The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-09-03

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lands. and was only just beginning to
lift. prevented ais seeing that the SIG
nal nj TaIcotts crossing was set AT
dahxer when he finally did see, IL, IT
was too late.
Miller and his fireman. Ebert A. Rob
- ertson, stuck TO their engine, the Dig
- Paciffc type locomotive, sister OF
the locomotive which figured in the
stamford wreck last spring. rammed
its way through the last two Pullmans
Of the stalled train, taking along the
frame of one veStibule on its own back
and literally breaking up and throwing
the rest OF the two cars into the air
II could not he said that The locomo-
tive telescoped the cars, for this would
seem 10 imply that they remained more
or less intact about the intruding mass
of machinery. The Nesttbule frame,
which tire locomotive. after its rush
through the train, wore Jauutily like
some sort Of CHASTITY cap. and another
Sestibule with q few feet of the sides
OF n car clineinS To II. were the nnly
pieces of either of the two cars which
were mueh Too large TO be used for
arewood.
So completely smashing up even two
flinsy wooden cars seemed to have cX-
hausted the big locomotive. for II
merely gave the third a bump which
sent 1t off the track 10 the west and
foppled II over on it's side. and then
the locomotive. lettering on its trucks,
left the track by a fcw inches and
stoe6 still. Several feet intervened
between IL snd the fourth Pullman of
the train il had began to demohsh. but
the locomotive did not cover these few
- feet
There we're some thirty men. women
and children tn the last car Of the
"a Iva Is n8 hon
collier and twenty two persons tn the
Kasoia. the car just ahead 81 IT. The
Chancellor had brought SITS passengers
from kineo. Maine; the Kasota came
from Portland The Chisholm the
th1rd car from the rear. also carried
about thirty passengers.
shoots People Through AIR.
The blow which the oncomIuE loco
motive dealt the last tvo cars shot
the persons inside them through the
air TO both sides. There vas "a melon
patch just over s haFbed wire fence
70 the west Twenty or more persons
many Of whom had been sleeping q
moment before and were stan in their
night clothes. Iay hud8Je6 iu GrotcxGue
heaps about this aeld thirty ard forty
and nifty feet from thc track othcr
Passengers were tossed 20 the field at
the other side of {he track. a few
were pinned under heaps of splintered
wfechaEe. hat seemingly the greater
part Of the BILLED and injured were
thrown clear Of the piles Of debris and
lay in the ground their backs or uecks
broken or their skulls fractured So
far as todays canvass Of the surviv-
ors indicated. few II any. nf the pas
seugers iB these TIVE cars escaped death
or serious injury
In the Chisholm, lying on her side
I'm the ditch To the west nf the track.
nearly everybody was injured. but ac-
cording 10 the stories collected from
the survivors, only two passengers.
both boys, were Killed outright. These
were William Altschul. Of Norfolk,
va, and Albert Green, Of New York
both members Of parts Of forty
boy campers returning from Camp
Cohbossce AT Monmouth, Maine. No
one was injured in tho remaining
eight cars of the Bar Harbor train.
and no ono was injured in the White
Mountain train.
In the latter the passengers said
that they only felt a sudden jolt.
which bumped the heads Of some Of
those stiil IN their hrrths against
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Then there was a few yards Of
grinding. slow process through the
two cars. and then the train stopped
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