Harrowing Wreck Scalding Passengers in Boston Train Crash
In Boston on an August day in 1912 a locomotive accident left cars piling into a wreck site. Passengers, rescuers and six priests aided the injured while doctors and medical examiners attended the dead. Mrs. Frank Chandler endured a brutal rescue after both legs were crushed.
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Boston
D. J. Harrington
Thomas McGuire
F. W. Moore
Waters
Bernard J. Bradley
St. Mary’s Seminary
Emmetsburg
Maryland
Cape
Frank Chandler
Weymouth
Murphy
Singular Escapes Mark Boston Train Wreck Rescue
Conductor Lincoln survived a dramatic wreck scene as the engine derailed on the Boston line. Brakeman Stanley Blanchard suffered a scalp wound while aiding others. Miss MacDonald and Mrs Jenkins were trapped under debris. both were later taken to Grace Hospital. Rescue efforts, including clergy aid, saved many as physicians arrived.
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Tirrell
Campbell
South Braintree
Stanley Blanchard
W. W. Nason
Nason
George Scully
Dorchester Avenue
Boston
E. J. Isthier
Stamford
Conn
Grace Hospital
Frank Jenkins
Billings Street
Atlantic
Lillie
Jenkins
T. J. Morgan
New York City
Serious Injuries Reported At Grace Hospital
A list of patients treated at Grace Hospital includes Franklin Jones of East Street Hingham with a scalp wound and back sprain Annie Brennock Cohas set with multiple injuries and Mrs E J Ethier Stamford Conn with multiple injuries James H Brown Mattapan with a left leg fracture Mary Murphy Sandy Cove Cohasset burns and several others with contusions fractures burns and crushed limbs. Some patients are noted at Relief Hospital and Dr Bussey's Hospital with various injuries.
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Richard Bradford
Kilby Street
Hingham
Boston
Annie Hodges
John Tower
George W. Tower
South Hingham
Sarah Smith
Grafton Avenue
East Milton
Franklin Jones
East Street
Annie Brennock
Cohasset
E. J. Ethier
Lawn Street
Stamford
Conn
L. F. Kildrain
Furnace Brook Parkway
E. Quincy
John K. Ruggles
Edward Street
Quincy
Mathew Sheehan
Bates Avenue
W. Quincy
Thomas A. R. Roche
Co. Kasset
Mary Robertson
State Street
E. Milton
Warren Jacobs
T. J. Morgan
West One Hundred and Forty-second Street
New York City
James H. Brown
Tremont Street
Mattapan
Mary T. Murphy
Sandy Cove
Burns
George H. Lowe
Dover Street
Wellesley
Nellie Brewer
Crow Point
Frank Chandler
Summer Street
Weymouth
Oscanston Godfrey
North Street
Cecil H. Marble
Atlantic
Marie J. Bullen
Bessie Drinkwater
Elm Street
Braintree
Ellen Wall
Jerusalem Road
DR. Bussey’s Hospital
Howard C. Alley
Mary Buckminster
Locomotive plunges down embankment after derailment
A train traveling at 35 miles per hour on a curve near Locust Avenue playgrounds derailed when the engine leapt from the rails and slid 50 feet along the roadbed before tumbling down a ten foot embankment. The tender buckled free of a passenger coach and landed atop the overturned engine.
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Locust Avenue
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Gian In
Locust Street
Columbia Road Bridge
Dorchester
Boston Hospital
W. R. Tuincoln
William J. Gallivan
J. J. O’brien
William Tirrell, Jr
Frank Campbell
Edward Murphy
St. Monca's
Dorchester Street
Chmilinski
Father Brokiewicz
St. Mary's Polish Church
South Boston
Father Kearney
Kingston
Boston Street
Chickering
William F. Maher
NEW York, New Haven & Hartford
Lincoln
John Dorsey
City Point
Williams’. Maher
Edison Green
L Street
Columbia Road
Maher
Miss MacDonald
Boy
Lillie Jenkins
Mrs. Morgan
Mrs. Jenkins
Carney Hospital
Morgan
Mr. Jenkins
Florence MacDonald
Centre Street
Jamaica Plain
James
Blake
A. A. Blunt
St. Johnsbury
Henry S. Thayer
Chris Nicholson
East Weymouth
J. Reardon
Pearl Street
George Lowe
Edward P. Murphy
St. Monica’s Church
Frederick Chandler
Father Murphy
Margaret Robertson
Daniel J. Griffin
of Hingham
Massachusetts
Catherine James
Sophia Blunt
Margaret Terry
Fred Chambers
Cedar Street
North Weymouth
Edith Farrell
Otis Street
John Burke
Common Street
George Butter
Antonio de Mae
E. Weymouth
Daniel Gaffney
Jessie Green
Broad Street
Flora McDonald
Elliot C. Pierce
Commercial Street
Sarah Stephens
W. R. James
Helen
Blanche James
George Bullen
John T. Forde
Granite Place
Katherine McCormick
Elliot Street
Hattie Nash
Front Street
J. N. Podrasnik
Monessen
Penn
J. O. Yager
Lowell Street
Thomas South
Ellen Cain
South Weymouth
Antonio de Lucca
George Butler
Boothby Hospital
Wendell Clapp
Daugh North
Vincent Reardon
C Street
Harry Hinckley
Faxon Road
Edwardton
Eat E. Milton
Aton Street
Rs. Fish
Eaton Street
Marie Monahan
Raritan
Edgehill Road
Percy E. Sheldon
Adams Street
S. Mion
Louis + Gosslin
Bunti Place