The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-12-22
DEATH RIDES
The RAILS
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People focked to the wreck from
every direction, and soon the dead and
injured were being tenderly cared for.
The cries and groans that arose from
the tangled mass of wreckage We're
something appalling.
Pinned under the timbers of the car
was young Holbrook, with his legs
fearfully injured He was suffering
fearful agony, but pluckily refrained
from manifesting it except by low
groans that were wrung from him, de-
spite his splendid courage. He was
taken from the ruins in few minutes
and was made as comfortable as pos
sible on the cushions of the cars. Then
he was lifted into the business pung
of John P Ashley, which happened to
be available, and was carried to the
City Hospital as soon as possible.
The other injured persons were eX-
tricated with good speed and were all
carried into Mrs Pendergasts house,
where they were given medical attend
ance by Drs. Stearns and McNish, who
We're summoned and arrived in about
20 minutes after the accident. 1t was
in the little parlor of Mrs Fender
CASTS home that the lifeless body Of
John Kerrigan was placed, covered
with white sheet and the mangled
limbs decently arranged, to await the
coming of the medical examiner and
the undertaken
Medical Examiner Baker arrived
within an hour after the accident and
viewed the remains. He stated that
death had been probably instantaneous.
The body was taken in charge by I'm
dertakeT Athy, who arrived about 5. 80
o'clock and removed the body to Ker-
rigans home, in Cherry Valley.
AS soon as possible the injuries to the
lady occupants of the car were attend
ed to, and they were removed to their
homes or to the hospital.
One of the first to summon help after
the crash was Mrs. Timothy Mccarthy,
who lives just above the Pendergast
place, in the direction of Leicester She
was looking out of the window at the
time the wrecked car turned the curve
from WinsloW avenue. She noticed that
it was going at an unusually slow rate
Of speed. She watched the car as it
went down the street towards the point
of collision, but was unable to see the
actual accident on account of the fog.
which shut the car from sight just be-
fore the crash came. She heard the
rushed to the spot. She saw in mo-
ment that she could do nothing to get
the people out of the wreck, and she
turned and fed w the hill as fast as
she was able. She went to the car barn
beyond the centre, where she found her
husband, Timothy Mccarthy, who is an
employees of the road
She gave the alarm as she went. and
among those whom she aroused were
Arthur A. Sibley and George S. Whit
temore, who We're among tAe first to
arrive on the scene Her husband bur-
lied to the scene together with a num-
her of other persons, who had caught
the alarm, and the work of rescue was
soon under way.
Mrs Mccarthy and Mrs. Pendergast
are the nearest neighbors to the scene
Of the tragedy, and their supplies Of
everything that could be used to allie
viate the sufferfngs of the injured were
levied upon very generously.
The removal of the wrecked cars was
accomplished with the utmost dis
patch by the employees Of the road.
who were soon on the scene. The YES
tibule car was not injured enough to
prevent its continuing it's trlp to Spen-
GER but the Worcester bound car was
almost completely destroyed
One OF the employees Of the road said
that it could be disposed off easiest BY
removing the running gear and setting
the rest on fire. 1t was, however.
hauled away by the railroad men. The
fragments of the broken car We're care
fully picked up and in a few hours
nothing marked the scene Of the acct
dent but a large plot where the snow
on both sides of the track was torn
up, trampled, dirtied and stained with
blood.
The employees of the road We're as
uncommunicatiVe as the officials and
said without exception that the blame
rested on no one for the accident bu.
that the fog was the sole cause.
Motorman Hiney was very much af-
footed when he alighted from the vesti-
bule of his car after the crash, and es-
pecially so when he recognized among
the dangerously injured Walter Hol-
brook. who had been a strong friend of
his He broke down completely when