The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-01-31
THE STORY OF THE WRECK.


THE STORY OF THE WRECK.
Broken Cars.
ESPECIAL TO THE PREss.l
orono. January 29.-The worst wreck
on the Maine Central in this section for
many years, occurred at 3.54 o'clock this
afternoon, about an eighth of a mile be-
low this station. Train 29 left Bangor at
1856 in charge of Conductor John Eupea,
with Engineer Little and Fireman Shea
in the cab Harry Rice was bagga 90
master and E. f. Jenkins and Claude
Springer, brnkemen. The train was 60
ing So miles an hour when the accident
took place. The train was made up OF
six cars, the rear one being 555, the pri-
yate car of General Manager Evans, oc-
cupied by President Wilson and wife. All
of the cars went over 25 foot embank-
ment with the exception of 555. The on
CINE did not leave the rails. The oars,
with so passengers, went rolling over
and over until they struck the bottom
of the hill.
The scene was one of horror when the
cars came to a standstill. Four or i've
people in the houses on the hill saw the
train when it tipped over and rushed to
the scene. When they got there the in
jured were crawling out Of doors and
windows. All the cars except the bag
gage car lay on their sides. The bag
at
angles to the wreck SO that the whole
looked like q letter L.
The cars in their roll down the bank
knocked down a telegraph pole and COM
munication between Orono and Portland
was cut off with the exception Of one
wire. Bangor was notified and a wreck
ing train was at once sent to the scene.
On it were nearly all of the doctors in
Bangor and with those from Orono, the
work of removing the injured and killed
was at once begun. Two women who
were instantly killed, wers about the
first taken out of train. They were Mrs.
Daniel Cunningham, who with her hus-
band were going to Lincoln Centre from
North Troy, and Mrs. Jennie Murray OF
ST. Stephen. The latter boarded the
train at Bangor, having just come from
Veazie where she had been visiting her
sister. The train on which she was killed
does not stop at Veazie and Mrs. Muir
raw had to go to Bangor to take it..
She was killed five or six miles above
her sisters house. Mr.. Cunningham was
severely injured and cannot live through
the night.
David Frank Atherton, student OF
the Bangor Theological seminary, was
on the train on his way to Lincoln to
breach. He received o bad fracture of the
skull which the doctors are afraid will
prove fatal
Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Beane and child
were on the train on their way from
Berlin Falls, N. H., to Passadumkeag.
Both were horribly injured. The child,
two or three years of age, escaped unin-
lured. Mr.. Beane received a compound
fracture of the skull and cannot live.
His wife was badly injured about the
head.
Howard Lewis Maddocks Of Skowhe-
CANA student at the University of Maine,
boarded tho train at Bangor along with
several other students, who thought that
the train stopped at Orono and when
the accident occurred the conductor was
Just about to pull the bell cord for the
engineer to stop at Orono. Maddocks
received a fracture of the skull and will
probably die The sum of SOB in bills
was found in Cunningham clothes, to
pether with several notes from people
in North Troy, Me.
The lower floor Of the town hall build.
ing, the Orono house and private resi-
dences were turned into hospitals In
the town hall were J. E. Leavitt of Old
town, Eugene f. Jenkins, the brakeman,
and W. K Thompson of Pittsburg,
Penn, Leavitt received fearful injuries
about the lower jaw. He was in agony
Err hours while the more nearly fatal
cases were handled by the DOCTORS but
at o'clock the surgeons began to ope'
rate upon him. His lower jaw was fear.
fully crushed.
Brakeman Jenkins had his leg and
several ribs broken. His head was bad
lv cut and he suffered internal injuries.
There are fears that he may not recover,
but the doctors say they can tell bettel
about this in the morning. Thompson
was a through passenger and received
bad internal injuries. He has been re-
moved to the hospital in Bangor.
Julian Fl. Merrill of Portland, repre-
sentative of Milliken, Tomlinson & Co.,
was on the train, and proved himself f
hero He was in the smoker and wheI
1t rolled over into the ditch, fell Out
through window, and although suffer
ing great pain, set about to rescue thu
imprisoned. Grasping an axe he GU
in one side of the Pullman car, breaking
through the plate glass windows of thu
rear and rescued two people. One wa
Mrs Estes, who lives in Springfield. HI
dragged her through the aisle where sh'
lay unconscious. As he tells it, wher'
he lay at the Penobscot Exchange undel
a doctors care. he does not remembel