Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1872-10-25
Another Railroad Accident ON the
Inflated Eastern Road.

Another Railroad Accident ON the
Inflated Eastern Road.
TWO PERSONS KILLED AND FIFTEEN
wouNDEp.--A MISPLACED SWITCH RE-
spoNsIBLE.
Another collision occurred on the
Eastern railroad, early Tuesday morn
ing near the Seabrook station, the first
station after crossing the inc from Mas
sachusetts into New Hampshire, and
about six miles north of Newburyport.
A local freight train was on a side track
at this station, waiting for the Pullman
express train from Portland to pass it.
The latter came along on its regular
time at about 4:15 o'clock, running at
the rate of about 20 miles an hour, but
when in close proximity to the switch
the engineer discovered it was wrong.
Heimmediately whistled for down brakes,
reversed his engine and leaped from the
locomotive, while the fireman remained
on it. The train went crashing into the
freight train, telescoping several of the
rear cars of the latter train and smash
ing them TO atoms. The express car o!
the Pullman train was next to the en-
CINE, and was not much injured. The
baggage, mail and smoking and one pas
senger car were telescoped into each OF h.
err and driven into the passenger car, a
solid mass nearly two.thirds its length.
The only passengers injured were in the
smoking car, and look at the wrecked
train would cause wonder how any could
have escaped alive.
Only one person was killed outright
Capt. Richard Norton of Gardner, Me-,
aged about As, who had left his home
for Boston, the previous night. He had
on his person $1,000 in money, gold
watch and papers of value. Mr. Walk
er of Salem was so seriously injured that
he died in the course of the day. George
Hayward of Barre, Me-. was fatally in.
jured in the spine. The others injured
are as follows: Henry Fairbanks Of
Winthrop Me-, left thigh broken in two
places, right leg bruised and head cut
Eben M. Anderson, aged q, of Aunap-
oils, Nova Scotia, head badly injured but
will recover; Jacob Edwards Annapolis,
Nova Scotia, % years, slightly injured
David Howard of Bangor, injured inter.
nally bat it is thought not seriously
Geo. w. Trott Of Barre Me-, notseriously
Capt. Jane M. Blaisdell of Brunswick
Me-, hip and leg jammed Thomas j.
Sanborn of Rye, mail agent, leg badly
crushed; Allen of Bangor, Me-, express
messenger, badly injured about the stom
ach and bowels B, B. Hawdlett of Bos-
ton, fractured clavicle and slight in
ternal injuries Elisha Sperill of Som.
erville, New Brunswick, right hand bad
ly jammed Horatio Hall OF Brunswick
Me-, slightly injured; A. NJ. Curtis OF
Bowdoin Hall, Me-, fracture of right leg
and slight internal injuries. Thomas B.
Cannon the baggage maste was bruis-
ed, but not severely, his escape being al
most miraculous. He was sitting in the
middle of the baggage car when the ac-
cident occurred, and was only conscious
of being rapidly borne through mass
of ruins, till he found himself at the rear
end of the smoking car among the de.
brls of broken iron and splinters of wood
Charles Estes of Eliot, Me-, a brakeman
was severely injured internally, and his
recovery is doubtful.
The cause of the catastrophe is a mys-
terry, as through freight train safely
passed the misplaced switch after the To-
cal freight had stopped at Seabrook, and
twelve minutes before the accident, and
of course it was supposed to be all right.
Somebody must have changed the switch
in these twelve minutes, as after the ac-
cident it was unbroken, but set for the
cars to run from the main track to the
turnout and the lock slipped into the
staple, but unlocked.
1t is a somewhat singular coincidence
that A. N. Goodhue, the conductor of
the wrecked train, was also conductor of
the express train at the recent terrible
accident at Revere, though, in both in
stances, he was in no wise responsible for
the disasters, and could have done moth
ing to prevent their occurrence.
GROWTH OF CHIcAGo's TRADE THE
PAST YEAR.-A remarkable feature of
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