The Portland daily press., 1896-12-22
A BROKEN RAIL.
Continued from First Page.


platform into the ground two or three
feet. In other words the two cars lay on
the slope Of the embankment at an angle
of about forty -fiveE degrees, what had
been the front enc Of one and the rear
END of the other resting at the foot of the
steep incline. Having shaken itself free
of the trailing cars the baggage car con.
tinued on after the locomotive for about
twenty yards, then toppled over, swapping
off the draw bar between the engine and
the car and rolling over down the en-
banknent, on Its way smashing tele-
graph pole and finally bringing up at the
bottom of the gully, up side down.
The engine continued on it's way up
the road and ran fully an eighth of a
mile before it was brought to stop.
HOW IT FELT.
The first intimation that the people on
the train had of the accident was the Jolt
fel when the car wheels loft the rail.
Then there was a swaying, falling
motion lasting an instant and then with
a crash, the cars came to a standstill. The
baggage car lay perhaps fifty feet fir ON
the smoker. As it plunged down tho
embankment the car rolled completely
over and landed on tho earth beneath
with its floor where the roof should have
been. The rear end Of the car was broken
ous and with bits Of the iron work was
stTewn over the ground between the
wrecked car and the rest of the train.
The trucks were torn away as the car
turned its somersault and landed on the
slid down the steep dec.ivity of the fill,
the grass had been pressed down against
the frozen earth making a surface as
smooth as ice. The stout wooden sides
of the car were bent and twisted out of
shape as if they had been cardboard. In
sido there was a strange jumhle of
trunks, fragment of the doors, twisted
steampipes and bits of furniture. The
car, while retaining its ori yinal shape,
was complete wreck. And the man who
was In the car when it rolled over was
not killed nor was he seriously injured.
Jaat what happened to him when the CIR
rolled over and down the embankment,
baggage Master F. G. Adams of this city
deos not know. He felt the shock and
knew when the car careened far beyond
the safety point that there was an acct
deut. That much he realized in a
Jwinkling. Next he came to himself ~
ing on the roof against the side of the
car, in a jumbo of wreokage, while the
blood from an ugly cut on his forehead
In, ctr Qd hic
clothing. The car was filed with the
steam which had escaped from the broken
heating apparatus. Mr.. Adams, as soon
as he could fnd the door, got out of the
car without assistance. After he reached
lewiston. he told his story as follows:
II had just taken the number of the
trunk nearest me and was checking ii
for Montreal. / was standing near the
table or desk writing when the car began
to tip. / remember that had written
one word and one letter on the next word.
My first impression wes that we wero
going around a corner, but the old train
man knows when the car has tipped as
fnr rs it is safe and realized it when the
shock came second later. My time has
come said. and grasped for the table.
There was not time to think of praying
or anything else, and the car rolled over
on its back. That was the last that l
knew for seoond or two. When l came
TO my SENSES / was in the corner with
the baggage piled up around me and the
car full of steam. AS soon as it came to
mo what was going Old, tried to get
out, but could not see which way to go
TO fnG a door. The steam was SO thick
that you could not see before your eyes.
My face was aching where ! had been
thrown against the side of the car.
could not tell how bad / was hurt, but
had the impression that was not badly
II jured. The steam " as not hot and
gradually 1t rose, creeping out Of the end
Of the rnined car. Then ] SAW the for
ward end of 1t was knocked out. Some
where near q woman was screaming, and
I conld hear the excited voices of men as
they ran about. helping each other out of
the wreck. All this passed quicker than
can tell and rose and hurried out Ct
the wreck as quick as could. Some one
hear said, Adams You are killed, buU
toid him / was not and that was too
excited TO know if I was. The people
were then hurrying out Of the cars,
which were standing almost on end in
the gutter. The smoker had telescoped
part way into the baggage car and the
hitter was the worst looking wreck l
ever saw. The engine had come to a
tsndstin little distance up the track
aud was lacking hurriedly to the
scona- saw the face + the engineer as
white as death as he turned from the
throttle and jumped out Of the engine to
run down over the bank"
IN TIE SMOKER.
While hit. Adams was crawling
through the debris in the baggage car.
tho injured were painfully escaping from
the smoker. 1t was in this car that most
Of the passengers on the train were
seated. The car did not roll over, like
the baggage car. Instead 1t plunged
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