Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-06-09

TWENTY WOUNDED AMI oS<hiLDAAH'
The night express train which left
Ludlow about eleven o'clock last night,
for Rutland, run into place where the
Culvert had been washed out, two miles
this side Of Ludlow. The engine, Chester,
went down and turned over, taking the
baggage and one passenger car with it,
but not turning them over, slightly bruis-
ing the engineer, e. M. Foss; no others
were hurt. Conductor N. Z. Starkey
sent to the Summit for the engine Kill
lington to come to their help. They
replaced the baggage car on the
track, and with about twenty-five
men, including passengers, started
for the Summit. On reaching there
Conductor Reed and Engineer Hardy
walked down the track and across two
culverts which they feared might be in.
secure, at the same time sending section
man to Mt. Holly, to see if the road bed
and track were all safe. They then went
back to the Summit and awaited daylight
o'clock. They then started for Rutland
running slowly, and nothing appeared out
of the way until the engine came on the
second culvert, which settled down (as
some of the passengers expressed it
dropped down like dropping stone, the
head of the engine striking the opposite
bank, and the tender dropping to the bot.
tom. The baggage car ran over the TOP
of the tender and caught the engineer,
James S. Hardy, and the foreman of the
car shop, M. M. Croker, who was riding
on the freman's seat, and the fireman, E
f. Haskell, between it and the engine,
killing the two former instantly, and
burning and breaking the right thigh OF
the latter. The car also broke the safety
valve of the engine, thereby allowing the
hot steam to escape into the car contain
ing the passengers. When the car went
down, it threw all of the passengers to the
front end in one mass, killing one man,
Thomas r. Abbott, of Lowell, Mass, and
wounding all the others, with one excep-
ton.
LIST OF CASUALTIES.
Douglass Flint, of New York City,
President of Boston Saratoga and West
ern Railroad, fatally scalded and bruised
and has since died.
VIM. III. Emerson, Cambridge, Mass,
badly scalded and a severe scalp wound
Very severely injured.
W. j. Pierce, Boston, Mass, right leg
broken.
M. ]. Howard, Express Messenger, Rut-
land, ankle broken and badly scalded.
Luman Weeks, stoddard, NSkH., leg
broken.
E. M. Foss Engineer, Rutland, badly
burned on the hands and face and also
bruised.
Geo. Kenny, Rutland, badly scalded
and hurt inwardly.
A. r. Field, Engineer of Greenfield and
Hoosac Tunnel Railroad, Greenfield,
Mass, two ribs broken and scalded.
Henry Hoyt, Cambridge, N. Y, badly
scalded.
N. E. Rice, Cambridge, N. Y, badly
sprained and bruised.
]. E. Coolidge, Springfield, Mass, slight
ly wounded.
~ H' i1".on' Diis'o'' w. 'ace anu
shoulders badly cut. -..
+ Doolinos. Boston. Mass. snaln wound
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d. h0'0nu'n' 'r"nuon' shouiae'
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N H. 0tafkey' oohouotor' bruised ana
snghtiy CUT
y. L. Tart, f1tzw1ii1am, Mass, bruised
IN hip and back.
ii. A. Chase, Holyoke, Mass, slightly
bruised
Abel Mccoy, Ludlow bruised ana
burnt.
M " Ieok' benSol' anu se'or"l otherS
had silght wounds Ourhs, &C
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summit anu piosiuou WIN Dou1 a' IN, wv
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ard PALMER of TndIow DR. crowlv If
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"ailingloru.
Col. Merrill, Supt, was present. direct
ing the arrangements
Too much praise cannot be awarded to
the citizens OF Mount Holly and surround
ing towns for the good care they gave the
wounded, and more than an equal need
OF praise Is also due TO the ladies' Mrs.
Goodrich, Ackley, Colburn, Sawyer,
Creaser, Hemenway, Farr, Bixby, Hol-
den, Miss Monahan, and many others.
Mr. Edward foas' engineer OF the
Chester, yesterday displayed one OF the
noblest examples OF "pluck" and heroic
discharge OF duty, that 1t has ever been
our lot to be personally cognizant of. 1t
will be seen from the above account that