Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-07-20

of Friday evening. Members should
be sure to attend the rehearsal as the
invitations to the moonlight excur-
sion are to be given at that time.
Chas. Jenness and Orange Moss
man have the new steamer which they
have been building for several months,
nearly ready to launch. 1t is larger
than any of the pleasure boats made
for the lake, and no pains has been
spared to make it staunch and safe.
Mr.. Jenness has finished the boat as
nicely as the finest cabinet work. 1t
has been hastily painted and orna-
mented by Mr.. Liddell and is a thing
of beauty. Mr.. Mossman, assisted
by HAL Hopkins, made the engine
and boiler. The engine is upright,
and works very satisfactorily; the
boiler is of large steaming capacity,
and the whole machine is finely fin
ished.
RAILROAD ACCIDENT.-On Friday
morning last as the express train was
coming down from the summit car
Jumped the track about three miles
south of this station, and a passen-
ger car, No. 16 of the Air Line, and
a Pullman sleeper, 'Gov. Bigelow,"
were thrown into the ditch and pref
ty badly smashed. The passenger
car was pretty well filled with pas
sengers, mostly Canadians, who were
sleeping as best they could in the
early morning. This car was not
turned completely over but tipped
up on one side and brought to a
standstill by striking into a bank on
the side of the track. The passen-
gers were mostly thrown into the for
ward end of the car, considerably
bruised and terribly scared. The
scene described by gentleman who
was calm enough to realize it was
extremely ludicrous. Willis Clark,
the popular musician, was returning
from St. Johnsbury and happened to
be in this car; he had his clothes
torn and had slight wound on his
leg. These passengers were all res
cued safely and taken into other cars
and went forward at once to theil
destination. The sleeper Jared
worse, being turned square over on
to its side and forced by its own
momentum along over rocks and 9th
er obstacles quite a distance. One
side of it was badly smashed and il
received injury to running gear and
was broken about the ends and door.
ways. Geo. F. Leonard was con
ductor of this car, and he had foul
passengers, each asleep in theil
berths. The news boy, Edward
Phelps of Concord, N. H., and the
porter comprised the balance of per
sons in the car. Mr.. Leonard haC
crawled into a berth for little sleel
and the first he knew he was violent
ly thrown in his berth and hear(
crashing, caused by the breaking o.
the car on the rocks. The car stop
ped at once and he found himself ant
lady and child near him unhurt
One man was thrown out of his bertl
and fell down on to the side of ths
car and out through, a window-tht
car lying upon the ends so that hi
had room to sit erect on the GROUND
under the middle of the car. The
porter was on duty and had jus
blown out his lights, it being day
light. This was a fortunate circum
stance as no fire from the lamps oc
Cured. The news boy was pretty
badly hurt about the head and shout
ders but was able to 60 to his home
three hours later. The couplings be
tween the Boston sleeper next for
ward the derailed cars broke away
and the forward portion of the trair
ran on quite distance with a whee
of the tender, or one of the cars of
the rail. The train was stopped and
the wheel got on the rail, wher
it ran back and picked up the scared
and wounded passengers and went
on to Newport, about an hours time
being lost. 1t was reported that ar
examination showed that, by some
means, the coupling bolts at joint
in the rail had been removed and the
joint so left that it was showed ou
of place far enough to let truck off,
causing the accident. We examined
the place carefully and are inclined
to think that one wheel climbed OF
jumped the rail causing the derail
ment of the two rear cars. The &C.
cident occurred on a curve and it is
possible the heavy sleepers forced
the rail out of place. The escape
from a much more serious accident
was remarkable. The cars fell of
on the upper side of the track, in 6
place free from lodges and huge
stones that cover much of the ground
along this part of the road. HaG
they turned over on the other side OF
the track they would have gone dowr
a steep embankment among rocks
or at other points would have rur
into great boulders or against lodges
Henry Mower, one of the oldest en-
gineers on the road was running the
engine, conductor Bean had charge
of the train. The track was repaired
in a few hours and the "wreck train
men were not long in removing the
| broken cars.
Barton Landing.