ANOTHER DISASTER. Two Persons Burned to Death and Many Others Injured.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 191, 12 February 1887, Page 2

ANOTHER DISASTER. Two Persons Burned to Death and Many Others Injured.

Mittinegue Station, near Springfield (Mass), was the scene of a frightful railroad accident at an early hour on January,, 4. The Modoc train Irom Albany, approached the depot an hour behind time, and moving at the rate of about thirty-five miles an hour. When within a few rods of the depot, five of the six cars in the train were thrown from the track by a broken wheel under the baggage car. The train consisted of an engine, an express car, a baggage car, a smoking car, a day coach and two Bleepers. The engine and express car kept on the main track, but the baggage car was thrown against the engine of a local west-bound freight train which had just pulled in, and was standing on the west bound main track. The freight engine was thrown on its side and completely wrecked. The baggage car, smoking car, and day coach, immediately took fire, and were consumed. When the cars could be searched, the charred remains of a man burned to a crisp were found, the only means of identifying him being the letters " U. S." on his cap. An hour later half the burned corpse of Mr Jenks, of Ludlow, was found. The loss of life would have been much larger if the sleeping cars had not escaped. The unknown body is believed to be that of a soldier who was en the train, and who has not been seen since. A large number of passengers were injured.