The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-22


me local train was completely demolished
and a portion of the second car, while the
engines of the express train was crippled
The dead are:
FRANKLIN NJ, WATERS, somerville.
Mass.
c b. FRY, Revere, Mass.
MRS WILLIAM FITZPATRICK, Bos-
ton.
MARY FITZPATRICK, 10 years of age.
FITZPATRICK, 5-year-old boy.
A woman supposed to be MRS. WAT
son of Westerly, R. I.
Mrs. C. Il. BRISCOE, Revere, Mass.
The injured
James H. Fitzpatrick, Boston.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. H Whitcomb, Boston.
Mrs James Fl. Ray and her aged moth
er. Jamaica Plains.
Mr. Crockett, Somerville Mass.
Mrs. Alice Braman, South Boston.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ericsson and child.
Daniel c. Cantor.
D. c. McCann South Boston.
Fred Tudor, South Boston.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Ogden, Lowell.
Mrs. Maggie O'Connor and two children,
Boston.
George Quinn, Providence.
Miss Fitzpatrick, years of age, Bos-
ton.
Mr. and Mrs. John Gordon, Boston.
c. W. Dadman, Boston.
Mrs Ida M. Walker, Waltham.
J. A. Phillips, Boston.
A. E. Newmark, Pittsburg.
Joseph NJ. Mann, Providence.
Mrs. Delta V. Brennan, South Boston.
Marguerite NJ. Grimshaw, Somerville.
The two trains which were in the coils
ion were usually combined in one long
train, but the traffic to-day was so heavy
1t was divided the first section running
as a local accommodation, while the sec
ond, which started from Mansfield fifteen
minutes later than the first one, ran as an
express. The local train due at Sharon at
1:O2 was 10 minutes late. It left Mansfield
on time, making two stops and had lost
Is minutes between Mansfield and
Sharon. Il was due in Canton Junction,
the next station beyond Sharon, two min
utes ahead of the express train, which
should have passed it there. Sharon is
situated on a curve and both the outward
and inward tracks are protected by cleo
uic block signals.
After the accident It was thought the
block signal protecting the inward track
was set at danger, showing as it was in
tended that there was train in the sta
wa ,f,,er civ
by the conductor of the Mansfield local
10 show The approaching train that the
rack was not clear at the station, and
" was not until he was within AGO feet of
me station that the engineer of the/ex-
press noticed anything wrong. He imne-
oiateiy set all brakes and whistled the
warning, but it was too late to stop the
express.
4t crashed into the rear car splitting It
aSander and completely demonshing it,
with the exception of its roof. Its speed
was not slackened until the engine had
penetrated fully five feet in the rear Of
Il lie second car.
Inc escaping steam entered the car and
oadiy scalded a number of the occupants.
me roof of the last car was forced on
"P OIL the engine of the express and re-
NAMED there as the only portion of the
tar intact.
Husineer Getschell and Fireman Holmes
v l1e express. both jumped when they
"a" mat a collision was unavoidable.
livery one of the killed and injured was
NJ tAe Mansfield train, and the only ex-
p''i'auen of the fact that the number of
''"-'eS is not larger is that the pass
'75's We're all in the forward end of the
= 'l the act Of alightnng at the station
''le We're about thirty-eight people in
''st car and the most of them at the
'''s ol the accident were either upon the
platform or standing by the door.
nary Fitzpatrick, 10 years old. was
'" from the wreck. but unconscious.
''' p'sd just as the special train bearing
,. INJURED started for Boston. Twenty
~ 81 the injured were taken on This
.'A ana four Other whose names they
10 disclose remain In Sharon.
scene about the litne station at
IRON ~ was a terrible one. A large corps
a s.s'uhs and two undertakers arriv-
s. ~" 1I'er the accident and Immediately
Cara NorR TO relive the suffering and
M oI 'he bodies of the dead There
Of 81 Wy Few lights about that portion
a1l r' '"VN Where the accident occurred,
u,.r surgeons were compelled ia do
lh almost total darkness.
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