Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-10-15
DEATH on THE R1IL.

AN EPIDEMIC OF RAILWAY DISASTERS FIVE
TRAIN MEN KILLED AT wILLIMANTIC, CONN.
AN EXCURSION TRAIN RUN INTO AND TWEEN
TY SEVEN PERSONS FATALLY INJURED AT
PITTsBURG, PA.-sEvERAL MINOR ACCIDENTS.
An accident on the New York and New
England Railroad, last Friday night, at Hop
River, near WilimRntc, Conn, was caused Iy
an extra freight train, which should have
laid at Willimantic, colliding with q passen-
ger train which left Hartford that evening at
73O. Engineers Kenyon and Flood, and
Firemen Forsyth and Hurley were killed,
and Conductor Aldrich Of the freight train,
who was chiefly to blame, received such
injuries as caused his death on Saturday.
There were but five persons aboard the pas
senger train, and but one was Injured, and
that slightly.
One Of the most painful and shocking cas-
ualties of recent years occurred at Pttsburg,
Pa. last Saturday evening. A heavily laden
excursion train, starting from Pittsburg, was
divided up into two sections. The first was
so crowded that the lights on the rear plat
form were hidden by the mass Of passengers
upon it. A delay occurred at station near
the outskirts of the city and the second sec
ton no lights being visible at the rear of the
first, plunged into the last car at full speed.
The locomotive buried its whole length, up to
the cab, in the car OF the seventy five pas
sengers it contained, not more than a dozen
are believed to have escaped injury. Nine
were killed outright. To add to the horrors
of the collision, the locomotive bulkhead gave
way, and the wounded, unable TO extricate
themselves from the wreck were scalded by
the escaping steam The total number of
dead thus far is twenty seven. The accident
is due to deplorable carelessness on the part
of the train men.
A gravel train ran into drove OF COWS
near Stllman Valley H., on the Chicago,
Milwaukee and st. Paul road Sunday ditch
ing 10 cars and killing John Ryan, n section
man, and three train hands, and wounding sew
eral others.
John Carson, his son and boy named
Benner attempted to walk through Spruce
Creek tunnel, near huntington Pa, Sunday,
but were run over by the Pacific express train
and all killed.
Early Monday morning a train going down
town on the Second Avenue Elevated Rail
road, at New York, during fog, ran into the
rear of train ahead of it, and Edward Coop
er, the engineer of the rear train, was killed.
George Haug, passenger, was injured in the
hip, and the engine and three cars were badly
broken.
The west. bound passenger train on the In
dianapolis and St. Louis railroad ran through
an open switch ut Nokomis, ILL.,, SO miles east
Of ST. Louis, Sunday morning, and into the
rear Of q freight train on a side track. Al
oil car burst and the contents taking fire, il
and the entire passenger train, consisting Of
baggage, express and mail cars, two coaches
and one sleeper, was entirely consumed. The
loss was 20, 600. None Of the Passengers were
hurt.
An extra on the Southwestern railroad fol
lnxpipp "a rauular fraiplt train int Ion,
cars accidentally detached from the first trair
near Columbus, Ga, Monday, wrecking sew
en- cars Engineer Sherden was mortallJ
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