Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-09-02
From the Lyndon Union
RAILROAD ACCIDENT.

he HrSt Collisions which ever OCCUR
red on, the Passumpsic railroad, occurred
just east of Judge Ross residence at
noon on Tuesday last An extra. train
from the camp grounds, with one smok-
ing and one passenger car, was met by |
the up, through freight. The passenger
train was drawn by the Henry Reyes;
Adam Eastman, engineer Frank Hub
bard, fireman, Quincy Scott, conductor,
A. A. Bean and George Carpenter, brake
men. This train had some twenty pas
sengers in the rear car, and only two
men in the smoking car. The freight
train had on some twenty cars was
drawn by the B. P. Cheney, with Chas.
Tarlton, engineer, - Chamberlin, fire.
man, and Tom Sharp, conductor. The
point of collision was but few rods
south of where the accident occurred Is
years ago, when Pike lost his leg. When
Eastman saw the up train approaching
few rods ahead, he sounded the whis-
tie, and the breaks were put on at once,
and the train was slackened considera-
bly, as we learn from some of the passen-
gers on board, but the freight train was
going at the rate of twenty miles per
hour, which was very evident from the
wreck. The two engines were dove-tail-
ed together as far up as the ends of the
boilers, and stove up effectively. The
tender of the Reyes was telescoped into
the smoking car, completely out of sight.
The Cheney tender went down Is feet
bank and disappeared in the river. The
first platform car jumped both engines
and struck north of them some 20 feet;
the second one jumped part way. and
lay with one end ON top of the Reyes.
cab; the third, box car, went down
the bank over the Cheney tender, and
passed off down stream; the fourth was
thorough box car, loaded with Fairbanks
scales, which was thrown off the track
to the west. The trucks of seven cars,
and other iron pieces, were piled up in
a space about large enough for one car,
and was the toughest pile of cast iron
VIC ever saw. After sounding the whis-
tie, Eastman jumped from the Reyes,
and struck few loose ties on the side
of the track, about two minutes before
the collision. Tarlton jumped from the
Cheney toward the east, clearing the al
der bushes and striking over in the riv-
er, fifteen feet below, where the water
was deep enough to save him from in
jury, but as the tender and baggage car
struck Immediately after him, it is mir.
, aculous that he escaped death. John
Stebbins, who saws the company's wood
, was on the top of box car and jumped
to the east, striking twenty feet from the
train, in a corn-fcld. The three horses
inside, were thrown in pile to the north
end of the car. Frank Hubbard, fire
man ON the Reyes, kept his post, ant
went into the smoking car with the ten
I der, where he was found buried in tn
t wood. with his left leg, between tn
knee and ankle, smashed to atoms ant
] with two of his ribs broken. He wa
n insensible for long time. He was tax
i en- to the residence of W. j. Chamberlir
6 where Drs. Brown, Brooks, Sias an
~ Warner attended him. His leg wa
amputated, and his other injuries attend
ed to. This was the only severe person
9 al accident, and fears are expressed tia
% this may prove fatal, though the phys
t. clans reported that he endured the ampr
t, tation, and came out of the chloroforl
E. WELL But it was at the time imposs
BILE to determine the extent of the intel
y nal injury. Tom Sharp, the freight col
al ductor,, received a Earring, and was take
y to the Avenue House, where he was a
n tended by a physician. Quincy Scot
ce conductor on the down train, was badl
bruised about the face. A woman name
or Evans, from Victory, received some il
>, jury from contact with seat, and w
r. taken by her husband to the residen
;e of Capt Barker In half hour aft
~ the accident, train and gang of shc
[,e hands arrived from Lyndonville, und
the charge of Master Mechanic Aide
81 and commenced clearing away the wrec
he [. P. Magoon, with P. & 0. engin
'p- came up with help from that road, al
DIS began work at the south end of t
us wreck. At the beginning Mr.. Aid
.tv saw it was impossible to clear away
h. season for other trains, and the ira
men were at once engaged with thu
IN shovels putting up new road bed for
10. side track, which was completed by
go o'clock, only delaying the up train
nd hour. From one to three hundred sp
~. IL. tators were present from curiosity, a
FL ready at moments notice to operate
is the rope gang, whenever the railro
ex- men demanded assistance. Unjust ha
struck all spectators present with adj
en- ration TO see with what GOODNESS and
ere liberation those men went to work uI
au- that mamoth job, how every mot
en' counted, and with what easy speed Il
as great, bulky mass of ruin disappear
sin No excitement was observed, and not
tor profane or impatient word was ute