Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1892 — A CAR CUT IN TWO. [ARTICLE]

A CAR CUT IN TWO.

Results in the Killing of Six Passengers. Three Are Fatally Injured and Thirty More Are Hurt.. The horror of the groat Quincy accident was recalled Saturday night, when a through freight oxpress train. west-bound on the Fitchburg railroad, ran Into a passenger train standing on the out bound track at West Cam-

bridge Junction, telescoping the rear ear, killing six-persons on trigh t and i njuring thirty others, three of whom have since died. Passenger train No. 131, duo to leave Boston at 10:15 p. m.. started on time, AFhen West Cambridge Junction—waxreached the engineer found it necessary, owing to the dense fog, to run close to the cross-overs in order to see if he had the right of way from the signal tower,which is located close by. Tho passenger train was said to be five minutes late and about the same hour the local passenger train from. Waltham, scheduled to leave there at 10:30 o’clock, was due at West Cambridge Junction also. The west bound train-which left Boston had come to a full stop id order that the east-bound train from Waltham, which had the right of way, could pass that point before it crossed over to the Watertown branch. While standing near the cross-over the express freight'?rain, which was bound west, came thundering along, and just as the passenger train started to cross the Watertown branch the freight train crashed Into the- rear of the passenge train with the result above described. The passenger train, engine and the forward truck of the smoking car, N 0.72, had crossed over on the branch track, which left passenger cars 39 and 150 on the cross-over, and 38, the fatal car, standing on the main est-bound track. Engine 200, to which the freight train was attached, was a powerful eight-drive-wheeler of the mognl pattern. When the engine struck the rear car it entered like a wedge, splitting it into two parts, each of which fell outward upon. the trades. , while the roof of the car lodged on top of the locomotive. The recoiL-from the collision drove the heavily-loaded cars backward. and although the two caranearnst the engine, which were a refrigerator car and a Burton stock car, were not injured, the ton or twelve cars behind them were smashed into kindling wood. Several of these were loaded with lumber, and this was strewed all along the track. The cars were piled upon one another tn indescriba. ble confusion, completely blocking both tracks for fully one hundred yards. The flag ship Chicago, of the North Atlantic squadron, Captain John F. McGlenzy, sailed Sunday from the Brooklyn navy yard for Venezuela. Rear Admiral John J, Walker was on board. The State Department has granted Jiim full power to deal with the Venezuela authorities. He will demand the sureender of the six political refugees taken by force from the American steamship Caracas in Laguayra harbor.