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Show OVER THE EMBANKMENT Eight Persons Killed and Several Others Seriously Injured by a Railway Accident. A Disastrous Fire in the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Trains Moving Regularly on Mould's Southwest System. Another IIorriblcJTCail way Accident Gbeenfield, Mass., April 7. A terrible disaster occurred on the Fitchtrarg Railway to-night midway between Bardwell's Ferry and West Deerfield Station, the East bound passenger train due at Greenfield at 6:05 p. m. going over an embankment 200 feet high. Six bodies have already been taken out of the ruins, and it is not known how many others were killed. The train was the Eastern express, and consisted of a baggage bag-gage car, a smoking car, mail car and' two ordinary passenger cars. The train was in charge of Conductor Forster, with Herbert Little john as engineer. The point where the accident occurred is the most dangerous on the road. The trains run on the edge of an embankment 200 feet above the Deerfield river. When the train arrived at this point the track commenced to settle under it for a distance covering its entire length. The coaches broke from their trucks and went rolling over and over down the preoipioe. The engine broke from the tender, tearing up the track for twenty feet. Below rolled the Deerfield river, on the very edge of which the cars , were thrown. As soon as they struck they caught fire from the stoves. The sleeping car was an entire wreck. It was oocupied by several passengers, no one of whom at this hour is known to have escaped es-caped injury. One man whosa name is unknown un-known is imprisoned in the wreck of the sleeper, where he is being burned alive. One little girl was picked up dead. As soon as the news reached Greenfield a special train was made up and sent to the scene of the disaster, having on board several physicians, section men and a few citizens. On arriving at the scene of the wreck a horrible sight-Vas witnessed. Darkness had settled over the spot. Far down on the river bank could be seen the smoldering embers of the holocaust. It was impossible to tell who was hurt and who was killed. Stout-hearted trackmen were lowered cautiously down the treacherous treach-erous height, and the work of rescue begfin. Merritt Peeley, Superintendent of the National Na-tional Express Company of Boston, was found on the track and taken to the relief car. He had a wound four inches long and half an inch wide, over his left temple. His left thigh was broken, and also his left leg at the knee, besides which he sustained internal in-ternal injuries, from which he will die. D. Crandall, the postal clerk, was plunged into the river and got ashore with difficulty. He was wounded about the head and his arm was fractured. The Fitchburg coach was the only one that escaped the conflagration. Deputy Sheriff Bryant of Greenfield who was in this car rescued two children from the flames, but one was dead and the other dying. Their parents were on board but cannot be found. Some of the injured and dead were taken to Shellburne Falls, and some of the wounded to Greenfield. C. P. Bell, of Nashua, N. H., was cut slightly on the head and leg. D. C. Welles, of Andover, had his shoulden hurt and his head cut. Nicholas Dorgan, of Greenfield, had his left arm and ankle broken, and was seriously seri-ously injured internally. A little girl who was a passenger on the train died in his arms from injuries received. J. E. Priest, of Littleton, N. H., had his face and head cut. Engineer Littlejohn, of North Adam3, was badly scalded; it is believed fatally. A. K. Warner, Chairman of the Greenfield Board of Selectmen, was badly hurt, but his injuries are not fatal. Being interviewed by wire to-night at Shellburne Falls, Conductor Forster said: "I am unable to state how many were on the train. Only three men have been found thus far who escaped injury, and they set the number of passengers all the way from 25 to 100." No doubt half a dozen were killed outright while falling, and as many more were fatally injured. The following persons were taken to Shellburne Shell-burne Fails more or less wounded: H. G. Littlejohn, brother of the engineer, with his wife and two children, both of whom have since died. A. D. Cornell, Allen Lewis, B. B. Stowe, and A. C. Harvey of Boston, badly hurt; J. P. Fowler and A. K. Warner, of Greenfield; H. Couillard of Charlemont; E. W. Daniels, of Waltham; Miss Darby and May Gowing. A Miss Cornell Cor-nell is badly hurt, as is also Mail Agent Putney. A. M. Waterhouse is missing. It was reported in Shelburne Falls that eighteen persons were killed, but this could not be verified. - t Later Engineer Littlejohn is dying. Henry C. Couillard will die before morning. Three more dead bodies have been found at the wreck. Greenfield, Mass., April 8. It is thought that 20 persons have been seriously injured and seven killed, with a score of other more or less injured. Two more bodies, the last to be extracted from the wreck, have been indentified as C. T. Temple of Wakefield, Mass., and Chas H. Durgin of Boston. Two young girls, whose names are unknown, are reported to be among the killed. Merritt Seeley, Superintendent of the National Express Company, injured last night in the accident, died this morning. Brakeman Spencer's body was found last night, with the bodies of two unknown travelers. trav-elers. Engineer Littlejohn cannot live till night. Two bodies were brought here this morning by the wrecking train. One was E. E. Harden, the other man was about 65 or 70 years old, and was identified as J. K. Goslof , of Abington, Conn. John Crowley, of North Adams, was on the train and in- SaSpBraGFiEiJ, Mass., April 8. Eight bodies from the wreck at Bardwell's Ferry have been brought here up to 10 o'clock this morning. |