The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-03-09
MASSACHUSETTS.
Railroad Accident-Thirteen Per.
sons IDtured.

sons Isjured.
SPRINGFIEND, MASS, March S.-The
train bound from Boston to New York,
on the Hudson and New Haven rail-
road, met with an alarming accident at
go this morning near this place. One
Of the forward cars caught an obstruc'
ton on the rails, and Immediately the
mail and two passenger cars were pre-
cipitated over a steep embankment
twenty-seven feet high. A number OF
the passengers were seriously hurt. 1t
is not yet known if there are any killed.
The stoves being overturned by the fall
the mail car took fire, and no help be,
ing near, it was soon entirely consumed
with its contents. By the burning OF
the mail car after the railroad accident
it is estimated that from 1900 to
$4,000 letters were DESTROYED. The cars
which suffered most were the postal,
baggage, smoking and passenger cara.
These all went over the bank upon the
ice in the river, which did not break,
and were completely wrecked. No es
innate can be made Of the money, val
usbles, &c, lost by the burning Of the
mail car Thirteen persons were hurt,
three seriously.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass, March S.-The
following additional particulars OF the
accident to train on the Hudson and
New Haven railroad have been receiv-
ed BY the burning Of the mail car it
it is estimated that from $1,000 to l5.-
900 letters were destroyed, there being
3,0cG or 1000 for New York city alone.
All the matter mailed for points sonth
of Springfield was destroyed, except one
or two registered letters TO persons who
are in doubt as to whether their letters
were forwarded at . o'clock. 1t may
be well to say that every letter which
reached the office at exactly 2 o'clock
NAV be considered safe, as the mail
then made up contained all up to that
hour No foreign matter was sent by
this mail.
The postal, baggage, smoking aud
an ordinary passenger car went down
the bank upon the ice in the river,
which, happily, did not break, and they
were completely wrecked The mail
car instantly took fire from the stove.
The passengers hurt were Mr.. and
Mrs. William Leonard OF Chelsea,
Mrs. L. severely; j. NJ. Stackney, OF
Newton Falls, badly bruised; w. T.
Walker, bruised; Mrs. Mortimer, OF
Hartford, bruised; W. Kennedy, OF
Hartford, scalp wound; Matthew Nc
Laughlin, of Hartford, scalp wound;
James Mcclure, Of New Haven, forward
brakeman, bruised; J. Conkling, Of
Springfield, baggage man, hurt in back;
Conductor Harlem Tinkham, severely
bruised F. E. Thompson, Of New Ha-
ven, slightly hurt T. E. Forbes, OF
Troy, cut in head;IDr. W. II. White, OF
Springfield, hurt on head. Those Of
the passengers who were not injured at
once sprang TO the assistance OF those
who were, and as danger from fire soon
became manifest, every means was Ia
ken to prevent any wounded trom
in the wreck. The tram
which left here at LILO this morning
was forty minutes late. and just as it
reached a sharp curve in the river, near
the south boundary Of the city, the
engineer discovered that something was
wrong, and Immediately applied the AIR.
brake, which slackened the speed OF the
train. At this moment the mail bag.
smoking and one passenger car broke
from the train, and, dashing down the
high bank, struck upon the ice in the
river, except the mail car, which lodged
in the bushes, taking fire Immediately
and was consumed, together with it,
contents. No lives were lost