Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1883-09-03
TRAIN COLLISIONS.
FAST TRAINS TELESCOPE AND
ANUMBER OF PEOPLE KILL.
ED AND lNJU1ED.

| St. ALBANs, VT, Sep. 2-The fast
train leaving Boston at o'clock Set
lutday afternoon for Chicago via the
Central Vermont Railroad collided with
the fast New York express, which LEFT
here at Esp. H., at Colchester, ut y
lo'clock. Colchester is the meeting p.act,
for the trains. The New York express
arrived first and had turned the
lswitch, preparing to setting Oft on the
side track, but before the engine Of this
train had reached the side track tho
Boston express came along att great
speed. Engineer Jones, OF the Boston
train, applied the air. breaks, but they
did not work. The engineer and fire.
man of the New York train jumped
and saved their lives.
The hands on the other train stuck to
their posts and both were badly hurt.
The New York train was nearly at q
standstill when the collision occurred
and this fact alone prevented most
terrible accident. The engines amt
tenders of both trains were wrecked and
the baggage cars behind them were
telescoped, one tender going almost
through a baggage car of the Boston
train. A large number of gravel men
were in this baggage car and six OF
them were badly hurt. The thirteen
persons on tire Boston train were injur-
ell, as follows:
Il. F. Jones, engineer, badly bruised;
his son, G. s. Jones, badly bruised Nv.
n. Chisorl, severely in back Michael
Finn, baggage master, bad scalp woundT
James Rooney, collar bone fractured
and number of bruises about the body;
! Felix Larnett, thigh fractured All
drew Osier, severely bruised about the
body, and the six gravel train men.
Everything is being done for the in
jured by the railroad officials. The
track was cleared about ten o'clock this
morning. The night express trains
were delayed on account Of the acci-
dent AS far as can be learned the ac-
cident was due to the failure OF the
brakes of the Boston train.
BALTIMORE, September "A COLI
sion occurred at Highland Park station,
a short distance beyond the city limits
on the Western Maryland Railroad, At
! five o'clock this morning, between 3
regular and an extra freight train, both
coming east The regular train had
stopped on account of a hot box and .
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by the extra, going at speed of twenty
miles per hour. At the moment the
engineer and fireman of the regular
train were on the ground looking after
the hot box and the brakeman had gone
back to warn the extra.
Before the crash Joseph Cruise, engi-
neer of the extra, jumped from his
engine and got off with a sprained
ankle. William Abel, brakeman Oh
the road, who was coming to this city
to spend Sunday, was killed. Joseph
Dorsey, cattle drover, of Frederick
County, Maryland, sustained INJURIES
from which he died at six o'clock this
evening. William Fleigh, fireman, was
injured, but not seriously. The verdict
of the Coroner's jury tonight charged
the collision to gross negligence
NEW YORK, September 2--The train
on the Long Island Railroad leaving
Far Rockaway for Hunters Point at
7.3O p. IN. was stopped on the curve near
Springfeld Station, to put of person
who refused to pay fare. Whlie SIan Iam',
Beach dashed into the rear of the Rock
away train, completely wreckinss rro
two rear cars of that trai.... and the en-
gine aud the fist car of the Long
Be...yuin train. Two men, names not yet
learned, were killed and several pas
sengers were severely injured.
WALTERBoRO, s. C.-Colonel A. L.
Campbell says: ga member of my
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