Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-08-23
TRAIN TELESCOPED AT SHARON, MASS
Seven Persons Are Dead and Twenty.
Six Were Wounded. Some OF
Whom Will Die.
A Passenger Train Was Standing at the
station When An Express, Without
Warning, Rounded Curve and
Crashed lnto the Standing Train.

relr-Suu CO4l4SiCu ocCuIIcu ih s'A~
Sharon station of the NV York. New
Haven IL Hartford railroad at 1850
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 &c seriously injured. The injured
We're nearly all removed to Boston oa
a special train, which was met by am
bu.ances and surgeons The rear car
OF the local train was completely de-
molished and q 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. Fitzpatrick, Boston,
her granddaughter. Mary Fitzgatrich,
10 years OF age, and her grandson, five
years old.
A woman supposed to be Mrs. Wat
son, OF Westerly, L. |.
Mrs. c. II. Briscoe, Revere.
The in juret, some % in umber, are
mostly Boston people.
The two trains which were in the
collision were usually com bined into
one long train. but as the traffic Sun
day was SO heavy it was divided, the
first section running as local accom-
modation, while the second which
started from. Mansfield 10 minutes
later than the first, ran as an express
The local train due at Sharon at 7:C2
was l3 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
tion, 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.
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 of the station that the engineer OF
the express noticed anything wrong.
He Immediately set all brakes and
whistled the warning, but it was toe
late to stop the express.
1t crashed into the rear car, splitting
it asunder and com mpletely demo.ishin G
it with the exception OF the roof. II:
speed was not Stacked until the engine
had penetrated fully five feet in thu
rear of the second car The escaping
steam en- tered the car and badly scald
ed a number of the occupants. Tht
roof of the last car was forced on to,
of the engine of the express and re
manned there as the only portion o
the car intact.
Every one of the killed and injured
were on the Mansfield train, and tn
only explanation of the fact that tn
number Of fatalities is not larger i
| that the passengers were all in the for
ward end OF the car in the act o
aiigh ting at the station. There wer
about so people in the last car an
most OF them at the time of the acci
dent were either upon the front pla,
form or standing by The door.
Mary Fitzpatrick, ten years old, wa
taken from the wreck, but urcor
scicus, and died just as the specia
train started for Eoston. Twenty-tw
of the injured were taken on thi
train and four others, whose name
they refused to disclose, remained i
Sharon.
The scene about the little station &
Sharon was terrible one.
A large corps of surgeons and tw
undertakers arrived soon after the a
cident and Immediately set to work
re lieve the suffering and care for II
bodies of the dead. There were yer
few lights about the portion of Il
track where the accident occurred ar
) the surgeons were compelled to {
. their work in total darkness
/; c. b. Frye, select man of Rever
Mass. one of the injured brought
. this city, is dead, making the tot
, number of dead seven.
SHARON, Mass, Aug 22.-In the e
citement and confusion attending Il
t clearing away OF the wreckage caus'
), by Sunday nights collision OF the Ne
: York, New Haven & Hartfort railroa
!: it was reported that seven perso
o were killed, four of them being Civ
as unknown. Monday it was learn'
., definitely that the total number kill
was four, as follows:
Franklin NJ. Waters, of Somervil
}; boollkeeper, Boston, aged about tive
ty-fve.
j. Mrs Mary Fitzpatrick, Of Bostc
widow, age TO-
Mrs. C. H. Frye, wife of c. H. FIR,
= of Rever.
Unidentified woman, thought to
Mrs. G. H. Bristol, of Winthrop.