Year: 1878

the most utter confusion across the track and on
about ten yards ana twisted into every
conceivable shape, while trucks pieces OF boilers.
sections OF machinery and the miscellaneous
debris incidental to general smash up formed .
heap OF ruin and disorder that cannot be described
Around this nondescript pile were congregated
some i've hundred people, mostly passengers on
the Inflated train, with about two hundred men,
women and children who hurried from the houses
In the vicinity OF the DISASTER


DRAGGING OUT THE DEAD.


The first object which met the eye was corpse
the dead body OF man whose face was mangled
beyond all chance OF recognition. small group
stood around it, stricken DUMB wi tn awe and sym
pathy. No loving hands were there to compose
the distorted limbs in the agony OF death |;
no loving words were uttered to cheer the depart
ing spirit on its journey to the UNKNOWN land.
Probably the little family which was bereaved
waited at the depot in Boston. racked with appre.
hension and fear Further along were three more
dead bodies, laid out side by side. They had been





the remains.


ATTENDING THE WOUNDED.


Here and there on temporary stretchers lay
some half dozen or more wounded men groanlng
with pain and writhing in the most intense suf
fering The physicians ministered to these, giving
brandy, applying chloroform and other
As stood there one OF the poor fellows
died in the most violent manner. cloth was
thrown over his face, and there he lay awaiting





the wrecked cars the same sad pictures continu-
ally met the eye. There was no change IN the
scene, except the change Of Identity About q
score OF men had organized themselves into
q gang OF wOrkmen and began searching Tor
more bodies One man was taken out with both
legs broken and horribly bruised, but he was
alive after remaining IN the wreck some forty
minutes. The bodies OF Charles II. Morgan
and Mr.. Hazey, OF the Boston Express, were
next taken out both terribly mutilated.


REAGAN THE oARsMAN. KILLED


On the other side OF the track the body OF Pat
rick Reagan, the defeated oarsman of the days
regatta, had been found. The vile OF Faux ner,
his partner in the sculling business mad also been
killed, and both bodies were removed to an ad-
joining house. and soon after taken to
the city in a carriage train OF cars had just ar
rived from Boston bearing q large crowd OF anx-





rush was made to Identity the bodies stretched
out on the grass, and men and women hurried
hither and thither In search Of friends and rela-
tives. Men who had seen each other on the
train, or at the race on meeting again embraced
each other and narrated their miraculous escapes.
i met DR.. Kenear, OF Bowdoin street, Boston, who
llmped about trying to do what good he could
while suffering from bad wound in the leg.


DIR. KENEAR's STATEMENT.


He told the story Of his escape thus


"Mr Kimbal. OF the Associated Press and were
sitting in the car, quietly talking over the race,
when we weressuddenly shaken up Dy q vigorous
humping and scraping on the rails In q
second the car was filed with dust and
smoke. We were thrown violently from
our seats and knew only that terrible catastrophe
was being enacted Everybody jumped up and
began to make toward the window, but suddenly
the side was knocked out OF the car and three Of
us jumped through the aperture, landing in q
marsh. After tumbltng over a broken fence l
came away with bruised leg, but three OF my
companions were killed"


Another gentleman said he was in the compart-
ment car when the engine jumped He sat still
long enough to know that the car was going to
be wrecked and then he got out, .'but how l
could not find out. / found myself on the roof by
some mysterious means, and from there came
away without scratch"


TIE HERO OF THE HOUR


In every great emergency hero appears. The
present was not an exception Dan Murphy, as
soon as he escaped from the train, instead
OF standing around surveying the scene OF
disaster and death, took of his coat
and went to work to alleviate the suffer-
ings OF those who had been badly injured
He ran to the first mouse and procured pail
and pitcher, ana filing them with good spring
water ne applied 1t to the ieverish lips
OF the poor fellows who were groaning with
pain He next started to procure brandy and sue
ceeded IN obtaining some. With this he went
around and infused strength into those whose sys
tens had been shattered by the terrible shock
to which they had been subjected. His ex-
ample stimulated others to similar exertions. and
some good hospital work was uone- Meanwhile
work proceeded ut the wreck. AS the word came
from the inside that another body had been dis
covered the crowd rushed In to learn who the un-
fortunate victim was 1t was the body OF Mrs Blake
the boat builders wife; when first taken out II was
not identified, but as soon as IL became known who
she was a murmur ran through the crowd. She
and Mrs. Faulkner were the only women killed.


THE wRECKERs AT WORK.


The regular wrecklng train from Boston arrived
at eleven O'Clock, but II was long after midnight
when the men got their machinery into position
The passenger cars were raised up from the broken
and twisted trucks but large sections Of them fell
into fragments. rendering the removal OF the
debris work OF detail, consequently the labor Of
the men was very SLOW.


SENDING THE NEWS TO BOSTON.


worse place could not have been selected for an
accident. There was not a dwelling house within
less than five minutes walk over q bad
road. The telegraph station was the same
wo fhovof No cho tn
take In the wounded and care tor them In warm
rooms. 1t Is known that 1t least two died from
exposure OF their wounds to the cold The tele-
graph operators we're, however, equal to the emer-
gency. Two men who had been down to the race
were on the train and had their instru-
ments with them. As soon as they got
out OF the wreck they climbed up