The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-08-04

car had q number of panes of glass broken
and several seats torn up, but none of the
passengers were hurt beyond few bruises
and scratches. The entire passenger train
remained on the track and was subsequent
ly drawn on TO Tarrytown, carrying the
wounded to that place.
The regular baggage man of the train cs-
capped, very singularly, unhurt An extra
baggage man named Vosburgh, who was
riding with him to Albany, received some
bad bruises about his head At first it was
thought his jaw was broken, but after be-
ing attended to by physician, he was
found well enough to proceed on his Jour
ney.
PROBABLE FATAL CASE.
Richard Finley, II brakeman ON the
freight train, was applying brake on top
of one of the freight cars at the moment
caught in the midst of the wreck, and was
more seriously wounded than anybody else.
Both of his legs, his right shoulder and
several ribs were broken, besides which he
was badly cut about the head. Slngularly
enough he was not killed outright, but was
taken to New York to Bellevue Hospital
for treatment.
The engine of the freight train made
leap for the river, but stopped with its
head hanging over the bank. The tender
turned a summersault over the engine and
landed two car lengths further down the
road, which proves that the train must have
been moving at high rate of speed. The
engineer and fireman of this engine saved
themselves by jumping.
The passengers were removed TO larry
town. where their wounds were dressed by
the village physicians after which all,
with the exception of Mr.. and Mrs. War
rem, proceeded on their way. Mr.. and Mrs
Warren are both ina critical condition, and
no one is allowed to see them. They are
| lying at the little village tavern near the
| depot
| Friday evening Richard Finley, tho brake
man, died in Bellevue Hospital.
The ,SdyatQgiaa gives the following
STATEMENT OF MILES BEACH.
Miles Beach, Esq. of New York, who
was passenger on the up train, says that
at the time of the accident the passenger
train was running at full speed, abont 30
or 40 miles an hour. The locomotive and
tender of the freight train swerved off to-
ward the river, but the freight car, loaded
with grain, darted in against the baggage
car of the passenger train, slicng off about
foot of the side of the baggage car, and
then scraping along the flank of the three
palace cars, tearing out their sides. Mr..
Beach sat in the fifth seat of the May.
flower, the first palace car on the side that
was shattered. In the first seat sat Mrs
Ira w. Warren, her husband occupying
the second seat. A beam or some heavy
portion of the freight car, crashed through
the end of the car striking Mrs
Warren on the head, knocking Mr.. Warner
PROSTATE and throwing almost every one il
the car to the floor The beam or side Of
the freight car smashed the entire length
of the car. and did more or less damage tC
the second and third palace cars. The
whole thing was done in an instant, anC
when he picked himself up the train wa!
still running, and did not stop for about
quarter of a mile Everything in the ca
was in confusion. Several persons wer
considerably bruised, his left hand was sc
verely cut by the glass, and Mr.. and Mrs
Warren lay insensible. AS soon as tn,
train could be stopped, a surgeon came in
and on examining Mrs. Warren's wound
found that her left cheek and the side o
her head had been smashed, the flesh bein,
laid open bya deep cash, her eye gouged on
and her skull fractured. Mr.. Warren wa
severely hurt about the head The docto
expressed the opinion that Mrs. Warner
could not survive, and we have since hcart
that she was dead Mr.. Beach say
several other persons, among them
couple of little boys, who seemed ITO b
bruised. AS near as we can learn som
twenty-five or thirty persons were more o
less hurt. The first car, and the platform
were deluged with grain, and presented
dilapidated spectacle. He could see II
cause for the accident, and is unable to eX
plain how it occurred. He thinks the bag
gage man was fatally injured, and that
brakeman on the freight car was scriousl
hurt. Mr.. Warren is a New York lawyer
! who has been accustomed to spend the sea
son in Saratoga each year. Among tn
passengers were Congressman Ely of New
York, and Superintendent Sanford of til
Western Union Telegraph Company TIL
baggage on the river side of the car wa
. badly mussed.