The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-11-30

partly due to Its delay that the accident
occurred. Apparently the engineer OF the
Phillipsburg accommodation did not
notice that the express drew up some
three hundred feet west Of the depot. The
express was forty Ave minutes late. when
Engineer Reardon ssw the light ahead,
too short distance separ ated the train TO
avoid . collision. His train was going at
tull speed. The engine plunged into tho
rear car Of the express, o Pullman day
coach and ploughed through the heavy
timbsrs almost Its entire length. This
car was lifted from the track and pushed
on to the next to last car also Pullman,
carrying on its end and almost complete
ly telesooping 10. The engine Of the
PhilIipsburg train was torn to pieces.
The wreckage caught fire. but this was
soou extingulshed and In this way those
who were pinned down. escaped being
burned to death.
Within a few minutes police reserves,
fremen and great crowds of people came
TO the rescue Of the terrible tangle of
wood and iron. From the wreck came
groans and shrieks and prayers for death
or deliverance. 1t was Intensely dark at
the scene and as the broken wood was
taken out OF the wreck, IL was thrown TO
the sides Of the tracks and set on fire to
furnish light for the rescusrs
The nremen, police, train hands and
several score OF citizens turned In to rip
the fearful pile to pieces. 1t was desirable
to draw this engine out, but this could
not be done because 1t would result In
death to some Of the imprisoned In the
debris. Before the wreokage was at
taoked there was seen ths body Of man
han ing half way out of one of the rear
windows on one side aud the body Of q
woman hanging from n window on the
other side. Both had been in rear seats
In the rear car and when the engine hit
the car and tore through 1t, their
mangled bodies were crushed through the
windows and hung between the sides Of
the car and the engine.
The rescuers took men and women out
of the wreckage in rapid succession and
they were hurried away to tue hospitals
In many cases, it was nece ssary to chop
away the wreckage about the injured In
order to get them out. One man was
found standing upon his head In a corner
held fast by tie wre,ksgo which had
piled atout him. He was taken out un-
conscious and 1t was thought he was
dead, but he revived and proved to be but
slightly injured.
Lizzie Kane OF Biughamton was found
with her feet held fast between two heavy
beams. The remainder Of her body was
clear Tut she had to lie there suffering
great agony while the men trying to get
her out dug down through heap OF
broken wood and iron and freed the upper
beam.
Agnes Mcdonald of Oxford, n. Y, was
taken out with great difficulty. her legs
were fearfally crushed. Sho suffered ter
rible agony during the half hour 1t tolk
to free her feom this wreckage. The dead
were carried into the depot.
David Rec, who Is in the hospital with
his right leg BADLY crushed became fran
tic when he found that his wife was not
In the hospital. He believed she was
killed but he was not told 30.
The Whites, father and son, were found
with their arms about each other. The
sons leg Is broken, while the father Is
badly bruised and his face AMI hands cut
by flying glass.