Show BROKE THROUGH ABRIDGE A Terrible Accident on the Boston and Albany Road FIFTEEN PERSONS KILLED A Number of Others Seriously Injured Sis of Whom Will Die Pitiful Scenes Enacted by Those Who round Either Friends or Loved Ones Among the Dead Those Killed Were Horribly Mangled SPUINGFIELD Mass Aug 21The Chicago limited express train for Boston broke through a frail iron bridge on the Boston Albany railroad one and one half miles east of Chester about 1230 today to-day and four Wagner cars were crushed tilling at least thirteen persons fatally injuring several others while at least a score are badly hurt The wreck was the worst ever known on the road The bridge was being strengthened for big locomotives and the workmen who were putting on the plates were at dinner when the crash came The locomotive passed over the structure struc-ture but was smashed the water tank being be-ing thrown a long distance The buffet two sleepers and dining car were smashed to kindling when they struck the stream twenty feet below but the two day coaches and smoker in the rear did not leave the track There had been thirteen dead bodies taken out at 6 oclock and twelve of them have been identified It is believed there are two more bodies in the ruins lows The list of identified dead is as fol T TV TRWTTT of Portland Me nresi dent of the Union Mutual Life Insurance company T KELLY of Boston Miss SUSIE COTTING of Boston MRS C BISHPOMof Philadelphia Miss EMMA DELERTY of Columbus O H C IVES of Chicago FRANK SEDGEWICKPALMER express messenger brakeman JOHN McMASTBES of Springfield J H MURRAY of Green Bush N Y BAGGAGE MASTER GEORGE W MORE of Boston Wagner car conductor J C STACK POLE of Hartford Conn R C HITCHCOCK of Bellows Falls Vt MRS J S WINCHELL of Oneida N Y UNKNOWN WOMAN apparently about45 There are about fifteen seriously injured in-jured and five or six may die The train was seven minutes late at Chester and railroad hands say it was going at the rate of twenty miles per hour when it struck the first of the twospan bridge The trusses collapsed and fell over to the south The conductor was taking tickets in the day coach and although thrown violently down escaped serious injury There were only a few houses in the vicinity and a man driving by gave the alarm through the village street In a few minutes hundreds were on the scene rendering aid to the imprisoned peome The heroes of the hour were Dr George L Wood of Collinsville who went to the train to meet his wife and the colored porters and waiters iq the dining car although their faces were bruised and cut and covered with blood they did splendid work The wounded were soon removed to houses near by and cared for Many of those killed were horribly mangled and only tenvere recognized by their clothing cloth-ing Pitiful scenes were enacted by those who found either friend or loved one among the dead Many narrow escapes were recorded The bridge looks a though it bad been thrown from its abutments rather than broken down and lies t the right These facts suggest the theory that the blow of the locomotive as it struck the bridge from the curve sent it bounding off its foundations to tho river Railroad officials cials say they find no marks on the bridge such as would be made by the derailed train They have no theories to offer to account investigation ac-count for the fall but promise a complete |