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SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 1910. 





FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 1910. 











H00SAC WRECK A MYSTERY. 





AN OLD-FASHIONED TUNNEL. 



The train accident which kept a 











Nothing Found io Account for De- 

 railment in Tunnel. 



No decision was reached yesterday 





couple hundred passengers bewildered 

 and helpless and stifling for several 













hours within the murky, unventilated 

 blackness of Hoosac Tunnel gives 

 point to the travelling public's de- 

 mand for a lighting system and some 

 adequate supply of fresh air within 











at a. conference between Bailroad Com- 

 missioner J3ishop and General Man- 













ager Barr of the Boston & Maine to 

 ascertain the cause of the Hoosac tun- 

 nel wreck on July 30. 





its Stygian interior. The chances of 

 serious accident are constant. And in 











Investigations have failed to reveal 

 the cause of the derailment of the 

 train. The rails were found intact af- 





such case passengers would be in 

 great danger of asphyxiation by the 

 gases and smoke, or from fire. Hoosac 

 Tunnel, though begun in 1850, is still 

 one of the longest in the world. The 











ter the accident; there was no broken 

 wheel on the tender, and the cause of 

 the accident Is as much of a mystery 

 today as it was at the time It occurred. 



An authority on railroading- in the 

 commonwealth said yesterday that no 

 practical means for ventilating the 

 tunnel perfectly had been devised, and 

 as for lighting it, the smoke which 

 settled in the tube was so dense that 















central airshaft is inadequate and the 

 handicaps to a wrecking crew are 

 great. It could quickly be turned into 

 a chamber of horrors. The railroad 

 management should make improve- 

 ments as are supplied elsewhere as a 

 matter of course. 











instead of electric lights there might 

 just as well be so many white beans 

 bung up. The authorities regard elec- 

 trification in the tunnel as more dan- 













gerous than steam. 













































































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