Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1872-12-27
Frightful Railroad Accidents.

DEATH AND So WOUNDED.
On Monday as the mail train leavin4|
Cory, Pa, at l.20 p. M, neared fyco|
pect, and when it was within about ~
rods of the station, the train was throV1'
from the track at trestle- work, about NJ
feet high. The engine and baggsGerSe|
and one passenger car fell through M
were burned. The dead bodies 81 o.
persons have been recovered from tho'
wreck, some Of which are faoffnIIY
burned, and So persons are known ~
have been wounded. Among tho dead
are; Father Taylor, baggage man Com
Mahoney of Brockton, road master !;
Mr.. Bell of Sherman, and Mr.. Haite Of
Brockton. The Others are at present
unacceptable, owing TO the chnrre0
and blackened state of the corpsee.
Among the injured are William II.
Tacknor of Titusville, J. Cowdry, ~
employee of the Philadelphia and Erie
road at Cory. Orville Swift Of the iirm|
of Hollister, Swift d Co., of Cory 81
missing. The accident was caused BY q
broken rail-
ANOTHER
Passengers on the through train from
Washington due at Philadelphia at 4
o'clock p. M, report that an accident o.
CURED near Stanton station, Tuesday,
by which several persons were injured, \
one or two fatally. The train ran into
a carriage which was crossing the track.
THREE MIN KILLED.
A dispatch from Jacksonville, Ind,
says that freight train. consisting of
ID cars and locomotive. jumped the
track at Henrssville, yesterday. The
engineer, fireman and brakeman we're
killed, and the cars and engine wrecked
A DISTINGUISHED NUMIsMATIsT. The
Visalia California; Delta is authority
for the following statement: at may
not be generally known that Dr. Charles
Spier of this place is the oldest living
and most successful numismatist in the
world. He has been engaged in the
collection of coins for over fifty-seyen
years, and has now over $4,000 pieces,
representing every species of coin ever
produced in any year or under the do
minion OF any sovereign or government
from the days of Semiramis and the
Pharohs down to the present time. His
collection is worth hundreds of thous-
ands of dollars. He has over 10000 of
his pieces in the vaults of the Bank of
California, and 1000 or over here. At
the Bank of California his collection is
pronounced the best and most valuable
In existence, not excepting those of
Queen Victoria and the Sultan of Tur
key, which are particularly extensive
and valuable. A few days ago we ex-
amined the 1000 of his pieces which he
keeps here. They proved most inter
esting study. Coins of the ancient jew
ish Kingdom of the various kings,
consuls and emperors of Bone of Tyre,
Sidon, Carthage, Ninevah, Babylon, Chi
ma, Palmyra, Egypt, Japan, ETC., with
specimens of every years coinage in all
Christian lands from the time of Con-
stantine till now, were exhibited in prod
igal profusion. The doctor has many
coins which would sell for many thous-
ands of dollars each. His collection has
been the work of a lifetime. He has
travelled nearly all over the world, and
is constantly receiving new additions to
his pieces from Europe and the East.
He has gold and silver coins from the
size of very large tea-cup down to that
of pea. We wish we had the space to
particularly describe some of them. The |
doctor, who is in easy circumstances and |
greatly advanced in years, though still |
robust for one of his age, remains in
Visaila on account of the excellence of
the climate His collection is very in
teresting to any one approaching the
mementoes of antiquity"
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