Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1880-12-17

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THREE CARS OFF THE TRACK CON
DUCTOR PROBABLY FATALLY INJURED AND
NUMBER OF PERSONS INJURED.
An accident occurred on the Rutland and
Bennington railroad, Monday afternoon, by
which one person was probably fatally in
jurcd aud many more severely hurt, and
which although sufficiently sad was but 4
narrow escape from a still more serious dis
aster The circumstances were as follows
As the New York and Montreal express over
the road mentioned (due in this city at 7:05),
consisting of baggage, passenger, drawing
room and mail cars, was entering
South Wallingford at about halfpast
four O'Clock. broken rail threw the
three last mentioned cars from the track
and they rolled down an embankment some
ten feet in height. The drawing room car
became entirely disconnected with the rest
of the train and rolled over and over, while
the coupling of the mail and passenger cars
remained unbrokcn and both went over
together When the cars stopped the draw
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toward the track, and fully twenty rods
from the place where it went off. At the
rear of this, nearly parallel with the railway
and distant of it some six rods, was the mail
car, standing erect and not perceptibly in
| jured. Just in front of the mail car, and at
a right angle with it, lay the passenger car
on lis side. The Wagner car was the most
damaged of any, but it is not badly broken
up. The passenger car was not materially in
| jured. In the passenger car were some
thing like score of passengers and in the
drawing-IoOm six or eight. The conductor
of the latter, Henry Campbell, was seriously
and it is feared fatally injured. lie had re-
Gently been transferred from the New York
Central road and had his home in Syracuse,
n. y. Of the drawing room car passen-
gers, an elderly lady whose name we
were unable to learn, was seriously in
iured, being hurt internally. A, p. Childs
of Bennington was in the car with his wife
and daughter and Mrs. Chids was cut
about the head and hands but was not seri-
ously injured, and the same can be said Of
Miss Childs. In the Wagner car were also
Mrs. L. G. Kingsley of Rutland, with her
two sons, aged 10 and 10, and Alice Merritt,
nurse. Mrs Kingsley was bruised about the
head and arm; the younger son, who wal
i'll, was injured about the head; the elder
boy was thrown through the window ant
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ceived cuts on her hands and bruises. Mlsi
ArrowsmIth of New York had an ankle in
jured and little girl with her was slightly
bruised Mrs. B. Benjamin of Rutland
who had two children with her, was some
what bruised. Three or four others of
the passengers were more or less scratch
ed. With these exceptions no one wal
severely hurt. In the passenger car no on
was seriously injured though all received
vigorous shaking up. A young lady, nam
not reported, received a severe scalpwound
and Mr. Wilson, member of the House o
Representatives from Manchester, was some
what hurt about the spine. In this car wer
also Senators G. NJ, Sykes of Dorset an
Charles Thatcher of Bennington, and Repre-
sentatives Woodward of SYNDICATE, Abbott G
t Bennington and Pierce of SALISBURY all G
whom were fortunate enough to escap
without injury, save the latter, who wa
somewhat bruised
The baggage car did not leave the track
luckily, and the passengers were crovde
into it and proceeded to Rutland, wher
medical aid was at once procured for tn
injured Ones and the train proceeded on it
! way, arriving here something over an hou
late.
/, The train was running al a rapid rate, an
,, the track, we are informed by railroad men,
none of the best, so that the accident, seriou
as it was, might have been a much more fats
one