The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-05-01

DEAD.
John Helberg. aged 20, died at the
Homeopathic hospital.
Unknown man died after being re-
moved from the wreck.
SERIOUSLY INJURED.
j. Sullivan, is fractured collar bone.
George Brasser 80, compound fracture
of the forearm.
4 Emil Steingraber, 23. back badly in
iured.
j. Tierne,, "a.
Otto Harks, 81, both legs badly bruised
and bone of righ6 hand broken.
Wm. Goodman, 22. severe scalp wound.
Emil Schram, is, small bones right foot
broken.
John Biersal, AZ, compound fracture of
right leg.
Emma Toufol, II, nose broken, face
terribl ly lacerated.
James Lombard, internal injury, may
p rove fatal.
j. +. Moore.
II. L.. Borie
Oscar Dorscal.
William Deerer.
Q. K. Hinehart.
John Sullivan.
a Charles Werner.
4 Joe thinner.
The two latter are very seriously In
jured and may die.
The slightly injured and who were able
to go to their homes, are:
Charles Darrow.
A. f. Burnham.
Henry Koehlin.
Valentine Machener.
John Russinger
Henry Rosenthal. -"
Frederick Goldsworth. -,
Charles Naphaler.
John II. Frederioks.
John Flemming
4 Frederick Scheleber.
Albert Lippens.
Frederick j. Wedhner.
W. S. Woodruff.
John De Roller.
Joseph Hicks.
Mrs. Joseph Hicks.
: Besides these there vera at least twenty
five who are cut about the face and other
wise injured. They went home without
giving their names.
The train, which was crowded with ex-
cursionists bound for different points
along the shores of Lake Ontario, Iron
Dequoit Bay district, left the bay depot
in this city at al O'Clock this afternoon
about fifteen minutes late. Every seat in
the coaches was filed and a large number
of people were standing on the platform.
The train was made up of an engine, one
closed and two open coaches. There is a
grade about one hundred yards from the
corner of North avenue and Ridge road,
and when the grade was reached, the
speed of the train increased percoptibly.
Down the grade swept the train, Its speed
increasing almost constantly. When the
far curve was reached the engine rounded
it with startling rapidity. Next to the
engine was the closed coach, divided into
two compartments and when 1t reached
the curve it yeered over to the north and
rode around the curve on the wheels on
the loft side. 1t had crossed, but part OF
the bend In the track when 1t left the
rails and shot straight ahead. There was
a sudden crash as the couplings between
sngine and coach were severed and then
it again veered over and plowed through
the earth for several feet before dropping
on its side in the front OF the Ridgeroad
hotel
When the first coach left the track the
engine sped on down the track and the
other coaches were forced OFF the track.
The second coach scraped along the side
of the one left on the track, tearing away
the platform and otherwise injuring the
car. These oars, impslled by the force
they had already received ran ahead for
about 100 feet. Tho second car had been
drawn OFT by the first coach and being
tossed 10 one slue, poised IN Une air as
though it was ready to follow the other
and toppled over in the road. But the
next Instant it struckSone of the trucks of
the coach already derailsd and the car
was thrown back ON tho track where it
came to "a stand still. The engine whirled
on down the track and was not stopped
until it had gone nearly mile.
The closed coach, (which was overturned
had inS it a apartition that divided the
front part from the rear. The front apart
ment was smoking compartments. In
1t were several men and fstanding ins the
entrance were two women and u little