Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1898 — TRAIN CLASH DEALS DEATH [ARTICLE]

TRAIN CLASH DEALS DEATH

Express Train Dashes Into a Local Near fharou, Mas*. In a rear-end collision at Sharon station. a sumqier resort, twenty miles out of Boston, on the Providence division of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, fonr persons were killed outright and thirty-eight seriously injured, and besides there were several score bruis-’ ed and shaken up. The New Bedford express. going at thirty-five miles an hour, overtook the Boston and New London local express while it was stopping at the Sharon station, and the locomotive crashed into the rear passenger coach, smashing it to kindling and causing the telescoping of several other cars on the train. Failure of the signal system,-which should have shown the engineer of the second train a danger signal, is supposed tp have caused thfc collision. Sharon is located just around a curve, and the crash came without a moment’s warning. The rear car of the New London train was completely wrecked, and several of the dead were frightfully mutilated. Several of the wounded are so seriously injured that their lives are despaired of.