The Portland daily press., 1896-12-22

the rest was hurled down an en- JULIA
ment and brought up with one of those
dull thuds You read about. / should say
that the EN- bankment was about twenty
five or thirty feet hiRh.''
OTHER STORIES OF THE WRECK.
Mr.. Ralph F. Burnham. who lives at
l61 Newpury street In this city, was
walking about the house with the aid of
q cane last evening when he told how he
got the injury which made him limp.
Mr.. Burnham was sitting In the sent
with MIR. Frank e. Pickett who lives in
the same house. "There was very little
noise,'' said Mr.. Burnham. "We all felt
the shock and knew that an accident WAS
coming. l shut my eyes and guess
nearly every body else did, too. was
sitting in the third seat from the rear OF
the car and was thrown nearly ITS entire
length, bringing up against the side with
my leg jammed down among the pile OF
seats. managed to extricate myself a1d
then helped out Mr.. durham, who was
on the floor will, lot of the seats on top
Of him. We went to the hospital in
Lewiston and the doctors wanted me to
stay there all night, but came home oil
the two O'Clock train.'
Mr.. Hickett added that one Of the seats
which Mr.. Burnhnm pulled off Of him
was lying SO that a part of it came right
across his neck. MIR. Burnhain' back "a
injured, 20 that he suffers considerable
pain, but he does not know just how
severe his injuries will prove. He is able
to be about the house.
One of the most exciting experiences of
the accident was that which fell to the
lot of Mr.. Augustine I. Howe, of 90 Elm
street, this city. MIR. Howe does not re-
member what happened before he came
to himself in the wreck of the smoking
car. Like the others he was in the pile of
seats, having been thrown from q seat
opposite that occupied by Mr.. Burnham.
Blood was running from cut in his leg,
but he was too excited to notice 1t, and
won't into the rear car from which he
helped lady. Later, Mr.. Howe assisted
Mr.. Foster up the bank to the Maine
Central track. At the hospital the
physicians found il necessary to take a
Howe's leg. He declined to take ether
and went through the painful operation
without a inurmur.
MI, John A williams of 374 Portland
street, is one of Mr.. Howe's employees In
his roofing business. Mr.. Williams's in
juries may prove serious. He received
severe bruises on the abdomen and Is
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doctors told Mr.. Howe when he left
there, that they could not tell at that
time how badly it would prove that Mr..
Williams WAS hurt. 1t was feared that he
may be internally injured. MI. Williams
was sitting In the next seat to Mr.. Howe
anu SO must have been thrown long
distance.
H. E. Ring, the brakeman on the
train, was in the rear seat of all III the
nyH fhror1nI, until
Joined the crowd at the other and. but he
escaped with less serious injuries than
many of thsssothers, coming out Of the &C.
cident with slight scalp wound.
Mr.. Edward Smith OF this city, also
escaped without serious injury. He was
cut and bruised about the hand.
H. ". Jones of New Gloucester, and
in the smoker, but were not seriously
hurt.
A glance at the smoking car, when the
writer saw 1t yesterday afternoon.
showed how wonderful was the escape OF
many of it's inmates from an instant and
terrible death. Looking down from the
rear door at the top Of the embankMent
to the shattered end on the level ground
below, one saw the floor swept bare of
the seats, which made pile with many
protruding pieces of iron arms and legs
at the lower end. Yet, strange as it may
seem, the windows were mostly un-
broken and the lamps were still whole
and in the brackets where they belonged
The body of the car, with the exception
of the splintered forward end did not
seem to be badly damaged.
IN THE REAR CAR.
The rear car came out of the smash
with little injury. Platforms were
broken and so was the roof at the for
ward end where the smoker was jammed
against it, but inside the seats were all
in place and the lamps and windows
were unbroken. In this car, beside Con-
ductor Morse were two ladies, one of
whom tainted when the car swung down
the embankment. Neither of the ladies
was hurt.
THE CONDUCTORS STORY.
Mr.. Benjamin r. Morse the conductor
Of the Inflated train. was in the rear car.
He was seen at his house No. 365 Con-
gress street last evening by PRESS re-
porter. While feeling somewhat stiff and
lame, Mr.. Morse said that he was not
much this worse for his terrible expert
ence. "When the accident occurred, :"
said Mr.. Morse, II was seated in the
fourth seat from the end of the last car
on the train. Suddenly I felt a jar. the
car swung from side to side a moment
and before had fully renlized just what
had happened, was lying against the
end of the car which was at the bottom
of the gully. OF course was badly
frightened, but as soon as / found that |
was all right began to look out to see
what had happened to the rest of the
people on the train The only passengers
on the rear car were three ladies. These
were not evon thrown from their seats
and by the time I had recovered my feet,
they were as cool as cucumbers. l
helped them out of tho car, though none
of them needed assistance. I never saw
any women in time of excitement behave
as coolly an these did.
eng ineer Webber ran bthe locomotive
back to the scene Of the wreck as soon as
he could. When / told him no one was
dead and none seriously injured he was
the happiest man GU earth. By my
orders the engineer ran up to Danvil1e
Junction and sent word to Lewiston
Junction for the dummy awaiting us
there to run down to our assistance
Just after the engine went of and we
had got Strengthened out a bit and
counted noses again Maine Central
freight train running towards Danville
Junction came along. We tagged tho
~ Din and n1Jttiup tha rnSsenCers on