Show SIX Wtf KILLEDJ MANY INJURfU I Frightful Rearend CollisIon at Sharon Mass FAST EXPRESS TRAIN CRASHD ITO A LOCA Locomotive Plowed Its Way Though a Passenger Coach Train Was Rug I Two Sections and the Fit Section Was Thirteen tee Minutes Late No Danger Signal Displayed and No Notice Tat the Track Was Not Ce Engineer With 300 Fee of the Station Before Aware of Danger Sharon Mass Aug 21A frightful rearend collision occurred in the Sharon station of the New York New Haven Hartford railroad at 730 oclock tonight when an express train which was running a the second se ten of a long train crashed into the first section composed of local cars As a result six persons were killed and 26 seriously inure The Injured were nearly all removed to Boston on I a special train which was met by ambulances I am-bulances and surgeons The rear car of the local train was completely demolish demol-ish ed and a portion of the second car while the engine of the express train was crippled The dead are Franklin lI Water Somerville MasS Mrs W J Fitzpatrick Fitzpat-rick Boston her granddaughter Mary Fitzpatrick a 10yearold girl and her grandson 15 yea old a woman supposed sup-posed to be Mrs Watson of Westerly R Mrs H C Brscoe Revere The Injured James H Fitzpatrick 18 years old Boston J H Whitcomb Bcston Mrs J H VIcmb Boston Mrs James Ray and her aged mother age Jamaica Plain l1r Crcket Somer vie Mas Mrs Alice Braman South 1 Boston Mr and Mrs Elccson and child Daniel C Cantor D C McCan South Boston Fred Tudor South Boston Bos-ton J Ogden Lowell Mrs J Ogden 1 I Lowell Mrs Maggie OConnerd two children George QuInn Providence lIES Fitzpatrick Boston 8 years old 11 and Mrs John Gordon Boston C I W Dadman Boston Mrs Ida M talker Walham J A Philips Ba ten A E Newmark Plttsburg Joseph I lf Ian Providence Mr Della Y Brennan South Boston Marguerite M Grimshaw Somerville Raw IT OCCURRED The two trains whIch were in the cot i lsion were usual cOIbined Into one I long train but as the traffic today was i so heavy it Vas divided the first see I ton running as a local accommodation while the second which started from Mansfield 15 minutes later than the 1 i first ran as an express The local < I train due at Sharon at 702 was 13 i minutes late I left Mansfield on time i making two stops and had lost the 13 j minutes between Mansfield and Sharon 0 I I was due in Canton Junction the next station beyond Sharon two mInutes I ahead of the express train which should have parsed it there Sharon i is situated on a cure and both the outward and inward track are pr tected by electric block electrc signals After I the accIdent it was thought the block i signal protecting the inward track was I set at danger showing a i was intended station in-tended that there was a train in the staton There was no warning given by the conductor of the Mansfield local to show the approaching express train that the track was not clear at the sta cear ton and it was not until he was within with-in 300 feet of he station that the engineer gin of the express noticed anything wrong He immediately set all braes ad whistled a warning but i was too late to stop the express I crashed into a rear car splitting i asunder and completely demolishing it with the exception ex-ception of the roof Its speed was not slackened until the engIne had penetrated pene-trated fully five feet into the rear of the second car The c Te escaping steam entered the car and badly scalded a umber of the occupants The roof of the last car was forced on top of the engine of the express and remained there as the only portion of the ca intact tactEngineer Engineer Getchel and Fireman Holmes of the express traip both jumped Getchel was cut and bruised about the head He stated after the accident that he left Mansfield promptly prompt-ly on time and there was no incident until he was within 400 feet of the Mansfield train Then he saw the red lights of that train and shut off re Meanwhile he had whistled for brakes and used ever effort to stop his train Every of the Ever oe killed and injured was on the Mansfield train and the only explanation of the fact that the number of fatalities is not lager i that the passenger were all in the forward end of the carr in the act of alighting at the station There were about 30 I people In the last car and most of them at the time of the accident were either upon the front platform or standing by the door Mary Fitzpatrick 10 years old was taken from the wreck unconscious and died just as the special train bearing the injured started for Boston Twenty two of the injured were taken on this train and four others whose names they refuse to duscbosefr remained In Sharon The scene about the little station at Sharon was a terrible one A large corps of surgeons and two undertakers arrived soon after the accident and Immediately set to work to relieve the suffering and care for the bodies of the dead There were very few lights about that portion of the track where the accident ac-cident ccurred and the surgeons were compelled to do their work in almost total darkness ARRIVED AT BOSTON Boston Aug 2LFifteen ambulances waited the arrival of the train at the Park Square station which brought the injured from the scene of the wreck A great crowd had assembled and a force of policemen were necessary to keep them from crowding on to the tracks Lined up on the platform were 14 stretchers while 30 hospItal attendants and a number of surgeons were on hand Quite a number of the patients were taken in charge but the greater number were taken to their homes Daniel C McCann an express messenger mes-senger on the New Bedford train had his right hand and arm badly lacerated lacerat-ed and his right kned ninfully Injured In extricating a man who was pinned between the englnes headplate and the flooring of the telescoped car Just In front of the prisoner lay his wife crushed and bleeding and be was un able to move hand or foot to help her The Woman died in a few moments Steam was rising a in a Turkish bath The heat from the escaping steam was intense Mr McCann sad that many people were slightly burned though in their heroic endeavor to assist the in jured the workers did not know it C B Fre at Rever Mass one of the injured brought to this city is dead making the total number of dead seven |