Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-11-28

diately at hand, and he was picked up and
carried to the First National bank, where Drs.
Holton and Wheeler examined hisinjuries and
found that be had sustained a bad fracture Of
the leg below the knee the fracture extend
ing into the ankle joint one rib was also
broken, and be was badly bruised and shaken
up all over-the wonder being that he WAS
not instantly killed After receiving suitable
surgical attention he was removed TO lis
home, where, although suffering much pain
from his injuries, be is in fair way Of re-
covery. When the horses left the truck they
carried away with them the uear cvcner and
whifietrees. and, dAshing along through the
Congregational church grounds, turned
somerset over into Mr. Herrick's yard land
ing in a tangled heap from which they were
e1tricated with some difficulty. Neither Of
the animals was seriously injured. sub
scription paper for Mr. Flies benefit is being
circulated and meets a generous response.
RAILROAD Acc1DENT-Two BRATTIEBoEo MIN
HURT.
The passenger train which. on Monday
mornings. now leaves BnttlebOro for New
London at > o'clock. collided on Monday
morning Of this week with an up-bound
freight train between Three Rivers and
Palmer. Mass. both engines the baggage car
Of the passenger train, and two OF three
freight cars being wrecked, and several train
men and laborers being hurt-the only ones
who were seriously injured, however being
Homer Williams and H. n. Bailey. the en-
gineer and fireman Of the freight train, both
Of whom are residents Of this place. The
freight engine was the one which takes the
regular morning freight train 70 Palmer, and
on this occasion had made the trip down from
! Bratteboro and started back with the up
| freight. as usual When the train was ready
to start T. F. Godfrey, the freight conductor,
! looked at his watch and told Williams, the
| engineer that he had time to reach Three
| Rivers before the passenger train was due,
upon which Williams started on, without
comparing his watch with Godfreys. as he
! should have been done. and when rounding
curve, met the passenger train, both trains
| going at a speed Of . miles an hour and the
collision occurred On looking at his watch
after the accident Godfrey found that it had
stopped. and the time was II minutes later
t1an be had supposed-the passenger train
meantime having been running on its regular
time and anticipating no danger. The en-
| gineer Of the passenger train saw the freight
coming il season TO put on the air brakes, re-
verse his machine and jump of with bis FIRE
man. 80 that both men escaped unhurt
| Neither Williams nor Bailey saw the passen-
ger train coming. aud were unaware of their
danger till the accident happened, and both
Of them we're buried under the coal and other
debris of the tender Williams sustained a
fracture Of the thigh. with some minor injuries
and Bailey received scalp wound with hurts
and bruises elsewhere upon hls person. The
men received suitable surgical attention, and
were brought TO Brsttleboro 10y a special train
which came up Saturday evening. The bag
gage car vss occupied by large number Of
laborers who we're going down TO their work
and several Of them received minor injuries
/ by being pitched from one end Of the car to
the other. having trunks strike them, etc
The wreck was piled upon the New London
/ track, and on that Of the Ware river road run
ming alongside so that no train passed until
the special here referred to Both engines
were a total wreck Had it not been for the
Miller platform and coupler buffer on the bag
gage and passenger cars there would have
been a ''telescoping' of the cars. with probs-
BILE loss Of life such as used TO happen in
| es-a ~ a,eL a-aile--a- i-f~-s 49, -ls'I>sis'- -
this invention.