The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1898-08-23
TRAINS COLLIDE
Seven Persons Dead and Twenty-SiX
Wounded, Some Fatally.
A Passenger Train Was Standing at the
Station When An Express, Without
Warning, Rounded Curve and
Crashed Into the Standing Train.

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Sunday night, when an express train
which was running as the second sec
ton of long train, crashed into the
first section, composed of local cars.
AS result six persons were killed
and 90 seriously injured. The injured
were nearly all removed to Boston on
a special train, which was met by am
balances and surgeons. The rear car
of the local train was completely de-
molished and a portion of the second
car, while the engine of the express
train was crippled. The dead are:
Franklin NJ. Waters, Somerville.
Mass.
Mrs. William J. Fitzpa trick, Boston,
her granddaughter, Mary Fitzpatrick,
10 years of age, and her grandson, nve
years old.
A woman supposed to be Mrs. Wat
son, of Westerly, R. l.
Mrs. C. H. Briscoe, Revere.
The injured, some % in number, are
mostly Bost,gn people.
The two trains which were in the
collision were usually combined into
one long train, but as the traffic Sun
day was so heavy it was divided, the
first section running as a local accom-
mediation, while the second, which
started from Mansfield ID minutes
later than the first. ran as an express.
The local train due at Sharon at 1909
was IS minutes late. 1t left Mansfield
on time, making two stops, and had
lost IS minutes between Mansfield and
Sharon. 1t was due in Canton juno
ton, the next station beyond Sharon,
two minutes ahead of the express
train, which should have passed it
there. Sharon is situated on 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 intended, that there was train
in the station.
There was no warning given by the
conductor of the Mansfield local to
show the approaching train that the
track was not clear at the station, and
it was not until he was within 400
feet CT the station that the engineer of
the express noticed anything wrong.
He Immediately set all brakes and
whistled 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 exec ption of the roof Its
speed was not Stacked until the engine
had penetrated fully five feet in the
rear of the second car. The escaping
steam entered the car and badly scald-
ed a number of the occupants. The
roof of the last car was forced on top
of the engine of the express and re-
manned there as the only portion of
the car intact
Engineer Getchell and Fireman
Holmes, of the express both jumed
when they saw that collision was I'M
avoidable. Getchell was cut and
bruised about the head. He stated
after the accident that he left Mans
field promptly on time and there was
no incident until he was within 400
feet of the Mansfield train. Then he
saw the rear lights of that train and
whistled for brakes and used every eff.
fort to stop his train.
Every one of the killed and injured
were on the Mansfield train, and the
only explanation of the fact that the
number of fatalities is not larger is
that the passengers were all in the for
ward end of the car in the act o.
alighting at the station. There were
about so people in the last car anC
most of them at the time of the acct
dent were either upon the front plat
form or standing by the door.
Mary Fitzpatrick, ten years old, was
taken from the wreck, but uncon
sciOus, and died just as the specia
train started for Boston. twenty-five
of the injured were taken on thi
tram ana TOUR others, whose name
they refused to disclose, remained il
Sharon.
large corps of surgeons and tw,
undertakers arrived soon after the &C
cidentand Immediately set to work t,
relieve the suffering and care for tn,
bodies of the dead. There were yer,
few lights about the portion of tn
track where the accident occurred an,
the Surgeons were compelled to d.
their work in total darkness
C. B. Frye, select man of Revere
Mass, one of the injured brought t
this city, is dead, making the tota
number of dead seven.
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