Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-10-05

ScngcrS were killed outright and a
| score were more or less seriously in
| Jurol in a rcar-cnd collision between
a regular passenger train and mill
tary special on the Boston & Maine
Railroad. three miles north of Troy
shortly before ) o'clock today. The dead
are.
+. L. Block, Peoria. Ills.
Mrs. Wallace +. Shaw, Bath, Me.
Mrs. Stevens, Boston.
Mrs. j. ". Daccy. Arlington, Mass.
Mrs. II. s. Pool, Concord, \. H.
The list of injured thus far obtaina-
BILE at the local hospitals follow:
w. Van Fassett and wife, Boston, Sc
| riously burned.
Frank Belcher, Mcdford. Mass, head
cut and both less fractured.
George d. Stevens, Winchester. Mass
| compound fracture Of ankle and arm
smashed.
Miss Manson, Bath, back badly
spraincd.
Miss Virginia Manson, a sister, three
ribs broken.
f. T. I.aroux. private, Fort Ethan
Allen, arm crushed.
Louis 5alch ana wife, Ncwburyport,
Mass. Mr.. Halch cut about 1.-THE head.
Mrs Balch broken nose ana severely
bruised.
W. II. Seymour. Kcnton, Ohio, several
wounds.
Mrs. Frank Briard, Boston: badly cut
about head ana face suffering from Il
shock.
Mrs r. l.. Block. Peoria, Ills, frac
turcd spine.
Miss Mason. Bath. Nc. leg crushed.
Mrs. Randall, Bath, Me, head CASH
ed.
Mrs. Bennett. Albany, sever shock.
+. a. Mitchell. Falmouth, Me, hca
and face cut.
The wreck occurred directly in front
Of the LanSinGburG station. three miles
from Trio, and at Il point where the
grade is one Of the StccpcSt on the lin"
of the road which winds itself through
the mountainous country to POST ~.
The elevation is about % foot with
steep cmhankmcnt where the collision
took place. The passenger train WAS
one of the best equipped as well *
one Of til" fastest on the road. Il is
q regular train, known us Number
and leaves Boston daily at 30 \. NJ.
for Albany. 1t generally consists at ii
did today of fly" cars, baggage car,
smoker day cnacn ana tW" p;rlrr cars.
AS near as can he aSccrtaincd the
train was about ono hour late today
when it pulled up in front Of the Lam
sing burG station to wait for a chance
to got into the Troy depot.
Some of the railroad men say that as
soon as tie train stopped a nasman
was sent to the rear to signal APP
preaching trains. Nothing definite can
be learned on this particular. The
roisr Of the locomotive just around the
curve was the first intimation Of the
approaching special which came thun-
dering along with t. cars on tho stcccp
grade and in the fraction of n second
had crashed into the rear cnd Of the
passenger train, smashing the last two
cars. which were Pullmans, like egg
shells. s&ax
Both these cars were swept from the
track and rolled down the embank-
ment into the back yards of tenement
houses.
The engin" of the special kept right
on for dozen yards and then turned
turtle. The tender was thrown into the
car behind and telescoped it. There
was n sudden hush and then through
the gathering dusk rose the cries Of the
injured and dying. The place where the
wreck occurred is difficult of approach
and it was some time before Lansing
burgers realized the tragedy that had
been enacted in their midst.
The special which was drawing four
troops Of the 14th United States Caval-
ry from Fort Ethan Allen to Newport
News, where they are to embark for
Cuba. The soldiers quickly got to work
to rescue the injured. whose cries for
help could be heard above the din.
Daylight failed the work in q COM
Daratively short time most OF these
pinned down by the wreCkage were on
their way to the hospital where f0rtu-
nately is located one block from the
scene Of the wreck. The dead as they
were recovered were placed in the shade
of 4 giant elm tree beside the road
whore later they We're taken to neigh
boring undertaker's establishment
Many of the passengers on the Inflated
| train had left the train when it came to
| a temporary standstill and were pacing