Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-08-03
THE NEws1N BRIEF.


DREADFUL RAILROAD ACCIDENT Ar CARLTON
STATION, N.Y.
A terrible accident occurred on the Rome,
Watertown a Ogdensburg railroad at Carlton
station, n Y, about $3.50 last Friday evening,
by which ~ persons were killed and 30
wounded The train with two engines was
an excursion train bound for Carlton with
Thousand Islands tourists mostly FROM Mich
igan II was behind time. and nj the point Of
the collision was running at the rate of 40
miles AN hour. The wind was bowling gale
and had blown a freight car of the siding
partly on the main track. When the excur-
sion train came laundering along the collision
threw one Of the engines on It's end and the
other one into the ditch. The baggage car
and two Of the sleeping coaches were com
pletoly demolished and cars were piled upon
one another until there was one vast heap Of
ruins. At the time heavy thunder shower
was passing over, and the night was dark,
but the distressing cries and shrieks Of the
dying and wounded could be heard above the
storm. 1t is even said that the crash was
heard three miles away. The country is but
thinly settled, and ii was some time before
assistance could be obtained. One man who
lives but few rods from the wreck had driv-
en- his sou to Lyndonvlle, three miles away,
TO take the train got home just in time TO
unu ulLl "A CORPSE AhIlluu u DbbA Nlllhkt
OF Carlton township, Orleans county, and
lies 80 miles from Rochester.
SHOCKING ACCIDENT on THE Troy a BOSTON
HoAD-sIX MIN KILLED.
Two freight trains collided on the Troy
4 Boston railroad II miles west Of North Ad-
ans near the Petersburg junction Of the Troy
Boston and Lebanon railroad in New York
At about o'clock Wednesday morning kill.
l,t Ira Ia
man and a telegraph operator The collision
was caused by the mistake Of the telegraph
operator at Petersburg, who failed TO flag
and hold the east-bound train as ordered.
Both trains were moving from l. 10 20 miles
an hour and met on a sharp curve so that it
was impossible to check their speed very
much. The west bound train had on 40 cars
and the eRstb bound 20. The trains struck
with such force that they we're piled up in
one conglomerats heap with the engines bur
led out Of sight IN the wreck The mass i'm
mediately took FIRE and burned nearly every.
thing including the dead bodies. which it
was impossible to reach till they we're burned
beyond recognition Fre-cngnes were Sc
cured in the afternoon and after two hours
work the flames were subdued. Search for
the bodies Of the dead then began, but the
prospect was that nothing bu; charred bones
would be found. The operator who is re-
sponsible for tue accident is : years old.
He bad been on duty all night, and at A N.
had not been relieved. He pleads overwork
as an excuse
DEATH OF MONTGOMERY BLAIR
Hon. Montgomery Blair, who was Post
master General in the first Cabinet Of Presi.
dent Lincoln. died at his residence at Silver
Springs, near Washington, at 3 O'Clock Fri.
day morning Mr. Blair was son Of the
late Francis Preston Blair, the noted Ken
lucky journalist and politician, and was
brother Of the late Francis p. Blair, Jr., who
was candidate for Vice President on the Dem
ocratic ticket in lSGs. He was born in
Franklin county, Kentucky, May 10, 1913,
and was appointed from that state to a cadet
ship in the United States Military Academy at
West Point. where he entered July l. 1881,
and was graduated July /, 1885. As a second
lieutenant Of artillery he served under Gen.
Scott in the Florida war against the Seminole
Indians in 1886, resigning his com mission on
May 10 Of that year, aud devotiug himself TO
the study Of law. He took an active interest
in politics, identifying himself with the Re
publican party, and acted as president Of the
Mary Wand Republican convention 10 lsGO
He was on the Republican ticket Of that year
as Presidential elector. and when President
Lincoln entered upon his first term on March
4, lsGl, Mr. Blair entered his Cabinet as
Postmaster General. He resigned the Office
Sept. %, 1854, aud subsequently acted politi.
cally in opposition 10 the Republican party
His wife was daughter Of Judge Levi
Woodbury. Of Vermont
SUICIDE OF -HE SPANISH MINISTER.
-Sehor Barca, Spanish minister to the
United States since April. lssl. committed
suicide in a chamber Of the Albemarle hotel,
New York city, shortly before DAY break, Sun
day morning. He had spent the night till
A N at work with a secretary. whom he dis
missed with injunctions to call again at
O'Clock and accompany him to mass The
secretary returning at the appointed hour,
found the minister dead in his room. He
had sent ball from a forty one calibre re-
yolver through his brain. Much doubt tx
lists as TO the cause Of the act, though it is
generally believed that Senior Barca had be.
come financially embarrassed through the
failure of the revenues from his Spanish es-
tAtes. At Washington he had entertained Ell.
eganty, though not eItravagautiy, and the
news of his death greatly shocked soci ETY.
circles in that city.
CAPT WEBS BODY POUND.
The body of Capt Webb. The English
swimmer, who on Tuesday Of last week
made the foolhArdy attempt to swim the
whirlpool rapids and whirlpool Of the
Niagara river, was found on Saturday four
miles below the rapids. The body was badly
bloRted, and showed numerous Commissions.
The physicians who held the post mortem e1
animation decided that he was killed by the
ractionary force of the water Others be-
lieve that he Was beaten TO death by the
force Of the waves cut on the head. three
inches long was undoubtedly made after he
was dead
Nearly 1000 pilgrims including many
cripples on clutches aud blind men and wo-
men, left Ottawa, Ont, Monday, on an excur-
sion to 81. Anne de Beaupre. This annual
is Rn1iously looked forward TO by
the French Catholics, owing to the alleged
miraculous cures effected on previous e1cur-
sions
The stage that left Helena, Mont, at 3
O'Clock Sunday morning for Deer Lodge was
stopped by two road agents, who went
through the passengers treasure box aud
mail
A fire at Lincoln, Neb., Sunday, destroy.
ed 10 business houses loss $3.50, 900
Nine of the II prisoners in the county
jail at Berrien Springs, Mich. tupneled I'm.
der their cells Sunday and escaped.
Three little girls sitting on the rivers
edge at Yonkers on Sunday fell into the Hud.
son and were drowned.
The king DO of blackboard, on which
a gentlemen anu seven ladies' were driving.
broke at Bar Harbor, Ne, last Friday, and
the party were thrown to the ground and one
Of them, Miss Case Of Boston, was killed.
Lightning killed fourteen cattle in differ.
emit parts of the same held on Shelter Island
l., last Monday.
The national soldiers reunion at Oolum.
bus, O., closed last Friday, The principal
feature was grand parade, in which it is es.
hmated 5000 people participated. There
were about 100 regiments represented in the
line
The steamship FurnessiA, which arrived
At New York last Sunday night, brought 27O
assisted emigrants from TrAlee, Ire, they be.
ing put on board at that port by an English
gun-boat. Fifty-seyen more were to be in.
GUIDED, but they got too drunk on the gov.
srnment funds to put in an appearance
There is serious freshet on the ALLIE
3heny river, caused by continuous heavy
aims. The loss is very heavy.
Minneapolis had a $3.50 900 FIRE early
sunday morning,
Anxiety is felt because no news has been
received Of the overdue steamer Ludseiq. now
- DAYS out from Montreal Her Dassagas