Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-31


Frank Seeley. son of the cashier
of the Pressure Isle National Bank.
Claude Loomer, Washburn.
Zerne Harris, Presque Isle.
Fireman Gallagher of excursion
train.
Fireman wentworth of Brewer. of
regular train.
THE INJURED.
William Orr. engineer of Van Buren,
local
J. r. Ellington. mail clerk on Van
Buren, train.
Charles Palmer of Brewer.
Dr. Lowery. dentist, of Pressure Isle.
Earl Gibson, Presque Isle.
Billy Duncan, Washburn.
George Moves, bookkeeper. Pressure
Isle
Robert Welch.
Ted Southland.
Claude johnson.
Ralph Hardy.
Eldon Parn idge. blacksmith, Fort
Fairfield
Walter MAYNARD. also of Fort Fair
field, both members of a baseball team.
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Brakeman Estabrook.
agemaster c. l.. Champln of
Bangor,
George Cilley. Waterville.
John York.
In the height of storm in one of the
widest parts of the Maine woods eight
persons were crushed to death and Is
others injured when a trainload of ex-
curtionists and heavy passenger train
met in a head-on collision at the little
flag station on the Bangor e Aruos-
took Railroad.
Early today special trains with
physicians and medical supplies We're
rushed to the scene from Millinocket
and Bangor and the injured removed
to Presque Isle, where most of the ex-
cursionists lived
The dead included five passengers.
members of the Pressure Isle Brass
Band, the tiremen of both trains and
the engineer of the excursion train
The passenger train was bound from
Van Buren, to Bangor The excursion
train "as returning from Kidders Point.
near Searsport, on Penobscot bay.
bound foi Pressure Isle, and was run
ming a minute late
The two trains were to pass each
other at Grindstone, but there was
slipup somewhere. it is believed, for
the Van Buren, train was just pulling
out OF the station when the excursion
train shot out of a binding sheet of
rain, making for the siding.
Neither locomotive was moving fast
at the time but the momentum was
sufficient to telescope the smoking car
of the special.
In this ear the members of the
PresqIe Isle Band with a carload of
neighbors, We're making merry when
the fatal crash came. and it was this
car that bore the brunt of the accident,
for the remaining passengers on the
special and all those on the regular
train escaped with a shaking up.
Both engine crews went down with
their locomotives. F. w. Garcelon, the
engineer of the excursion train, was
almost instantly Killed with Fireman
Gallagher his mate. William Orr. en-
gineer of the regular train. was bad
ly hurt about the face and hands, and
witnessed the death close by him of his
partner, Fireman Wentworth of Brew
err
With the exception of the smoking
car. none of the coaches left the rail,
and as soon as the uninjured passen-
gers and members of the train crew
had picked themselves up from the
hears into which they wore thrown by
the shock, they rushed out to help their
less fortunate tourists
Up in the forward part of the shat
tered smoker was pitiful scene.
Young Frank Seeley. son of the cash
Ter of the Pressure Isle National Bank.
was seen half buried beneath heavy
fragment of the roof and one of the
windows.
At the bottom of tumble of seats
and heavy timbers where death must i
have been instantaneous. was DR., |
Hugh Pipes, Pressure Isle dentist. and /
one Of the best musicians in the band.