Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-11-30
For "Wednesday Nights
Wreck at Carmel, Me.
Fails 10 Deliver an Order and
Bad Smashup Results.
Ana Nan Dead as Result...five In.
! Iured Will Recover.

Carmel. Me-. Nov 29-To the failure
IS an orerator at Northern Maine juno
finn is ascribed the wreck which took
Mace here Wednesday night. when a
both running at high speed. crashed
into each other headon. killing the fire
man of one of the trains and iniuring
five other employees of the Maine Cen-
trail Railroad.
Roy, the operator through whose
alleged negligence the smashup is said
to have occurred. reported to the olfl-
cials at Waterville today. He is badly
wrought I'D over the terrible accident.
He is a young man and has been en-
Moved at Northern Maine junction
about six weeks.
When train &c left Bangor about on
its schedule time Wednesday night it
had orders to cross the extra freight At
Etpa A supplementary order vas is
sued from the Office of the train dis
hatcher for the trains to cross at Her
mon Pend instead of at Etna. This
order vas to have been deliEt red I"
those i'm charge of train IS at Northerii
Maine Junction. but was not. This
failure caused the wreck. although an
effort was made to intercept both Of
tho trains as soon as it WAS learned
in the Office of the dispatcher that train
az had rot received the later order.
It WIS known for some time hef"r"
the crash was reported that an acci-
dent would occur and all that could
he done to prepare for it was dom.
There was no means by which it coull
he prevented after &c GOT away from
the junction. The dispatcher in Ban
gor notified the hospital. summoned 9
force Of physicians and made NJ q re-
lief train. which was hold rad" to
send to the seen" of the accident as
soon US the location ri the collision
was reported.
The pcdy of Harry Symonds at Wat
trville. fireman of train 36. WAS found
shortly after s o'clock Thursday morn
ink, mangled beyond recognition. in the
wreckage of his engine. SymoEds was
reported Wednesday night as missing.
The injured. all but one of whom were
taken 20 the Eastern Maine hosptai
dt DdUSOT, WeT' IcT'I tt'i t'y''S 90 ~
ing we'll All will recover.
The wrecka:c was not all cleared
away tonight At first trains were
sent around the scene of the wreck.
over the Bangor & AroOstook by way Of
Dover and FOXcrOft. but later a track
was laid around the place and trains
were able 20 pass the section of the
line blocked by the debris from the
smashup. The laying of temporary
track was extremely difficult because
Of the boggv nature of the land. and
the work of clearing up the cars which
had been derailed was imDeded by tn"
same cause. the cars becoming imhed-
ded in the bog and the mon haVin;:
difficulty in working on them.
svssrtE Jwo engines wcr" securely lock
3Qather and resisted all efforts tn
lite them. They were bowling
gAts40 miles an hour when they
&6Sethcr and the force of the i'm
4361ye them about third of Il
kAfito each other. and driving tn"
fRln out Of shape so that the
&. " t1t the locomotives were interlock-
knSst. a manner that it seemed as
S&X general diSmantling was the
944ans by which they could be
/ NkAE1Aart and the track cleared.