The San Francisco call., 1898-08-22

and a grandson, 15 years old.
 A woman supposed to be Mrs. Watson of Westerly, R. I.
 Mrs. H. c. Briscoe, Revere. c. B. Frye, Revere. :. . The injured are:
 ':> James Fl. Fitzpatrick, Is years old, Boston.
 J. H. Whitcemb, Boston.
 Mrs. J. E. Whitcomb, Boston. =: Mrs. James Ray and her aged mother, Jamaica Plains.
 :: MT. Crockett, Somerville, Mass. Mrs. Alice Braman, South Boston. MT. and Mrs. Ericsson and child. :. > Daniel c. Cantor.
 D.. c. McCann, South Boston.
 Fred Tudor, South Boston.
 J. Ogden Lowell.
 Mrs. J. Ogden Lowell. :" Mrs. Maggie O'Connor and two . children.
 George Quinn, Providence. Miss Fitzpatrick, Boston, eight years old.
 MT. and Mrs. John Gordon, Bos- ton.
 c. W. Dadman, Boston.
 Mrs. Ida M Walker, Waltham.
 J. A. Philipps, Boston.
 A. E. Newmark, Pittsburg.
 Joseph M. Mann, Providence.
 Mrs. Della v. Brennan, South Boston.
 Marguerite M. Grimshaw, somer- vile.
 The two trains which were in col lision were usually combined into one long train, but as the traffic to-day was heavy it was divided, the first section running as a local accommodation, while the second, which started from . Mansfield fifteen minutes later, ran as an express The local train, due al sharon at TOP o'clock, was thirteen minutes late. It left Mansfield on tlrne' making two stops, and had Iost the thirteen minutes between Mansheld ana cbaron It was due in Canton Junction, the next station beyond Sharon' two r7inutes ahead of the express train' 3--bicb should have passed it there. Sharon is situated on curve and poth the outward and inward tracks are pro +ac+ad bv electric block signals. Alter +ba accident 1t was thought the block eignaI protecting the inward track was -co+ at sdanger." showing, as it was 1n- xa,3,5ad that there was a train in the station. o.,,,o, bv the coo;,drc+or of the Mansfield local to sbcryy the approaching train that the 'track was not clear at the stauoh' anu l. n-ae not until he was within SOO .-t:o+ of the station that the engineer or tba axnress noticed anything wrong. :.Ha immediately set all brakes anu I,-bis+1ed the warning, but 1t was too late to stop the express. ..:T+ crashed into the rear car, spht- :.nfr IF asunder and completely de- '- ;rioIishing it with the exception oI tue r1oof Its speed was not slackeneo uil- iii the engine had penetrated IullS AFe foa+ into the rear of the second Cal: .:Tbe escaping steam entered the iool of the car and badly scaldeo d nun her of the occupants. The rooI oi 'ne last car was forced on top or the ell, zine of the express and reHiailieu fbere. as 1t was the only portion ol 'he I,,,o,iraer Gretchell and Fireman - Holmes of the express train poeii tuinped. Getchell was cut anu pi uiseo ah0ut the head. He stated after lne ac cfdent that he left Mansfield pronipuS .' on time and there was no incident uii- til he was within 400 feet of the Mans field train. Then he saw the red llehts of that train and shut off steam. Mean while he had whistled for brakes anu used every effort to stop the train.
 Every one of the killed and injured . was on the Mansfield train and the snly 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 of alighting at the station. There were about thirty people in the last car and most of them at the time of the acci- dent were either on the front platform or near it.
 :. Mary Fitzpatrick, 10 years old, was :. taken from the wreck unconscious. and died just as the special train bearing /: :: the injured started for Boston. Twenty two of the injured were taken on this .. train and four others whose names they refuse to disclose, remained in Sharon.
 .: The scene about the little station al Sharon was a terrible one. A large
 cor-s of surgeons and two undertakers arrived soon after the accident and i'm
 n1ediately set at 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 al
 most total darkness.
 Fifteen ambuIances awaited the ar