Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-08-03

Johnsbury few minutes before, ran into
a wash-out near Pumpkin Hill, Danville,
when two engines plunged into deep
chasm and several cars were thrown from
the track. The engineer of the forward
engine, Fred Lawrence, and his fireman,
and killed; Joseph Reed. engineer on the
second engine, and his fireman were bad
ly cut and scalded from escaping steam
and water but were rescued and will prob
ably live. No others were hurt. A
heavy shower visited this section short
time previous to the departure of the train
and it seems that cloud burst-twO
heavy showers met-on the hills and a
trem endous stream of water came down
where ordinarily only brook is found,
and the double culvert was insufficient to
convey the water. There was fill of
20 or 80 feet and although the earth and
track were standing as the train approach
ed, the earth was honey-combed and cav
erned out, SO that when the engines ran
on to the fatal spot they fell together to
the bottom. The water was six or eight
feet deep and engineer Lawrence and
fireman Cotter were several feet below
the surface among the debris. The for
ward boiler was broken, and the hind one
so injured that steam and hot water filed
the air and badly scalded Mr.. Reed and
his fireman. A large force of men soon
arrived but the dead men were not .extri-
Gated for several hours. During Satur-
day and Sunday thousands visited the
scene of the wreck. The loss to the rail-
road will be very heavy.
St. .JOhnSbury.
Rev. C. M. Lampson, Of Worcester
Mass, has been engaged to supply at the
North church at a salary of $500 year
Geo. L. Bradley is Strengthening up his
business here preparing to take his final
exit for Minneapolis about the 18th of
next month. George has bought an in
terest in the Northwestern Roller mill,
kno wn as Side. Fletcoer, Holmes Co.
concern.
Between 5000 and 1000 people lined the
streets here on Saturday to witness the
circus parade of Uncle Phineas. 1t was
fair parade but not better than has pas
sed through the streets on previous oc-
casions. The performance afternoon and
evening drew about 5000 people.
East Burke.
Mrs I. d. Bemis is home again, some
what improved in health.
At the recent reelection of officers of
Burke Mountain lodge, Good Templars,
Henry Stockwell was chosen w. c. T.
Mrs. DR.. Goodwin, who is daughter
of Mrs. Judge Newell, with two children
is spending the summer with her mother.
Adna Young, son of o. d. Young, who
lives in New Mill district, fell from a
cherry tree, last Sunday morning and dis
located shoulder.
West Burke.
Coe & Underwood have put up new
sign.
DIR. and Mrs Carpenter have returned
from Worcester, Mass, where they have
been visiting friends.
Byron Clark, son of George Clark OF
Sutton, is stopping at home for few
days he is with w. S. Human & Co.,
Boston, Mass.-Mrs. C. Beals of Natick,
Mass, is stopping with her brother, DIR.
M. L. Sleeper.-Mary Powers is in town
for few days.-Mrs. j. H. Silsby and
daughter, of Hartford, Conn, are in town
for short time.
East IIardwick.
The hay crop is as good as last year,
but not equal to an average crop.
In the last MONITOR for Darius How
ard should have read Dorus Howard.
Rev. McIntire of Derby, Conn.,, sup
piled the desk at the Cong. church last
Sabbath.
A Clark Harvey and family of St.
OOAASUuly aIC Ndtudu 4 IClOS
and other relatives in town and Green's
boro.
Dnring the shower last Wednesday
| morning few minutes before four O'Clock
the lightning stuck the lightning rod on
Dea. c. M. Bailey's barn, the electric flu
| id passing down the rod to the earth de-
stroying the brass nuts that connected
the several points of rod and the glass
| insulators, at the lower end of the rod,
| entered the earth about three feet, but
the lightning left the rod about four inch
es in the earth, passed through the I'M
derpinning stone, foot and half by eight
inches solid stone, breaking it in two
| pieces, passed to the water tub in the
basement, twenty feet away, scattering
the stones in pieces all through the base
| ment; thence followed the pipe which
delivered the water more than 40 feet to
| where it was connected with main pipe
| in the earth outside the barn. The con-
cussion in the basement was so grrat
| that the windows were broken to atoms,
| and forced outside and the trap doors in
| the stable floor behind the cows were part
of them thrown completely open, and
yet there were some shotes and calves in
| the basement alive and well and no
damage was done to the wooden struc-
ture of the barn, Doubtless had been a
continuous rod in one piece, ending in
water in the earth, no damage would
have been done to anything on the prem
| ises.
A PICKET-LINE ADVENTURE.
While we were in front of Chatta-
nooga it became fashionable along