The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-06-17
FIENDS ON THE TRACK.
DiabOlicnl Attempt TO Wreck Train
on the Norwich and Worcester Rail.

Dinbolicnl Attempt TO Wreck a Train
on the Norwich and Worcester Rail-
road.
On Sunday morning the Norwich and Worcester
Railroad was the scene OF 1endsh attempt to
throw train of the track, which was, fortunately,
unattended with loss OF life. distractions were
placed across the rails just below the depot at
Daysvillc which succeeded at last in accomplish
ing their object. The particulars are as follows =
plank was placed on the track just below the
depot at Daysvile, but was swept OF by the cow
catcher. About two hundred feet further on the
engine encountered a tie in the very heart OF the
village and swept IL some five hundred
feet to switch, where 1t caught in a
"frog' and threw the locomotive from
the track The whistle blew down brakes
and every effort made to keep the train on the
road bed, hut the speed was so great that the en-
CINE could not be stopped, and 1t swept the cap
stones from the bridge over Five Mile River, ana
the locomotive and three cars containing sixteen
persons, fell into a bog meadow, some fourteen
feet below, burying the engineer and fireman be-
meath the ruins.
TIMELY RESCUE.
After an hours labor they were extricated badly
bruised and scalded but are reported as doing
well to-day.
At q meeting OF citizens o reward OF 81, 900 was
pledged on behalf of the town to be paid on the
conviction OF the rascas who were guilty of this
diabolIcal crime.
The gallant men who went down with the engine
s. r. Cooper and George Harvey, :ne engineer
and fireman OF the Norwich and Worcester Rail-
road.
Running at the rate 1t was the engine ploughed
its way over the ties Tor nearly two rods before 1t
reached the bridge. and then with mighty bound
1t plunged into the bed OF the stream below, a dis
lance OF nearly twenty feet. AS IL fell IL turned
completely over, striking the ground with It's
wheels uppermost and buried its projecting work
deep In TIE earth. The tender as IL followed, came
with terrific force, and the coupling breaking by
the jerk OF the plunge, IL was
HURLED COMPLETELY OVER THE ENGINE
and placed squarey on its end as If by the hand Of
man. The great nat car, with Its load oil heavy
crates was also thrown beyond the engine. The
terrific fall OF twenty feet crushed many OF the
strong iron.bound boxes. The Adams express
car, crowded with express freight fell upon the
engine turning as 1t Tell, and lying with one side
partly crushed.
Joseph Sangley, OF walpole, q brakeman, was
inextricably damned between the brakes TO which
he had gone in answer to the signal, and the iron
rod OF the next car.
This terrible attempt upon human life, It Is sup
posed, was for the purpose OF robbery. Ii Is
thought that all the injured will recover. In adj
dition to the $1,000 reward offered by the commit
and Worcester division Of the New York and New
England Railroad publishes card this afternoon,
Offering $500 reward for the conviction OF the
wretches who placed the plank and ties on the
track.
ARRESTS MADE.
Three men were arrested In Pain1eld Sunday
night and are now in the city prison here, charged
Norwich and Worcester Railroad on Sunday morn