Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-12-18
lie Railroad Calamity.

dent that ever happened in New England,
occurred on the Vermont Central near North
field. on Wednesday last, Dee llth. 1t has
carried crief to over fifty families, and created
i decr sensation throughout the State. The
train. consisting of the engine and one car,
had carried the Iahorers from the Harlow
bridge which was recently burned, and upon
which they were working, down to Mortified
:, dinner. After dinner it backed out from
%orthfeld to carry them back to the bridge
r. some unaccountablc absent mindedness or
hcedle,snces, the engineer appears to have
been totally torgctful of what he was about,
and u have got the idea that he was running
\ regular train, and started off at the rate
If twenty or thirty miles hour for the
bridge and precipice less than two miles dis
tant After proceeding some distance, seve-
raj seeing their danger began To signal and
shout t. the engineer, but he paid no atten-
non ID their cries until, upon the very edge
of the cmtankmcnt. the fireman, Selling a
tick of wood ordered him to reverse. He
taeu. but too late, conprehended his situa-
ron and hastily reversing the engine leaped
q. as did several others who were able 70 do
~ some through the car windows, and some
from the platforms. The car was precipi-
tated over the embankment, distance of
seventy feet, and the engine having been 50
suddenly reversed, broke the coupling that
roined it with the tender and that too fell
crashing on the car and its unfortunate in
mates
The scene which followed was terrible.
Thirteen were killed outright, and over thirty
MANNED, bruised and burned, with legs and
arms broken, were dug from the ruins.
Strange to say. the engine paused on the
very brink and if the engineer had not suf-
ticicntly recovered himself to have jumped
aboard. it would have started down the track
under Il full head IF steam. and collided with
the down express.
\ large corps of physicians were summoned
and have been in constant attendance, from
Burlington, Montpelier, and Mortified. The
wounded were Immediately taken to North
field and many of them have 30 far recovered
- % be taken to their homes.
The engineer j. Frank Abbott. and has
hecn in the employ of the railroad for seve-
ral years. Every attention possible has been
pail N the suffering by the managers Of the
Vermont Central and they have been unre-
hitting in their cxertions TO make provisions
fiji aH Below we append the list Of casual
ties which we believe will be found correct /.
K11LED.-Almon Wetherbee. Mortified,
foreman bridge gang. Christopher Devine.
Mortified. lahorer Edmund Swccny, North
field. tracknan. Timothy Mccarthy. North
field trackman. Louis Rock. Northfield
bridge builder. George Bancroft, Burling-
ton. bridge builder Gel Sweet. Huntington.
bridge builder. stephen Horner, CRANKY,
4 f.. foreman bridge gang Ed Carolin,
CRANKY. C. e. bridge builder Thomas
CaroIin, CRANKY. e. f.. bridge builder.
samuel Parker tiraubv c f.. bridge build
er Abuer Derby. Rouscs Point. bridge
builder Peter Button. Laeole. c. F. bridge
builder Timothy Mott AIburgh, bridge
builder.
Wor>DEp- Niehacl Haley, CRANKY, c.
F. badly hurt in les. shoulder and head ;
wife and three children can't live. Charles
Bosthwick one leg broken Nathaniel Fad
den. Swanton hip badly spraned. Charles
Young. West Alburgh thigh fractured
Michael Semmon, Swanton; seriously, in
arm and leg John Mcmahon, Montpelier ;
fracture right thigh. fracture brachial bone
IN right arm and right forearm both bones
fractured Frederick Miller, ROuses Point
hurt in shoulder and side William Corbitt,
s. Adams badly cut about the head Fran
is Norris Lacolle, &. E. fracture of neck
Of thigh bone. head injured badly. and com
minuted fracture Of nasal bones probably
cannot recover Patrick Mcmahon. Mont
pelier': both arms and one leg broken
John Connolly. cranky, q. T.; arm broken
and head bruised Daniel Mcmahon, Mont
heller. general bruises. " illiam W heelcr,
Madrid y y: bone fracture right leg. be
low the knee Louis Button, Lacolle, {. F.;
hurt in back. nwardlv, and in wrist George
Cook West AIburgh head and leg slightly
injured Eugene e. Chase. Manchester. y.
H: burned, but not seriously leg bruised.
Christopher Derrick Clarcnccville, C. f.;
hin and side Isaac Osborne. Parish of st.
Thomas. c. F.; hip and side, slightly. Hen
" PrindIe. South R0valton badly injured.
L. Cuson. Rouse4 Point ThcOph PASSING,
Iacolle. G. E. John c. Quimby, Woodstock /;
slightly injured. knee; jumped window,
Charles H. Clark. St. Adams, foreman of
gang head cut: injuries not serious. vii
liam McGregor. West Alburgh thigh broken
head bruised and injured internally Peter
Pasha. Champlan. y. y: Lee broken, and
otherwise badly bruised Frank SENEGAL,
Charnplain. y " head badly cut and lower
Jaw split Edward Seymour, Rouses Point,
face burned Peter seymour, Rouses Point !;
hurt in neck and head. George Randall,
teIegraphist and express agent, Northfcld :;
head cut and injured internally. Peter v.
Tatro. Nburgh Springs; head and face
bruised \ r. Cray, Highgate hip badly
bruised g. W Kingsbury, Mortified
shoulder dislocated and otherwise hurt
Henry Durkee, Lebanon. \. H.: head badly
injured feared fatally. George III. Niles.
Alburgh Springs: head and hip David
Nusson. Champlain, y. Y; seriously injured
m head feared fatally. John Slaven,
Rouses Point injured in stomach J. Null
chcnv. Mortified broken shoulder
The WE,rHEE.-The :. oldest inhabitant
hasn't for thirty years seen such a ''spell
of weather as brought the polar regions
frirhtfuIIv near to US all last week A week
# such continuously cold weather comes on
NJ once in many years, and rarer still SO ear
II in December. From Sunday until Sunday
again it was steadily and freezingly cold, the
mercury falling every night many degrees
below zero. and some mornings being as low
twenty-five degrees below There is hard
Is snow enough to make even fair sleighing,
and business and pleasure have suffered about
equally VIC should have been quite willing
o. exchange our clear biting atmosphere last
Friday for the driving snow storm along the
'ea-h,ard from Maine to Washington,
extending considerably inland, and falling to
the depth Of a foot or more, blocking up the
railroads and generally impeding travel but