Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1864-06-24
SERIOUS RAILROAD ACCIDENT.
Thirty Persons Injurcd-Two Fatally.
TWO CARS COMPLETELY DEMOLISHED.

1NO OAKS COMPLETELY DEMOLISHED.
a very serious accident occurred on Monday
to the two last cars on the noon express train
from New York, on the Hartford and New Ia
ven railroad, mile north of Berlin, CT. The
train was nearly an hour behind lime and was
running OF great speed, there being down
grade for some distance in this section, when
the two cars referred TO we're suddenly thrown
from the track, and rolled over and over down
an cm6ankment about six feet high. Bv the
same cause the last trucks of the next car were
thrown from the track and thus drawn nearly
80 rods before the train was stopped The
passengers in this car were not a little ioted
and good deal frightened, but they escaped
unframed by the catastrophe which befell the
occupants OF the two cars back of them. These
cars were completely demolished, appearing, as
spectator remarked, "as if they had been run
through monster ihreshing machine" They
contained about 80 passengers, and in view of
the great speed at which the train was running
and the entire destruction ofthese cars, it is un-
accountable that only so few comparatively as
five were seriously injured, and but two of these
fatally. The spectacle presented Immediately
after the accident was one not 10 be soon for
cotton by those who Witnessed il. Everywhere
mingled in apparently inextricable confusion
with the broken cars--windows, seats, wheels
and other fragments strewn in maSs-were
human arms, feet, faces, &C., many of them COW
cred with blood, while those who were injured
were grooming bitterly. Some of them were
50 covered with the fragments of the cars that
1t took several minutes to release them, but by
the efforts of the passengers tom the other cars
this was accomplished, and the wounded were
given all the attention possible under the cir
cumsiances. The fall of The cars broke down
the telegraph wires, and messenger was dis
patched 10 Berlin, who sent a dispatch to Hart
ford for all the surgical aid that could be OBJ
tanned, the message reaching that place, only
about eleven miles from the scene of the acct
dent, by way OF New Haven and New London
A special train was sent from Berlin in which
some OF the wounded were taken TO New Ha-
ven, ard the express train proceeded with the
rest 10 Hartford, meeting on its way the train
bringing several surgeons who had responded
to the summons.
Many OF the passengers in the two Inflated
cars received slight scratches and bruises We
give the names Of all who were more seriously
injured George Parker, brakeman, who was
sitting on Lis brake at the time of the accident.
received severe internal injuries besides being
shockingly bruised, and last night was but Just
alive; Mrs. A. ID. Euson, an elderly lady, beIon-
ging in Hartford, had her scalp torn nearly off,
""u was also HJHleu iHteIndlil SO severely tnat
she cannot survive A. ID. Euson, her husband
and one of The aldermen OF Hartford, was badly
bruised and had some ribs broken; Rev. Ii.
Olmsted OF Warehouse Point, Ct, received
severe scalp wound 4. NJ, Curtis and G. II.
Barber both merchants at ColiinsviIle, CT. were
each wounded in the head and badly bruised
William Hadden of Boston, seriously bruised
on the head and thigh Mrs. NJ. Butler and
Maria Dalton on the head The latter also in the
hack u. c. Woodbury., soldier from Bradford
Me-, lost one arm, and +. l.. French, another
soldier from the same place, leg; Mrs. John
Williams, of Putnam, injured seriously in the
side and back and some ribs broken; Mrs.
Mary S. Walker of Winsled, seriously bruised
in the hip.
The cause of the accident is attributed by
some to the expansion of the rails by the heat
and by others TO the loose construction of the
road at this points but the former is probably
the correct theory.-Sp. Repu6lican.