Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1873-08-27
The Endemic OF Disasters.

iulurlng I'VE others.
"A boiler IN GriswOld's av'nill, q
Spencer, Keui county. Mich, exploded
THURSDAY night, instantly killed Jane
Dooley aud two others, and badly wound
iDg Eve more.
The superintendent Of the Chicag'
and Alton road offers a reward Of $1,000
for the arrest Of Conductor Bean Of tn
coal train, who was mainly TO blame TO
the accident, last Saturday.
"A freight train on the South Side IL
~ railroad was thrown of tie track neal
MasPe,h. last evenaing, by running Oyer
q stray hog. John Niece, the conductor
was thrown from a car under the wheels
and killed, and another man was slightly
injured.
"A collision occurred at London.
Eng, Saturday morning, on the Great
Northern railway at Bedford, near Not
inmgham, between freight and an excur-
sion train. The trains were badly wreck
oil and four pcrsous we're killed. fifteen
were badly injured. several of them be-
yOnd hope Of recovery.
AT an early hour Friday morning.
s veral buildings, once used as govern,
ment stables, and a rope walk adjoining,
three miles from Louisville. KY, were FIR
ed and almost entirely consumed. A me-
gro named Willis, his wife and four chill
dren, living in one of the houses, we're all
burned to death. Two suspected incen-
diaries we're arrested.
An accident occurred on the Balti-
more and Ohio railroad, Sunday, four
miles from Cameron, w. Va, by which
three or four German emigrants were ia
tally injured and Is or 20 wounded. The
lccident vas caused by the spreading Of
he track, which threw tender, an express
,ar and one passenger car down an en-
and all the cars off the track.
The coach that went over the bank some
Is or 20 feet. with 20 or so men, wo-
neu and children, turned bottom upward.
Some Of the emigrants became enraged.
that the engineer and conductor
we're trying to kill them, and attacked
kc train with stones The officers had to
lee for their lives. In about an hour af-
or tie accident. the express train, which
vas an hour and half late, came up,
nd its officers, directed by Capt. Davis,
rho was passenger, rendered all neces-
airy attention to the wounded. Surgeons
Terc sent from Cameron, and, as soon as
he track was cleared, the unlucky emf
rants we're sent TO Bellaire, where every
omiort was supplied to them. No blame
, attached to any one for the accident
1t is said that the engineer ard con.
uctor of the freight train on the Marietta
nd Cincinnati road that colided with a
assenger train, Thursday, near Mont
onery, o., had dispute at Lovcland
tatioH, and the former threatened to get
he conductor into trouble before they
cached Cincinnati. Both engines were
brown erect into the air by the collision.
he shock 20 the passengers was terrible.
|harles Rother remained on the engine
nth his father. the engineer, and was
rushed between the fire. box and tender.
he father escaped, apparently without
srious injury, but was so much moved by
ne excitement of the disaster that he came
way from the wreck with a disordered
lind. The brakeman, in response to the
gnal "down brakes" was assisting the
aggage-master to wind up bis brake.
hen the shock came and both were
rushed to death. Walter Rhodes, ex-
ress messenger, and brother Of J. r.
rhodes, superintendent of the Adams ex-
ress company in Cincinnati, received in
Tres from which he died just after reach
lg the Cincinnati depot, Friday morning,
aking four deaths in all.
The inquest on the bodies of the killed
as Friday, at Montgomery, the scene of
:e accident. Ths verdict of the jury
as that they came to their death by the
'iminal neglect Of Conductor Puett and
nsinecr Smith, both of the freight train,
running out Of time, and recommended
'osecuting them for mansiaughtcr.
While a number of men were repair.
g house on Eleventh St., near Had
N, N. T., Friday, the walls suddenly I
II, burying number of laborers in the |
Inns. The building wac an old pork |
lcking establishment, and was being !;
leaply altered into five tenement house.
art of the front had been taken down, II
e floors removed and new joists put in.
he gable ends were left standing, and I
lists and other materials taken from the
anne we're piled upon them, causing the |
eight on the center Of the joist to draw
le gable walls toward the interior Of the |