Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-08-22
STANDING TRAIN RUN INTO
DISASTER CAME FROM RUNNING
TRAIN IN TWO SECTIONS.
one Section Crashed Into the Rear
End of the Other. TeIe.copinr
H-Most of the Victims Were
From BOston-Other
Accidents.

ohotiOii oA tiit We" 1OEk, New haven q.
Hartford railroad at 7:3o tonight when
an express train, which was running as
d. the second section of long train, crashed
into the first section, composed of local
cars.
As a result, six persons were killed and
tweHy-six seriously injured. The injured
were nearly all removed to Boston on
special train, which was met by ambu-
lances' and surgeons.
The rear car of the local train was COM
pletely demolished and "A portion Of the
second car. while the engine of the eX-
press TRAIN was crippled. The dead are:
Franklin NJ. Waters, Somerville. Mass.
Mrs. WIham ]. Fitzpatrick. Boston.
Her grand laughter, Mary Fitzpatrick, 10
years of aye, and her grandson, Is years
old.
A woman sn pposed 10 be Mrs. Watson,
of Westerly. Il. l.
Mrs. c. II. Brh 'coe, Revere.
The injured arc:
James II. FitzTn ltrick, is years old, Bos-
ton.
J. II. Whitcomb, Boston
Mrs. ]. H. whitdomb, Boston.
Mrs. James Ray and her aged mother,
Jamaica Plains.
Mrs. Crockett, SonheTvilie, Mass.
Mrs. Alice Braman, South Boston
Mr.. and Mrs Ericsson and child
Daniel c. Cantor.
ID. c. McCann. South Roston.
Fred Tudor, South Boston.
]. Ogden. Lowell.
Mrs ]. Ogden, Lowell
Mrs Maggie o'Connor ana two children,
Boston.
George Quinn. Providence.
Miss Fitzpatrick, years old. Boston.
Mr. and Mrs. John Gordon. Boston
G W. Dadman, Boston.
Mrs. Ida NJ. Walker. Waltham.
]. A. Phillips, Boston.
A. T. Newmark, Pittsburg.
Joseph NJ. Mann, Providence.
Mrs. Della v. Brennan. South Ro ston.
Marguerite NJ Grimshaw, Somervilie.
The two trains which were in the collis-
ion were usually combined into one long
train but as the traffic to-day wtas
Heavy it was divided, the first section run
ming as local accommodation, while the
second, which started from Maustieh fif-
teen minutes later than the first. ran as
m express. The local train, due 1T Sharon
At 7.0e, was thirteen minutes late. 1t left
Mansfield on time, making two stops. and
had lost the thirteen minutes between
Mansfield and Sharon 1t was due in Can
ton Junction, the next station beyond
Sharon, two minutes ahead of the express
train, which should have passed it there.
Sharon is situated on a curve and both the
outward and inward tracks are protected
by electric block signals.
After the accident it WAS thought the
block signal protecting the inward track
was set at danger, showing, as it was in
tended. that there was a train in the sta
ton
There was no warning given by the con-
ductor of the Mansfield local to show the
approaching train that the track was not
IL, ha ctat, Nd NO IInf
he was within 400 feet of the station that
the engineer of the express noticed any
thing wrong. He Immediately set all brakes
and whistIed the warning, but it was too
late to stop the express.
1t crashed into the rear car. splitting it
asunder and completely demolishing it with
the exception of the roof. Its course was
not checked until the engine had pene-
trated fully five feet in the rear Of the
second car. The escaping steam entered
the car and badly scalded number OF the
occupants. The roof OF the last car was
forced on top of the engine of the express
and remained there as the only portion Of
the car intact.
Engineer Getcheu and Fireman Holmes,
Of the express. both jumped when they saw
that a collision WAS unavoidable Getchell
was cut and bruised about the head. He
stated after the accident that he left Mans
incident until he was within 400 feet
of the Mansfield train. Then he saw the
steam. Meantime. he had whistled for
brakes, and used every effort to stop his
train.
Every one of the killed and injured was
on the Mansfield train, and the only ex-
PLANTATION of the fact that the number of
fatalities is not larger is that the passen-
gers were all in the forward end of the
car. in the act of alghting at the station.
There We're about thirty people in the last
car and most of them at the time of the
accident were either upon the front plat
form standing by the door.
Mary Fitzpatrick, 10 years old. was taken
from the wreck. but unconscious. and died
just the special train bearing the IN
jured started for Boston. Twenty-Five or
The injured We're taken on this train and
four others whose names they refuse to dis
close remain in Sharon.
The scene about the little station at
Sharon was terrible one. A large corps
of surgeons and two undertakers arrived
soon after the accident and Immediately
set to work TO relieve the suffering and
care for the bodies of the dead There were
very few lights about that portion of the
track where the accident occurred and the
surgeons Were compelled to do their work
in almost total darkness
BOSTON, Aug 22--Fifteen ambuances
waited the arrival OF the train at the Park
Square station. which brought the injured
from the scene of the railroad wreck at
Sharon. Six were from the police depart
ment. four from the city hospital, two from
The emergency hospital. and one from the
Massachusetts general hospital.
A crowd of fully 5000 people had assem-
bled by the time the first train from the
wreck arrived and force of fifty policemen
was sent to keep them from crowding
down on to the tracks.
Lined up on the platform were fourteen
stretchers with their white pillows and
crimson blankets. ready for the reception
of the injured. Thirty hospital attendants
and number of surgeons We're also on
hand.
Quite a number of the patients were
taken in charge. but the greater number
were taken to their homes.
Daniel c. McCann express messen-
ger on the New Bedford train, had his
right hand and arm badly lacerated and
his right knee pan injured in ektricating
q man who was pinned between the en-
gine's head plate and the flooring of the
telescoped ear. Just in front of the prisoner
lay his wife. crushed and bleeding and
he was unable to move hand or foot to
help her. The woman died in a few mo-
ments. Steam was rising in a Turkish
bath. The heat from the escaping steam
was intense. Mr.. Mccain said that many
people were slightly burned. though in
their heroic endeavor 10 assist the injured
the workers did not notice it,
c. b. Frye, a selectman Of Revere. Mass,
one OF the injured brought TO this city.
is dead. making the total number of dead
seven.