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Show ANOTHER HOIUMJK. I Ilallnnl tar Trlcicoprtt With 1 earful llrtnlls. Mto Klllcil. DCTAILS OF THC SAD ACCI DCNT. Somo Iloillrl Ihirnrd lo A Irlip ami Others liarfullr Manglrd. Br Tclrtrlpli to the Haws I ir iimih tut 1 rii Antl tfnuj luliiretl In nt lUIWontl Aeel. lint irslrrda), IIoftiin, He 1. 11 The horror of the great Quluoy accident WA1 recalleiTlast night when a through freight iiii. train, wtstward bound 011 tho I llch burg railroad rau tnto n ttaaseuger train ataudltq' on tho outbound track at Wist Cambrldgo Junction, leleiiuplng the tear car, killing six tersoiis outright out-right and Injuring nearly forty others, threuof whom have slnco dlid. Tho i'ont lite list of tho killed and Injured, us laras kuowu, Is as follows. ICIIUIi. H. J, Hulllvau of llostou, Leon C. P.aymoud. of Wlniliendon, brakeman 011 the freight train, John HuLuiiof Watertown, Joints Lane of Last Wutortowu, Joint 11, llstuet of New-tin, New-tin, MI11 llttta I ejler of Waltham. lleiijamln luck of Wnllham, die 1 111 roulu In tin hos Ital, Margirlu Adama of Wnllham, clleii today, II. Mcrtl. llildof Watertown, died today. INJMirn. Coruillus Doyle of Waltham 1 rot-ably rot-ably fatally; John Iligau of Water-town, Water-town, Trunk Mills of Waterlqwn', Andrew An-drew Diyloiof WatertownJ 1 dward Doyle, his son, U. M. H.,ur of Waltham, Wal-tham, Thomas O'Conuell, I roil Warren War-ren ol Waltliani.UolicrtOrrof Newlon, Thomas J Units of Waltham, HerllutI P. (loodwln, inglnier if thu freight, Mary Dardls ol Watertown, 1 leauor O'Jltarui, Moreuce K. Park of II ttou, Katu White uf (Cam! ridge, L H. Murihyuf Waltham. WllllauiU'Herriu ol Port Whitney, Patrick Oatea of Wniertowu, Prtrlck Downey, Tliomaa 1''. Ilerry, ucorgu llooi!, Mr. 1 ahet, J itiies Huillh, L. H. Hall of WHllhuai, Mrs. Uuorgu Wright of Cambrldgt, Mis Mary Ann 1 lllotl, Harry l.lllott uf Newton, llionns Canty, Thomas Louiiux, Ji hu Mulllu, M chael Mulliu, Mrs. Htoveni, Mrs. Welsh, Itlchard ll.illliol Watertown. Passenger train No. 131, duelultavo Iloiton at 10 15 p. m , sUrled on lime. When Wtat Ctmbrldge Junction was rtache I the engineer lound It necessary, necessa-ry, owlug lo thu di 1110 fog, lo ruitcloao lo the irois over In order to so If hu had the right of way (10111 Hid signal t)wer. Whlloslandlng near the irom-over irom-over the express freight train bound west came thundering along an 1 Just na the itauenger train ttartitl lo irois to the Watertown branch, thn freight train crashed Into the rear car of the iussenger train with the rciult above tletirlbcd. N hen thu engine struck the rear It entered It like n wvdge,i III. ting It la Iho parte, each of which fill outward on thu track. Thu whole roof of thu car lodged un top of the bcom llve. The recoil from tbo rolllilori drovolhuhiavily loaded freight isra taikward, and although tho two cars ncaritt Ihu engine wetu not Injured ten or twelve cars lnhlnl thent were euiolliid Into kindling wood. Thu cars were I lied upon tach othtr In Indn-scrl Indn-scrl utile confusion, ccinflelely Hocking Hock-ing both traika for fully a hundred yarda As soon as thu accident occurred word was dlipalchvd to tho various pullcu stations In Huston, Komervlllu uud Cambrldgo aiklng them to sor.d surgeons to thn scene. The relief end wrecking trains 011 arriving at tho nit, no found that six of the bodies had been remuved froDi thn debris and Jal I. out In the West Cambridge laaaenger1 station. They were removed to an uu lertaker's, as wero the bollea of two others discovered later, lly I o'clock this morning all visible bodies had bcou removed from tbo wreck and tho wounded rare I for by wlllltg hands On the rear eud of the 111 fated ear u man's legs wern dangllug. Thu trunk wai found u quarter of a mile down the track. The rear brakeman of the passenger train, who shortly beforo the accident was sent lack to notlly the engineer of thu rrolc,ht train of dangt r aht ad, su) that he wtnt back as directed and signaled thu freight tralu, nud the signal was answered by two whistles which Is the usual answir that all signals liavu been seen and noted. The reatou for the collision, he feels sure, was that thn engineer of the freight train coull not loutrol thu train, which coasllud of thirty can, the grostir part containing htm her. l.uglneir Ouodwln of the freight train Is In tho host Hal suffering suffer-ing from a bad shaking up, but is not serlouily Injured. Hu says "As soon rut I siw the signals on thu rear of the patsruger train I reversed thu engine, but thu momentum of Iho freight carried It luto thu nauongcr train " Tho pacicngur cars other than Hie rear one waa not very much lijured, tut the ahuck to thu occutants was only a little list severo than that stis tallied ty those In the rear car. As soon its tho crash lame frantlo meu and womun ruihed ubout In a purioe-Iras purioe-Iras way, ahrleklng mil groaning. I lames soon broke from tho Wrecked freight cars Thu lire department soon ut out tho flames, anil thu work of rejcuu soon began. Olio by onu by onu bodies wero brought lit and placed uu tho depot floor. Mangled ly thu traah of timber, scalded by steam and blackened b tiro they presented aalckinlug u) puarauio, Thu groans of tbo Injured and tho crks of thoao siarehlng for missing friends and ttlallves uildud to tho horror uf thu scene, Molt uf those on Ihu 1 aneeugor train wiro residents on the lino uf ihu Wntertonn branch and nearly nil wern worklug peoili. It will to n dllllrult matter tu IJentlfy somu of thu deal. Homu aru burned to n crisp and others frightfully mangled. II it, ltll..rl Ilt.llflrtl Kansas Cirv, Mo , Hept. 10 The grand Jury of this lounty has returned Indictments against II. W. lluasoll, n formerly truisurer of the Lombard In-veetmiut In-veetmiut ioniiany of thla city, and Montgomery 11. Lewis, formerly audi-t-r of thu conn any, charging them with the eml eiilimcnt of $-'0,1X10 from thocomtauy. |