The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-02-02
A CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS.
ACCIDENT AND REMARKABLE ESCAPE

Coasting in tho Box Of Passenger Car.
The passenger car on the mixed train,
No. 8, on the Rutland railroad, due in Rut-
land at 20 a. m. Tuesday, met with
very remarkable accident about one-fourth
of mile north of the North Clarendon
bridge. The train consisted of eighteen
cars, the rear one of which was passenger
car. 1t was on down grade going about
fifteen miles an hour with steam shut off.
Suddenly about two feet of broken rail
over which the freight cars had nearly all
passed, threw the passenger car from the
track, and one set of trucks flew from
under the car and through the wayside
fence. Soon the other end of the car
became unseated from the trucks, and the
body of the car was dragged along over the
track for perhaps twenty rods before it
came to stop The car slid along on the
west side, tearing up several length OF rails;
the road bed grinding through the bottom
of the car tore large part of the floor in
splinters There were in the car beside
Ed. Young, the conductor, twenty passen-
gers We were able to get the names of
all but two persons, and they are us fol-
lows
Marshal Tarble, Eaton Livingstone, Hy-
land Holden, Henry Lord, and j. d. Pack
er, of Mount HOrey; Merritt Dickerman,
Rufus Bucklin and Jonathan Smead, of
East Wallngford: Henry G. Gleason,
John Webb, Horace Todd, Judge Ebenezer
Fisher, Oscar Adams, Henry Waterman,
Miss Nellie Brown, Miss Minnie Webb and
Frank Huntoon, of CuttingSville ; James
X. Mclean, of Washington, ID. G.
The young ladies with other of the pas
sengers were in the center of the car where
the floor was entirely crushed away.
These passengers were carried along COW
cred with cushions, seats, splinters, ETC.,
and had the car gone fifty or one hundrc d
feet further, would inevitably have been
ground to death. Their escape with few
bruises only was indeed miracle. Mr..
Horace Todd, proprietor of the hotel at
Cuttipgsvillc, jumped up when the acct
dent occurred, and was thrown forward
across a seat. He was struck in the pit of
the stomach and seriously injured-indeed
DR.. Allen, one of the physicians who at
tended him, thinks it may prove fatal. At
| first Mr.. Todd was unable to be moved
from the car, but he was afterwards placed
in the baggage car and brought to Rutland
and thence to the Bardwell house. Mr..
Rufus Bucklin had the skin torn on one
of his hands, and Mr.. Merritt H. DECKER
man was hurt in the ankle
Among the narrow escapes was that OF
Henry G. Gleason. He had turned around
sideways to lean against the side of the car,
when a splinter of wood was forced up
through the seat and cushion that, in the
position he occupied a moment before,
would have impaled him.
Mr.. Henry Lord of Mt. Holly, from
whom we have description Of the disss-
ter, says the car was filled with flying
splinters and dust. The ladies screamed,
and altogether it was scene he does not
wish to be an actor in again.
A coupling in the train having broken
after the car left the track, about three.
fourths of the train sped on. Had this no,
happened, the momentum of the entire
train would have dragged the passenger
car much farther, with inevitably fatal re-
suits of most horrid character.