THE NORTH ADAMS EVENING TRANSCRIPT, SATURDAY, JULY 30, 1910 



200 PASSENGERS HELD 

 IN TUNNEL TWO HOURS 



Heavy Train Going Wesi ai 11,25 Was De- 

 railed in Big Bore, Bui Ho One 



Taken Qui By Special Engine and Gars and Brought Back To 

 Gily Where Dinners Were Furnished By Railroad. Train 

 Was Running About 30 Miles an Hour 



Passenger train 'No. 12 supposed to 

 leave this city at 11.25 entered the Hoo- 

 sac tunnel this morning at 11.39 and 

 when 300 fet east of the central shaft 

 the entire train of engine and six carsi 

 left the track. There were 200 pas- 

 sengers on the train but it neither 

 pitched nor swayed and noe was in- 

 jured. The tracks are blocked but will 

 be clear at 3.30 if nothing unforeseen 

 happens. All of the passengers were 

 taken out on two passenger cars which 

 were sent from this city shortly after 

 the derailment occurred. They had 

 dinner at the Richmond hotel at the 

 expense of the Boston & Maine railroad 

 and will be sent east on train No. 4 

 which will leave here at 4.02. 



The cause of the derailment is as yet 

 unknown 1 but is supposed to have been 

 due to a loose rail or toad joint be- 



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Engineer E. B. Farm 

 ductor A. H. Brown w< 

 the train. 

 The 200 passengers on the train were 

 ■ otix to remain in the tunnel about 

 ,'o hours on account of the necessarily 



slow progress" made in the transfer of 

 pasengers and baggage to the relief 

 train. There were a number of women 

 and children on the train and they 

 were handled very carefully toy the 

 trainmen. 



There was intense excitement on the 

 train for a few minutes after it left the 

 rails, several women fainting, but when 

 it was understood that the danger was 

 over and no one had been injured the 

 passengers took the experience very 

 calmly and by the 'time they disem- 

 barked at the depot not a few jokes 

 were cracked at the expense of the com 

 pany which had to provide the passen- 

 gers with their dinners. 



The train was not telescoped in any 

 sense but the cars were tipped at a 

 considerable angle nearly touching the 

 wall of the tunnel. 



Chief Train Despatcher J. T>. Bourne 

 took charge Qf affairs ajid soon had a 

 wreck train on its way from Deerfleld 

 and Machinicville. He hoped to (have 

 the west bound tradk clear by 3.30 and 

 the east bound clear at 8 o'clock. 



The train is understoow to have been 

 running about 30 miles a^i hour when it 

 was derailed. 



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Six Coaches Carrying 200 Pas- 

 sengers Wrecked Near the 

 Central Shaft. 



TRAFFIC STALLED 3 HOURS 



Cars Remain Upright and No 

 Personal Injuries Result 

 from the Shake-up. 



NORTH ADAMS. July 30— Boston & 

 Maine passenger train No. 12. Troy. N. 

 Y., for Boston, left the rails in Hoosac 

 tunnel today. None of the passengers 

 was injured, but both the east and west 

 bound trains were held up several hours 

 until the wreckage was cleaned away. 



The train, which was on the Fitch- 

 burg division of the Boston & Maine, 

 left North Adams at 11:25 on its way to 

 Boston. It was made up of six passen- 

 ger coaches ami a 

 carried about 200 passenger; 



When about 3000 feat east of 

 tral shaft In the tunnt 

 cause, which the official; 

 pany here, cannot account for, the 

 motive and all six cars left the 

 completely tying up trains hound 

 and west. All of the cars remained i 

 an upright positon, and non= of thi 

 passengers were Injured by the derail- 

 ment. 



Word was sent to this city, and a 

 wrecking crew and a special passen- 

 ger train left here for the scene of 

 the wreck. All of the passengers of 

 the derailed train were brought back 

 on the special to this city, where they 

 waited until the tracks were cleared. 



Three hours of hard work on the 

 part of the wrecking, crew was neces- 

 sary before the west-bound track was 

 cleared and the first delayed train 

 passed over that track at 3:30 this 

 afternoon. It was 8 o'clock and after 

 before the east track was cleared f< 

 traffic. 



