The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-10-25


Nearly Half Through IA Rear Car Which
n Was Filled With Passengers.
Hyde Park, Mass, Oct, PA tail
n end collision by which two persons We're
Y fatally hurt, three or four seriously
. injured and some twenty others more
or less bruised occurred directly in front
n of the Hyde Park station of the Provi-
4 dence division of the New Haven sys-
Y TEN about $50 p. m. The passenger
train which leaves Sharon for Boston
\ at 5:1S was a trife late and was stand
y ing at the station taking on and dis
4 charging passengers, being directly on
the time of the passenger train, which
u left Providence for Boston at AIS, The
Z 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 well
filled and practically all the injured
Were occupants of that car. After the
\ accident all the physicians in town
were summoned as quickly as it was
4 possible to reach them and the depot
was temporarily converted into a hos
pital and everything done to relieve the
sufferings of the injured and make
them as comfortable as possible
Two persons, one brakeman on the
Sharon train, the other woman, were
found to be probably fatally hurt, be-
ing terribly injured about the head and
body Their names are at present writ
I ing 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 contusions or bruises
caused by being thrown to the floor
or against the seats by the force of the
collision. The trains We're not derailed
and after the injured had been re-
moved from the wreck it took but
a comparatively short time to clear the
cracks.
The signals are said not to have been
set against the Providence train, but
as the track on this section is per-
fectly straight for a distance of nearly
seven miles it is difficult to understand
with the information already at hand
why the engineer could not have seen
the train standing a the station in
time to have prevented collision, 1t
is believed that the recent change in
running trains on the right track may
have had something to do with the ac-
cident.
D. G. Willis of Roxbury and H. C.
Merritt We're engineer and firemen re-
spectively of the waiting train, while
John Brumman was engineer of the ex-
press. AT 9 o'clock C. NJ Austin, the
brakeman reported as probably fatally
injured died and his body was removed
to an undertakers.
A list of the injured follows: Mrs
Werst of Mount Hope, injured Internal
: ly; A W. Bragg of 5S Clifford street
Roxbury, injured internally and head
and face badly cut; William Essler of
Al Austin street, Charlestown head bad
ly TANNED, with internal injuries; w. B
Hoyt of Roxbury, head and chest in
jured; Thomas j. Burke of Canterbury
Mount Hope hands and head badly cut
MIR. Lowell of Crescent avenue, Boston
injuries not stated; a railroad man who
refused to give his name had his eyes
head and chest badly injured; Mrs
James Burns of Hyde Park head and
arms battered up; Mrs. Mary Barnes
address unknown, internal injuries; Mrs
j. F. Mcguire Of Roxbury, wounds or
hands and scalp, and the formers leg
broken; Mrs. William Ross of Cam
bridge, severe internal injuries, probab-
1ty fat Pnc1na inn of MIyr+ IL
street, Boston, head injured; Ellen j
Donovan of 973 Harrison avenue, Bos.
ton nose and scalp badly cut; Miss Ger
main, well known singer of Cam
bridge, head and chest Bruised Mrs
w. Fl. MCGOWAN of rs White street
East Boston, spine and back badly in
jured; Miss Grammar of Cambridge, in
ternal injuries and leg broken.
When the crash came the scene was
beyond description, the escaping steam
and smoke covering every thing with q
dense cloud. In an instant the fire bells
of Hyde Park were ringing, and a gen
eral alarm was given for help along the
streets, to which nearly all the physi-
clans responded. There were many lady
passengers on the train, and THEN
The quick response of the firemer
with crowbars and every available i'm
plement served to relieve the sad sttua-
tion at once. The injured passengers
We're removed as fast as possible to the
station, where their immediate wants
We're attended to by physicians and cit
liens. That no instant death occurred
is miraculous when the crash threw
passengers, seats and chairs into such a
confused mass.
Brakeman Austin of the forward train
was injured in an awful manner, both
legs broken. abdomen pierced by iron
bars, while he was jammed between the
two rear cars in such a position that ii
was nearly half an hour before he could
be extricated by the Hyde Park fire
men. He was carried tenderIy to the
railroad station, but his injuries were Sc
serious that he lived but a few hours,
The tracks We're cleared before ten
o'clock and trains were running as US
ual.
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