Connecticut western news., 1879-04-23

markab!e circumstance that the three men on the wrecked portion of the train escaped 90 we'll. The loas from the accident is esti mated at $3, 1000.
 A wrecking train left Falls Village fo, the scene of the accident a soon @ it cou!d be made up after the receipt of the news, and by noon the ground had been nearly cleared. The engine of the wrecked freigh' came dowR the read without any of the cars.
 The road on which the accident occurred IS branch line of the Housatonic, for the transportation to the main line of through freight, etc., froa Albany. The scsae Q. the accident is seven or eight miles from the main line.
 Scarcely had the wreck been cleared away before similar accident befsll the sans train on its next passage from Albany, ans net only the same train, but some of the identical cars that were thrown from the track the night before. The scene of the iast accident is about three and half miles below this place. At this point there is . aide track where cara are switched off to . lime kiln. As the engine of the through freight from Albany reached this place. about twelve o'clock. it encountered an eb. struction that threw it from the track ano left it overturned in the ditch. With the locomotive went of the next six cars, the whole being piled together in . confused and broken mass. There were two men in the cab of the locomotive, Wm. 1ngsrsoll the engineer, and Wm. Alseph, the fireman, tut, strange to say, neit6er received any se- rious injury. They had no time to realiz. what waa happening until the locenotive was on it's side alen9slde the track, and then they found themselves crowded close to the bottom of the cab by the roof, which had been, broken and forced down upea them Two or three inches more in the same di- rection and they would have been crushed by it. The enginesr managed to crawl oui through the side of the cab, but the fire mans foot was caught and wedgea in such way that he could not stir until Superin- tendent Stillson. who was in the caboose ai the rears came to his assistance and cut him loose. lngersoli and Alseph were some what bruised, but nothing more. The only other person on the forward Dart of tn. train was Hiram Woodruff, . brakeman, who was standing on the platform of enc of the Cars when the crash came. It stun | ned him to unconsciousness, and wheA he re vived was lying among the debris against . dead OK. He was bruised more than the oth, CT tive men, but still not serieusly. One ot the wrecked cars-a grain car-wss smash cd almost to splinters. Two of the carl were loaded with cattle, about 25 head of which were killed. The ralls wer. twisted and torn, and the greund torn uE for several rods by the smashup. Altogeth- CT. it was . bad looking wreck. A large number of men. with wrecking train iron Falls Village, were Sn the ground all day clearing the wreck and repairing the track under the energetic supervision of Road master John Lane. and with such zeal tha the track was cleared and repa red in tim, for the 3 D. m. passenger train going soutl to pass over.
 The engine, "W. D. Bishop" ia badly damaged. and will have to be almost entirt ly rebuilt. The sight was sicksning on, I-dead cattle lying about in ths nndd! swamp; some ripped open, with their en trails bulging out, some with their meek broken. others doubled up, and mashed int, jelly, horns knocked cf, and all more Q less mangled,
 It is estimated that the loss to the com pany will be $s. 900 or Sl0.OOO. Some o the stock was consigned to Bridgeport, an some to Nswtown. There were twent, five cars in the train in all, including thos nelonging 10 the traiR wrecked at Rockdal Mills the night befOrs.
 It is almost certain that the accident wa caused by the displacement of the switch and that the switch was tempered with Ground for the latter supposition is furnist ed by the fact that one or two of the bol, had evidcRtly been removed from the con
 meeting Tod. It would be easy te get th
 rails cut of place go that enc end woul
 overlap the ether st the junction, and thi
 :s probably what was done. As there is n
 reeular attendant at the switch, the aid track being used but rarely, such an a< could have been done easily.