Daily Kennebec journal., 1907-11-14
hARRow ESCAPE.
Continued from Page One.),

The work train, extra, No 3l3. was
at the Elm street crossing. BACKING IN
the Westbound track. making a cross
over 10 ciear the way for extra freight
''' "tst'"uhd. When the freight came
along and crashed into it. causing a
nasty wreck and injuring most of the
men aboard the train. The engineers
ana hremen Of both trains jumped ana
escaped serious injury.
lHe work train was composed Of en-
sIhe ;l1. Il flat car loaded with scan,
ilhe' "nG an old Maine Central passen-
ger coach. used for the Transformation
"f iae men The passenger coach was
tne llfSt cur to take the switch and
had gene about half way between The
t"o tracks when the freight locomotiye
crashed into il.
The ear was thrown on its side on
the east bound track ana one side vas
completely demolished. being smashed
INTO Eindling wood. The seats inside
OF the car We're torn from their fasten-
ingS and there was but little semblancr
OF car left
t.n.-t" 80. by which the freight
train was drawn. threw the loa,icd fiat
car of the work train over on its side
and ploWed through the tender Of the
other locomotive. bucl.lng its heavy
iron base as though il had been of It's
sue paIcr The force of the impact
drove engine 3l3 two lengths down the
track and left the left side of s57
mass Of twisted wreckage Seven
freight cars We're piledf6n either side
Of the track. When thrswn from the
| track the passenger car attached to the
work train struck a telegraph pole,
swapping it off and bringing down o.
| mass Of wires. putting several teie-
graph lines ont Of commission unttitheH
could he repaired. AL HI
| Traftir on the road was shehf@up ter
the greater part of the dsy. despite
the exertiuns Of the wreckins crews
which .'ere at once sent to Ceaf the
| ira ck Passengers were transferred
around the wreck. but the moils and
baggage were seriously delayed.
The cause Of the wreck has not been
learned. but il is stated that the Main"
Central Railroad Co. will hold an IN
vesticltion to learn where the RESPONSE
biitv belongs 1t is claimed that one
of the train crews dsrcgadcd signals.
while another report is that for som"
cause the signals failed 10 work proper
| ly.
| Following the accident the fireman Q!
one Of the locomotives stated mat ne
and the engineer and conductor on hl'
train had orders giving them 4 clea"
track 10 Newport and to cross tram
LIZ at HermonS Pond. The scinaphofe
arm was down, showing clear track
He was on top of the tender When ne
noticed the semaphore ande 1unpeh
down to the cab to bank his fire wren
| the head brakeman called out that lff
semaphore had changed. Immediately
afterwards. he and the engineer jump
ed Just Eefore the crash cane.
| Rohie Young. who lives close 70 m
scene Of the wreck saw the acrideh'
and corrobcrates the story of inc en-
gineor that the semaphore was SCI ~
clear track The semaptore VIZ
changed he says but it was S'r'''n
by ii piece Of wrcckage which chahs''
il back to the way in which u W."
originally set.
| When sean BY Il kennebec 'o''ii'''
representative this afternoon H"Pei"
tendent Priest said that he hao -
statement to make, as nc had hce'' ~
busy to secure any accurate ii'io''
tion concerning the wreck.