Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-11-28
NINETEEN KILLED
IN RAILWAY WRECK
Passenger Train Is Telescoped
With Fearful Results.
FAILED TO SEE DANGER SIGMA


On Account of Heavy Mist the Engineer
Of Express Train Could Not See Sig
nails Of Front Train-Worst Wreck
In Many Years in Massachusetts.
Lincoln, Mass, Nov. 27.-Tae most
disastrous railroad wreck in this state
for many years occurred at Bakers
Bridge station, a mile and half west
of Lincoln, on the main line of the
Fitcnburg division of the Boston and
Maine railroad.
The regular Sunday night express,
which left Boston at 7:45 o'clock for
Montreal via the Rutland system,
crashed into the rear of local train,
which started from Boston at 7;15 for
points on the main line and the MARI
boro branch.
The early morning lists the dead
and injured indicate that nineteen per
sons lost their lives in the rear-enu
collision. Twenty-Five persons were
more Oh less seriously injured and
others sustained cats and bruises.
The tracks were not entirely clear of
wreckage until today, and the east
bound track was freed of debris during
the night, and number of trains were
transferred around the wreclkage early
In the day.
The Montreal eXpresse which left
Boston at 7:45 last night and crashed
into the Marlborough branch accommo-
dation train, resumed its journey to
the Canadian city about 8 O'Clock in
the morning
The following is a revised list OF the
List of the Dead.
dead:
May Campbell, of Maynard, Mass.
William Walsh, of Maynard, Mass.
Charles Wetderbee, of Acton, Mass.
Donor Gauthier, of Boston, Mass,
brakeman of the accommodation train.
Charles E. Barnard, of Charlestown,
Mass, fireman of the express
Annie Hartwell, 81 years old, of Lit
Teton.
Anna HilDbridge, years old, of Ac-
ton
Mary Mosweeny, of Concord, Mass.
Joseph Karlson, of Maynard, Mass.
Joseph Baris, of Maynard Mass.
- Baris, three years old, son of
a. B. Baris.
B. Tydeprius, aged so years, resi-
dence unknown.
Five unidentified dead
the most seriously injured, al OF
whom were taken to the Massachu-
setts general hospital in Boston.
Statement of Witnesses.
Those VINO were witnesses of the col
lision said the local train which con-
sisted of fur cars, three of them pas
senger coaches, had just pulled out of
Baker Bridge depot, small flag station
about a mile and half west of Lin
coin station Just west of the flag
station is a highway bridge over til
railroad. The train had entered deep
cut after passing under the bridge
and the rear car had just cleared the
structure when the heavy Montreal
express, consisting of nine cars and
two locomotives, crashed in the rear.
The impact was terrific, and proba-
bly, majority of those killed met
wealth almost instantly The forward
locomotive telescoped the rear car and
passed part of the way through the
coach Immediately at the head The
second car of the local train was also
badly damaged, but the first car and
locomotive escaped.
The leading engine of the express
was practically destroyed in the col.
lision, and the work was completed
when fire, which Immediately broke out
among the heaps Of wreckage, consum
ed all the woodwork of the two rear
cars, which remand on the roadbed
and incinerated a number of the vic
timms.
The fireman OF the leading 1ocomo.
tive, Charles E. Barnard was burned
to death in his cab, but Engineer Con.
nors managed to escape in some
strange manner He was found under
a tree nearby. His injuries were not
regarded as serious.
The second locomotive of the ex.
press was badly damaged. The engi.
neer and firemen of this engine es,
capped injury and no persons in tn
coaches of the Montreal train was in.
jured. All the cars remained on the
rails.
When the accident occurred the local
train was said to have been few min
aSes late, and knowing that the ex
press was close behind. it is claimed
that the rear brakeman, Donor Gau4
thier, who was killed, set out red
torches, indicating danger When the
express train was at Lincoln stataTn
about a mile and half east of tle
scene cf the wreck, the Montreal train
was running at its usual rate of speed
estimted all the way from 35 to SO
miles an hour. 1t is said that sig
nal calling for caution was set against
the express at Lincoln station The
theory of railroad men today Is that
smoke from the engine of the local as
1t passed under Baker hig way bridge
obscured the red lights in the rear
From the bridge all the way back to
Lincoln station the track is straight
The night was dark, and at times dur.
ing the evening mist hung over the
tracks