Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-02-15
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at els ard late, and the extra engine
for passenger No. 80, due to leave here
ut GS5 bumped their noses with force
enough to 1iatten them all over their
faces. Two fiat cars about five cars
back on the freight We're reduced 70
kindlng wood while the next one, 2 box
loaded with general groceries mostly Tor
towns east of the city, was having q
merry time with a fire all it's own so
that the fire department had to be call
ed out to save the rest Of the train.
This car was badly damaged and the
contents almost destroyed. The pony
trucks OF the passenger engine left the
rails and some of the box cars ahead of
the smashed fats. No. 80 was annulled
and the wreck cleared just in time to
let Pullman No. . leave 4 few minutes
after 10 O'Clock and a little behind the
regular leaving time.
The crew ard engine OF No. 90 are
changed here every night, the fresh en-
CINE coming down from the round
house onto the side track 10 or i min
utes before 80 is due to arrive and then
running down over The switch on the
main line a short way few minutes
before the passenger is expected.
This arrangement makes it neces-
stry for the fresh engine to stand on
the main line a short time every night
SO that the engine coming in with the
train can run over the switch and back
onto the side track while the fresh
machine follows back on the main
lire ana couples onto the train. The
fresh engine always stands on a side
track until there is Just about time
enough for il 10 run out onto the main
lire and over the switch before the
train pulls in.
The fresh engine was standing on the
main lire just beyond the switch. Sat
urday evening. when freight Al with
only ii cars came over the bridge and
around the curve. TIE engine hauling
this was No 30o, one Of the most pow
erful on the road. while the fresh en-
sire was No. G6, one of the smallest
passenger machines. The freight man.
aged to SLOW down, however, enough
so that not SO much damage was done
in the collision. The COW facthers of
both We're smashed to splinters and the
pony trucks of the passenger engine
thrown off the rails.
When the brakes were set on the
five cars from the engine, piling them
up in a tangled heap on the track 1t
happened that fire had started in the
car just back of these some time before
reaching here and at the time Of the
smash was making good head way
inside
AS soon as the trainrnen realized
they We're stalled they saw that they
needed help TO fight the fire in the car.
The nearest box was No 81, on Front
street, and an alarm was pulled in
from this but for some reason the big
bell failed to respond. Another alarm
was then pulled in from Box A, on
! Chaplin street. and the number had
Just been sounded once in good shape
when 60 chined in and mixed things
all up. After that it was Il race be-
that confused almost every one.
The teams started for "A but were
headed off at the Elmwocd and sent
up College avenue. the nearest way to
the fire. The firemen had nice little
| fight on their hands when they arrived
and it was rather q difficult job to get
a line OF hose down in onto the tract.
where it could be used. One was run
from College avenue ard another from
Front street. The fire had started on
the inside of the car and worked it's
way through the roof and sides before
it could be controlled. The car was
loaded with groceries of all kinds and
! it is supposed that the blaze must have