The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-25
AN ENGINE OF A PROVIDENCE
TRAIN CRASHES INTO A
CROWDED COACH.
OTHER MIsHAPS ON THE RAIL
AMONG THE ACCIDENTS WAS THE
SMASHING OF SOME SIX
MAIL CARS.

HYDE PARK, MASS, Oct pa tail
end collision, by which two persons were
fatally hurt, three or four seriously in
juTed and some twenty others more OF
less bruised, occurred directly in front OF
the Hyde Park station of the Providence
division of the New ork, New Haven and
Hartford Railroad, about 5 80 P. NJ. to-day.
The passenger train which leaves Sharon
was a trife late and was standing at the
HYDE Park station taking on and dis
charging passengers, being directly on the
time of the passenger train which left Prov
idence for Boston at 4:15. The latter train
came steaming 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 passen-
gers, and practically all the injured were
occupants of that car. After the accident
occurred all the physicians in town were
summoned as quickly as it was possible to
reach them and the depot was temporarily
converted into a hospital and everything
done to relieve the sufferings of the injured
and make them as comfortable as possible.
Two persons, one a brakeman on the
Sharon train, the other woman, were
found to be probably fatally hurt, being
terribly injured about the head and body.
The passengers were mostly men, and
their injuries for the most part were in the
nature OF contusions or bruises caused by
being thrown TO the floor or against the
seats by the for ce 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 in
running trains on the right-hand track in
stead of on the left may have had some
thing to do with the accident.
D. G. Willis of Roxbury and II. c. Mer-
ritt were the engineer and fireman, re-
spectively, of the waiting train, while John
Brumman was engineer of the express
train from Providence. At 9 O'Clock to-
night e. H. Austin, the brakeman reported
as probably fatally injured, died.
4 list of the injured follows: Mrs.
Werst OF Mount Hope. injured internally
A. w. Bragg, Roxbury, injured internally,
head and face badly cut; William Essler,
Charlestown, head badly iammed, with in
ternal injuries; W. B. Hoyt, Roxbury,
head and chest injured; Thomas J. Burke,
Mount Hope, hands and head badly cut
Mr.. Lowell, Boston, injuries not stated
q railroad man, who refused to
give his name, had his eyes, head
and chest badly injured; Mrs. James
Burns, HYDE Park, head and arms injured
Mrs. Mary Barnes, internal injuries
Mr.. and Mrs. J. +. Mcclure, Roxbury
wounds on hands and scalp and the
formers leg broken; Mrs. William Ross,
Cambridge, severe internal injuries, prob
ably fatal Roscoe Erins, Boston, head in
iured; Ella Donovan, Boston, nose and
scalp badly cut; Mrs. German, a we'll
known singer of Cambridge, head and
chest bruised; Mrs. w. H. MCGOWAN,
East Boston, spine and back badly injured
Miss Grammar of Cambridge, internal in
juries and leg broken.
Brakeman Austin of the forward train
was injured in an awful manner, both o
his legs being broken and his abdomen
pierced by an iron bar, while he was
jammed between two ears in such posi-
tion that it was nearly half an hour before
he could be extricated by the fremen.
Congressman Elijah A. Morse was pas
senger on the Sharon train. He received
some slight cuts on his fingers, but other
wise was uninjured.