Show RAILROAD DISASTER the following is a dispatch from on n dated aug 19 one of the disastrous railroad accidents ever occurred in the vicinity boston and one that rivals the aft wollaston disaster of octo 5 1878 occurred this afternoon d on the same road the old lony ony and very near the same lity in the wollaston disaster n were killed and nearly injured ared roday fifteen persons frere killed twenty three seriously ared u ed three fatally and several ore sustaining slight injuries y the train wrecked today was the shall express which is due at boston at pm it consisted ot A locomotive loco moti ve baggage car smoker pullman car and four ordinary heavily loaded the trail train 1 bad passed quincy station running ton ten miles per hour and just beyond presidents bridge the engine left the track from a cause at present unknown and plunged into I 1 i ILD an embankment twelve feet dhigh the tender baggage car er and pullman passed aby the engine and were stretched T along for a distance of feet besiie beside atle tle track the foremost passenger I 1 beosch left the rails and fell upon its le left side upon the engine the lower forward portion was torn to pieces and of the passengers in the ears cars some fifty in number many were thrown into a corner from I 1 W ellch eleven dead bodies were after r wards burds taken out the escabi ng steam and smoke from the engine in filled the car the forward 1 ears care were forced up over the out ward bound train completely block traffic all day and night aly n ly three persons on the train of the head passenger coach were injured these were the r jb areman reman who was instantly killed and au burled buried under the engine and the engineer and pullman car conductor benson who were both badly injured in three rear pas passenger seager 1 coaches the occupants received no worse injuries than a slight shaking up the first passenger coach was the principal scene of death and r agony and the experiences of the an unlucky lucky occupants were probably never exceeded in horror and suffer er ing ine in any railroad wreck in iii recent years fears i the killed are mrs philadelphia mrs mary E tanne ammy aged 70 Louis Louisvill ts E J montpelier vt john ryan nyan fireman of the train four I 1 woman two men and two children unidentified mrs A C wells hartford conn a daughter of H JU X welch waterville Wat erville conn alice and catherine terrell y the following were critically injured mrs oscar fennedy Fen Feut nely iely louisi ville scalded over the whole body C M coop cleveland ohio cal ded over the whole hotly body not expected to live E C bailey of t dorchester formerly proprietor of y the t boston herald scalded on the e sace and hands y those seriously injured number lirty and the condition of two or ae is critical it is reported that nadie name of oue one of toe the unidentified dead to Is W H grady and that the two others are mrs E P johnson and her fifteen year uld old boy it is also reported that a niece of mrs A wells of hartford is among the unidentified the engine set fire to the coach but the fire was soon extinguished ti A number of physicians were summoned to the spot and as soon as possible those living were taken from the wreck and those most seriously hurt taken to the hospital the dead were laid on th the grass egrass until the undertakers arrived Alltha all that human thuman skill could accomplish was done to soothe the last hours of the dying or quiet the pain of those suffering from burns and wounds among those seriously injured are mrs martha E chase at the head of the santa rosa female seminary santa rosa cal face and left arm slightly burned rev T r M dimmick lor lo 10 angeles cal face arms and hip scalded dd his wife a sister of mrs mra chase had her face and hands scalded and suffered a compound fracture of both bones of the left leg between the knee and aind ankle in the afternoon the crowd became so great about the wreck tearing the remnants of the cars to pieces and securing mementoes that the officers were compelled to drive them away and erect a gu ird of ropes the general impression impress ioia seems to be that the wreck was caused by the spreading of rails the most unfortunate ta party arty was the fennelly family his ns wi wife three children mother and maid were in the party his mother and two children were killed and his wife so 80 seriously injured that she may die any moment the other child and the maid were both injured three persons so far have not been found and five may die making twenty persons in all as the victims of the terrible wreck electric lights and gasoline lamps were erected as soon as H i began to grow dark and the work of clearing away the wreck conti continue nuel all night |