman was the engineer of the
| express from Providence.
| AT 8 O'Clock tonight e. NJ. Austin,
the brakeman reported probably fatally
! injured, died
! A list OF the injured follows: Mrs
! Wesrt OF Mount Hope, injured; A. w.
Bragg, Roxbury, injured internally, head
and lace badly cut; William Essler
! Charlestown, head badly iammed, with
internal injuries; w. B. Hoyt, Rox bury,
head and chest injured Thomas j.
Burke, Mount Hope. hands and head
badly cut; Mr.. Lowell, Boston, injuries
not stated; railroad man who refused to
give his name had his eye, head and
chest badly injured; Mrs. James Burns,
Hyde Park, head and arms injured Mrs
Mary Barnes, internal Injuries; Mrs. and
Mrs. j. +. McGuire, Rox bury, wounds
| on hands ana scalp, and the formers leg
| broken; Mrs. William Ross. Cambridge,
severe internal injuries, probably fatally;
Roscoe IIrInS, Boston, head injured; Ellis
! Donovan, Boston, nose and scalp badly
cut; Mrs. German, a well-known singer
I =. r--..t n ain h~nH u
Mrs. w. Ii. McGowan, East Boston,
spine and back badly injured: Miss Gran
min of Cam bridge, internal injuries and
leg broken.
Brakeman Austin of the forward train
was in ured in an awful manner, both Of
his legs being broken and his abdomen
pierced by an iron bar, while he was
janmed between two cars Ill such posi-
tion that II was nearly half an hour be-
lore hs could be exIricated by the fire.
men.
Congressman Elijah a. Morse was a
passenger on the Sharon train. he re-
ceived some slight cuts on his fingers, but
otherwise was unlnjured.
Mall Train Wrecked.
NEWPORT (Pa.), oct. 24.-The break
/ ing of an axle OF car OF an eastbound
! freight train on the Pennsylvania Rail-
road at Trimmers' Rock. about two
miles east of here, shortly after o'clock
this morning, threw several cars OF the
| freight directly across the passenger
track and wrecked the west-bound mail
train from Philadelphia to Pitts burg that
was speeding by at the time, causing Tia g
death OF two men ana the injury OF nine
others.
The dead are: Daniel Wolfkill, engi-
neor OF tie mail train; Joseph \. Hains.
hremen OF the mail train. Wolfkill ana
Hains both reside at Altoona, Pa.
The injured are: G. ~. Cham Derlain of
] Harrisburg, Pa, left arm broken and
wrisl Fractured f.. l.. Colville of Pitts
/ burg, wound above right arm and left
arm sprained; A. l.. Brand of Harris
I burg, back OF head confused, slight cut
/ over the nose. wrist sprained and right
/ arm Injured; \. l.. Woodruff OF Lewis
town, Pa, leg and back sprained; 5.
| GrOn of Mount Joy, Pa, confused
abrasion of the fingers; \. L. Rowan OF
Trenton, y. j., slight injury to lett log
and shoulder; George Gilmore, confusion
/ OF the left shoulder; j. {. Campbell OF
/ Galiitsein, Pa, abrasion of the scalp and
sprain and abrasion OF left knee; Joseph
Donald OF Mifllin, Pa, freight brake
man, sprain OF lumbar muscles and
sprsin of left ankle.
With the exception of Donald all the
! injured are postal clerks. They were
taken TO The city hospital at Harris burg,
! where none Of those Injured were pro-
( nounced in a serious condition.
/ The mail train wrecked left Philadel-
| phia at 1923 p. III. last night. Beside the
/ passenger, sleeping und day coaches,
/ there were six mail cars directly behind
! tho engine. The train was going at high
rate OF speed, when the axle of car on
an East bound freight broke and threw
several cars on the track directly in front
| OF the rapidly approaching mail. En-
/ gineer Wolfkill had hardly time to re-
verse his lever when his engine struck
! the freight cars, and turning completely
around, Ioppled over high embaukment
into a canal that runs beside the track Al.
| this point.
( In the mail cars the postal clerks were
| busy distributing the mail, and how any
of them escaped instant death WAS re-
markable. W hen the crash came four of
the mail cars were smashed together in an
! inextricable mass and hurled from the
track, the end of one car landing in the
canal. Tie injured clerks crawled one
! by one from the broken cars and escaped
/ the dreadful death of cremation, for the
wreck soon took ire and began to blaze
fiercely.
With the exception of few sacks di-
rected to Louisville, 81. Louis and Ore
gon, the mail in the wrecked cars was
destroyed.
\ Fast Express Wrecked.
KANSAS CITY, Oct 24-The Denver
St. Louis fast express on the Burlington