| Show wreckage took fire and victims were incinerated lincoln mass nov 27 the early morning lists of the dead and injured indicate that lost their lives in the rear end collision at baker bridge station on the main line of the fitchburg division of tha boston maine railroad last night persons were more or less seriously injured and others sustained cuts and bruises the tracks were not cloar of the wreckage until today although the eastbound track vas freed of debris during the night and a nir raber of trains were transferred around the wreckage early in the day the montreal express which left boston at last night and crashed inep the marlborough branch accommodation train resumed its journey at 3 a m the following Is a revised list of the dead may campbell maynard mass william calah maynard mass donor gauthier marlborough mass brakeman 0 the accommodation train charles E barnard charlestown Charles town mass fareman of the montreal express annie W hartwell 31 years old of littleton Liti leton annie Hill bridge 5 years acton mary concord mass josephine karlson maruard Ma W J barels mayanrd barris 3 year old son of V 3 barris K aged 50 residence unknown five unidentified dead the most seriously injured all of whom taken to the massachusetts general to boston ft ere andrew calson maynard internal injuries fracture of the belvie dislocated shoulder condition very serious bavario vando concord internal injuries ana scalp wounds very mrs clara fuller compound fracture of nose fracture of clavicle suffering from block chadi coadi alon critical mrs albert batly maynard crushed thigh may die mrs W J harris fractured clavicle multiple fractured ankle condition favorable anna klaven address unknown amputated arm lacerated wounds on leg many la addition lo 10 these named were attended by surgeons at tha beccne of the wreck ana were able to go to homes early today no deaths baa occurred at tho hospital in boston although at least half a dozen of the injured ys in a critical condition aside from the work of inden the remains w aich were removed from the charred ruins the greatest interest centers this forenoon in the investigation of the causee of the disaster president tattle of the boston S malno stater lia been given to institute a searching inquiry he 1 I cannot understand how such frightful accident could have happened unless the signals were in some way those who were witnesses 0 the collision said he local train which consisted cars three of them passenger coaches had just pulled out ot baker bridge depot a small flag station about a alle and a salt west of lincoln station just west 0 the flag station ia c highway bridge over the the train had entered a deep cut after passing under the bridge and the car had just cleared the the heavy montreal express of nine cars and two crashed into the rear tho impact was terranc and probably a majority of those killed met almost instantly the forward locomotive the rear car and passed part of ho way through the coach ahead tho second car of the local praia was also badly damaged but tha first car and locomotive escaped abe leading engine of the express destroyed in the the work was completed when fi which immediately broke out among tho wreckage consumed all the woodwork ot the two rear cars on the road ted and a number of the victims the fireman of the leading locomotive charba F barnard was burned to his cab but engineer conners managed to escape in some strange manner he was found andor a tree on ie embankment near his engine his in juries are not regarded as the second ot the express was badly damaged the engineer and ot this engine escaped injury aria no person in the 0 athe montreal train were injured all of the Spars remained on the rails many of the passengers on this train assisted in of rescue the glare of the turning wreck lighted the awful scene and above the hiss of the escaping steam and the crackling of the flames arose the and groans of the victims and the cries of the rescuers several passengers in the rear car of the marlborough train were caught in the ruins ot the locomotive and coach and the flames prevented help from reaching them calls for assistance and medical aid were bent to boston concord and other places tha fire department of lincoln arrived within halt an hour but the men were unable to make much impression on the burning pile they succeeded however in saving portions ot the third car the Pullman car of the express was used as a temporary hospital two of the victims laue anna dilbridge Hil bridge and a man died car As tho flames rom the burning died down bonfires were surgeons and rescuers many or the injured were carried to tha nearest dwelling bouses and to the station house about 1130 a special train which had brought a dozen surgeons with stretchers and botker appliances from boston returned with 13 bodies of the dead and 14 of the most seriously wounded the living were taken to the massachusetts general hospital when the accident occurred the local train was said to have been a few minutes lato and knowing that the express was close behind it is claimed that the rear brakeman don gauthier who was killed set out red torches indicating danger when the express train was at lincoln station about a mile and a half east of the scene of the wreck the montreal train was running at its usual rate of speed estimated at from 35 to 50 miles an hour it Is said that a signal calling for caution was set against the express at lincoln station the theory of railroad men today is that smoke from the engine of the local train as it passed under the baker highway bridge obscured the red lights in the rear from the bridge all the way back to lincoln station tho track is straight the night was dark and at times during the evening a hung over the tracks whatever the reason the first engineer of the montreal train chose duty it was to scan the signals tailed to observe any warnings it was hours aftic the accident before the wrecked engines could be disentangled the top of one of the cara rested on the second engine and portions of the sides of another car were picked up along the embankment the charred body of a woman and the remains of fireman barnard were taken from beneath the wreckage of the first locomotive the scorched remnant of a third body and a mans head supposed to be that of the seventeenth victim were also found several other bodies were unrecognizable and it was thought that identification was possible only by means of fragments of the clothing two additional bodies were recovered from the wreck athla morning one of them was kaaen from the top of the forward engine and the other from beneath abo engines trucks one vas that of a man and the other a woman ahls makes a total of 19 dead |
