Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1870-06-15
Fatal Railroad Accident.
ACCIDENT ON THE RUTLAND AND
BURLINGTON r. B..

The following particulars of the Il. r.
accident we copy from the Free Press Of
Thursday morning.
The night express train coming north
Tuesday night ran into a washed out cul-
vert about midnight near Ludlow, dump
ing the engine and leaving the cars on the
south side Of the break, but injuring no
one, we believe, but the engineer. A
freight train was then standing at Summit
station, in Mount Holly, and a telegram
was sent for an engine and calaboose to
come tt the scene of the disaster and take
the passengers to Rutland. This was
done.
The passengers, 25 in number, were
transferred to a freight car and started
north.
When about two miles north of Sum-
init station at 2 o'clock A. NJ, they ran
into another washout, some 80 feet wide
and fifteen feet deep. The engine plung-
ed into the chasm and the car followed,
landing on the top of the locomotive. To
the shock Of this fearful plunge in the
darkness and storm, amid crashing tim
bers and the cries of the wounded, were
added the horrors Of scalding from the
steam escaping from the wrecked locomo-
tive. When help was finally secured, and
the killed and wounded extricated, it was
found that a lad list Of casualties had oc-
cured.
The engineer, James Hardy. and Mr..
NJ. NJ. Croaker, master car builder of the
road, who was riding on the engine, were
instantly killed.
One man in the car, a Mr.. Abbott, Of
Lowell, Mass, was also killed. Another
passenger died before night three Other
passengers had broken bones. and 9or 10
were scalded by the steam, some Of them
in a horrible manner
Mr.. Foss, engineer of the passenger
cars wrecked at Ludlow, was SO badly
scalded that when he pulled off his boots
The skin came off with them. Notwith-
stapding his injuries, he walked back to
Summit and sent a telegram to Rutland,
giving information Of the disaster.
Among the passengers were Mr.. Skill
iugs of Boston, partner of our t%ownsman,
Lawrence Barnes, Esq, with a party from
Boston on the way to this city to attend
the wedding of Miss Barnes. Mr.. Barnes
received dispatches last evening from Mr..
Skillings and Governor Page informing
him that none of his friends were injured
except by scratches and bruises.
A caterer from Boston, and several as
s~istants who were bringing the wedding
entertainment, ordered from Boston, by
Mr.. Barnes, were also on the train, and
found themselves doing a smashing bust.
ness.
Killed.. A. Abbott, Lowell, Mass;
JAS. S. Hardy, Rutland NJ. M. Croaker,
Rutland.
Wounded-E. NJ. Fcss, Rutland; G.
Kinney, Rutland A.. r.. Field, Green.
field, Mass; Douglass Flint, New York
w. Fl. Emerson, Boston /; w. II. Hoyt,
Nathan Rice, Cambridge, New York W
j. Howard, Rutland, all scalded ; j. NJ.
Mcfarland, Salem, N. Y; Il. f. Haskell,
Rutland, each in hip; Truman Weeks,
~Stoddard, N. H.; W. j. Pierce, Boston,
leg broken G, Fl. Eaton, Bristol, face
and shoulder cut.
An accident occasioned by q washout,
also occurred on the Harlem extension r
r., about 2 o'clock A. Nj. The engine
and two cars were tumtled into the Otter
Creek. The engineer, reported missing,
was found a long distance down stream,
clinging to a stump, and too much exhaust.
ed to drag himself out of the water.
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