Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-21
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SCORE INJURED.
BE- M. Express Collision
With Freight in Vermont,
Lowell Woman So Severely Burn
ed That She May Mol Recover,
Officials Slate That Engineer OF
FreightIs Responsible.

Randolph, VI. June 20.--A score or
more passengers were sealded or
severely shaken up in collision on
the Central Vermont road early today
between Boston & Maine express
which left Boston at T.30 O'Clock last
night for Montreal and a freight train.
No person was killed, but Mrs. Mary
Magee Of Lowell. Mass. MAS SO seri-
ously scalded that she may not re-
cover
The express train consisted of 10
cars, made up of a mail car. smoking
car baggage car, five coaches and two
sleepers. With the exception of one
mail clerk, all of the injured persons
were riding in the smoking car. The
collision occurred at o'clock this
morning at the lower end of the Ran
dolph train yard. Extra freight No.
Ais was on siding waiting for the
passenger express, which was 55 min
utes late. and running at high speed
TO make up time, to pass by.
The railroad officials are authority
for the statement that the engineer of
the freight, Harry Palmer, loosened
his brakes when he saw the express
approaching and that, unknown for
time to Palmer, the freight, by its
own momentum, slid gently down the
siding on to the main track. Palmer
tried to reverse his engine but could
not back the freight off the main line
before the freight and passenger loco
motives came together in ad-on
side glancing collision.
The steam chests and air tanks were
rfr off
force of the impact. The air tank of
the express locomotive ploughed the
entire length of the mail car, which
was crushed against the smoking car.
Immediately everything in the
neighborhood of the locomotives was
either smothered in clouds of escaping
steam or flooded under scalding water
r. f. Weary, a clerk in the mail car
was painfully scalded about the hands
and face, but the other occupants of
the mail ear escaped without injury.
The smoking car was well filed
principally with French Canadians
who were riding on second class tick
cts. When the crash came. nearly ev-
eryone in the car rushed to the front
door in a mad scramble to escape The
door of the car was jammed by the
collision so that it could not be open
ed for some minutes and in the mean
time the car was filed with escap-
ing steam
Mrs. Mary Magee of Lowell who
happened to be riding in the smoking
car at the time of the crash, was ter
ribly sealded about the face, arms and
chest and her recovery is doubtful
Fifteen of the injured We're taken to
the Randolph sanitarium, where their
burns were dressed. With the excep-
fion of Mrs. Magee, no one was dam
gerously sealded. Their names are:
Fred J. Hebert and Mrs Hebert Paw
tuvket, r. L.. Frank Girdlestone and
his daughter Mildred. Boston; Felix
Sanino, Worcester, A. LaPorte, e. C.
Nabrse. Miss Dora LaLuniere and
Frank Mitchell, Southbridge. Mass.
Joseph Godreault, Montreal; Marshall
A. Gauttier. George Paquin and Jo-
scph Paqun. Lowell, Mass; A. Bean,
Montpelier. Vt; Eddy Morrow, Housa-
tonic. Mass: Oscar Il. Smith, Worces-
ter, and Willie. Damasne and Antonio,
three little sons OF Alphonsc Be.air,
Montreal.
The express train was in charge of
Conductor Nj. ODay. Engineer Fred
Maloney and Fireman Allen. The
freight engineer was Harry Palmer
and the fireman was j. f. Mcdonald.
Traffic was tied up for several hours
as a result of the collision