Morning journal and courier., 1880-03-24
On The Rail.

Mrs. y. F. Fitz Badly Injured at Web
 ster Street CrOssing--Maurfce Reilly
 of This City Struck by 8 Train at
 Derby.
 The two o'clock train down on the Canal railroad struck Mrs. J. Frank Fitz wife of one of the night watchmen at the Win chester armory, as she was crossing the track at the Webster street crossing yes terday. She essayed to cross, and then seeing the train so near she lost courage and grew faint and hesitated, not knowing what to do right in the middle of the track bed. Passers-by in the vicinity observed the sight and said it looked as if the poor lady was frozen with terror. The train threw her some distance, and then, as some think, struck her again, throwing her to one side of the track. Dr. E. J. Whittemore attended the unfortunate woman, and her ankle being broken sent for his SOD, who reduced the frac- ture. She was suffering from terrible nervous shock and internal injuries, and her case was considered exceedingly critical. Her home is at the corner of Compton and Mans field streets.
 Maurice Reilly, an old ran of this city, was struck by the two o'clock Derby train just l this side of Derby, near the junction. He was walking on the Naugatuck track, and sec ing Naugatuck train approaching stepped on to the Derby track, unaware that Derby train was close upon him. He was placed on the train and brought to this city and con veyed from the depot to the police station from whence he was taken to the hospital One of his legs wes badly broken. A repol' was nrevAIent that hs was killed
 AN ENGINEERS BOY KILLED. Yesterdays New London Telegr am says A lad named Bullard was instantly killed by the o'clock express train from New Haven at point near the Ocean avenue ''cut" this afternoon. He was pupil at the school OF that avenue, and was playing on the track with other boys when the train struck him. His father, Albert Bullard, was an engineer on the New London Northern road until week ago, and his grandfather, Charles H. Bullard, is ar engineer on the Shore Line road. The boys mother is dead, and he lived with his grand father, James M. Hay, an old man of eighty, on Jordan Lane just over the Waterford line. The two lived alone, and, except in school | hours, were almost constant companions. The dead body of the child was taken to the old mans house this afternoon.
 As near as can be learned, the boy was struck by the forward steps of the last car in the train. Bullard and his two companions had placed pennies upon the track that the | coins might be fattened by the passage of the 1 wheels over them. Bullard in his eager haste to recover his coin sprang forward to take | them from the track before the last car had gone by, and was then struck by the project. ing steps.
 MAN RUN OVER BY A SWITCH ENGINE. l As Patrick Stanley, an employe of the Wa
 terbury Brass Company. was going to his
 work shortly before o'clock yesterday morn
 ing, he stepped from the main track, upor
 which he was walking, to side track to avoid
 an extra train. Upon the side track was the
 switch engine running i'll an opposite direc
 tion, and Stanley, not seeing it, stepped al ! most directly in front of it. He was knocked down and rolled over upon the road bed sev | eral times, but in some miraculous manner | was not killed. He even escaped without {
 broken bone, which, considering the circum-
 stances, was one of the most wonderful al
 we'll as narrow escapes on record. physi
 elan attended him and found several severe
 bruises, but nothing which need result seri | ously.