injary was done. Four cars were filled with passengers and
had not the force of the coll^issin^ been broken by the baggage
cars many lives would have been lost.

The baggage car^s^ was^ere^ soon on fire which
was with difficulty extinguished. The fireman was
thrown about three yrods and escaped with a slight injury
but the engineer Mr Adams from Portland was
burried beneath the pile and instantly killed and the
ruins had to be removed before the corps of the illfated
engineer could be optained. No blame could be
attached to him for the raised rail gave no warning
until the engine and baggage cars were in one pile
of ruins. The unfortunate man left a wife and
one child

A Mr Thomas Hall opened his
house for the passengers and much praise was due
to him and his houshold for their hospitality

I spent most of the night in the
woods and got chilled through

They sent to Portland for another
engine which arrived in time to take us to Portland
in the morning.

Arriving at Portland I furnished the
Editor of the American with

The Account of our Railway Accident

I visited my brother-in-law Ezra Carter and
wrote two more letters giving an account of the foregoing
catastrophe—one was to the Editor of the "Boston Bee"
the other to Elder John Taylor Editor of the "Times
and Seasons"

On the same day I walke to
Scarbourough and arrived in the evening at the house
of my wife's parents. Father Carter was at New
York. I came upon Mother so sudden as she
was walking across the room with a candle that
she was as much surprised as though I had come

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injury was done. Four cars were filled with passengers and had not the force of the collission been broken by the baggage cars many lives would have been lost.

The baggge cares were soon on fire which was with difficulty extinguished. The fireman was thrown about three rods and escaped with a slight injury but the engineer Mr Adams from Portland was burried beneath the pile and instantly killed and the ruins had to be removed before the corps of the illfated engineer could be optained. No blame could be attached to him for the raised rail gave no warning until the engine and baggage cars were in one pile of ruins. The unfortunate man left a wife and one child

A Mr Thomas Hall opened his house for the passengers and much praise was due to him and his houshold for their hospitality

I spent most of the night in the woods and got chilled through

They sent to Portland for another engine which arrived in time to take us to Portland in the morning.

Arriving at Portland I furnished the Editor of the American with

The Account of our Railway Accident

I visited my brother in-law Ezra Carter and wrote two more letters giving an account of the foregoing catastrophe — one was to the Editor of the "Boston Bee" the other to Elder John Taylor Editor of the "Times and Seasons"

On the same day I walke to Scarbourough and arrived in the evening at the house of my wife's parents. Father Carter was at New York I came upon Mother so sudden as she was walking across the room with a candle that she was as much surprised as though I had came