Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-12-17
Accidents by Fire and Rail.

RAILROAD ACCIDENT dreadful accident oc-
CURED last Saturday evening on the Addison rail-
road, dear Larrabees Point, causing the death Of
the engineer Of the train, Oren r. Stinson, fireman
Ed. Markham and D. Y. s. Lyman, bridge tender
at Larrabees. The train left Rutland in the af-
ternoon for Tconderoga, New York. as usual
About one hundred rods from the east end OF the
lake bridge at Larrabee's Point is short curve
and the shock caused by the locomotive striking
the curve, 1t Ia supposed, carried completely away
about sixty feet Of the track 1t Ia claimed by
the roadmaster that the locomotive climbed the
track, causing the accident The locomotive
rolled down clay embankment about fifty feet
high, turning over three times. The tender WAS
separated from the engine and lodged bottom side
up with the trucks broken of. Two Of the three
freight cars followed the locomotive down the
embankment, but were not materially damaged
while one freight and the passenger car remained
on the track, none Of the occupants Of the latter
being injured The body Of Stinson was found In
the ruins OF his cab, badly mangled, the head
being crushed fiat. Lyman's body was found
with Stnsons. Markhams body lay halfway
up the bank, considerably crushed and scalded,
the locomotive having gone over him In It's first
revolution. Engineer Stnson and fireman Mark
ham lived at Leicester junction. the latter with
his parents, and had been fireman only two
weeks. Lyman leaves family in Rutland lie
had charge Of the draw-bridge across the lake
and had been to Rutland for supplies After
riding in the passenger car to Orwell, the last
station before the accident, he there got on the
locomotive to be at his post when the train
reached the draw-bridge. Where the accident
took place there was bad spot in the track there
being heavy fill in a swamp, and it had hereto
fore given considerable trouble
EXPLOSION OF OLA tank holding twenty
thousand barrels OF coal oil exploded at Red
Rock, near Bradford Pennsylvania last week.
and the oil burned over twelve acres and two hum
dred houses loss 5000 900, insurance light. Three
hundred persons are destitute. The gas caught
fire from lantern in the hands of a workman
in well that had been cleaned out, and COM
muncated with a tank holding two hundred and
fifty barrels. The burning fluid ran down the
hill and fired E. o. Emersons twenty-five hun
dred barrel tank, around which embankments
we're built to protect the town. 1t burst and a
huge fiery wave three hundred feet wide leaped
the embankment and swept through the heart of
the town, which literally melted before the heat.
The burning oil ran through the streets four feet
deep, and, striking house. would leap over the
roof and wrap the building in flames in no time
1t was grand sight for those who had nothiag at
stake, but had not an alarm been sounded at mid
night the loss of life might have been great
TWELVE MEN BURrED.-An Omaha, Nebraska
dispatch says serious accident occurred at Platts-
mouth Friday, ten or twelve men working in a
cut on grade near the bridge being buried by
falling earth. When they were dug out three
were dead and seven were badly injured. It is
feared that others are still buried in the ruins
FIVE MEN RoAsTED-Five Cinnamon were
burned to death at Lovelock Nevada, Saturday
while drunk with opium smoking