Show A TERRIBLE AFFAIR AN EXPRESS TRAIN LOSs OF LIFE scenes ai hie place of lie occurrence portland maine jan 10 it is reported along the line of the boston and maine railroad Kail road that a passenger train has gone through the bridge at haverhill mass and that there have been three killed and twenty injured boston mass jan 10 nothing positive from the reported accident at haverhill has yet been received but telephonic advises advices from that city state that at 1 the express from boston went through the bradford bridge over the merrimac river and that seven dead bodies have already been taken from the wreck and forty four passengers are reported injured haverhill mass jan 10 the portland express which left boston for portland at 1 met with a serious accident this afternoon be tween bradford station and the haverhill bridge over the merrimac biver caused by the rails spreading near a frog on a curve whore a turn is made to run on the bridge the train consisted of an engine two e cars a smoking car a parlor and three passenger cars the engine passed safely but the smoker and two other cars left the track the smoking car ran on the bridge and I 1 turned over one coach smashed into the water tank house and another through the sleeper the crash was fearful and the cries of the people terrible to hear the cars did not take fire six persons are known to have been killed several others are expected todie and many others are more or loss seriously injured the train was on time and running at the ordinary rate of speed physicians were summoned and the wounded and dying were rapidly cared for several bodies were mangled beyond recognition A list of the killed as far as ascertained is as follows john obrien of bradford bolm madden section boss of bradford 0 P goodwin wife and child kennebeck maine an unknown man having a card in his pocket with the name of J hazleton fifty two passengers in all were wounded some badly one of the saddest sights was the death of mrs 0 P her little daughter of kennebeck mrs goodwin was riding in the second passenger car with her little child in her arms both were instantly killed as was also her husband A still later account says a frightful accident befell the portland maine express train which left boston at one today to day the scene of the disaster being near the haverhill bridge which spans the merrimac eiver between bradford and haverhill the train consisted of eight cars this train does not stop at bradford and was going at great speed the georgetown branch train was standing on the track near the water tank house at the bradford end of the bridge waiting for the express to pass over to haverhill As the express rounded the curve two cars left the rails and went crashing into the water tank house demolishing it in this house a number of section hands were eating dinner john obrien a retired merchant of bradford was talking to the section hands at the time and was killed together with wm taylor one of the laborers the car that crashed into the tank house knocked the foundation away letting the heavy tank down upon the car crushing through the top of the car doing fearful work within the next car behind telescoped the one ahead of it adding to the havoc the scalded and wounded were mostly in those two cars tho cars behind these ran down alongside the georgetown train barely escaping a collision with the engine of that train the people in the smoker had a fearful experience one of the wheels on the forward truck broke and the car bumped against the end of the bridge causing it to careen it ran upon the bridge for some distance over the sleepers then careened the other way and leaned against the iron work of the bide of the bridge the passengers of whom there were about thirty in the car found themselves at the top of the car while it seemed to come of tham that the car was tumbling off the bridge to the river below the passengers managed to crawl out none of teem being very seriously injured As soon as they reached the ground such as were able rushed back to help those who were imprisoned in rhe wrecked cars the entire force of physicians in the city were summoned by telephone and were quickly at hand and the wounded were cared for as soon as released the list of killed aro as follows clarence hazlewood beai dence unknown john obrien of bradford 0 P goodwin wife and child of Kenn maine william taylor section hand A ii walker of harrison maine charles thurlow of newton junction new hampshire joseph shaw of boston the name of the man reported unknown is joseph shaw of boston the accident is supposed to have been caused by a switch rod breaking after the engine and three forward cars had passed over the switch the train was running according to the engineers story at about eighteen mues an hour and after the smoking car had broken apart from the rear portion 0 the tram and bounded forward on the bridge the air brake on that car was the car was thrown on its side lt is probable that but for this break the car would have fallen into the icebound ice bound merrimac eiver feet below there forty passengers in the smoking car as near as can be learned but they all escaped without severe injuries although nearly all of them were badly t haken up and a number of them had their clothing torn from their bodies all the cars were equipped with steam heaters and no portion of the can caught fire tho two passenger can are completely wrecked the loss to the road on rolling stock will not reach over 20 the inward track was cleared at 9 and trama bound for bo ton were started lib usual the passenger car which ran into alie water tank and section house was ground almost to atoms the heavy tank crushed through the monitor top crushing it like an egg shell in this car there were bix killed and nearly all tho passengers received injuries mostly of a severe nature further 0 alir ir I 1 kawlins wyo jan 10 A gor on tho union pacific tram that was run into wyoming describes alie incident as the most exciting ho over witnessed the people in the emigrant car were wild and having got out in the severe cold required much coaxing to get them baick into tho train this passenger thinks one of the children died from exposure scott vermillion the conductor appeared to have become insane and that is believed to have been alie cause of his pushing out toward alio hills it was rumored among railway men that ho had been found frozen stiff it seems that after stopping the train to fix a side rod to the engine the brakeman that had gone back to flag tho freight train was called in and tho passenger train was moving off when the crash came it was an undetermined question whether the flagman had done his duty or not in putting out torpedoes as is required according to a statement of a U P passenger the engineer of tho freight that crashed into the accommodation have been passenger train was running westward at twelve miles an hour and on a straight track east of edson station when the freight train camo flying down behind and ran into it the emigrant cars were entirely burned and had a wind been blowing in the right direction the whole train would have burned up why the passenger conductor took to tho hills has noli been figured out except on the theory that the sight of the wreck drove him insane another passenger win M mc caughlin was in the sleeper just ahead of the two emigrant cars when tho collision occurred instantly everything was confusion one man appearing intent om bumping through a window and the sleeper passengers were with difficulty quieted on go ing outside mr mclaughlin saw the two emigrant cars in flames and their occupants scattered in all directions many of them only partially dressed and the freight engine sizzling and whizzing away in the ruins of the rear car the train hands responded nobly and two doctors were sent down from hawlins there were thirty two persons in jure dand besides the death of two children a woman left at hawlins was not expected to live tho mother of tho burned child cried piteously for its remains but not even a bone could be found so complete was the incineration and mixture with tho burned car timbers she is a widow engaged to marry a man in san francisco the conductor told his engineer that he would not go back to the wreck as he feared lunching lynching lyn ching and then put for the hills air mc heard yesterday that the unfortunate man had been found frozen to death and then again that his lantern had been found but not burning the passenger had been steadily losing time because of a weak engine but the train was burling along at 14 miles an hour and was on a down grade when the accident occurred the railway officials did everything to make the unfortunate passengers comfortable most of the hand luggage in the emigrant cars was lost bait lake officials say the freight engineer was to blame according to the account given as the passenger had the right of way only two thia time billings jan local passenger train no 6 northern pacific bound east while making regular time was derailed by a snow drift near grey cliff mont the entire train running free from the track upon the prairie where it now stands leaving the road unobstructed the engine turned upon its side the tender pilling upon it engineer hugh monroe and fireman eric Gust housen being killed no one else was injured A san francisco jan 11 iti reported hero that tho los angeles express train on the southern pacific met with a fearful accident near caliente Coli ente last night the last car of the train was an emigrant which broke one of its wheels and was detached from its train and went rolling down an embankment fifty or sixty feet the car took fire and was soon rei deuced to ashes the train had gone two miles before the accident was discovered the locomotive and coach immediately went to the scene of the accident several emigrants were picked up seriously injured brakeman mccurdy received injuries from which he died shortly afterward an unknown lady also received fatal in aries the injured passengers were left at sumner for medical treatment deports concerning the accident are meagre |