Alzina C. Hills

Alizina C. Hill (Welch)

Find A Grave Memorial ID # 46891018

Boston, August 20, 1890 - The Cape Cod and Woods' Hole train on the Old Colony railway was wrecked at Quincy, just the other side of the President's bridge at 1 p.m. yesterday. The disaster was a frightful one, resulting in the death of about twenty persons and the wounding of many others, some of whom are terribly scalded or mutilated. The train was express to Brockton, and from Brockton express to Boston. It left Brockton at 10:40, going at say thirty miles an hour. Just this side of President's bridge (so called because the homestead of President John Quincy Adams is close by) the engineer whistled to "down brakes." The train began to shake as if shivered by the shock of an earthquake. Then came a crash, the engine left the track, turned itself alongside the rails, while the train slid along, leaving the engine about midway of the train opposite the first passenger car from the smoker. In this car most all the harm was done.

SIXTEEN DEAD, FIVE CRITICALLY AND TWENTY-NINE LESS SERIOUSLY INJURED

There was no lack of help when the onlookers had recovered their senses. The Quincy fire department was promptly on hand, and the rescue of the injured and recovery of the dead was rapidly prosecuted. The company officials hurried physicians to the scene, and soon twenty-five were busy looking after the unfortunates.

The following were dead when taken from the wreck:

MRS. ORCUTT ALLEN, Philadelphia.
MRS. MARY E. FENNELLY, aged 70, Louisville, Ky.
F. J. JOHNSON, Montpelier, Vt.
JOHN RYAN, South Boston, foreman of the train.
Four women, two men and two children, one a boy of 14, unidentified; total, 18.

The following died during the afternoon and evening:
MRS. A. C. WELLS, Hartford, Connecticut, a daughter of H. L. WELCH, of Waterville, Conn.
ALICE and CATHARINE, daughters of MRS. OSCAR FENNELLY, of Louisville, Ky.

The following are critically injured:

MRS. OSCAR FENNELLY, of Louisville, Ky., wife of the cashier of the Citizens' National Bank, Louisville, scalded over her whole body.
C. M. COPP, Cleveland, O., scalded over whole body, not expected to live.