Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-12-22
AN AWFUL PLUNGE.
Grand Trunk Train Goes Over
a 30-Foot Embankment.
No One ed--Seyera| Injured and
Taken to Lewiston Hospital.
Marvellous Escapc-Train Running at Good
Speed Broken Rail the Cause.

lewiston Dec. 21.-The Journal says:
Grand Trunk train No. Il. due at Lew
iston at $50 A. NJ, was derailed at
point mile and a half east of Danville
Junction, at s A. NJ, Monday. and all
but the locomotive and tender were
hurled down an embankment 30 feet
high. Eighteen people We're on the
train. Ten people We're injured none of
them seriously, and by seeming mira
Gle, no one was killed. The injured We're
brought to Lewiston.
| The Grand Trunk train which left
Portland at 40 was made up of loco
motive and tender, baggage car.
smoker and first class passenger. Con-
| ductor Morse was in charge of it and
| the engineer was Joseph Weber. the
| fireman's name being Lynch. Being
| the first train on the Grand Trunk out
| of Portland il is not usually very heavy.
most of the traffic being business men.
| travelling statesmen and in years gone
by it has hauled many scholars from
| lJdHNIllt JuflttlOil " tltt -tu|'tt II
| schools. 1t Stops at AL stations and
! does the local traffic.
| On Monday morning the train was
| travelling % miles an hour and coming
| around Il slight curve at one of the
high embankmentS near where the
| Grand trunk and Maine Central APP
proaches each other. when the train
parted between the tender and the
smoker and the three cars left the
track, the locomotive going on. All three
cars We're piled up in an intermlnable
mass below, the seats torn out. the
| cars riddled and the wreck complete.
| The baggage car was most damaged
and fortunately the only occupant was
the baggage master. f. G. Adams. who
was seemingly the most severely cut
| of any of the injured, the bruises be-
| ing about his face and head.
The smoker kept right side up. but
plunged into the bottom of the ditch at
an awful speed, tearing the seats out of
it from end to end and tossing the dozen
or more passengers around. like peas
| in skillet. bruising them all, but in
some wonderful way killing no one. In
the last car were several passengers in
iNeN''NS'
was badly hurt.
The Maine Central train brought the
bruised and battered passengers to
| Danviile Junction and the Lewiston
| train for Portland which stood at the
| station ready to so out immediately
| left for Danville junction to bring in
the wounded and the passengers.
| Physicians and the hospitals We're
| Observation-Disclosures We're sent for and
crowds gathered at the Grand Trunk
depot in Lewiston at go to await the
| incoming of the train.
| The cause of the accident was a
broken rail probably broken by the
locomotive as it struck it. 1t was one
| of those accidents that nothing could
| foresee and against which no amount
of care could have prevailed. The dam
age to the roadbed was light and was
quickly repaired. traffic being resumed
| at once.
| At Lewiston excitement was intense
for a time. The first rumor was that
| II passengers had been hurt and that
| several hau peen killed. The central
| Maine General hospital sent DR.. Em-
| mons. Dr. Sturgis and others OF IT'S
staff DR. Hawkins was present. CITY
Physician Purinton was on hand ana
| Nayor noble, City Marshal Teel ana a
solad of police We're quickly at the
denot. The city patrol wagon with
blankets was constructed into an am
hulance and was at the depot and the
railroad officials were on hand with
Ihandaees and absorbent cotton and
surgeons tools were not wanting to the
| occasion.
| Al o'clock information came that
no one was killed and that INJURIES Oh
| chose wounded were not of the most
| severe nature.
40 20 the train bearing the wounded
steamed into the Grand Trunk STATION
| The first to alight was Conductor
| Morse. his immaculate uniform sun
unspotted. After him. came Or. Il. r.
| Stureis, who had taken the tram 1t,
| Auburn. Then the injured appeare"
and the doctors took them IN charge.
| Baggage Master Adams with a pl"ou
stained bandage over his eye, biood All
over his coat and hands. was huS'iihS
around giving orders about baggage
and directing the injured where 10 go
| Only seven of the wounded paSSeh-
| oars came to Lewiston. Two or three'
with but slight bruises, Went on up 'he
line" One or two of the passengers
such as Mr.. Latham, the well-khowh
portland business man and salesman
and Mr. Sherman, a Portland business
man and travelling salesman (reslding
at 124 Franklin street Portlano), "e,
clined to consider themselves inquired
and returned to Portland by the next
train. co.,
The injured people taken to the Cen
tral Maine General Hospital in Lew
iston were: a.,
John A. Williams. Portland "'4
Portland street, bruises on abdomen.
IT r Ring. Portland, IS Atlantic
street, scalp wound. WA
- 6 Foster Il Pearl street, WOOD
fords sprained ankle. bruised shouloet
and abdomen ar
n w. Jones. New Gloucester, Me-
bruised back and legs.
Edward Smith, aged AZ, y casco
street. Portland, cut ana nruises vi