four o'clock
I felt my fingertips turn cold . DISASTROUS WRECK ON THE SHORE LINE EXPRESS RUNS INTO OPEN SWITCH -- TEN LIVES LOST , AND MORE THAN A SCORE INJURED -- FAILURE OF BLOCK SIGNALS The letters seemed to stand up before me as large as a Malted Milk signboard . With a shuddering apprehension I read the details . Apparently the express that left Providence at four o'clock on Saturday afternoon had crashed into an open siding near Willdon about six o'clock , and collided with a string of freight empties . The baggage car had been demolished and the smoker had turned over and gone down an embankment . There were ten men killed ... my head swam . Was that the train the Professor had taken ?