Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1867-12-20
The HARLOW BRIDGE CA1As1zornr.-Therc


Is little to be added % the details of the
frigh:ful disaster at Mortified No more
deaths have occurred. snd the list stands, rs
last week, at fifteen killed aud thirty-fye
wounded. Thirty OF the men on the train
escaped with little or no injury. OF these.
four sprang from tie platforms and windows
just before the car plunged from the abut-
pent. Mr.. A Denison Of Mortified sprang
from window, alightins about three feet
from the edge Of the abu;ment. Mr.. J. {.
Quimby Of Woodstock also sprang from q
window, and cscared with a slight injury Of
the knee.
The Astonishing carelessness Of the engi-
ncer excites universal comment, lie Is q
man Of i5rty-fve years Is, by all accounts,
Il strictly temperate man had been hfteen
years in the employ Of the Company; ard,
though not considered one cr heir brightes:
engine-driyaTs, was fully IT, IS thor
oughlY faithful and rcliable .uan. 1t is said
he is almost crazed by the awful resui; Of his
neglect. 1t seems that be Jumped from his
engine. the % Gen. Sher1an," on reversing
it, but fortunately was ntle TO regain his
place before the engine had got under motion
on the back track. rs O,herwise, says the
Messenger, ' it would have started of wish
out driver, and We should have been
Obliged to chronicle another appalling disas.
ter from its collision witt ,he down express
train.
The Tins says, be ran his tram at
speed Of twenty miles an hour did not re-
verse his engine until he got to the bridge,
and the sudden rcversl1n broke the conuec-
tion between tender and engine. The engine
came SO near following the tender that per-
perpendicular line dropped from the hanse
Of the driver reached fou5 inches beyond
the face Of the abument. Had the engine
gone over on TO tie wreck nd wounded men
below, OF couT-c there would have been still
more lives lost.
1t Is said that by this accident the Rail
road Company loses in killed and wound d /.
every foreman and master workman On
bridges except Maj. Tcnney, master-in-chicf /
"a condition Of things which mus, seriously .
mconvuicuce the Company and r,tard tic
work ofreplir.
One or two OF the c.ses are regarded T.
very critical Michael Haley Of Gran
r. c. T., is one Of these, Li- injury
icing a terrible fracture Of the leg. with io .
.elnal injuries. lie has q wife and three .
ilircn. The case Of Francis Norris of L.
G. lie viii also probably prove fatal lie bad F.
tie neck Of the thigh bone fractured, head .
IDLY bruised, and nasal bones fractured. I
Three McMahan brothers Of Montpelier, all I
recently come over from ireland, are among
the injured. The wounded are generally
O. nfor.able aud hopeful.
We Lca5 that Abbott, the engineer, has
lwn similar abscnt-mInieinass on previous
@ ..4sioas. A gentleman who bias known
him ii,-. BOY, informs Us tha- as boy and
nan iiz mental faculties were remarkably /.
mort, sJ that be was hardly regarded as full
witted; but that he WAS always honest,
/ mperatc, and faithful 70 the extent Of his
ability. has marked characteristics bc.ns obe-
diencc TO oIdcr-, ~ matter whore they led .
him, or what was involved 10 the luihlmlut ot .
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