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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1912
Page
3
Passenger train stops list includes Boston and New York in sequence with times from 12 00 m to 5 42 p m. A family obituary section notes marriages among the Garvan Brady and Hamilton families and lists surviving relatives in Hartford Albany and this city.
Passengers reached New York after a wrecked train event with Philip L. James of Chicago badly injured and aided by Secretary Franklin MacVeagh. Mrs James kept him safe as others rescued by breaking a window. A priest assisted in freeing women amid flames while others recount narrow escapes and efforts to reach exits.
Springfield dispatch reports George S. Clark engineer killed in the wreck and his wife and child unaware at home as plans to move were set. Fireman Joseph Mohker, 22, from Lansford and Stamford, Conn., survived. his parents to be notified. Other locals aboard included Albert M. Coe, M. C. A. pole vault record holder, real estate man William H. Dexter, and Rev. Charles M. Lovell. A honeymooning Attorney James H. Reilly and bride also survived. Continuous reports described most damage in the forward coach and noted several Springfield residents among the passengers.
News from South Framingham reports W G Franklin manager of the sales department at Dennison Manufacturing Company and Mrs Dwyer a telegrapher were among the injured in a wreck at Westport Connecticut this afternoon Franklin was traveling to New York on business and Mrs Dwyer was en route to visit relatives in the city
John De Silvia a Pullman car porter aged 40 living with his wife at 12 Rockwell Street Cambridge was injured. He joined New Haven road in June 1911 after eight years as a Riverside Press compositor in Cambridge. A West Indian resident for 12 years he once captained the West Indian Cricket Club of Massachusetts.
Miss Eleanor Bartlett daughter of John P Bartlett of New York was brought to New Haven after an accident while returning from a mountain resort. She was assisted to a Westport mans auto Mr Dixon and taken to Grove Hall where her aunt Ellen Strong Bartlett resides. She suffered a severe back cut and shock but is expected to recover in about two weeks.
Four people were killed and five injured when a fast express train on the Pennsylvania railroad struck an automobile at a grade crossing in Wilkinsburg near Pittsburgh. Two of the injured were thought fatally hurt.
The selection of Speaker as MVP in the American League drew 59 of 64 votes, with Cobb close behind. Doyle won the National League honor with 48 of 64 votes as the voting panel ranked eight players from each league. Speaker posted 218 hits in 150 games and led in extra base slugging with 562 doubles, 11 triples, 11 homers, plus 53 steals. Doyle hit .325 with 100 runs and 177 hits in 139 games for 356 bases, while Walsh and other stars earned notable recognition from the commission.
Miss Harriet S. Adams daughter of Rev Harry C Adams of Cliftondale married Harold S. Clark son of Rev Dr Francis F E Clark president of the World’s Christian Endeavor Union. The ceremony at Cliftondale Congregational Church was officiated by the fathers of both pairs before about 300 guests.
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