Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-04-09

iIt'k NtIlltS- ne 1rHin Rolls Down
Two Hundred Feet into the Deer
field Kiver-Many Lives Lost.
GREENFIELD, Mass, April IA terrible
disaster occurred on the Fitchburg rail
road tonight between Bardwell's Ferry
and West Deerfield, the east bound pas
senger express train from North Adams
having gone over an embankment POO feet
high. Six bodies have already been taken
out of the ruins. The train consisted of a
baggage car, smoker, sleeping car, mail
car and two passenger coaches. The point
where the accident occurred is the most
dangerous one on the road where the
track runs on the edge Of an embpnkment
200 feet above the Deerheld river
The bank is very steep aud covered with
| huge boulders and MASSES of shale rock
| with which the road bed ha, been filed.
/ When the train arrived ut this point the
| track commenced to settle under it, the
/ coaches broke from their trucks and went
rolling over and over down the precipice,
/ ana the engine broke from the tender,
/ tearing up the track for 20 feet.
Below the height rolls the Deerfeld
/ river. As soon rs the cars struck they
caught fire from the stoves and a conhag-
ration was added to the horror of the
dying filled the air. The sleeping car an
entire wreck, was occupied by several pas
sengerS not one OF whom at this
/ hour IS known to have escaped injury.
. one man is imprisoned in the sleeper and
Is beng burned alive. y special wreck
ing train was sent out, accompanied by
/ physicians, section men and a few cit iZens.
/ On arriving a horrible sight was witness
ed. The darkness of night had settled
over the spot far down On the river bank
rIt.4R
the holocaust. Stout hearted trucGmeu
were lowered cautiously down the treach
erOus height and the work of rescue began.
y pa OF the injured and dead were taken
to ohelburn Falls and part of the wound
ed Greenfield. &. u. Bell of Nashua, y.
H., was cut slightly on the head, thrown
head foremost into the river, went twice
10 the bottom and barely escaped drown
ing.
Great excitement prevails all along the
road between here and North Adams.
just how heavy the list of killed and
wounded will be cannot tonight be es-
tlmated. Conductor Foster says: Il am
unable to state how many were on the
train. Only three men thus far are found
who escaped injury, and these set the
number all the way from % to 100. No
, doubt half dozen people were
Killed outright while falling, and as
many more are fatally injured besides
many who escaped with gashed heads and
DlOhtl lIlllDS. / lie lOCOulONlNt IL Il Cblll-
, plete wreck but remains on the track while
its tender Is down the bank. The number
of killed is, as known at present. from four
, to SIX, but fears are entertained that
morning will increase the list. AT II To-
night men are still working at the wreck
and all bodies dead or injured about the
scene have been recovered that can be
found. 1t is learned that the injured so
far reported are 49,
Engineer Iittlejohn is dying he cannot
live I'LL morning, Three more dead bodies
have just been found at the wreck
A BIoodthirsty Circular-'A Mere Cues
p tion of Blood"
LAWRENCE, Kan, April 7.-Circulars
We're distributed on the streets, print
ed in red with a red border and headed,
"A mere question of blood. - They read as
follows ITO parents, guardians and
teachers You have sent your sons,
wards and pupils equipped with the inn
plementS OF mutilatlOn and murder 10
coerce, drive, mange Kill body of work
erS who are struggling with a giant foe
against monster oppression. For months
and months together have these brave
employees borne with reduction of WAGES,
. violation OF cOmpactS sleeplesS nights lr-
regular hours and a dog : existence without
, competent pay, and when by standing to-
gether with noble brutherly fidelity they
have reached position to command
peaCeably the recognition of their rights
you send your sons, bearing in their hands
snLIinrf.G and vrnn,, maintaIneT Eny Van
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maggotS, and it will be "A matter OF economy
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masses in the slack of the market, for as
sure as God is Cod he that shielded mau's
,, ploo'' "S u'tl 1,."ti '', V ,iit T :,l
Wherefore. know and Understand this iii
starred tact. that while this Is free cOun-
try, it Is il free country for all, and lust so
surely as you send your boys to slaughter