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him into the baggage car, and procuring cotton waste from the engine stuffed it into his clothing and partially stopped his bleeding. Arriving at East Cambridge, he was taken home, where the surgeon removed a splinter five inches long, which, striking his thigh-bone was deflected downward. He had never been to the village since that day to make any stop, but looked over the ground somewhat and while there met a man he knew, the late Lorin L. Dame. One person was fatally injured, Mr. Thomas Huffmaster. Struck by a joist in the breast, he died from its effect soon after. His house was on High street, corner of Allston, later that of his son-in-law, J. H. Norton. The schoolhouse on Canal street was utterly destroyed, its floor with the seats attached laid upside down across Whitmore brook. School was to have begun on the following Monday. The big Whitmore elm escaped with little injury, but a horse-chestnut at Warren street was so wrenched and twisted as to show the effect th