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TRAIN WRECKED.
Seven Killed anil Twenty
nine Wotfnded.
BOTH rRAIN3 SHATTERED
Express Crashes Into Rear of
Standing Train .
Sharon, Mass., August 21.
A local train from Providence,
ft I, ( oil the New York, New
Haven & Hartford railroad, due
in Boston at 7 :45 p. m. yester
day, while standing at the depo:
WHS telescoped by an express
train from New Bedford, and 7
persons w. re killed and 29 in
jured.
Messengers were hurried to
Canton, four miles away with
urgent requests for physicians
and undertakers.
All the physicians in town, a?
well as three undertakers ami
lheir wagons, came immediate
ly to the scene, followed by a
large crowd of sightseers. The
surrounding country was thor
oughly aroused. A large quanti
ty of sheets, bedding and rude
hosptial supplies were dispatch
ed from adjoining towns.
a he work of rescue was prompt
but the debris was so great that
hours elapsed before a satisfac
tory estim ite of the fatalities
could be made.
After hours of hard work sev
en dead bodies had been recov
ered ard twenty-nine injured
peop'e taken out. Other dead
ma? yet be found.
T he two trains which were in
the. collision were usually com
bined m one long train, but the
traffic today was so heavy it was
divided, the first section run
ning as a local accommodation,
while the second, which started
from Mansfield fifteen minutes
later than the first one, ran as
an express,
1 he local train, due at Sharon
at 7 :02 o’clock was thirteen
minutes late. It left M insfield
on time, making two stops, and
had lost thirteen minutes be
tween Mansfield and Sharon. It
was due in Canton Junction,the
next station beyond Sharon,two
niinut s ahead of the express
t'ain, which wou’d have passed
it there. Sharon is situated in »
c uive, and both the outward
ai »d inward tracks are protected
b> electric block signals.
After the accident it was
thought the block signals pro
t* < ting the inward track was set
ft danger, showing, as it was
hi ended, that there was a tain
in the station.
1 here was no warning given
y the conductor of the Mans-
I e ld local to show the approach-
I"" 1 a * n that the track was not
r 11 at the station, and it was
f ut until he was within 4<>o feet
1. 1 le Nation that the engineer
I 1 le express noticed anything
■rong. immediately set all
F es whistled the warning,
V 1 11 Wns to ° late to stop ths
■’Press.
Claß ' le d hi to the rear car,
■P t l | U j asuu^er a,l d com
■ ly dem d l9 hing it with the
■ w *PLion of its roof. Its 3 p ae d
|l lw “ Ot Blnck «d until the engine
| j >r?. e r ,, 7T 6d ful1 * feet
P tin Cir . TllJ
THE HOM E HIJSTLEK-COMMERCIA L
ROME GEORGIA. MONDAY EVENING AUGUST 22. 180 S.
CARLOS WILL ACT
When Peace has Been Pro
claimed
THE ‘'SINEWS OF WAR’'
Are Said to be Abundant. The
•Chamberlain Talks.
Lucerne, Aug. 22, —In answer to
questions submitted to Don Carlot
Count Melgar, his chamberlain,
has made the fol owing statement
regarding the Pretender’s uprising
iu Spain :
“I did not say, as has been re -
poited. that my chief would
a proclamation to his adherents
iu Spain as soon as the perlimin
anes of had been signed. I
did say. and I repeit i , that he
will do so when peace itself shall
have been formally declared. The
exact date, therefore, depends
upon the time when the Paris
Peace Commission shall have c >n
cluded its labors.
“Don Carios has not ordered
the present risings in Spain, They
are spontaneous outbursts, show-,
ing that the spirit of the nation is
with the Prince. We do not need
men, Wu can count upon so many
fighting men in Spain that we
have de din d assistace from out
-eidirs.”
Paris, Aug. 22 -Count* Urbiin
de Mallie, the chief representative
of Don Carlos in Paris, said to
day :
“Certain American gentlemen
have approached ma with an’ offer
of 12,000,000 francs tor the Car
list cause, with the understanding
that they be reimbursed double
that amount when Don Carlos is
seared on the throne of Spain,”
Di Mallie felt in honor bound
n>t to reveal their names. The
Count declined, owing to the ex
isting anti American sentiment in
Spain, the responsibility of ac
cepting the offer before consulting
his chief.
London. Aug 22—\ dispatch to
the Daily Mail from Biarritz says
that another armed band has ap
peared in the district of Ciudad
Rodrig, about 50 miles from Sal
amanca. The dispatch also says
that more Cariist agents have been
arrested at Carcelona.
escaping steam entered the car
ind badly scalded a number of
occupants. The roof of the last
car was forced on top of the en
gine oi the express and remain
ed there as the only portion of
the car intact.
Engineer Setch* 11 and bire
man Holmes, of the express,
both jumped when they saw that
a collision was unavoidable.
Everyone of the killed and in
jured was on the Mansfield train
and the only explanation of the
fact that the number of fatalities
is not larger is that the passen
gers were all in the forward end
of the car, m the act of alight
ing at the station.
There were about thirty-eight
people iu the last car, and the
most of them at the time of the
accident were either upon the
front platform or standing by
the door.
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DAMNABLE BLOT
The Hospitals of The l/olilc
teer Armies.
ThE HALF NOT ’ OJJ
Os Needless Suffering on Ship
And in Camp
Cincinnati, Aug. 22 —The
pathetic storv of how Albert
Boedeker, the young Bellevue
(Ky.) soldier, died through
medical neglect at C hicamnuga,
baa stirre 1 Boedeker’s fel'ow
soldiers in the St cord Kentucky
at the camp.
Jesse Hardin, one of the Lest
known young men of Newpoit,
was Boedeker’s nurse part of
the time.
Iu a letter received Saturday
by Howard Benson, of Nev port,
Hardin says :
“I will stand by Boedeker in
the statements he made. I was
the only nurse in the regimental
hospital and knew how he was
treated The company was sup
posed to feed him, and manv a
time he got no food. When he
did, I had to fight for i .
“I gave Boed< ker his medicine
when we had it. The three dav>
he got no medicine there was
none of the kind he needed.
“The sick men slept on the
ground in a tent 1G by 16 feet,
there were as many as 10 in the
tent with all kinds of fever. J
te iched the tent one rainy night
when it was Hooded.
‘ ‘ Boedeker cried as if his heart
would break about the neglect
He a'-ked me if I thought he
would die. I knew from the
treatm nt he was receiving it
was all up.
“You can be no soldier here ;
it’s a dog’s life.”
• HORROK S..IPS .
May Be Investigated By a
CoURTMARTIAL.
Washington, Aug. 22.—Sid
geon General Sternberg will de
mand of the war deparlm nt r
thorough investigation of tin
latest hospital ship horror. Al
though he would not discuss the
the matter today, it is evident
that he does not consider his
branch of the service as in any
way responsible for the condi
tion of affairs on the Mobile.
“1 look to see a court martial
ordered over these horror shipf
yet,” said a surgeon, who wears
Uncle Sam’s uniform..
“The huddling of 1600 men
into vessel calculated to hold a
thousand, and feeding them on
tainted food, is a crime for which
somebody will be punished.”
/ “IN A BUNCH”
Fifteen Couples wiH be Married
on Lake Michigan.
Chicago, Aug. 22. —Two
thousand Chicago mailcarriers
will go to Milwaukkee, Chicago’s
Gretna Green, tomorrow prima
rily on an excursion, but inci
dentally and in reality to witness
he marriage of 15 of their broth
er carriers. The knots will be
tied on the Whaleback. The 15
couples will be married “in a
bunch,” a spv-J of ministers
I having been provided for the
| occasion.
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