Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-29
Reports Of Dead Vary from
Six or Eight 10 Fifteen.
Many Injured--Some May Die
| Some Pinned In WTeCkage,
Minute Later and Trains Would
Have Met on a Bridge.

Bangor, Me, July ga head on col
lision between a crowded excursion
train containing about $50 persons, and
regular passenger train. bound from
Van Buren, to Bangor at the little
backwoods settlement of Grindstone.
on the Bangor & Aroostook Railroad.
80 miles north of this city late last
night resulted according to early re-
ports, in at least Is deaths
1t was reported that few if any of
the $50 passengers on the excursion
train escaped death or serious injuries.
Inc regular passenger train was the
heavier and plowed is way through the
hshter excursion cars with comparative
~ little injury to the regular passengers
Up to 2.3O this morning me names of
nve dead and two injured were known
Inc Killed at that hour were reported as:
Engineer f. w. Garcelon of the excur-
sion train
III Hugh Pipes. Presque Isle dentist
ana member of the Presque Isle Band ac-
companying the excursionists
Frank Feeley. son of the cashier of the
fresque Isle National Bank
Harry Clark, Presque Isle.
Clark Roomer. washburn
Both fremen were also reported killed
out their names were not known.
The injured are said to be:
Engineer William Orr of the regular
train, badly hurt about the face and
hands
j. r. Ellington. mail clerk on the reg
ular train
Inc accident is said to be due TO
misunderstanding of orders. The two
trains were to have passed each other
at Grlndstone. The excursion train
was about minute late aud il is said
the regular train did not wait.
In the smoking car of the excursion
Train. next to the engine, were mem
pers or the Pressure Isle Band. nearly
all of which, according to the early
reports were killed or dangerously in
jured
The Grindstone station where the
accident occurred is a back settlement
with no facilities for the care of dead
or wounded. A special train with
surgical and medical supplies left this
city for the scene at 1 o'clock. It was
expected that the run would. take
ABOUT two hours
Inc excursionists were retnrnins
from kidder's Point. near Searsport on
the Penobscot bay, for points in north
erh Maine, chiefly from the vicinity of
fresque Isle. The night was thick
ana stormy and details were hard N
get owing to the isolation of the
place. VI the
among those reported killed were
fGGlaV- %
Ter of Presque Isle.
marry Clark of Pressure Isle
LARK Roomer, Wasbhurn
Bangor. Me, July 2S-I.atar ,aron.u
ihoiea'e that the Grindstone disaster
Is much greater than supposed II is
stated at the Maine Central station
here that at least Is persons ware lin
eu outright ana that an unknown nI,no
DER are stlll under the wreck hadl,,
injured and dying, while 30 or 40 other,
are less seriously injured. special
train has just left Bangor bearing six
surgeons and medical supplies.
All sorts of rumors are I'm attendance
but up to this hour exact information
is lacking, as the wreck is at some dis
tance from any point of communica-
ton. 1t is said that the excursion train
was late and that the collision was
head-on,
Watervile, Me. July 28.-A special
to the Sentinel says that the trains met
head on and that orders were evident
ly confused as it is understood that the
excursion train was running on the
time of the regular passenger. The
smoking car of the excursion train
was next the engine and was telescoped
by the tender. All passengers riding in
IL. mostly members of the Pressure Isle
Band, were killed. Engineer f. w.
Garcelon of the excursion train was
killed instantly and Engineer William
Orr of the regular badly hurt. Both
firemen are missing
Grindstone. Me-. July 2S.-Several
persons were killed and many injured
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