Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-08-22
FOUR KILLED IN A COLLISION
Rear-End Disaster Due to Negligence at
Sharon, Mass.
Oncoming Train Penetrated ihe Other
Fully Five Feet into Second
End Car.

SHARON, Mass, August 22.-In the ex-
element and confusion attending the clear
ing away of the wreckage caused by last
nights collision on the New York New
Haven and Hartford railroad it was re-
ported that seven persons ware killed, four
of them being given as unknown. Today
it was learned definitely that the total
number killed was four. as follows:
Franklin NJ. Waters of Somerville book
keeper, Boston; aged about twenty-five.
Mrs. Mary Fitzpatrick of Boston, widow;
aged seventy.
Mrs. C. H. Frye, wife of C. H. Frye of
Revere
Unidentified woman, thought to be Mrs.
c. III. Bristol of Winthrop.
The bodies Of the victims were returned
to Stor CLIFTON today by the undertaken who
was summoned by the town officials yes
to-day.
Hard to identify.
The identification of the body of Mrs
Frye and the woman thought to be Mrs.
Bristol was delayed and rendered difficult
by the fact that both Mr.. Frye and Mr..
Bristol were among the injured and were
! taken to Boston last night.
The number of injured variously esti-
mated in last nights uncertainty and ex-
element, is still undetermined, owing to
the fact that many who were hurt were
able TO go to their homes for treatment.
while others who received medical at
tendance near the wreck were only slightly
injured. 1t is thought that not more than
twelve or fifteen can be included among
those most seriously injured Seven of
them Were taken to the Boston hospital.
A list follows:
Edgar S. Bristol, age ffty-three, Win
throp, left leg crushed; amputation prob
ably necessary.
James A. Fitzpatrick, forty two, Charon,
right leg crushed; amputation probably
necessary.
Charles F. Frye. thirty-seven, Revere
previously reported dead, through an
error, back and spine injured; probably
fatally.
Della V. Vernon, twenty-sIx, South Bos-
ton, lacerated scalp, severe internal in
juries.
B. J. Crockett, twenty-five, somerviIle,
multiple injuries.
Mary n. Grimshaw, eight, Somerville,
multiple injuries.
James S. Murray of East Boston, leg bad
ly crushed.
All the other injured are being cared for
at their places of residence in Sharon.
Waltham and Boston.
How 1t Happened.
The two trains which were in the collision
were usually combined into one long train,
but as the traffic was so heavy, it was
divided the first section running as local
accommodation, while the second, which
than the first, ran as an express The local
train, due at Sharon at 7o2, was thirteen
minutes late. 1t left Mansfield time,
making two stops, and had lost the thirteen
minutes between Mansfield and Sharon. 1t
was due in Canton Junction. the next sta
tion beyond Sharon, two minutes ahead Of
the express train, which should have passed
1t there. Sharon is situated on q curve,
and both the outward and inward tracks
are protected by electric 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 a train in the sta
ton.
There was no warning given by thu con-
ductor of the Mansfield local to show the
approaching train that the track was not
clear at the station, and ii was not until
he was within four hundred feet Of the sta
ton that the engineer of the express
noticed anything wrong. He immediately
set all brakes ana whistlsd the warming,
but 1t WAS too late TO stop the express.
1t crashed into the rear car. splitting 1t
asunder ard completely demolishing it
with the exception of the roof. Its speed
was not Stacked until the engine had pene-
trated fully five feet in the rear of the
second car.